Wed.Apr 18, 2018

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iPhone & iPad Users Can Now Play ‘Star Wars’ HoloChess in Augmented Reality For Free

Road to VR

Disney and Lenovo teamed up last year to produce Star Wars: Jedi Challenges , a sampler of Star Wars games that worked with Lenovo’s smartphone-driven Mirage AR headset and wireless lightsaber. While the app supports both Android and iOS smartphones, now users on recent iPads and iPhones don’t need the headset at all to play one of the most iconic in the lot: Holochess.

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This ‘Skyrim VR’ Mod Uses Voice Recognition So You Can Speak to NPCs

Road to VR

Talking to non-player characters (NPCs) in Skyrim VR may be easy—requiring a quick selection from the dialogue menu—but it isn’t exactly an immersive way of interacting with the world though. With a new speech recognition mod, called Dragonborn Speaks Naturally , all of that changes. The Dragonborn Speaks Naturally mod allows you to do just that—choose the dialogue option you think fits best by reciting it naturally.

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Star Wars Holochess Comes to ARKit-Friendly iPhones & iPads

Next Reality AR

Part of the Star Wars: Jedi Challenges experience that was once exclusive to users of Lenovo's Mirage AR headset is now available to anyone with an ARKit-compatible iOS device. The updated version of the Jedi Challenges app now lets iPhone and iPad users running iOS 11 to play the Holochess game mode that's featured in the head-mounted device version of the game.

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‘Moss’ Boasts Perfect Rating on PlayStation Store, Tops PSVR Charts

Road to VR

Launched in February as a PSVR exclusive, Polyarc’s Moss has enjoyed a broadly positive reception and has managed to maintain a perfect five star rating after more than 550 player reviews on the PlayStation Store. Having jumped into February’s Top 10 PSVR downloads after being released for just two days (on February 27th), Moss has now leapt to the #1 spot as the most downloaded PSVR title in March.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

To avoid awkward and sometimes disastrous learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to get optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk” translates to “are you lactating” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course? With over 317 million people in the US and over 6.7 billion potential customers in the world, personalizing training seems logical.

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Developer Spends 30 Days Working, Dancing, Living In VR

VRScout

An Italian developer tests the limits of VR comfort with a ’30 Days In VR’ challenge. Thanks to new more comfortable hardware releases like the HTC Vive Pro and tetherless HTC Vive Focus, people are spending more consecutive time in VR than ever before. With the better resolution and upgraded ergonomic design of the Vive Pro , it shouldn’t come as a surprise that users are reporting extended sessions immersed.

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View the Lands You'll Conquer in 'God of War' with Mimir's Vision AR App

Next Reality AR

With the heavily anticipated installment of the God of War game series arriving on April 20, PlayStation has taken the opportunity to make its first foray into mobile augmented reality with a companion app. God of War: Mimir's Vision, available now for free on the App Store and Google Play, lets players with devices compatible with ARKit and ARCore, respectively, to project a 3D map of the game's world on their coffee tables.

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Justin Timberlake Connects Fans to Music and Merch With AR

VRScout

American Express is using augmented reality (AR) to create a new way for music fans to buy merchandise from their favorite musicians — starting with Justin Timberlake. On April 6th, the American Express Music app released a new mobile AR experience called Outside In , in partnership with Timberlake. In the app the you are navigated by Timberlake, hearing his stories behind the songs of his new album Man of the Woods.

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Virtual Islands

Hypergrid Business

10 Euro (US $12) for a 15,000-prim region on the hypergrid-enabled Virtual Islands grid. More information here. Contact grid owner Thomas Boettger in-world or at info@virtual-islands.de.

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Attracting Millennials with XR: The Future of On-Demand Training and Continuous Skill Development

EnterpriseWear

JRCS, a Japanese supplier of maritime systems, is the latest company to partner with Microsoft to test the HoloLens Mixed Reality headset for training purposes. Volkswagen recently became the first car manufacturer to go “all in” on Virtual Reality training for its employees across the globe. UPS, Walmart, Linde North America, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines—all […].

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

With a rapidly changing economy, Avangrid Renewables looked to virtual reality to develop a standardized form of immersive training in order to onboard and upskill technicians faster than ever before.

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Introducing VeeR 2.0 – Create beyond boundaries

VeeR VR

We are excited to introduce the upgraded VeeR with a whole new logo, brand identity, and product experience. After a year of development, we have become one of the biggest 360/VR hub by both content and creator volume. With the trust and support from VR lovers from all over the world, we took one step further and upgraded VeeR from VR video platform to multi-media content platform that supports all forms of VR content.

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‘In Death’ April Update Brings Asynchronous Challenge Mode and Hellishly Difficult Dungeons

Road to VR

In Death, the roguelike bow-shooter from Sólfar Studios , the developers behind Everest VR (2016), just received a much-awaited update that’s aiming to add a little more depth to the polished, and extremely difficult medieval-themed single player game. Starting today, In Death will include dungeons, dubbed ‘The Pits of Damnation’, and an asynchronous multiplayer challenge mode called ‘The Ladder’ Spaced periodically throughout the game you’ll now find port

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GreekLife launches grid hosting service

Hypergrid Business

(Image courtesy GreekLife.). The GreekLife grid has been around for eight years, but it has really started to take off in the last two, now reporting thousands of regions and active users. Now the grid owners are turning their experience running their own successful commercial grid into a service for other would-be grid owners. Nikos Envoy — also known as Nick Mit in-world — has been a programmer and website designer for 20 years, and the grid hosting service includes a custom websit