VRScout

JANUARY 18, 2019

TWC releases another educational MR demonstration ahead of Storm Harper. When The Weather Channel debuted its IMR technology back in June of 2018, the organization introduced the industry to a brand new form of educational broadcasting. Working with mixed reality specialists, The Future Group , TWC immersed its on-air reporters into an intense MR simulation highlighting the devastating effects of a 200 mph tornado.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2019

Scape Technologies announced last week that it has raised an $8 million seed investment for a visual positioning system that it says can provide centimeter-accurate location data at city-scale. Such a system could be a key component in enabling a shared, persistent AR metaverse simultaneously accessible by all users. Compelling augmented reality has been demonstrated on smartphones and headset in the last few years, capable of convincingly placing digital objects and information into our view of

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EnterpriseWear

JANUARY 18, 2019

Watch this throwback 2016 expert panel led by Upskill’s Brian Ballard, in which enterprise end users from Jacobs Engineering, Powerstream Inc., the AES Corporation, and Intel share their secrets to adopting wearables. Some key insights include referring to the people closest to the problem (i.e. the workers), getting them involved early in the process and allowing them to opt in; creating a partnership between the business and IT sides of your organization; and talking to the standards bodies fo

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CraneMorley

JANUARY 18, 2019

Part 3 of 4 Part Series. This is part 3 of a 4 part series regarding X-Reality and how it has started impacting the way companies are approaching training for within their industry. To read the first part of our this series, please click here. Visit our website every Friday for our newest blog series. Augmented Reality (AR) impact can be seen among us today.

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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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