Sat.Jan 18, 2020

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This Oculus Quest Mixed Reality Apartment Is Straight Out Of Minority Report

VRScout

Oculus Quest hand-tracking turns one apartment into an XR playground. Remember that scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character cycles through a bunch of important police data by swiping his hands across a massive holographic display? Imagine having that same type of interactivity while sitting on your couch; or your dining room table; hell, maybe even your toilet.

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Has the Valve Index (and its controllers) reliability issues?

The Ghost Howls

The Valve Index is one of the VR headsets of the moment. Thanks to its supreme design (that fostered very positive reviews) and the hype created by Half-Life: Alyx , it is gone sold-out in all the 31 countries it is sold in. When I reviewed it , I praised it as probably the best headset I have tried. It is, together with the Oculus Quest , the defining headset of 2019.

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User Experience: What, How Much and For How Long? GSK, Lloyds Banking Group and International Virtual Reality and Healthcare Association Join XR Intelligence

ARPost

Press release. London, January 18, 2020 — Almost every industry could benefit from XR technology in some way and the immersive landscape is growing every year with more solutions and use cases appearing on the market. However, so far adoption is not as widespread as most in the industry would like. One of the hindrances for increasing the use of XR technology in many businesses is the fact that using a head-mounted display for the first time can be daunting and immersive content doesn’t always

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Global Tilt Brush Art Fest and Tournament Taking Place in London Next Month

Peter Graham

Google’s Tilt Brush app has been the cornerstone of virtual reality (VR) artistic expression since its launch in 2016, allowing artists both amateur and professional to paint in three dimensions. Many competitors have arrived over the years but Tilt Brush still remains a firm favourite which is why the Reality Centre in London is hosting the UK leg of the Global Tilt Brush Art Fest and Tournament taking place next month.

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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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Compound’s Mike Dempsey on virtual influencers and AI characters

TechCrunch VR

In films, TV shows and books — and even in video games where characters are designed to respond to user behavior — we don’t perceive characters as beings with whom we can establish two-way relationships. But that’s poised to change, at least in some use cases. Interactive characters — fictional, virtual personas capable of personalized interactions — are defining new territory in entertainment.