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MAY 30, 2017

KabaQ makes choosing your meal easier than ever with 3D rendered digital previews. Have you ever ordered something off a menu thinking you’d love it, only to receive your meal and discover it’s nothing like you imagined? For me, it’s an Earth-shattering experience I wouldn’t wish upon my worst enemy. Thankfully one group of heroes are finally stepping in to solve this longtime annoyance by bringing high quality augmented reality menus to restaurants and online food services everywhere.

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MAY 29, 2017

At last week’s Display Week 2017 conference, Samsung showed off a new ultra-high resolution display for VR headsets that more than triples the pixel count of the displays in the Oculus Rift and Vive. A new display from Samsung targeting use in VR headsets packs a whopping 2,024 x 2,200 pixels into a 3.5″ form-factor, delivering an impressive 858 PPI, nearly twice the 460 PPI of the Rift and the Vive.

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JUNE 1, 2017

Japan is no stranger to VR arcades, but gaming giant Sega is now looking to open one in one of its most iconic locations. A Sega Twitter account last week revealed that one of the floors in its gigantic arcade in Akihabara will soon feature a VR section. In fact, the area was meant to be up and running already, but it appears an equipment failure has delayed launch a little.

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MAY 31, 2017

Those of you with a Gear VR will probably like to hear that Samsung and Oculus have brought Chromecast functionality to the VR headset today. With this new functionality, you’ll be able to stream the content you see through Chromecast, for instance allowing you to broadcast what you’re currently experiencing through your TV. Why would you want to do that?

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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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JUNE 2, 2017

Virtual therapy for smokers might be an app and headset away. VR is being used to help a variety of conditions from pain management to eye disorders , and now a Kickstarter based in Mexico City is looking to help smokers curb the habit. MindCotine is a crowd-sourced VR program that uses your cell phone, a cardboard headset and immersive mindfulness to retrain your brain to stop smoking.

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US supermarket chain Walmart is betting big on VR to help improve its employee training techniques, and it’s turned to a new company to help. TechCrunch is reporting that Walmart plans to install VR training platforms at each of its 200 Academy training centers across the US by the end of the year. Each will have an Oculus Rift and a VR ready PC to run it on.

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JUNE 2, 2017

This isn't a video game. It's a classroom. The post String Theory's Weirdest Ideas Finally Make Sense—Thanks to VR appeared first on WIRED.

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VRScout

MAY 28, 2017

There is no doubt in our mind that in the next couple of years we will see the virtual reality industry continue to grow at an unbelievable rate. The value of the industry is set to rise from 1.9 Billion Dollars (2016) to over 20 Billion Dollars! So with that amount of money being projected to come into the industry, VR must be in some ways changing consumer behavior.

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JUNE 2, 2017

MindMaze , a neurotechnology startup, is developing a simple, low-cost approach to face-tracking called MASK —claimed to be compatible with any VR headset—that can map significantly more life-like expressions onto your virtual avatar. I recently met with MindMaze at their San Francisco working space to test Mask for myself and learn more about it. Since optical, computer-vision based face-tracking is made more challenging in VR due to the headset blocking a significant portion of the face, Mask

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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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Wired VR headsets have barely noticeable motion-to-photon latency. It’s essential to ensure a comfortable experience; a headset must keep the pace with where the user is turning their head, otherwise they might being to feel nauseous let alone unimmersed. Introducing wireless add-on kits for these devices threatens to risk increasing these latency times, however.

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JUNE 2, 2017

The second Symposium on Virtual Reality in Education was held on May 25 – 26 in Zhangzhou, China, organized by Zhangzhou China Merchants Economic and Technological Development Zone together with Xiamen University. EON Reality was invited as a key speaker at the event together with leading Chinese institutions such as Tsinghua University , Shandong University , China Communication University , and many more.

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JUNE 1, 2017

Could Aryzon’s headset be the cheap Hololens-alternative we’ve been waiting for? Since the release of the Microsoft HoloLens mixed reality headset we’ve seen an unprecedented rise in the popularity of the unique platform among amateurs and professional developers alike. As cool as mixed reality may be, the current price of entry is anything but. At the moment, your choice remains the HoloLens Development Edition priced at $3,000, even though multiple other MR headsets have already been announce

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MAY 28, 2017

Early in development, Throttle Powah is a promising looking multiplayer racer with a VR locomotion mechanic which seems entirely unique and more than a little insane. It’s refreshing to watch the still young virtual reality development community flourish, not least thanks to creators that are willing to throw caution to the wind and create things we’ve never seen before.

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Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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MAY 31, 2017

Mobile VR is taking yet more strides to becoming more social; Oculus and Samsung’s Gear VR mobile headset will soon be getting Chromecast support. Integration arrives via the latest edition of the Oculus Android app and the wider Android OS. That means that users will be able to mirror the image they see inside the headset to a nearby flatscreen so that others can see what they’re playing, a little like what can already be seen with Rift, Vive, and the social screen feature on PlaySt

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MAY 31, 2017

Microsoft is betting big on Windows Mixed Reality, and it turns out PC makers are rising to the challenge with a variety of designs shown off this week at Computex 2017. The software giant’s decision not to make its own headset, following the Surface strategy, but throw the responsibility over to OEMs had led to some concern that we’d see … Continue reading.

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JUNE 1, 2017

Testimony is a documentary that tells the stories of five sexual assault survivors (four women and one male) using virtual reality to bring the viewer into each individual story being told. But it doesn’t use VR to make you a part of the story. Instead, VR is used in a more intimate way, by placing you face to face with rape survivors, where you listen to each person talk very openly about what had happened to them and what follows after their assault; such as the years of suffering and pa

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MAY 31, 2017

Starting June 27th, leading OEMs such as Clevo, ASUS, and MSI will begin to offer new high-performance Pascal-powered ‘Max-Q’ gaming laptops using GTX 1060, 1070 and 1080 GPUs. Max-Q is NVIDIA’s new holistic approach to notebook design, with claims of major thermal and efficiency improvements that result in much thinner and quieter gaming notebooks.

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Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Remote meetings are here to stay - and many are BORING. If you are trying to engage your learners (or any audience), compelling content is critical. But trying to create stimulating content with the same tools you’ve always had is hard, right? Thankfully, wrong! Terrific tools in PowerPoint along with visual assets help you create the kind of dynamic content you need to capture your remote audience’s attention, with functions that allow for interactive sequences and navigation.

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For a product that makes your VR experience untethered, TPCAST certainly adds a lot of wires and additional hardware to your HTC Vive setup. At the end of the day, though, the accessory removes one of the biggest things holding VR back — the long cord running from a PC to the headset. And it does so without sacrificing any notable fidelity compared with the wired Vive experience.

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MAY 31, 2017

Weekly Funding Roundup: Unity Raises $400M & Antilatency Raises $2.1M 1) Unity Technologies , a 13-year-old, San Francisco-based company that makes development tools for video game creators, has raised $400 million in fresh funding from the private equity firm Silver Lake. A “big chunk” of the round went toward purchasing the shares of longtime employees and earlier investors, CEO John Riccitiello told Bloomberg earlier today, explaining that he thinks it “makes sense to let employees buy cars.

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JUNE 1, 2017

The VR experience simulates clinic harassment. It’s no secret that women seeking abortions often face harsh, verbal opposition from protesters outside of women’s health centers such as Planned Parenthood. However, it’s difficult to imagine how jarring the experience can be for those women without stepping into their shoes. Now virtual reality film Across the Line is giving viewers a chance to do exactly that.

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MAY 30, 2017

We have all experienced, while in VR, moments of discomfort. When it comes to the Vive, these moments mostly revolved around the stock headstrap. It was either too tight, too loose, or hung the headset too low on my face; I couldn’t ever seem to get it so I could play comfortably for long periods of time. Enter the Vive Deluxe Audio Strap, which has a much more structured build, adjustment knob, and integrated audio.

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Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning

Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?

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MAY 30, 2017

Since launching in December 2016 the Oculus Touch controllers have become an essential peripheral for any Rift owner, and Oculus’ latest data proves that. According to developer relations boss Paul Jastrzebski, nearly every Rift owner has purchased a pair of Touch controllers. “We’re seeing very, very high attach rates,” he said at last week’s Digital Dragons event, as reported by Destructoid. “That’s partly why we wanted to drop the price point.

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JUNE 1, 2017

Walmart has revealed the latest method it is using to train store employees: virtual reality. The big-box retailer got the idea from observing football players using VR to train, and it has since implemented the technology into 30 of its ‘Walmart Academy’ training centers. The idea behind the training method is to introduce future employees and managers to situations they … Continue reading.

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MAY 30, 2017

Watch featherweight fighters José Aldo and Max Holloway throw down on June 3rd. Samsung is giving us another reason to slap on a Gear VR headset next month with the introduction of VR Live Pass. Available through the Samsung VR app in early June, VR Live Pass will let you watch live entertainment events and performances from the likes of UFC, X Games and Live Nation.

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MAY 30, 2017

Oculus’ founder Palmer Luckey, who left the company in March, recently opened up on record for the first time in an interview since September 2016. Among a range of topics discussed, Luckey spoke of the timeline of future VR headsets from major hardware players. Luckey was a long time tinkerer of head mounted displays prior to building the first Rift prototypes which lead to him founding Oculus and taking the Rift to Kickstarter in 2012 for what would become a wildly successful crowdfund

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Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers

Did you know that companies such as Paychex, 3M, and Honeywell are getting better results by incorporating video-based practice and coaching within their L&D strategy? From sales pitches to soft skills, learners are becoming top performers by applying and validating knowledge transfer using the unique benefits of video. Whether used as a stand-alone application or integrated with a learning platform, video-based practice and coaching platforms give learners the ultimate opportunity to repeatedly

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