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Mexico Celebrates First VR Festival in Latin America

VRScout

Last month, more than 1,200 people participated in VR Fest MX , Mexico’s first international virtual reality festival, the first of its kind in Latin America and Spain. Mattel used the event to unveil its VR View-Master in Mexico, while Samsung and Unity were also some of the event’s main sponsors.

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Nissan Debuts Star Wars AR Experience at Dealerships

VRScout

The multinational automobile manufacturer has already been responsible for Battle Test: A Nissan 360-Degree Virtual Reality Experience for the Samsung Gear VR as well as Star Wars: Droid Repair Bay for the HTC Vive and Samsung Gear VR.

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This VR App Prepares You For Public Speaking and Presentations

VRScout

This VR platform hopes to help America conquer their biggest phobia of public speaking. Now there’s a new interactive education platform for Samsung Gear VR that teaches individuals and corporate employees to become better communicators. Speech Center VR for individuals is available today on Samsung Gear VR for free.

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Micron Breaks Ground on Its $15 Billion EUV DRAM Fab in the U.S.

Anand Tech

At build-out, when the fab is fully equipped with tools, its cleanroom space will reach 600,000 feet 2 (55,700 meters 2 ), which is about two times larger compared to cleanroom space at GlobalFoundries' Fab 8 and which is comparable to cleanroom space at giant fabs operated by Micron's rivals Samsung and SK Hynix is South Korea.

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Weekend Downloads: New on Gear VR and Oculus Rift

VRScout

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. ENTERTAINMENT: Through the Ages: President Obama Celebrates America’s National Parks (FREE – Gear VR ). EDUCATIONAL: Fearless (FREE – Rift ).

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Virtual Reality in Japan – Part 4 – Promotion & Added Value

VRPlayin

Part 2 – VR Zone and Part 3 – The Underdogs have to with venues, and the upcoming Part 5 will also address the ‘VR Arcades’ (nothing the likes available in North America to my knowledge ). But one thing VR does to the new Samsung flagship phone is provide Added Value to the device. VR for Promotional Use.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

Meta is having funding issues because of the new trade wars between America and China. It will continue developing its AR platform for the future glasses, and educate its users, through ARKit. Samsung itself has stated that it is very interested in developing a future headset that is able to deliver both AR and VR.