Wed.Nov 21, 2018

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Practice Your Carving Skills On This AR Turkey

VRScout

The Washington Post is here to make carving your Thanksgiving turkey easy this holiday season. There’s no feast quite like a Thanksgiving dinner. Whether it be the turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, stuffing, or a variety of other delicious foods, many of us will no doubt find ourselves trapped in a paralyzing food coma come Black Friday.

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The Enterprise Leap — Robots, Gremlins, & Games Won't Save Magic Leap, but Tapping the Inner Child of CEOs Just Might

Next Reality AR

Mystery is a tricky thing. Used correctly, it can give onlookers the impression that wondrous and perhaps valuable things are afoot. However, once the veil of suspension of disbelief is removed in any significant way, that same mystery can quickly turn into not just skepticism, but outright anger at what may have seemed like an attempt to dupe trusting onlookers.

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The Best Oculus Rift Deal for Black Friday 2018

Road to VR

Don’t blink, because you might miss the most important time of the year for holiday shopping. We’re keeping an eye on the best Oculus Rift Black Friday 2018 deals. Updated: 11/22/18. Oculus Rift Deal Baseline. It’s important to keep in mind the base price of the headset so you can make an informed decision when purchasing. Without an special discount, the Oculus Rift + Touch bundle costs $400/€450/£400.

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Vermeer Beta iPhone App Lets You Use Augmented Reality to Map Out Your Drone Flight

Next Reality AR

Augmented reality and drones already go together like turkey and stuffing, but a new iOS app adds some spice to the combination with a new kind of flight path automation. Available now in Apple's App Store, the Vermeer Beta app displays a 3D map of the intended drone flight area so that pilots can see the terrain from various angles. Users can then use the visualization to chart the flight path of the drone.

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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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‘Astro Bot’ Local Co-op Multiplayer Mode Was Cut to Let Single Player Shine

Road to VR

Astro Bot Rescue Mission , the chart-topping VR platformer from JAPAN Studio, nearly ended up with a local co-op multiplayer mode but ultimately the feature met the chopping block in order to let the single player mode shine. Speaking to Astro Bot’s Creative Director and Producer, Nicolas Doucet, in a recent interview exploring the design and development of the title , Road to VR learned that a local co-op multiplayer mode was planned for the title, but the team at JAPAN Studio found t

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Precision OS Secures $2.3M Series A to Further VR Orthopedic Surgical Software

Road to VR

Precision OS, a Vancouver-based company creating VR surgery simulation software, announced that it has secured $2.3 million in Series A financing. The funding round was led by Davos, Switzerland-based AO Invest , and includes other undisclosed investors. Precision OS builds VR software that lets surgeons perform orthopedic medical procedures in a VR environment, providing metric feedback to help practitioners improve their techniques.

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#715: VR Privacy Summit: Open Web Privacy Lessons for the Immersive Web

Voices of VR

Mozilla Mixed Reality’s Diane Hosfelt says, “The immersive web has all of the problems of the 2D web, they’re just magnified and they’re harder.” She.

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The Best Oculus Rift Deal for Black Friday 2018

Road to VR

Don’t blink, because you might miss the most important time of the year for holiday shopping. We’re keeping an eye on the best Oculus Rift Black Friday 2018 deals. Oculus Rift Deal Baseline. It’s important to keep in mind the base price of the headset so you can make an informed decision when purchasing. Without an special discount, the Oculus Rift + Touch bundle costs $400/€450/£400.

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Disney’s PoseVR Tool Lets Animators Create In VR

VRScout

Disney’s summer internship program results in a new VR tool aimed at 3D animation. It’s no secret that Disney is constantly looking for new ways to boost the efficiency of their creators. More importantly, the massive American conglomerate actively fosters creativity within its workplace, regularly experimenting with new technology on potentially groundbreaking projects.

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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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Oculus Holiday Deal Brings Modest Discounts to Oculus Go & Rift

Road to VR

Black Friday is nearly upon us, and Oculus is cutting a few bucks off both Oculus Go and Oculus Rift to celebrate. While we knew from Best Buy’s Black Friday deal that Rift was getting a $50 discount, bringing it to $350 pretty much across the board, up until now it wasn’t certain if its standalone sibling Oculus Go was going to see a similar price reduction.

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EON Reality Reveals New Features in Update to AVR Platform

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EON Reality Reveals New Features in Update to AVR Platform

EON Reality

The latest update to EON Reality’s AVR Platform includes multi-user functionality, interaction recording, and more new features for maximizing efficiency and managing accounts. Today we announce a major update for the AVR Platform featuring useful changes to all three featured products as well as the brand new AVR Web Portal to bring them all together.