Sun.Sep 01, 2019

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Report: Apple’s Rumored Smart Tracker Will Use AR To Help You Find Lost Items

VRScout

Tagged items would appear as AR balloons floating throughout the real world. According to reports by MacRumors , Apple is currently in development of a Bluetooth beacon device that allows iOS and watchOS users to track their personal belongings using AR navigation. Similar to the Tile accessory trackers, Apple’s Bluetooth tags can supposedly be secured to physical items—such as wallets, bags, keychains, and a variety of other valuables, and tracked using a companion app operated via a pair

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.01): HoloLens 2 may come in September, Oculus may commercialize a multiplayer LBVR solution, HP Reverb is back and much more!

The Ghost Howls

It’s the first of September! The autumn is getting closer, but here it is still very hot. Also VR companies seem still in vacation since we had no big news this week. Anyway, it was not a boring week at all… discover what it has happened here below! Top news of the week. (Image by Microsoft). HoloLens 2 could be put on sale on September. According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that

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The VR Job Hub: Tripwire Interactive, Cortopia Studios, HTC and More

Peter Graham

Job hunting isn’t one of those activities that people relish. For the most part, you’re looking for a job because you don’t have one or the one you’re in hasn’t quite turned out to be the glorious career path you’d imagined or been sold by the recruiter. Trying to make the hunt less of a chore is the VR Job Hub, your portal to vacancies around the world with some of the best companies involved in virtual reality (VR) content creation.

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Gamescom 2019 Interview: It’s no Monster Just a Paper Beast

Peter Graham

There were several virtual reality (VR) titles at Gamescom 2019 that VRFocus was very interested in seeing, one of which was Paper Beast by Pixel Reef. With some beautiful screenshots and trailers having been released over the past few months as well as details regarding the narrative, it was still unclear what the goal (if any) was. So VRFocus sat down with Pixel Reef CEO and Paper Beast creator Eric Chahi to hopefully understand more.

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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.