VRScout

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Facebook’s Quill tool now lets you animate in VR. Facebook’s own VR artistry experience, known as Quill , just got a major update that brings simple, but powerful animation tools to the platform. Quill update 1.4 brings “animated paint layers” and an “animation clip panel,” as well as “animated brush settings to control how strokes are drawn while clips are playing.” What this means for those of us that didn’t go to CalArts is that Quill now

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

According to documents filed last month with SEC, a new stock issuance of some $10 million by OLED microdisplay maker eMagin will be bought up by Apple, Valve, and LG, among others. Founded in 1993, Emagin is a producer of OLED microdisplays which have seen deployments in military, medical, industrial, and other sectors. With the rise of AR and VR in the consumer market, Emagin has recently marketed their display technology toward companies building consumer headsets.

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AllThingsVR

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

These portals to Elon Musk’s space Tesla and ‘Rick and Morty’ are going viral on Snapchat via @mashable [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) February 10, 2018.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Tender Claws , the creators of the award-winning interactive VR narrative Virtual Virtual Reality , premiered a new, site-specific, interactive AR narrative experience at the Sundance New Frontier called TendAR. It was a social augmented reality experience that paired two people holding a cell phone and sharing two channels of an audio stream featuring an fish guiding the participants through a number of interactions with each other and exploring the surrounding environment.

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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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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Virtual reality (VR) produces a computer-generated environment–complete with realistic sights, sounds and other sensations–which a person can explore by wearing a special kind of headset and, in some cases, using certain props. Basically every VR experience will allow the user to feel as though they are in this simulated world and look around it, while more advanced systems allow for movement and interaction.

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