Wed.Feb 06, 2019

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VR Opens Up New Possibilities For Disabled Musicians

VRScout

Infinite Instrument’s customizable interface is proving to be an effective tool for physically disabled musicians. Performance Without Barriers , a research group specializing in digital music interfaces for disabled musicians, has begun employing VR technology as part of their project to empower musicians suffering from physical disabilities that prevent them from being able to operate conventional instruments.

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XTAL hands on: an interesting glimpse to Virtual Reality 2.0

The Ghost Howls

Two weeks ago, I have traveled a bit around Europe and I have visited some beautiful cities. One of this incredible places has been Prague , that in my opinion is a marvelous city that everyone should visit. Apart from the splendid Cathedral and the tasty Trdelnik, Prague also features an interesting Virtual Reality startup: VRgineers. Me, super excited in front of the VRgineers’s office.

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The Next VLC Media Player Update Will Include VR Support

VRScout

The internet’s most reliable media player is getting its fourth major update. In terms of quality, there are few consumer media players more flexible than VLC. A staple among PC users since 2001, the orange traffic cone icon has become a legendary piece of software, serving as a beacon of hope for those struggling to find a player compatible with whatever bizarre file type they ripped off of LimeWire.

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US Navy Taps Microsoft's HoloLens for Augmented Reality War Games System

Next Reality AR

Simulated training can help soldiers and sailors learn how to use their weapons safely, but simulations can sometimes lack the stressful environment of a real firefight. That's why the US Navy has developed a more realistic augmented reality simulator that runs on the Microsoft HoloLens. Don't Miss: US Army Outfits Soldiers with Augmented Reality Headsets Dubbed the Weapons Augmented Reality Scoring System (WARSS), the program simulates live-fire exercises by displaying 3D imagery of opposing fo

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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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ILMxLAB’s ‘Star Wars: Project Porg’ is Coming Soon to Magic Leap One

Road to VR

As movie tie-ins go, the Star Wars franchise has it all (even Star Wars -branded fruit at one point). Now, Magic Leap says the porg-tastic AR experience Star Wars: Project Porg is coming “soon” to Magic Leap One. Project Porg was originally slated to release in December 2018, and we weren’t sure what happened to the project in the meantime.

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‘Beat Saber’ Expert+ Difficulty Levels Come to PSVR, “a lot, lot of music coming”

Road to VR

Prepare to sweat (and probably curse) because Beat Games, the studio behind block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018), today released a new Expert+ mode to its suite of existing songs on PSVR. Along with it, the update brings a new option in the settings that allows ‘Reduced Debris’, something the studio says greatly helps visibility in Expert+ by reducing the particle effects so you can get an easier view of incoming blocks.

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HP VR headset Copper aims for highest display excess

Slashgear

The HP Copper (code-name) VR headset was revealed in part this week as a topmost best-in-class device. Other companies either have their own ecosystem (Oculus or HTC Vive with Steam VR), or are part of Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality platform – and are relatively bland in industrial design. HP seems to want to break out of that mold, while continuing … Continue reading.

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MMORPG ‘OrbusVR’ Expansion ‘Reborn’ to Launch in April

Road to VR

Orbus Online, the studio behind OrbusVR , says the game’s long-awaited ‘Reborn’ expansion is now set to launch sometime in April. OrbusVR is a made-for-VR MMORPG that launched into Early Access on Steam (Vive, Rift) and the Oculus Store (Rift) in December 2017. As a VR-native, it’s essentially delivering VR headset owners a way to live out some of the classic MMORPG tropes such as multiplayer dungeon raids, world bosses, several combat classes, and missions across a la

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Esports Pushing VR Adoption

Tech Trends VR

Can professional gaming help to propel the consumer adoption of virtual reality? Professional gaming has always been a serious pursuit that attracted dedicated players and a large audience, and with immersive technologies becoming more pervasive, the esports crowd is increasingly embracing VR. “For the first time in generations, we’re witnessing the birth of a new major sport, and it’s happening with unprecedented speed,” says ESPN The Magazine, Senior Editor, Megan Greenwall.

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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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Exclusive: HP’s Next-gen VR Headset Aims to Raise the Bar on Clarity & Comfort

Road to VR

Having launched its first VR headset in late 2017, alongside a handful of similar headsets as part of Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality platform, HP is preparing to take its next step with the launch of a new headset that diverges from the pack. Road to VR got an exclusive preview of the so far unannounced and unnamed headset which the company hopes will raise the bar on clarity and comfort.

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How to Maximize Use of Navigation Links in Virtual Reality

InstaVR

Navigation is one of the features used in all apps created through InstaVR. That encompasses everything from a one scene app looped to a multi-branching “Choose Your Own Adventure” style app. But we don’t talk about Navigation much. Why? To some, it’s a fairly basic feature. The truth is there is much customization you can do via Navigation.

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Hands-on: Vive Focus 6DOF Controllers ‘Chirp’ & ‘FinchShift’ Tested Back-to-Back

Road to VR

Vive Wave is HTC’s open platform that offers interoperability between several classes of mobile VR headsets and accessories, something the company hopes will help unite a fragmented market. Although with greater choice in VR accessories comes the task of understanding the key differences between them. Enter FinchShift and Chirp, two different solutions to the same problem: bringing 6DOF controllers to Vive Focus.