AR Insider
JULY 24, 2019
“Behind the Numbers” is AR Insider’s series that examines strategic takeaways from ARtillry Intelligence data. Each post drills down on one topic or chart. Subscribe for access to the full library and other knowledge-building resources. One of the biggest precursors for AR’s opportunity is hardware installed base. Today much of that comes from smartphones, as mobile AR is the near-term play.
VRScout
JULY 24, 2019
Oculus’ July Platform Update is all about Social VR. Oculus has announced new features and updates to both the Oculus Quest and Rift platforms that greatly improve tracking and bring new social VR features to both platforms. Here’s what’s included in the July Platform Update: OCULUS VENUES ON QUEST. Oculus Venues has finally arrived on the Oculus Quest.
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Road to VR
JULY 24, 2019
Amazon today announced the launch of Prime Video VR on Oculus Quest, Go, and Gear VR. In addition to bringing the entire Prime Video catalog onto the headsets, Amazon is also for the first time adding VR content to its Prime Video library. Amazon has now followed other major content streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube into VR. The company today announced the launch of the Prime Video VR app which allows Prime members in the US and UK to stream the entire Prime Video content li
Next Reality AR
JULY 24, 2019
Why do you need augmented reality? Because enterprise, they say. And while that's certainly true for a number of disciplines, there's still that mainstream use case hanging out there waiting to be discovered beyond the realm of enterprise and gaming. After much thought, and taking the Magic Leap One through many different situations, I decided it was time to see if one of those use cases might be using it for office work.
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.
Road to VR
JULY 24, 2019
Later this year Oculus Quest is going to get access to a heap of new VR content thanks to support for Oculus Go apps via official emulation. Oculus CTO John Carmack this week confirmed that Oculus Quest will eventually support Oculus Go apps “by way of a compatibility layer that makes Quest report as a Go and emulate the Go controller for old apps.” The feature will be added sometime later this year, and will potentially bring hundreds of new apps to Oculus Quest.
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Road to VR
JULY 24, 2019
WhiteMoon Dreams , the developers behind PSVR arena shooter StarBlood Arena (2017) , released a statement recently bidding farewell to its community. Earlier this year, the studio announced that their online-only game would be going dark; the official date for server shutdown is Thursday, July 25th. A studio spokesperson took to Reddit late last week to offer a final goodbye and to assemble the game’s ultimate ‘Wednesday Night Wars’, a weekly call to the game’s playerba
Slashgear
JULY 24, 2019
The folks at Valve released new Valve Index VR headset kits today for immediate shipping in the USA. The Valve Index VR system was actually first released in late June, but “initial quantities were outpaced by demand.” As Valve tells us today, “users were asked to reserve their hardware as new kits were in production.” Today’s the day when new … Continue reading.
Road to VR
JULY 24, 2019
Bigscreen released their ‘Bigscreen TV’ update two weeks ago, which brought 50+ livestreaming TV channels to the platform for free. Now, company founder and CEO Darshan Shankar reports the social viewing platform received more than 5,200 users who want to watch it in VR this afternoon. If those numbers sound a bit too good to be true, Shankar explains that it’s actually in the realm of possibility.
Slashgear
JULY 24, 2019
Virtual reality news has more or less quieted down over the past months but that doesn’t mean it’s far from gone. While its application in other industries have yet to be realized, it continues to grow, albeit slowly, in its native entertainment market. In fact, Amazon has finally made its long-expected foray into VR and it’s coming to Oculus’ mobile … Continue reading.
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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.
Veer
JULY 24, 2019
As you may know, last month saw the second edition of the Sandbox Immersive Festival (SIF) come and go. Held in the “Hollywood of the East” as part of Qingdao International VR Week 2019, the four-day festival presented a range of keynote speakers (including VeeR’s own Chen Jingshu), panel discussions, and over 40 international immersive projects. As China’s premier event dedicated to interactive and immersive storytelling, this year’s theme followed the concept of an “Immersive City”, where “pre
Peter Graham
JULY 24, 2019
Having previously been available for Oculus’ other two devices, Gear VR and Oculus Go, Oculus Venues will now be released for the company’s flagship standalone headset, Oculus Quest. Oculus Venues has always been about live social experiences in virtual reality (VR), and what better way of experiencing the latest events than via Oculus Quest.
Oculus
JULY 24, 2019
VR lets anyone enjoy their favorite movies and TV shows in the privacy of their own virtual theater or living room, and now there’s even.
The Ghost Howls
JULY 24, 2019
Second part of my interview with Suzanne Borders , the CEO of BadVR , a company that mixes technology and creativity to disrupt the data visualization sector. In yesterday’s part , she detailed what BadVR does and why she’s so interested in the Magic Leap One device. Today we will discover more the personal side of Suzanne: she will tell us how it is being a woman in VR and what she has discovered traveling all over the world!
Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon
Remote meetings are here to stay - and many are BORING. If you are trying to engage your learners (or any audience), compelling content is critical. But trying to create stimulating content with the same tools you’ve always had is hard, right? Thankfully, wrong! Terrific tools in PowerPoint along with visual assets help you create the kind of dynamic content you need to capture your remote audience’s attention, with functions that allow for interactive sequences and navigation.
Peter Graham
JULY 24, 2019
Founded in 2016, LIV was created as mixed reality (MR) capture tool for both developers and other creators to film themselves in virtual reality (VR). The company has come a long way since then and is currently on the cusp of leaving Early Access. Today, LIV Inc. has announced a successful $1 million USD funding round, with some major investors supporting the company.
ARPost
JULY 24, 2019
Augmented reality enhances the world around us by incorporating elements of a virtual environment into our own. It can make the most mundane experiences more exciting. This is the power of AR. It’s also what makes AR ideal for the travel industry. AR’s potential to enrich travel experiences is undeniable. Unfortunately, not many companies in this sector have embraced this burgeoning technology.
Peter Graham
JULY 24, 2019
There’s been a little flurry of news regarding the Oculus Quest today. Oculus Venues has been added to the platform and the headset has seen improvements to its controllers and Guardian system. But there is more coming, with Oculus’ CTO John Carmack taking to Twitter to reveal Oculus Go emulation is on the way. . In a series of three tweets, Carmack revealed that: “Go emulation is coming to Quest later this year, by way of a compatibility layer that makes Quest report as a Go a
VRScout
JULY 24, 2019
Enjoy the entire Prime Video catalog and a curated selection of 360-degree content. When it comes to video streaming on the Oculus platform, there’s no shortage of apps to choose from. From Netflix and Hulu to Showtime and Red Bull, you can’t seem to throw a rock without hitting a dedicated video streaming app. Then there’s Oculus TV, which allows you to connect all your subscriptions into a single hub for an all-in-one channel surfing experience.
Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor
With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.
Peter Graham
JULY 24, 2019
While Oculus’ inside-out tracking solution for Quest and Rift S has in many ways been a success, there’s always room for improvement and additional tweaks. The company has now rolled out several updates to enhance the overall controller tracking experience on both devices, as well as improving Oculus Quest’s Guardian system. First of all, the new Oculus Touch controllers for Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S have had their tracking algorithms fine-tuned to update their accuracy, s
Road to VR
JULY 24, 2019
Despite securing $280 million from Japan’s largest telecom earlier this summer, we’ve heard surprisingly little from the multi-billion dollar AR startup of late regarding its flagship headset, Magic Leap One. Now, the company has announced a number of new features coming to ML1 in its latest Lumin OS 0.97 and SDK 0.22 updates, which includes hand tracking with proper occlusion masking, “out of the box” multiplayer support, and a few other goodies that ideally position th
XR for Business Podcast
JULY 24, 2019
Chicken Waffle! Now that we have your attention, check out this episode of XR for Business. Centertec CEO Bill Tustin joins Alan to talk location-based VR “retail-tainment.” Fun, exciting XR technologies are revitalizing America’s malls, and taking kids on field trips across the stars or through the pyramids; places they could never go in real life.
EON Reality
JULY 24, 2019
The finale of EON Reality’s Creator AVR instructional video series is now live on YouTube. Series 4 teaches users how to create lessons, courses, and other content for Creator AVR through the AVR Platform Portal — allowing teachers, trainers, and other educators to develop brand-new instructional materials from virtually any WiFi-enabled device. READY TO EXPERIENCE THE PLATFORM?
Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning
Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?
XR for Business Podcast
JULY 24, 2019
Chicken Waffle! Now that we have your attention, check out this episode of XR for Business. Centertec CEO Bill Tustin joins Alan to talk location-based VR “retail-tainment.” Fun, exciting XR technologies are revitalizing America’s malls, and taking kids on field trips across the stars or through the pyramids; places they could never go in real life.
XR for Business Podcast
JULY 24, 2019
Chicken Waffle! Now that we have your attention, check out this episode of XR for Business. Centertec CEO Bill Tustin joins Alan to talk location-based VR "retail-tainment." Fun, exciting XR technologies are revitalizing America's malls, and taking kids on field trips across the stars or through the pyramids; places they could never go in real life.
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