Wed.Nov 08, 2017

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Vive Arts Brings VR To Museums

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The Vive Studios program will fund and develop VR experiences for cultural institutions. Whether examining a priceless collection of ancient treasures or exploring an exhibit of historic war artifacts, museums have always provided an exceptional way to preserve and educate the public. But now institutions are aiming to make museum experiences more interactive and engaging, hoping to entice the next generation of patrons with technology.

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Daqri is Now Shipping Its AR Smart Glasses to Professionals

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DAQRI, the Los Angeles-based AR headset company, is now shipping its Daqri Smart Glasses to professionals. Much like Microsoft’s HoloLens, Daqri’s Smart Glasses are targeting professionals in industries like manufacturing, field services, maintenance and repair, inspections, construction, etc. Selling for $5000 (the same as HoloLens Commercial Suite ), Daqri’s Smart Glasses boast a lightweight set of glasses that connect to a discrete body-worn compute pack, a miniature compu

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MythBuster’s Jamie Hyneman Crowdfunding VR Shoes

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Please be real. Please be real. Please be real. Another day, another insanely bizarre VR peripheral aimed at changing the industry forever. MythBuster’s veteran and beret-enthusiast Jamie Hyneman has officially launched an IndieGoGo campaign to develop a prototype shoe for enhancing movement while in VR experiences. Labeled the “Vortex,” the electronic kicks will serve as mini treadmills for each foot, allowing wearers to walk in place while immersed in VR.

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TPCast for Vive is Now Available for Pre-order in North America at $300

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TPCast, the eponymous company producing a wireless VR transmitter, is now offering its HTC Vive-specific device for pre-order in US and Canada. The TPCAST Wireless Adapter for Vive has been available in China since December 2016, with pre-orders only opening up in Europe two months ago. Now the wireless transmitter, a battery-powered device that lets you go cable free, is available for pre-oder in the US and Canada starting today.

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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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Pokémon Go Creators Are Making A Harry Potter AR Game

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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is coming to mobile in 2018. Could this be the next big AR game? Niantic, the developers of the popular Pokémon Go mobile game is now making a Harry Potter game. Expected to launch on mobile devices in 2018, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will let those of you dreaming about one day becoming a real-life Wizard finally a reality.

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HTC VIVE launches VIVE Arts, a new multi-million dollar global VR art program

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HTC VIVE today announced VIVE Arts, a new multi-million dollar global VR program set to change the way the world creates and engages with the arts. Vive recognizes VR's potential to share and engage with the world's most valuable treasures in a new and exciting way, and the company's latest investment will support the content, creators and institutions that embrace this new medium.

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‘Killing Floor: Incursion’ for HTC Vive Sees Minor Delay, Now Launching November 14th

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Killing Floor: Incursion (2017), Tripwire Interactive’s latest entry into the zombie-splattering co-op shooter genre, was supposed to arrive on SteamVR-compatible headsets yesterday, but has been delayed until November 14th. Citing concerns surrounding new features like Holdout mode, an endless high score challenge, Tripwire says the game will be delayed by a week so the developers can give everything an extra check. image courtesy Tripwire Interactive.

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Mythbuster Making Moonwalker Shoes for VR Experience

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Former Mythbuster Jamie Hyneman is seeking US$50,000 to build a prototype pair of roller skates to wear in virtual reality. Hyneman’s pitch video points out that when one straps on goggles and gloves to enter virtual reality, your eyes are occupied and you therefore run the risk of bumping into stuff if you try to walk in meatspace while simulating walking in a virtual world.

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New PlayStation VR Demo Disc Available as a Free Download Starting Today

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There are those who said the era of the demo disc had come to an end. Alas, Sony is set to release a second VR demo disc to give players a fresh taste of some of the top and upcoming PlayStation VR content. While the PlayStation VR Demo Disc 2 will come included with the new GT Sport and Skyrim PSVR bundles, it’ll also be available to download for free starting today.

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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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Robot Shibuya Mirai Becomes Tokyo Resident

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Tokyo, Japan may have just become the first city to officially grant residence to an artificial intelligence (AI). The intelligence’s name is Shibuya Mirai and exists only as a chatbot on the popular Line messaging app. Mirai, which translates to ‘future’ from Japanese, joins Hanson Robotic’s “Sophia” as pioneering AI gaining statuses previously reserved for living, biological entities.

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Rockstar Delays ‘LA Noire: The VR Case Files’ to December

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Take-two Interactive, parent company of Rockstar Games, revealed in their earnings call that L.A Noire: The VR Case Files is actually set to release in December and not on November 14th as previously mentioned. The VR game, which targets HTC Vive, delivers seven of the original, self-contained cases from the hit neo-noir action-adventure game L.A.

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NVIDIA aligns with the Force with new video cards

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Fans of Star Wars who desire high-end graphics hardware can look forward to NVIDIA’s imminent release of two collector’s edition GPUs: the new Jedi Order™ and Galactic Empire™ editions of their TITAN Xp line. The cards utilize NVIDIA’s Pascal-based GP102 GPU technology, featuring 33,840 CUDA cores running at 1.6GHz and 12GB of GDDR5X memory running at 11.4Gbps.

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Design Sprints at Leap Motion: A Playground of 3D User Interfaces

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As mainstream VR/AR input continues to evolve – from the early days of gaze-only input to wand-style controllers and fully articulated hand tracking – so too are the virtual user interfaces we interact with. Slowly but surely we’re moving beyond flat UIs ported over from 2D screens and toward a future filled with spatial interface paradigms that take advantage of depth and volume.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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.

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The Magic World of Harry Potter now comes in AR

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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite” will bring author J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World to mobile phones and use augmented reality (AR) to create a real-world scavenger hunt, allow players to cast spells, find artifacts, team up and encounter magical beasts and characters from the popular book series. The game will have players exploring real-world neighborhoods and cities across the globe, go on adventures, learn and cast spells, discover mysterious artifacts, and encounter legendary beasts and iconic ch

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Sony’s London Studio Doubles Down With VR as Its Top Priority

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Sony’s London Studio is behind PlayStation VR Worlds (2016) , a collection of VR vignettes for PSVR—including the lauded ‘London Heist’—which was included in some of the headset’s launch bundles. With the success of VR Worlds , Sony’s London Studio is doubling down; now in development of Blood & Truth , the spiritual successor to ‘London Heist’, the studio says VR is its top priority.

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PlayStation VR Demo Collection 2 is available for free in the US Playstation Store.

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The new PlayStation VR Demo Collection 2 is currently available for free in several online Playstation store including the US. Here’s what you get: • Battlezone (Rebellion) • Dino Frontier* (Uber Entertainment) • Eve: Valkyrie (CCP Games) • Fantastic Contraption* (Radial Games) • Job Simulator* (Owlchemy Labs) • Moss (Polyarc) • Raw Data* (Survios) • Rez Infinite* (Enhance Games) • Star Child (GameTrust) • The Persistence (Firesprite) • Thumper (Drool) • Tiny Trax (FuturLab) • StarBlood Arena (W

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Oculus Research Devises High-accuracy Low-cost Stylus for Writing & Drawing in VR

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Using a single camera and a 3D-printed dodecahedron decorated with binary square markers, the so-called ‘DodecaPen’ achieves submillimeter-accurate 6DoF tracking of a passive stylus. Lead by National Taiwan University PhD student Po-Chen Wu during his internship at Oculus Research, the work presents a low-cost tracking and input solution with many potential applications in virtual and augmented reality.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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.