VRScout

MAY 1, 2018

The $200 Oculus Go is the most accessible VR headset today. Up until now, one of the biggest barriers to entry for VR has been price. Headset adoption has taken a conservative growth path, mostly due in part to high prices of PC-required systems or just requiring consumers to own a specific line of VR compatible phones to pair with mobile headsets. But now the Oculus Go is finally here and it’s a big deal, especially for the millions of iPhone users out there who up until today have had limited

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2018

NextVR , the live event VR broadcasting company, today announced a partnership with Oculus to bring live VR events to Oculus Venues , the company’s upcoming social viewing app that will allow mass viewing of events such as sports, concerts and comedy. According to a press release, Venues will be available for the new Oculus Go headset and for Gear VR starting this month.

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2018

These apps hope to make the Oculus Go your next entertainment device. The $200 standalone VR headset from Oculus has finally arrived. Available for sale on Oculus.com in 23 countries, online from Amazon , or in Best Buy Stores in the U.S., the Oculus Go is part of Oculus’ larger goal to getting one billion consumers into VR. Whether you have an Android or iPhone mobile device, you can immediately get started with Oculus Go ( See our review here ).

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2018

Oculus Go, the company’s upcoming standalone VR headset, may already be waiting in the wings at Amazon distribution centers—they’re certainly already on Best Buy shelves, as both retailers are gearing up for what appears to be an imminent launch. The $200 standalone headset, which doesn’t require a separate phone or computer to run, just got a pre-order listing on Amazon.

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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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Next Reality AR

MAY 1, 2018

In the latest installment in its burgeoning augmented reality journalism practice, The New York Times is bringing its readers closer to Mars and NASA's latest spacecraft set to travel to the red planet. When reading the article through the NY Times app for iOS or Android on devices running ARKit or ARCore, users see two global augmented reality views of Mars, one that shows where various NASA landers have previously touched down on the planet, and another that maps where water may have flowed on

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Next Reality AR

MAY 1, 2018

During Snap Inc.'s quarterly earnings report, released on Tuesday, the company disclosed that it snagged a revenue total of $230.8 million for the first quarter of 2018, an increase of 54% compared to last year, largely fueled by its augmented reality offerings and other advertising products. While Snapchat faced a backlash as a result of its app redesign, the company also saw daily active users rise to 191 million for the quarter, a 15% increase compared to the same period in 2017.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2018

Today at Facebook’s F8 developer conference the company announced a new partnership with RED Digital Cinema , a high-end digital film camera company, to create a VR camera based on Facebook’s Surround360 technology. Last year at F8, Facebook announced two new Surround360 camera reference designs. The cameras, which look like spheres covered in lenses, capture the scene in volumetrically, in 360 degrees and 3D.

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Next Reality AR

MAY 1, 2018

On Tuesday, on the one-year anniversary of the announcement of its AR Camera platform, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerburg revealed at the company's F8 developers conference that the platform will be extended to the company's Instagram and Messenger apps. Users of the Instagram app on iOS and Android will be able dress up their photos and video with AR effects and share their creations as Stories.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2018

Oculus Go, the company’s $200 standalone headset, is finally here. While the headset retains much of the basic functionality of Samsung Gear VR, including access to the communal Oculus app store, there’s a few neat ergonomic updates to the headset that aim to set itself apart. Case in point: Oculus Go drops Gear VR’s focus wheel, and provides a few ways to use your own glasses.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2018

On Friday, a report on CNET shook a bit the XR community revealing that Apple is working on an AR/VR headset for 2020. The report quotes “a person familiar with Apple’s plans” and basically says that: Apple is working on an AR/VR headset; The codename of the device is T288; The headset will be released on 2020; The headset will have 8K resolution per eye; The headset should work wirelessly : there will be a box, that contains custom Apple processors, that will be the brain of t

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2018

Facebook’s annual developer conference F8 starts today. While many are wondering whether the company is launching the long-awaited $200 Oculus Go standalone headset there, a recently revealed image suggests at very least F8 attendees will be receiving a headset for free. The image below was posted yesterday by Marco Antonio Liu, co-founder at HappinssVR , a studio working in mobile VR.

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Slashgear

MAY 1, 2018

Oculus Go, Facebook’s standalone virtual reality headset, is shipping today. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the milestone today as part of his opening keynote at the F8 2018 developer conference. The news comes a year after Facebook first revealed the VR wearable. Two versions of Oculus Go will be offered. The cheapest will be $199 and have 32 GB of … Continue reading.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2018

Beat Saber (2018), the unbelievably slick VR rhythm game that tasks you with slicing blocks in mid-air with a pair of lightsabers, released today in Early Access. We’ve got our Early Access review here so you can learn more about the game, but what about the heart-pumping soundtrack behind it? We got a chance to speak with indie studio Hyperbolic Magnetism’s Jan Ilavský and composer and EDM artist Jaroslav Beck , the mind behind the game’s first 10 tracks.

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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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Slashgear

MAY 1, 2018

As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage to kick off 2018’s F8 conference today, we knew that augmented reality and virtual reality were going to be big topics. After all, we started the day with the news that the new Oculus Go headset had gone up for pre-order, and the Facebook platform in general has been branching out into … Continue reading.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2018

Facebook’s F8 developer conference is getting ready for its two-day event starting today. Here’s how to catch the keynote livestream. Watch the livestream of Facebook’s F8 2018 keynote by heading to the F8 website. The keynote begins at 9:30 AM PT ( your local time here ). You’ll also be able to catch the livestream there on-demand once it’s finished.

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Slashgear

MAY 1, 2018

Oculus Go, the standalone virtual reality headset expected to be a key element of Facebook’s F8 2018 conference today, quietly arrived for preorder online this morning. The headset cuts the cord versus the original Oculus Rift, with a fully self-contained VR system and wireless controller. In fact, the Oculus Go arguably shares more in common with Samsung’s Gear VR than … Continue reading.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2018

Following today’s Oculus Go launch announcement at Facebook’s annual F8 dev conference, the company also revealed that Rooms , the social VR space first launched on Gear VR, is getting revamped to inaugurate Go. The company announced two upcoming apps as well: Oculus Venues – a previously teased social event viewing app for Go and Gear VR, and the newly revealed Go-exclusive Oculus TV – a big screen TV environment and launchpad for other streaming apps like Netflix and

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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.

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EON Reality

MAY 1, 2018

Attendees from around the world experienced the AVR Platform and learned about how to start their own IDCs. The EON Reality team would like to thank everyone who attended including all of the speakers, delegates, Interactive Digital Center (IDC) partners, and EON Reality team members that made the 2018 EON Experience Fest a success. Attendees from all over the globe partook in two days of AR and VR demos, listened to industry experts, and learned about the future of the technology.

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VRWorld

MAY 1, 2018

Years ago, Leap Motion made headlines when they released footage of their intuitive Leap Motion device. For those not familiar with their namesake, this peripheral allowed users to control everything on their PCs with intuitive motion controls and gestures, as seen in the video below. In the years since that video’s release, Leap has successfully released that product and used it to supplement VR controls and development.

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EnterpriseWear

MAY 1, 2018

Written by Special Guest Bloggers Robert Seward and Steven Lewis, Co-Founders at Rendered Perception Computer Vision (CV) and Augmented Reality (AR) coupled with Artificial Intelligence (AI) will create that step change for inventory improvement that you are looking for. A good inventory system is a byproduct of having a deep understanding of your customer. […].

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VRWorld

MAY 1, 2018

Oculus Go is the first standalone VR headset from those at Oculus, and at the first day of Facebook’s F8 2018 conference, its surprise release date was announced. As of today, May 1st, 2018, the Oculus Go is being shipped. At a relatively low price of $199, it’s likely to be many people’s first VR device, and if it’s able to provide a good enough experience, it’ll get many more people hooked on VR.

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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?

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Enter VR

MAY 1, 2018

Hello and welcome to the Enter VR podcast featuring Vasanth Mohan from Fused VR as our guest! Get a preview of the. The post Ep 199: Dragon Ball Super and Ready Player One epic spoilercast! Featuring Vasanth Mohan appeared first on Enter VR.

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VRWorld

MAY 1, 2018

After launching their Oculus Go headset , it was the perfect timing for Oculus to show off their VR theater concept and TV service. There have been whispers abound for a while now about Oculus revolutionizing the VR format by creating a VR theater , and now we know how they’re going to do it. Meet Oculus Venues, which allows users in to view live-streamed events with a large number of other users – all done in VR, and powered by NextVR, a company known for providing sporting events

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VeeR VR

MAY 1, 2018

Pano2VR is a virtual tour creation program first and foremost, but it is also capable of many other things such as small plant creation, animation and flash creation amongst other things. After working through this tutorial you will have covered the basics of Pano2VR and will have built a basic tour. What you will need to get started. This tutorial assumes you are using the full ‘Pano2VR Pro’ suite to obtain advanced abilities and features such as automatic progression and automatic linking, alt

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VRWorld

MAY 1, 2018

Augmented reality has been staying in the news lately, and today ProjectDR is the reason why. As consumers grow more accustomed to the technology, more innovations in AR are being found and being pushed on the cutting-edge of science and hardware development. Apple’s huge announcement aside, this week also gave us a smaller but just-as-interesting story.

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Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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