Sat.Jan 11, 2020

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Bigscreen Announces New Lineup Of Space-Themed Movies Heading To VR Theaters

VRScout

Bigscreen expands its offerings as ticket sales exceed expectations. It was back in December when social VR platform Bigscreen announced a groundbreaking new partnership with Paramount Pictures that would bring blockbuster 2D and 3D films to their VR theater experience. Within the first month, thousands of users jumped into VR to watch flicks like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, World War Z in 3D , and Minority Report with fellow moviegoers from all over the globe.

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Bigscreen’s ‘VR Cinema’ Showing Interstellar, Star Trek, Transformers, & More This Month

Road to VR

Bigscreen has released the latest lineup of big-name movies premiering this month in its recently released ‘VR Cinema’ feature. A virtual reality movie theater always has felt like an obvious shoe-in for VR, a sentiment illustrated by some of our earliest articles covering VR cinema pioneers and the apps they chose to build. Since then of course, VR headset owners have been given numerous ways to enjoy films alone or with others, but for the most part those movies were self-provided

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Stereopsia report / 2: hands-on with Lenovo Mirage AR, and many storytelling VR experiences!

The Ghost Howls

In this second and last post about my experience at Stereopsia in Bruxelles, I will focus more about creative and storytelling experiences. If you lost the first part, that was more about XR companies, you can check it out here. Lenovo Mirage AR. I was so happy to try a Lenovo Mirage AR headset because I’ve never tried it in my whole life. At Stereopsia there was the new game Marvel Dimension Of Heroes, with the new two 6DOF controllers , and I thought that I would have spent my whole day playin

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Thinks AR/VR is a Solution to the Housing Crisis

Road to VR

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today laid out a range of topics on which he and his company will focus over the next decade. By 2030, he says, AR and VR telepresence could allow employees to work remotely from anywhere in the world, alleviating the affordable housing crisis of increasingly populated cities. In a post on Facebook today , CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was taking a long-term outlook on the future, emphasizing what he believes will be important areas of focus over the next 10 years.

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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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Releases Recap: January 6 – 10

Oculus

This week, we released several titles and updates across the Oculus Platform.

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