VRScout

MARCH 13, 2020

Once valued at $8 billion, sources say the AR start-up is now seeking an acquirer. Magic Leap is reportedly working closely with a financial advisor on exploring options to keep the doors of the AR startup open. According to a recent Bloomberg report, the AR company would either form a new partnership that would hand over the equity of the company or possibly sell off a significant stake of the company ahead of listing.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2020

I’ve had the great pleasure of speaking with Lars Bergstrom , a very smart professional that with the Mixed Reality team at Mozilla works every day to improve the WebXR platform, working for a future immersive web that preserves our privacy and doesn’t clutter us with banners and fake news. He provided me very interesting insights on Mozilla’s vision for the future of the web, and I’m very glad to share them with you.

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2020

With a successful holiday season under its belt, Facebook was no doubt looking forward to resupplying its retail partners with more Oculus Quest & Rift S stock. However in a perfect storm of high demand, low supply, and on-going supply chain disruptions due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), both headsets have been largely unavailable for purchase.

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ARPost

MARCH 13, 2020

It’s impossible for anyone to keep an eye on everything happening in the extended reality space. However, Nreal is one XR company that I recommend keeping an eye on. A recent six-page press release detailed plenty of things to be excited about. Catching Up With Nreal. To really appreciate all of Nreal ’s announcements, it helps to understand where they are right now.

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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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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2020

Tilt Brush (2016), the VR art app from Google, now has the ability to directly export VR creations to Sketchfab , the popular online repository for 3D models. Tilt Brush has had the ability to import from Sketchfab for some time now, although the process of exporting has been manual. The Tilt Brush team says in a Steam update that uploading to Sketchfab works similarly to uploading to Google Poly, its own 3D model repository, calling it an “equal combination of easy and fancy.” ?

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2020

Oculus Link allows Oculus Quest to become a PC VR headset by tethering to a VR ready PC. While Oculus sells its own (quite expensive) Oculus Link cable, any appropriately high performance USB 3.0 cable will work. Here’s an option for a cable and extender which can get you even more length than the official cable at less than half the cost. Image courtesy Oculus.

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EON Reality

MARCH 13, 2020

In this week’s guest post, we invite EON Reality’s Director for U.S Education and Global Innovation, Jamie Justice to talk about effecting change in the advent of the visual revolution. Read on to find out why he thinks 2020 holds the greatest promise and potential it has ever been to effectively use AVR technology to change and improve the way we teach and the way we learn.

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Charlie Fink

MARCH 13, 2020

Our destiny now unfolds.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 13, 2020

The virtual reality (VR) industry has made great strides over the past few years to bring down the entry barrier the technology faces, namely, the high-end expensive PC’s required to run the headsets. While it used to be the case that a suitable gaming rig would cost in excess of £1,000 GBP plus the headset, that’s no longer the case and devices like Oculus Quest have made VR gaming even easier to get into.

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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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Oculus

MARCH 13, 2020

Events like GDC bring the community and industry together to celebrate a shared passion for gaming. This year, we’re doing things differently to ensure the.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 13, 2020

When it comes to developing virtual reality (VR) videogames there are two primary engines studios use, either Epic Games’ Unreal Engine or Unity by Unity Technologies. Both highly competitive when it comes to gaining market share, Unity tends to dominate the VR scene due to ease of use while Unreal Engine is known for its graphic fidelity. Unity’s current version 2019.3 – which arrived back in January – has recently been upgraded to reduce that visual divide, making its H

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Oculus

MARCH 13, 2020

This week on Oculus Picks, we’re taking a look at a handful of games anyone can use to kickstart a more active lifestyle. From a.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 13, 2020

It’s Friday so once again VRFocus is looking forward to next week and the exciting virtual reality (VR) videogames due to be released. At the moment there’s no better time to become a hermit and not physically leave the house. Instead, grab your VR headset and step into one of these virtual worlds. Once Upon A Time in Peekskill. A live-action, true crime story with interactive elements, Once Upon a Time in Peekskill tells the story of 16-year-old, Jeffrey Deskovic, wrongfully conv

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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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AR Insider

MARCH 13, 2020

This article features the latest episode of The AR Show. Based on a new collaboration, episode coverage joins AR Insider’s editorial flow including narrative insights and audio. See past and future episodes here or subscribe. Guests’ opinions are their own. One area that continues to represent a large opportunity gap in AR commerce is 3D asset creation.

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