Sun.Oct 08, 2017

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Start Working In VR and AR With These Unity and Udacity Degree Programs

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The VR Developer and ARkit Nanodegree Programs are here to help feed the growing market need for educated developers. Various industries, from entertainment to healthcare, have begun investing a significant amount of their resources in virtual and augmented reality. As a result, companies are now clamoring for talented developers in these rapidly growing fields.

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Thanks to VR, Teachers Could (Finally) become Millionares

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Robot classroom assistants and virtual reality learning could see “celebrity teachers” make millions, experts claim. Technology is set to play a vital role in helping the 263 million children globally who are not in school, delegates at the annual Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC) heard. Mark Steed, the director of Dubai private school Jess, said the format was already being used by some teachers to offer global internet-based seminars, earning millions of pounds in the process.

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New VR Startups are Helping People with Phobias

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In Oxford, according to the Guardian, there is a new startup that is trialling VR for all kinds of conditions, from phobias to pain management to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Can you imagine being professional war pilot and still be afraid of heights? Or, worse, to be afraid of something that cannot possibly harm you? I am scared of grasshoppers and moths.

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VR Fighting Racism: Try Walking in My Shoes Experience

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An assistant professor of social work at Columbia University, professor Courtney D. Cogburn and her team are hard at work at completing a project named “1000 Cut Journey” Developed in collaboration with Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab , which is led by prof. Jeremy Bailenson. According to Engadget, this is the first time the experience is showcasing at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation.

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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.