VRScout

APRIL 26, 2018

A foldaway user interface could bring new levels of productivity to AR workspaces. With Leap Motion’s Project North Star set to hit the streets in the coming months, the American-based hand-tracking depth sensor manufacturer has officially begun teasing the various ambitious design concepts made possible by the open source AR development kit. In a series of posts made to the official Leap Motion Twitter account , the company gave a behind-the-scenes sneak peek at a user interface referred to as

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Tech Trends VR

APRIL 26, 2018

We’ll be dropping by Silicon Valley next month for Google I/O to check out the latest scoop from the Big G. May is shaping up to be one heck of a busy month for Tech Trends Click To Tweet. May is shaping up to be one heck of a busy month for Tech Trends, making us wish that we were already in a sort of post-OASIS world where we could virtually teleport ourselves to all the cool events we get invited to.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

Virtual Builds , a company spinning out of ASIC engineering firm Noisefigure Research , is a new entrant now selling SteamVR Tracking development hardware. With a full DIY kit starting at $200, Virtual Builds aims to make SteamVR Tracking more accessible for VR hardware companies and individual developers makers alike. With goal of making SteamVR Tracking a license-free and openly accessible tracking system for VR and more, Valve allows other companies to manufacture compatible hardware and prov

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Next Reality AR

APRIL 26, 2018

It appears we're in the midst of an augmented reality art boom, because in the same month that the famed Christie's auction house launched its mobile AR app, leading art gallery and art seller Saatchi Art has also announced its own entry into the AR space. Presented as an update to the existing Saatchi Art app (iOS only), the new feature allows users to see what art will look like on their own walls before buying the art within the app.

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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

APRIL 26, 2018

John Root co-founded VRLA with Cosmo Scharf in 2014 , and it has organically grown into a thriving VR event with over 10,000 attendees at the Los Angeles Convention Center. VRLA is a non-profit where funding from sponsors helps to support about half of their exhibitors within the event’s Indie Zone, which helps them feature a lot of innovative independent VR experiments and start-ups.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2018

Some of the people working at A-frame at Mozilla have started a project for a new WebVR browser called Supermedium. Now that it is available for everyone on the Oculus store and on SteamVR, I’ve been able to give it a try and I’m going to report you my first impressions about it. Supermedium is a special browser mainly because of two features, that make it completely different from all the other ones (like Chrome that has recently added WebVR support ): It is a WebVR-only browser , m

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