Tue.Jan 15, 2019

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New Multiplayer VR Arcade Debuts At Bally’s Las Vegas

VRScout

Three new location-based VR experiences now available at the luxurious Las Vegas hotel & casino. The entertainment capital of the world already boasts the MSG Sphere and the world’s longest VR roller coaster , but with the addition of a PlatformaVR arcade later this month, Las Vegas is on track to becoming populated with “virtually” everything in the entertainment sector.

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Instagram Goes Retro with Augmented Reality Tribute to Classic Windows Desktop

Next Reality AR

Just because augmented reality is the technology of the future doesn't mean it can't reach into the past of computing. Shared via Twitter on Monday, Instagram product designer George Kedenburg III has published the "Desktop 96" camera effect, which emulates the classic desktop interface of Windows 95. The front-facing camera inserts the user's real-time image into the center window, which moves (along with the mouse point) around the screen based on the user's head movement.

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Sony Shows More ‘Ace Combat 7’ VR Gameplay Ahead of Jan. 18 Launch

Road to VR

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown is headed to PlayStation 4 January 18th, and while it’s true Bandai Namco isn’t letting players experience the entire campaign in VR, instead creating bespoke VR-only missions, at very least it appears to translate a bit of the flatscreen game’s charm to PSVR headsets in a new demo from Sony’s ‘PlayStation Underground’ team.

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ARwall Expands with advisory team that includes Raymond Mosco

Cats and VR

Los Angeles-based AR studio ARwall has expanded with the addition of senior-level talent and entertainment industry advisors well known for their expertise in design, engineering, and XR. Their growing personnel roster boasts a board of production industry veterans and experts, including Digital Domain EP and XR leader John Canning , ITV Alliance CEO Allison Dollar and General Immersive CEO/Founder Raymond Mosco.

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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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#725: Discovering Storytelling Potential of VR/AR through Immersive Journalism with USC’s Robert Hernandez

Voices of VR

Robert Hernandez is a Digital Journalism Professor at USC, and he serves a sort of innovation lab to see how journalists can use emerging technologies.

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Oculus to Bring Upcoming Rift Titles ‘Stormland’ & ‘Defector’ to PAX South

Road to VR

Oculus is bringing two highly anticipated Rift exclusives to PAX South in San Antonio, Texas this year: Stormland and Defector. Stormland , a sci-fi adventure from Insomniac Games , first debuted at PAX West last summer. It was available through a pop-up installation for a one-day only affair back in August, and hasn’t publicly demoed since. Stormland is touted for its open world narrative which lets you interact with the world through a number of ways, be it scaling mountains, jumping ov