Mon.Apr 01, 2019

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Our Favorite April Fools Day VR Announcements

VRScout

Four years later and these mock VR devices still have us scratching our heads. Happy April Fools Day! If you’re reading this the day of publication, kudos to you for venturing onto the internet during one of the most untrustworthy days of the year. April 1st is a time for light-hearted pranking, outrageous fake announcements, and of course, an opportunity to fool consumers with impossible products.

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Magic Leap Adds More AT&T Retail Stores, Reveals Game of Thrones Fan Swag

Next Reality AR

The Game of Thrones premiere is fast approaching, and along with it, Magic Leap has begun to unveil some of the fan-centric swag associated with its immersive experience based on the hit TV series. On Monday, a contributor to the unofficial Game of Thrones fan site Watchers on the Wall received a special Magic Leap box that could become an instant collector's item.

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RUMOR: Valve Index Steam Listing Points Towards June 15th Launch

VRScout

This is not an April Fools joke. I repeat: this is not an April Fools joke! Thanks to a leak made by Valve themselves earlier today, we may have just received our first good luck at the companies upcoming VR headset. In a now-deleted Steam page which appears to have been a placeholder for the upcoming VR headset, we get a solid look at the body and dimensions of what could very well be Valve’s long-awaited PC VR headset.

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Valve confirms Index VR headset will start shipping in June

Slashgear

Following months of rumors, Valve teased its own virtual reality hardware called Index late last week. A Steam product page for the VR headset leaked soon after, and now Valve has confirmed its launch plans for the product, stating that it will fully unveil the Index VR headset on May 1 and launch it for purchase later on this summer. … Continue reading.

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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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#750: Lucid Dreaming & VR: How our waking life is becoming more dreamlike

Voices of VR

Lucid Dreaming is ability to become aware that you’re dreaming, and to potentially even start to interact and direct what happens within your dream. Arthur.

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Raising Awareness Of Human Trafficking Through VR

VRScout

Radical Empathy Education Foundation teaches you how to spot a victim of human trafficking. Human trafficking is an often-overlooked crime that has a devastating impact on millions of people all across the globe. According to a report from the International Labour Organization , it was estimated that in 2017, 40.3 million individuals were victims of modern slavery with 1 in 4 victims being children forced into sexual exploitation, and almost 99% of female victims forced into the commercial sex

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Virtual Reality is officially a fad. I am out

The Ghost Howls

I work in virtual reality since 2014, when I have fallen in love with this technology after having tried an Oculus DK2. In these years, I have always been an advocate for it, saying that it will be pervasive for our lives in 5-10 years, and I have fought against all those people saying that it was a fad. But today, I have changed my mind: it has been scientifically proven that VR is a fad and so I’m going down this hype train and you should do that as well.