Wed.Sep 18, 2019

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EarthXFilm Partners With UN & NYC To Develop Immersive Experiences For Climate Week

VRScout

Raising climate awareness with 360-degree films and multi-sensory experiences. EarthxInteractive, a subsidiary of EarthxFilm specializing in environmentally-conscious immersive storytelling, has announced a partnership with the United Nations and the City of New York to provide a series of climate-focused 360-degree films and immersive experiences for their annual Climate Week in NYC.

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AR Apps Changing Education

ARPost

Guest Post. Scientists predict that by 2025, nearly 2 billion of the population will consist of the Generation Alpha or the iGeneration. Children born after 2010 are expected to be strongly infused by technology. They can’t imagine life without Apple, Google, and apps, so education must adapt to their new perception patterns. As usual, app developers are the first ones who notice these things.

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‘Imagined Landscapes’ VR Watercolor Experience Lets You Paint An Unbuilt Resort

VRScout

Kilograph brings Michael Graves’ unrealized architectural designs to life in VR. Available now via Kilograph.com , Imagined Landscapes is an interactive VR experience that allows you to explore and contribute to a 3D recreation of Barranco de Veneguera , a proposed 3.5-mile resort located in the Canary Islands designed by legendary designer and illustrator Michael Graves. .

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Report: Facebook Strikes Deal with Ray-Ban Parent Company to Design “AR glasses”

Road to VR

Facebook is building augmented reality headsets with the intent of eventually bringing one to market, this much is clear from its many job postings, research projects, and forward-looking statements from company execs. Now, a CNBC report contends that Facebook has struck a deal with Luxottica, the Italian parent company to Ray-Ban and many others, to help design some form of immersive wearable.

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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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Is Visual Mapping Apple & Google’s Next Battleground?

AR Insider

One of our top picks for augmented reality killer app is visual search. Its utility and frequency mirror that of search and hit several marks for potential killer-app status. It’s also monetizable, and Google is highly motivated to make it happen. As background, visual search has several meanings including reverse-image searches on Google desktop.

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EON Reality and Mohawk College Celebrate First VR Innovation Academy Graduates

EON Reality

The inaugural class at Mohawk College and EON Reality’s VR Innovation Academy graduated on August 29th, bringing the first batch of new AVR-trained employees into the workforce. With several months of studying Augmented and Virtual Reality (AVR) design, development, and implementation, the first graduating class in Hamilton, Ontario shows how much AVR technology can expedite the learning process and how invaluable it can be both in the classroom and workplace.

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Cartoon Network’s ‘Journeys VR’ Experience Gets Trippy with Reggie Watts, Trailer Here

Road to VR

Cartoon Network unveiled a new VR experience on Tuesday which is slated to take you on a magical trip through three original VR shorts. To guide you is—who else—the soothing baritone of comedian/musician Reggie Watts. Watts lends his voice to Gormlorm, a “traveling wizard of the multiverse” who has set up camp in a desert oasis. Developed by Paper Crane Games, TwinSky Games, and Cartoon Network Studios, the patently Wattsian experience takes you on three journeys, each of which looks

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Facebook Reportedly Working With Ray-Ban on AR Glasses

Peter Graham

Facebook has been working in the augmented reality (AR) space for several years now, that’s no secret, but it hasn’t revealed any actual hardware at the moment. However, if recent reports are anything to go by a new partnership with Ray-Ban’s parent company Luxottica may help in that process. First reported by CNBC , the news organisation states that Facebook has sought outside help with the design because the company: “has struggled to reduce the size of the device into

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Valve VR Dev is “Dying to share all the exciting things” in Development

Road to VR

In his talk at the DigiPen Institute of Technology, Valve VR developer predictably didn’t share any specifics on the company’s yet to be revealed VR game, but he did offer a glimpse into his approach to VR game design as it relates to the upcoming title. As we noted earlier this month, Valve developer Kerry Davis held a talk at his alma mater, the DigiPen Institute of Technology, last week, in which he promised to talk about “developing the company’s upcoming flagship virtual reality

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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CoolPaintrVR: Deluxe Edition to be an Exclusive Retail Release for PlayStation VR

Peter Graham

In 2018 Sngular Entertainment released 3D painting app CoolPaintrVR for PlayStation VR , ideal for those who wanted something similar to Google’s Tilt Brush. Today, in partnership with Perp Games, the pair have announced an exclusive retail version called CoolPaintrVR: Deluxe Edition, due for launch in October. CoolPaintrVR: Deluxe Edition will include the base videogame along with the new Voxel DLC and various digital extras, including wallpapers, the guide CoolpaintrVR: Beyond the limit

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‘Until You Fall’ Gets Preliminary Support for Index & WMR, Roadmap Tracks Plans for New Weapons, Features

Road to VR

VR hack-and-slash roguelite Until You Fall launched in Early Access in late August with support for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. The game has been updated with preliminary support for other SteamVR headsets, including Index and Windows VR, for testing ahead of support being officially added in October. Developer Schell Games has published a public roadmap showing updates planned throughout the Early Access period.

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Tribe 13: Request for Startups?—?Future of Food

Boost VC

Tribe 13: Request for Startups?—?Future of Food A lot of food today is unhealthy ??, unsustainable ?? and unaffordable ??. What does this look like? Heart disease is the leading killer in the US, obesity is on the rise and our planet is suffering. Food and diets of the future have to look different than today. A year and a half ago I began thinking more seriously about these two trends and what I could do about it.

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Prepare for Active Shooters in the Workplace With Pixvana’s Latest VR Experience

Peter Graham

Here in the UK, there are very strict gun laws prohibiting easy access to firearms. In the US, however, it’s another matter. Sadly, this means mass shootings are commonplace with schools and workplaces now conducting training so people know what to do in a crisis. Aiding in this endeavour is Pixvana , which has just launched a virtual reality (VR) training experience to prepare businesses for an active shooter in the workplace.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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Groundhog Day: Like Father, Like Son review: a nice but frustrating VR game

The Ghost Howls

Yesterday I have been able to try the game “ Groundhog Day: Like Father, Like Son ” by Tequila Works and Sony Pictures Virtual Reality. I really wanted to try this game, because I have enjoyed a lot the original movie with Bill Murray, but after my test, I have actually come out with mixed impressions. (WARNING: mild spoilers ahead). The story. “Groundhog Day: Like Father, Like son ” is a game in the universe of the famous movie “ Groundhog Day “, with Bill Mu

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Combining the Best of AR and VR with Varjo’s XR-1, featuring Niko Eiden

XR for Business Podcast

The human eye is a wonderful and complex thing, and it’s a technological feat just to even come close to its natural revolution. Well, the folks at Varjo have created something that is pretty darn good at it. Alan may have trouble remembering how to say their company’s name, but he can attest to the clarity of the XR-1’s display. Varjo CEO Niko Eiden comes by to give us a look behind the curtain of its creation.

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Blood & Truth Update Adds PlayStation Aim Compatible Modes

Peter Graham

After a successful launch in May, Sony London Studio has continued to support its story-driven shooter Blood & Truth with updates and even a demo. Now the studio has released its biggest package of new features, adding a hard mode as well as challenges which support the PlayStation Aim controller. Sony London Studio has introduced five Skeet challenges to test your shooting abilities, all of which are PlayStation Aim compatible.

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Combining the Best of AR and VR with Varjo’s XR-1, featuring Niko Eiden

XR for Business Podcast

The human eye is a wonderful and complex thing, and it’s a technological feat just to even come close to its natural revolution. Well, the folks at Varjo have created something that is pretty darn good at it. Alan may have trouble remembering how to say their company’s name, but he can attest to the clarity of the XR-1’s display. Varjo CEO Niko Eiden comes by to give us a look behind the curtain of its creation.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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Combining the Best of AR and VR with Varjo's XR-1, featuring Niko Eiden

XR for Business Podcast

The human eye is a wonderful and complex thing, and it's a technological feat just to even come close to its natural revolution. Well, the folks at Varjo have created something that is pretty darn good at it. Alan may have trouble remembering how to say their company's name, but he can attest to the clarity of the XR-1's display. Varjo CEO Niko Eiden comes by to give us a look behind the curtain of its creation.

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