VRScout

MARCH 17, 2020

COVID-19 isn’t stopping this Shanghai professor from making his online classes as entertaining as possible. Jiang Fei, a digital art professor based out of Shanghai, China, has developed a piece of software that allows him to transform into a variety of virtual characters in an atttempt to attract more students to his online classes. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has led to the adoption of digital classrooms, online exams, and virtual flag-raising ceremonies by many Chinese schools, including

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 17, 2020

The latest announcements Facebook’s first virtual Game Developer’s Showcase which is happening this week. In the midst of the growing coronavirus pandemic, holding any sort of normal conference is entirely out of the question. But although it might seem like the entire world is grinding to a halt, life goes on and there are still some exciting announcements coming out of the tech world.

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Next Reality AR

MARCH 17, 2020

With many office workers in the US being asked to work from home if their job allows, Magic Leap's customary updates for the Lumin OS and Lumin SDK brings some help to keep distributed workforces connected. Chief among the new features arriving with Lumin OS version 0.98.10 and Lumin SDK 0.24 is a new Meetings feature that enables local and remote collaboration with 2D and 3D files.

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VRScout

MARCH 17, 2020

Facebook’s Game Developers Showcase continues with an exciting new partnership. With the global outbreak of COVID-19 resulting in the shutdown of Facebook’s annual F8 developer conference, the company is instead offering would-be attendees a host of online alternatives, including the Facebook: Game Developers Showcase. . The online event kicked-off yesterday with the reveal of a brand new universal menu design for the Oculus Quest, allowing for easier menu navigation while in-game.

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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

MARCH 17, 2020

Isekai Entertainment, a Seattle-based indie studio, released the first trailer for its upcoming action game Sword Reverie, a JRPG-inspired title that feels like a heartfelt love letter to the popular anime/manga Sword Art Online (SAO). Drawing from Japanese games and anime such as Legend of Zelda , Ni No Kuni , and SAO, Sword Reverie is said to follow a character-driven story and include JRPG-inspired abilities and physics-based combat (extra points for the cool hand-drawn explosions).

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Road to VR

MARCH 17, 2020

As VR’s best-selling title, Beat Saber is showing no signs of slowing down. Today Facebook, which now owns the studio behind the game, announced that Beat Saber has sold more than 2 million copies and 10 million songs via DLC. Beat Saber is the closest thing VR has seen yet to a ‘killer app’, now with 2 million units sold across all platforms (that includes Oculus PC, Quest, PSVR, and SteamVR).

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ARPost

MARCH 17, 2020

As many VR gamers are aware, the Game Developers Conference was canceled this year due to coronavirus fears. However, organizations are doing what they can to participate in the space anyway. Facebook, owners of VR tech giant Oculus, launched the Facebook Game Developers Showcase as their alternative offering. The event, which launched Monday and concludes Wednesday, will include special videos and blogpost announcements on both Facebook’s social games and VR games by Oculus.

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Road to VR

MARCH 17, 2020

New music for Beat Saber (2018) seems to be flowing in at faster clip ever since Facebook acquired Beat Games , the Czech Republic-based VR studio. Now, the creators have announced that a new music pack from rapper & producer Timbaland is set to arrive next week. Timbaland created music specifically for Beat Saber , which includes song co-created with Bruno Martini, Kaydence, Common Strangers, and Sid Tipton.

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Slashgear

MARCH 17, 2020

Despite our very global world, it’s sometimes too easy to take for granted that time isn’t the same across the world. When companies announce dates, they often neglect to add additional information like timezones and presume everyone is on the same page as them. Worse, they don’t even mention what time something may take place, which is especially true for … Continue reading.

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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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MARCH 17, 2020

Sony is bringing its next-gen PlayStation console to market in time for holiday season this year, but there’s still plenty of question marks left. That’s hopefully about to change tomorrow. In the wake of GDC getting effectively canned this week, PlayStation today announced that PS5 Lead System Architect Mark Cerny will be giving a “deep dive into PS5’s system architecture, and how it will shape the future of games.” The info dump is happening on the PS blog tomorrow, Mar

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Peter Graham

MARCH 17, 2020

Much like the Game Developers Conference (GDC) which it’s replacing, Facebook’s Game Developers Showcase is a chance for the company to announce both consumer and industry-focused news, with the first day mainly concentrating on Oculus Quest. Facebook also unveiled plans to roll out OpenXR in prototype form for Oculus Rift and Quest developers later this month. .

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 17, 2020

While few things may me feel more like social distancing than suiting up in a haptic feedback suit and strapping a computer to your face, location-based virtual reality startups have begun closing up shop alongside a host of other entertainment businesses. The closures came quickly Monday as city governments began announcing far-reaching measures. Disney-backed VR startup The Void announced Monday that they would be closing all of their locations in North America.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 17, 2020

The Facebook Game Developers Showcase continues today with an announcement from Beat Games. Next week will see the studio add another music pack to Beat Saber’s track library, with a selection of original songs from Timbaland. The well-known rapper and music producer has created a set of exclusive tracks spanning different genres featuring artists like Bruno Martini, Kaydence, Nash Overstreet, Karra & Common Strangers and Sid Tipton.

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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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Oculus

MARCH 17, 2020

Beat Saber excitement continues with the new Timbaland Music Pack featuring new music from the legendary rapper and music producer. The latest artist to join.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 17, 2020

While big events like the Game Developers Conference (GDC) and the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) are struggling to find relevance in 2020 due to the coronavirus, others are using the situation to explore steps into the future. The Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR) which hosts the annual VR Awards has announced plans to hold a digital ceremony for the first time later this year.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

Code is a big part of what makes XR work, of course. But for most businesses, knowing the DNA of the technology will be less important than knowing how to best use it. XR Bootcamp co-founder Ferhan Ozkan is enabling businesses interested in XR to enable themselves. Alan: Welcome to the XR for Business podcast with your host, Alan Smithson. Today, we’re speaking with Ferhan Ozkan, the co-founder of XR Bootcamp, a platform to teach professionals how to create VR and AR applications, and supp

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Peter Graham

MARCH 17, 2020

Over the past year, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has released various snippets regarding its next console, the PlayStation 5 (PS5) but nobody knows what it looks like. Competitor Xbox Series X has already been well documented and soon it’ll be PlayStation 5’s turn with the company confirming that more details will be released tomorrow.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

Code is a big part of what makes XR work, of course. But for most businesses, knowing the DNA of the technology will be less important than knowing how to best use it. XR Bootcamp co-founder Ferhan Ozkan is enabling businesses interested in XR to enable themselves. Alan: Welcome to the XR for Business podcast with your host, Alan Smithson. Today, we’re speaking with Ferhan Ozkan, the co-founder of XR Bootcamp, a platform to teach professionals how to create VR and AR applications, and supp

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Peter Graham

MARCH 17, 2020

Mention the name Half-Life to a passionate gamer and they’ll probably acknowledge that while the series was once great the fact that Half-Life 3 has been discussed by fans to the point of oversaturation kills a lot of the nostalgia. However, that was reignited last year when Valve revealed Half-Life: Alyx. Ok, so it wasn’t the sequel most hoped for and the fact that it was exclusive to virtual reality (VR) irked the normal PC gaming community but hey, Valve does what Valve wants

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

Code is a big part of what makes XR work, of course. But for most businesses, knowing the DNA of the technology will be less important than knowing how to best use it. XR Bootcamp co-founder Ferhan Ozkan is enabling businesses interested in XR to enable themselves. Alan: Welcome to the XR for Business podcast with your host, Alan Smithson. Today, we're speaking with Ferhan Ozkan, the co-founder of XR Bootcamp, a platform to teach professionals how to create VR and AR applications, and support co

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The AR Show

MARCH 17, 2020

Caspar Thykier is the co-founder and CEO of Zappar, an AR platform and creative studio on a mission to democratize AR & MR. Caspar and the Zappar team have been vanguards in the AR industry for the last decade. Prior to founding Zappar, Caspar spent 15 years as an account director and managing director of major advertising agencies, including one where he was a founding partner.

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Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning

Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?

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