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Five VR Experiences For An Extra Spooky Halloween

VRScout

Celebrate All Hallows’ Eve right this year with these terrifying VR games. Well, the day has finally arrived. After receiving weird looks from your various neighbors for the past couple years, you’ve finally accepted the fact that you’re just too old to be trick-or-treating. Personally, I think 27 is way too early of a cut-off point, but that’s neither here nor there.

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Vive Focus 6 DOF Controllers dev-kit specifications: ultrasound-based tracking, 180° horizontal FOV

The Ghost Howls

The news of the day is that finally we do know something about the upcoming Vive Focus 6 DOF Controllers dev-kit specifications. If you don’t know what I’m talking about: well, the Vive Focus is the standalone headset produced by HTC. It features 6 DOF tracking, but the associated controller is only one and has only 3DOF rotational tracking.

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Levi's Now Selling Exclusive Disney Denim Through Shoppable AR Lens on Snapchat

Next Reality AR

Snapchat continues to deepen its roster of clients adopting its Shoppable AR Lens, with clothing giant Levi's and Disney becoming the latest brands to try on the e-commerce platform for size. Accessible via a Snapcode posted on Twitter and on display in the Disney Springs Levi's store, the augmented reality experience places a virtual rendering of a Mickey Mouse denim cap, with a smile from the user triggering a background and foreground effects within the frame.

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FundamentalVR Partners with Mayo Clinic to Develop VR Surgical Simulations, Raises $1.4M Financing

Road to VR

FundamentalVR, the training and data analysis technology platform, today announced a three-year deal to jointly develop surgical VR simulation and education products with Mayo Clinic, the world-renowned academic medical center. FundamentalVR has also raised an additional $1.4 million in financing by its existing investor Tern Plc , bringing its total to $2.45 million.

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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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Magic Leap Releases Series of Video Sessions from Inside the L.E.A.P. Conference

Next Reality AR

Magic Leap's recent L.E.A.P. conference was free to all who registered in time, but if you weren't able to make the trip to Hollywood, the company just released video of some of the sessions that took place over the course of two days. The sessions, which are really discussion panels, are spread over three videos titled "The Art and Design of Dr. Grordbort's Invaders," "The Making-Of Create," and "Design Best Practices for Mixed Reality.

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Coinbase Raises at an $8B

Boost VC

Apply to Boost VC Tribe 12 “At some point the world will be on one financial infrastructure.” 6.5 years ago, Brian Armstrong (Founder of Coinbase) and I sat at Red Rock in Mountain View, while he educated me on what Bitcoin was, and I poked and prodded at his business model. I was 26, and had just left my first startup Xpert Financial after 4.5 years.

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Top 8 Horror VR Games & Experiences

VeeR VR

Are you ready for this year’s immersive Halloween? Today we have the highest community rated horrifying experiences and games that will be sure to horrify you. From ghosts to zombies each one of these programs is designed to FREAK YOU out in your virtual reality headset. Most users have trouble sleeping and you may even […].

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Inside Space 360 – South Korea’s Amazing Fulldome Theater

VRScout

Fully immersive experiences without the need of a VR headset. Are we there yet? There are many tantalizing possibilities surrounding current VR and AR technology. Unfortunately, due to the expensive hardware and sometimes complicated setup required to engage in AAA experiences, these captivating digital adventures are often out of reach to the average consumer.

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Upgrading VR Storytelling

Tech Trends VR

This year’s Raindance Film Festival in London showcased an amazing selection of immersive stories. Here’s what got Tech Trends really excited: Raindance is a very well-established and well-respected independent film festival, but it isn’t a particularly flashy one. Yet that lack of over-the-top glamour actually suits it very well. There’s a certain tongue-in-cheek, down-to-earth British vibe here (right down to its playfully deprecating name) that makes it feel really accessible, so that people

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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.