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Putting AR into Art

Tech Trends VR

A Viennese start-up is the first company from Austria to be accepted to Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator. Artivive recently beat over 600 competing entries to become the first Austrian start-up to join the Berkeley SkyDeck program (considered one of the top ten accelerator programs in the world). The latest six-month cycle begins in January and also includes a six-digit investment amount.

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Cornerstone Partnership Uses VR As An Intervention Tool

VRScout

UK Social enterprise pilots the use of immersive technology in social care. Over the past five years, the number of children who are looked after by Local Authorities (LAs) and children who require child protection plans to be kept safe from ‘significant harm’ has increased dramatically in England. And while demand for foster carers and adopters has also increased, the number of approved adoptive families has been on a steady decline.

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Medical Software Maker Medivis Closes $2.3 Million in Funding to Bring HoloLens to Surgical Platform

Next Reality AR

The HoloLens has made enough of an impact on the healthcare industry for Microsoft technology partner Medivis to convince investors to pledge $2.3 million in funding for its surgical platform. On Tuesday, along with closing its seed funding round, the company unveiled its SurgicalAR software for HoloLens at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Orlando, Florida.

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Set The Mood This Valentine’s Day With Love Playmoji & AR Stickers

VRScout

Romance is in the air, and on your phone. Valentine’s Day has once again arrived, bringing with it the inevitable stream of Hallmark cards, over-priced chocolate, and of course, hundreds upon thousands of roses. This year, however, Google is looking to modernize your romantic festivities with Love Playmoji characters and AR stickers for Pixel Playground, Night Sight functionality, and a slew of other updates guaranteed to add a bit of spice to your evening.

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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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Report: Leaked Email Reveals Facebook XR Strategy, ‘Our goal is not only to win, but to accelerate its arrival’

Road to VR

An internal email reportedly sent by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to senior executives offers a glimpse into the strategic thinking behind the company’s feet-first leap into XR following the 2014 acquisition of Oculus. Facebook turned heads across the tech industry and beyond when it acquired Oculus for some $2 billion in 2014. What on Earth is a social networking company doing buying a VR hardware startup, and for that much money?

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Part III : Where Are You with Your Blended Learning Strategy?

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Part 3 of Part 4. Thank you for joining us on our third part of our 4 part blog series on the different type of Blended Learning strategies, and how you could begin strategizing or implementing these blended learning strategies into your training plans. If you would like to read last week blog series, please visit our blog series here. Before the spread of the internet in the early 2000s, there was the essential blend of instructor-led (ILT) training and self-paced “training in a box.

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Rift Platform Updates: Create Your Own Space

Oculus

Oculus Home is at the center of the Rift experience—the first stop on your journey into VR. With the ability to host hangouts with friends.

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Part III : Where Are You with Your Blended Learning Strategy?

CraneMorley

Part 3 of Part 4. Thank you for joining us on our third part of our 4 part blog series on the different type of Blended Learning strategies, and how you could begin strategizing or implementing these blended learning strategies into your training plans. If you would like to read last week blog series, please visit our blog series here. Before the spread of the internet in the early 2000s, there was the essential blend of instructor-led (ILT) training and self-paced “training in a box.

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Sweet Savings: Oculus Valentine’s Day Sale Kicks Off Today

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If you’re looking for something different this Valentine’s Day, there’s no better place to start than the Oculus Store’s “You Complete Me” sale. We’re celebrating.

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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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Oculus Founder Vows to Create Audio Repair Kit for Rifts Out of Warranty

Road to VR

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has since moved on to greener pastures after leaving Facebook in 2017, founding his own border defense firm Anduril Industries. That hasn’t kept him from mulling over some of the niggling issues with the now nearly three year-old Oculus Rift though. To him, and many long-time users, a weak point in the headset’s internal audio cabling has surfaced after prolonged usage—something he vows to help remedy by creating a repair kit for out-of-warranty Rifts suf

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