Fri.Jan 12, 2018

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This AR App Teaches You How To Play The Piano

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AR piano learning system with improvised jam sessions. Learning to play the piano is getting an immersive upgrade with a new augmented reality (AR) piano training software called Music Everywhere. The HoloLens app aims to help students of all talent levels build fundamental music theory and performance skills. While traditional piano lessons can cost upwards of $100 per hour, Music Everywhere is free on the Microsoft store and offers a cost effective tutoring solution that provides students with

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TPCast Aims to Bring up to 8K Resolution with New 2.0 Wireless VR Solution

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Following reveals of TPCast Plus and TPCast for Windows Mixed Reality , the wireless VR specialists TPCast have also announced their “next-generation” technologies, called TPCast 2.0. The company claims their improved system can ‘easily adapt’ to VR headsets as high as 8K resolution, while reducing the latency to 1ms. Despite HTC’s announcement of an official Vive Wireless Adaptor that supports both Vive and Vive Pro systems , TPCast refuse to have their CES thunder stolen, announcin

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Can VR training help a QB take his team to the Super Bowl?

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Casey Keenum seems like an unlikely hope for the Minnesota Vikings. The previously undrafted, unwanted QB has led them to a 13-3 record as the second-most-accurate passer in the league (67.6 percent). Of the quarterbacks starting playoff games this season, Keenum had the best regular-season Total QBR at 69.6 -- second only to the now-injured Carson Wentz 's 75.7 Derek Belch of VR training startup STRIVR believes it is because of his reps in VR.

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‘Elite Dangerous’ to See Overhaul in ‘Beyond’ Update, Open Beta Begins January 25th

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Frontier Developments today announced an open beta test for the upcoming update to the third season of Elite Dangerous (2014), the open-universe space simulator for VR and non-VR players. Called ‘Beyond – Chapter One ‘, the update will officially arrive sometime in Q1 2018 following the open beta which starts January 25th. The ‘Beyond’ update will follow the Thargoids assault on humanity’s starports , the space-faring alien baddies first introduced back in Septemb

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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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Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather unveils VR workout program

Cats and VR

At CES Floyd Mayweather unveiled his vision of the future of fitness with his Virtual Reality workout program, featuring the Champ himself. Available at Mayweather Boxing + Fitness tech-enabled gym locations, the VR experience features a virtual Floyd coaching individual users through the workout routines that kept him at the top of his sport for more than 20 years.

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WE’RE SURROUNDED! | Minecraft Mixed Reality [Ep 6]

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‘Vive Video’ Gets 2.0 Update, Partners with Vimeo to Offer Curated Video Selection

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HTC Creative Labs’s free native VR video player has received an upgrade with a new browser interface. The team has also partnered with Vimeo, offering a curated selection of streamable VR video content. Explained in a post on the official Vive blog , which also covers the major CES announcements of the Vive Pro and Wireless Adaptor, Vive Video ’s 2.0 update aims to solve “the discovery and acquisition problem for VR video content by delivering a large catalog of high quality streaming video dir

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Tom Westerlin of Nice Shoes

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Tom Westerlin is the Creative Director at Nice Shoes, a creative design studio headquartered in New York City. Nice Shoes works with some of the biggest consumer brands in the world serving as a creative studio and color and finishing production company. On the show we talk with Tom about how brands are starting to use VR and AR for experiential marketing and also as a sales tool.

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WWE is NextVR’s Newest Partner, Steaming Wrestling Highlights Globally for Free

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NextVR , the company delivering live events in VR, and pro wrestling company WWE announced a new partnership to bring highlights from select WWE special events to VR headsets this year. The special VR highlights will clock in around 10 minutes in length and will be available for free to fans globally on a new WWE channel within the NextVR app. The app can be downloaded for Samsung GearVR, Google Daydream, PlayStation VR, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets.

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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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How to Paint in VR: Tilt Brush 3D Art Workflow and Unitilities

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About Kab Age: Kab Age, known as Zaw Imagineering in the 3D art community, is 3D artist focusing on VR presentations/animations using Google's Tilt Brush software. Follow him on VeeR , YouTube and Facebook to see more of his work. Tilt Brush is a room-scale 3D painting virtual reality application developed and published by Google. Since its launch in April 2016, the program has become a go-to program for artists aspiring to bring their work into the 3D realm.

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SyncThink Closes $3.5 Million Series A Funding to Further Develop VR-based Concussion Detection

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SyncThink, a Berkeley-based eye-tracking and brain firm, announced the closing of a $3.5 million Series A-1 funding round led by Quadrant Management. The company expects to use the funds to continue development on their EYE-SYNC technology, a VR-based eye-tracking technology to help diagnose concussions on the playing field. On-field concussion detection is still woefully primitive, contends the company, largely relying on the traditional ‘follow my finger’ routine to determine if so

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CES 2018 ‘Day 3’ Roundup – No ‘Knuckles’ for Vive Pro, Tactical Haptics’ New Controller, Viveport VR Previews, & TPCast for Windows VR

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Welcome to our third day of CES 2018 coverage: Viveport gets VR previews, we go hands-on with Tactical Haptics’ latest prototype, Vive Pro to come with ‘refreshed’ controllers but not ‘Knuckles’, and TPCast brings wireless tech to Windows Mixed Reality. Viveport Receives Radical Redesign. image courtesy HTC. Described as the “biggest upgrade to the Viveport customer experience since launch,” HTC is looking to offer more VR-centric browsing in their own software stor

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