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Microsoft Hints At Minecraft AR Experience Ahead Of 10th Anniversary

VRScout

More information coming May 17th, Minecraft’s 10-year anniversary. 10 years. It’ s been 10 years since the launch of what can only be described as one of the most influential video games in the history of entertainment. Released back in May of 2019, Minecraft’s deceitfully-simple art style and unique craft-based gameplay birthed a new genre in video games, launching a never-ending stream of similar survival crafting experiences.

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Location-based VR Attraction ‘Hologate’ Celebrates 2 Million Player Milestone

Road to VR

Hologate, a Munich-based startup, today announced that their eponymous world-wide VR attraction has taken in two million visitors since it was first launched in 2017. The virtual reality hardware company and VR gaming/experience studio boasts over 250 installations spanning Europe, the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific region, and North and South America—a total of 21 countries to be exact.

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Google Teases New AR Features For Its Search & Lens Apps

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Google focuses on practical AR functionality at its annual developer conference. Google’s annual I/O Developer Conference kicked off earlier this morning at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA with a two-hour keynote highlighting a wide range of updates to their lineup of proprietary mobile software. During the presentation, Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the time to showcase a variety of new camera and AR features coming to both the Google Search and Google Lens applications.

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Google Brings Augmented Reality to the Mainstream by Adding AR Content to Search

Next Reality AR

If Google hasn't already demonstrated that it is serious about augmented reality, then it made it abundantly clear at the Google I/O keynote on Tuesday. After opening remarks from Google CEO Sundar Pinchai, which included a preview of AR navigation included in the Google I/O app for Android and iOS, Aparna Chennapragada, vice president and head of product for augmented reality, virtual reality, and Lens, took the stage for updates on augmented reality.

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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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VR For The Information Worker

Charlie Fink

The use case for the broad adoption of Virtual Reality has come under some criticism lately, and the consumer VR market hasn’t matured as quickly as was hoped but out of the public eye, enterprise VR continues to rack up big wins. Commercial applications of VR are accelerating, as evidenced by the recent Walmart purchase of 17,000 Oculus Go headsets for their Strivr-designed training program.

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Headjack Partners With Pico Interactive

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Today we officially announce a partnership between Headjack and Pico Interactive, adding support for all Pico VR headsets, which are taking the world by storm. By the end of last year, more and more clients started asking if we could support Pico headsets in Headjack, so we decided to look into this company. It turned […]. The post Headjack Partners With Pico Interactive appeared first on Headjack.

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Microsoft Teases Minecraft Augmented Reality Game for Mobile at Build 2019

Next Reality AR

It looks like Microsoft will finally make good on its promise to bring Minecraft to augmented reality, as foreshadowed via a HoloLens demo in 2015. But there's a plot twist — AR Minecraft may debut as a mobile app rather than as a HoloLens experience. On Monday, in conjunction with Build 2019, Microsoft shared a teaser video that managed to give gamers a glimpse of what to expect while still remaining cryptic on details, hence earning its status as a teaser.

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Tom Emrich (Super Ventures / AWE) on Perceptual Computing and Human Evolution

The AR Show

Tom Emrich is sometimes called the “man from the future”, and is recognized as one of the world’s leading thought leaders and influencers in AR, VR and wearable technology. Tom brings over a decade-long track record of running tech teams and providing strategic direction in emerging technologies for powerhouse brands such as Nestlé, Best Buy and MTV.

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Pikachu Celebrates New Movie by Photobombing the AR Camera in Pokémon GO

Next Reality AR

The perfect promotion for Pokémon: Detective Pikachu has finally come to fruition as Niantic has added some movie-related perks to Pokémon GO. Starting Tuesday at 4 p.m. Eastern time and continuing until the same time on May 17, Pokémon GO players taking photos with the enhanced GO Snapshot camera may encounter Detective Pikachu, complete with deerstalker cap, and then have the chance to capture the creature.

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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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‘Battlewake’ is a New Pirate Ship Battler from the Makers of ‘Creed’ & ‘Raw Data’

Road to VR

Survios, the studio behind Raw Data (2017) and Creed: Rise to Glory (2018), today announced a new VR game that will put you at the helm of a pirate ship as you battle massive monsters, and of course your fellow seadogs. Dubbed Battlewake , the game gives you a choice between a few armed, upgradeable warships, which you captain as one of four heroes.

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