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Google Closes The Door On Its ‘Spotlight Stories’ VR Film Studio

VRScout

Pour one out in remembrance of Google’s Oscar nominated, Emmy award-winning platform. In an official statement released yesterday by Google, the company confirmed the termination of their popular immersive film program, Google Spotlight Stories, after an impressive six years of AAA VR storytelling. “ Google Spotlight Stories is shutting its doors after over six years of making stories and putting them on phones, on screens, in VR, and anywhere else we could get away with it,” confirmed Spotlight

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Spatiate Brings Multi-User Augmented Reality Painting to Magic Leap One

Next Reality AR

While painting in augmented reality is not a groundbreaking pursuit, the ability for Magic Leap One, iPhone and iPad, and Android users to collaborate remotely on virtual artwork would be. That is what Across Realities is aiming to do with Spatiate, an app that launched on Thursday through Magic Leap World for $9.99. And soon, the app will also be made available on iOS and Android.

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Google Shuts Down Internal VR Film Studio Spotlight Stories

Road to VR

Google is shutting down Spotlight Stories, the group tasked not only with pushing forward virtual reality as a storytelling medium, but creating a number of highly polished and thoughtful VR pieces in the process. A copy of an email written by executive producer Karen Dufilho was obtained by Variety. “Google Spotlight Stories is shutting its doors after over six years of making stories and putting them on phones, on screens, in VR, and anywhere else we could get away with it,” Dufilho said.

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Viveport Infinity release date set for April 2 as pricing is revealed

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Back at CES 2019, HTC announced a new initiative that turns Viveport into what is essentially the Netflix for VR games. Dubbed Viveport Infinity, this new subscription service will allow unlimited access to all of the VR games hosted on Viveport. By comparison, a standard Viveport subscription only allows access to five games per month. When HTC announced Viveport Infinity, … Continue reading.

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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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Zero Latency Upgrades VR Attraction Platform With Hardware From Microsoft & HP

Road to VR

Zero Latency, creator of a leading VR attraction platform, is now deploying their ‘gen 2’ VR hardware. The revamp includes newer HP VR backpacks, Windows VR headsets, and Windows VR peripheral tracking for a more modern VR experience that’s easier to set up & operate, and offers an improved player experience, the company says. Zero Latency has been a player in the out-of-home VR space since 2013.

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Rebellion’s Brutal ‘Sniper Elite’ Series is Getting Its First Made-for-VR Game

Road to VR

Sniper Elite is coming to VR. The gritty sniper-focused shooter developed by Rebellion Developments is known for its brutal depictions of long range sniper combat and stealthy action. Now the studio says it’s working on a standalone made-for-VR title for the series in partnership with developer Just Add Water. The Sniper Elite franchise kicked off in 2005 and now spans eight titles, with the latest, Sniper Elite 4 , released in 2017.

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Monstercat’s Out of the Bag: ‘Beat Saber’ Music Pack Now Available on Rift

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Confirmed earlier this week by Beat Games, indie VR sensation Beat Saber just dropped the Monstercat Music Pack Vol. 1—available now on Rift!

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YouTube Stories Adds A Twist To AR Selfie Filters

VRScout

YouTube introduces real-time face filters powered by machine-learning, but there’s a catch. Everyone has a unique story to tell, and now YouTube creators will have the ability to make their stories even more unique through a Snapchat-esque AR selfies. This includes everything from realistic glasses and skin retouching, to X-Men-like powers and goofy “Noogle” propeller hats.

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‘Beat Saber’ Gets First Paid Music Pack, Update Brings Previous PSVR Exclusives to PC

Road to VR

Beat Games today released Beat Saber’s long-awaited first DLC music pack, an effort created in partnership with electronic dance music record label Monstercat. A new update on PC also brings it up to speed with the PSVR version, now featuring full mode and track parity between both platforms. Update (12:10 PM ET) : It previously appeared that only the individual songs and a bundle featuring both the base game and the 10-song pack were available at launch.

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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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Netflix-style Viveport Infinity Subscription to Cost $13 Per Month, or $99 Per Year

Road to VR

HTC today announced that Viveport Infinity , the upcoming Netflix-style VR game & app subscription service, will be available for $13 a month, or $99 annually starting on April 2nd. If you subscribe now though, it could be a lot cheaper than that. Viveport Infinity boasts unrestricted access to the platform’s subscription library of 600+ apps and games, supporting HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets, as well as a minority of titles supporting Vive Wave standalone headsets.

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