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Gary Oldman To Narrate David Bowie AR Experience

VRScout

The Oscar-winning actor will lend his voice to an augmented tour highlighting the infamous musician. Next Tuesday marks the 72nd birthday of late english singer-songwriter David Bowie, whom passed away nearly three years ago in his NYC apartment after an ongoing battle with liver cancer. Despite his crippling affliction, the legendary musician still managed to release a seven album which would go on to receive two Grammy awards among multiple other nominations.

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Making Noise in VR

Tech Trends VR

New BBC Virtual Reality experience invites you to find your voice and make a difference by walking a mile in the shoes of the suffragettes. This day and age, one could be forgiven for being somewhat disillusioned with democracy, but still, come election time, I always vote Click To Tweet. As a woman I feel that voting is the least I can do to honour the sacrifice of people like Emmeline Pankhurst Click To Tweet.

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NVIDIA Claims 4 Million PC VR Headsets Sold

Road to VR

NVIDIA co-founder & CEO Jensen Huang took the stage today at the company’s CES 2019 press conference, issuing a strong claim that four million PC VR headsets have been sold to date. The two largest PC VR headset manufacturers, Oculus and HTC, have been cagey on providing sales numbers, although GPU manufacturer Nvidia might have a pretty good line on how many headsets have been sold since consumer PC VR came to market in early 2016.

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What to Expect from VR in the Classroom

Veative

What should teachers expect from Virtual Reality in the classroom? How can teachers use VR most effectively to ignite young minds? As Jaime Donally has rightfully pointed out in her book, Learning Transported , many educators are won over by the wow factor of immersive technologies, but they fail to make a direct connection between technological tools such as VR and AR and content areas and student objectives.

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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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HTC Holding Special VR Press Event Monday at 1 PM PST

Road to VR

HTC dropped a big hint recently that the company has new VR gear to show off at CES 2019 , and we may be getting a first-hand look during a special press event that’s taking place Monday. The event is scheduled to take place on Monday, January 7th at 1 PM PST ( local time here ) here at CES in Las Vegas. HTC tweeted earlier in the week that “[t]he cases are packed with some new gear we can’t wait to unbox for you.” The picture attached to the tweet shows a number of boxes; one in the

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