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Photorealistic VR Tour ‘Nefertari: Journey to Eternity’ Takes You Deep into a 3,000 Year-old Egyptian Tomb

Road to VR

Using state-of-the-art photogrammetry technology with millimeter accuracy, Experius VR and CuriosityStream have digitally scanned Nerfertari’s tomb, letting owners of Vive, Rift, and Windows VR headsets to step inside the fabled burial site and learn about the over 3,000 year-old Egyptian queen’s life, religion, and culture. Nefertari was an Egyptian queen who died around 1255 BCE, and as the first of the Great Royal Wives of Ramesses the Great, her death was commemorated in the same

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Galaxy Digital Ventures invests into VR Platform High Fidelity from its Galaxy EOS Ecosystem Fund

Cats and VR

High Fidelity , the open-source distributed VR platform, has raised $35 million in Series D funding to continue development of a global infrastructure for VR experiences from Blockchain investment firm Galaxy Digital Ventures. $20 million comes from its Galaxy EOS Ecosystem Fund, with additional new investors including Blockchain Capital. Existing investors also participated, including Breyer Capital, IDG Capital Partners and Vulcan Capital.

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This App Lets You Control Your Smarthome Lights via Augmented Reality

Next Reality AR

Voice-activated digital assistants from Amazon, Apple, and Google currently have the upper hand for home automation integrations, but a new augmented reality mobile app promises to give homeowners and renters visual control over their connected appliances. Smart AR Home, available on the App Store and Google Play, uses ARKit and ARCore, respectively, to construct a visual map of your home and enables you to interact with Samsung SmartThings and Philips Hue light switches and dimmers via a smartp

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Test Your Work Ethic In This Unique VR Experiment

VRScout

When put in charge of a bustling burger restaurant, will you cut corners to save cash or play by the rules? Due to the immersive, intimate nature of VR technology, the growing medium has become a perfect tool for soliciting genuine reactions from its users. Standard video games are one thing, but when you’re actually standing in the shoes of your digital avatar, most tend to respond a little more how they would in 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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ISS Astronaut Uses Oculus Rift in Experiment to Understand How Space Effects Hand-eye Coordination

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German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is participating in a study aboard the International Space Station (ISS) that’s designed to give Earth-bound researchers a better understanding of how sight, sound, and gravity effect hand-eye coordination. Using a modified Oculus Rift, Gerst isn’t strapping in for fun and games though (even if Echo VR or Space Junkies would take on a whole new level of immersion).

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Windows VR Headsets Seeing Slow But Steady Adoption on Steam

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The monthly Steam hardware survey is out again, and while June hasn’t revealed any major upsets in the balances of usership between HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, the survey shows that Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets are making slow, but steady headway on the platform. Each month, Valve runs the survey among Steam users to determine some baseline statistics about what kind of hardware and software is used by the user population, and to see how things are changing over time; th

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Challenge Serena Williams in Augmented Reality Tennis via Snapchat's Interactive 3D Bitmoji

Next Reality AR

With the opening round of Wimbledon, one of professional tennis's four major tournaments, beginning on Monday, Snapchat is serving up an augmented reality tennis mini-game. The game challenges worldwide users and their 3D Bitmoji avatars to take on the digital doppelganger of superstar Serena Williams, who forms Snapchat's first celebrity partnership for an interactive 3D Bitmoji Lens.

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Report: HTC Lays Off 1,500 Employees in Taiwan Manufacturing Division

Road to VR

HTC is reportedly laying off 1,500 employees in its Taiwan manufacturing division, something Bloomberg’s Taipei bureau chief Samson Ellis reports to be around 22% of HTC employees. June 26: @htc says it will return to profitability this year July 2: @htc says it will cut its Taiwan workforce by 1,500 people (about 22% of total employees). — Samson Ellis (@samsonellis) July 2, 2018.

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HTC makes huge workforce cuts amid another bad year

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For quite some time now, HTC has been struggling when it comes to making money. Its quest for profitability has seen some big shake-ups, from laying off workers to even selling off a large portion of its smartphone design team to Google. Today we’re learning that the layoffs aren’t over just yet, as HTC is preparing to make some big … Continue reading.

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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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Indie Gem ‘Vanishing Realms’ Dev Affirms Continued Work on New Content

Road to VR

Indie VR title Vanishing Realms brought Zelda-esque room-scale RPG action to the Vive all the way back at the headset’s April 2016 launch. The game is one of the top rated titles on SteamVR, but remains in early access more than two years later. Updates from the title’s sole indie developer have been extremely sparse, but it was recently affirmed that work on the title is still ongoing.

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Haptic Technology Opens the Door for Mediated Touch

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By Emily Rubin | Marketing Intern at HaptX. You’re always touching something, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Clothing, cell phones, car keys, other people: we interact with all these things and many more everyday through touch. And yet, our world is changing. Our day to day routines are becoming more and more digitized between email, text messages, and social media.

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Report: Next-gen NVIDIA GPUs Will Boost VR Bandwidth With New Connector

Road to VR

A report from Tom’s Hardware states that NVIDIA’s next-generation GeForce GPUs, tentatively being referred to as the GTX 11-series, will include a new connector with enough bandwidth to support future VR headsets much higher resolutions and greater refresh rates. According to a report by Tom’s Hardware , citing anonymous sources, Nvidia’s next generation of GPUs will be capable of 120Hz output at high resolutions over a single cable thanks to a new connector.

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