Mon.Aug 20, 2018

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NVIDIA Demo Shows Off Real-time Ray Tracing Capabilities of RTX Cards

Road to VR

Alongside the reveal of the company’s professionally-focused Quadro RTX GPUs, the first based on their new Turing architecture, the company showed off a real-time experience called Project Sol to demonstrate the ray-tracing capabilities of their new cards. Running on a single Quadro RTX 6000 GPU, part of the company’s high-end professionally focused GPU lineup, Project Sol is said to be running in real-time at “cinematic framerates,” which appears to be 30FPS, at least ba

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Collect Free Cryptocurrency In The Aircoins Augmented Treasure Hunt

VRScout

Fatten your digital wallet the easy way using this Pokemon GO-style AR experience. Whatever your opinion on the longevity of cryptocurrencies may be, there’s no denying the relatively recent wave of digital assets have become immensely popular. Specific brands, such as Bitcoin and Litecoin, have had significant impact on modern businesses, providing an exciting, albeit rather mysterious, new form of payment.

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Building New Worlds in Virtual Reality

Tech Trends VR

AltspaceVR brings out new tools to make it easy for anybody to make and share their own personalized virtual environments. Recently unveiled updates to Microsoft’s social VR platform will allow anyone to build customizable VR spaces. The two new world-building kits are based on Altspace’s most popular environments: Campfire and Alien World / Origin but Microsoft says they’re aiming to release more kits soon, as well as allowing for more customization options.

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Syfy’s Outrageous ‘Sharknado’ Franchise Heads To VR For The First Time

VRScout

Fire an AK47 while trapped inside a shark-filled tornado in this immersive VR gore-fest. In terms of sheer ridiculousness, very few franchises are able to hold a candle to the Sharknado series. Since the release of the first installment back in 2013, Syfy channel’s made-for-tv disaster comedy has spawned an incredible FIVE sequels, each filled with the same campy-nonsense that made the original such a hit.

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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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Storing & Transporting Magic Leap One Safely Works with This Affordable VR Case

Next Reality AR

In recent days, I've twice talked about brining the Magic Leap One out into the world with me to test its mobile capabilities. But you may have been wondering how I carried the device with me. Did I just stuff my brand new $2,300, hard to obtain device in a backpack and hit the road? Hardly. Instead, I found a solution right under my nose in the form of the Hard EVA Travel Case for Oculus Rift VR from Hermitshell.

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How to Use the Magic Leap One in Outdoor Settings, It's Not Perfect, but It's Possible

Next Reality AR

From day one, my favorite thing about the Magic Leap One has been its portability. It's so well designed that it just screams to be taken out for a walk through the city. Alas, Magic Leap says the device is (currently) designed to be used indoors, preferably in settings containing few windows or black surfaces. Based on some of the difficulties I've had scanning some indoor spaces, I understand this guideline.

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Bowshooter ‘In Death’ to Bring Cherubs, Banshees & Archangel Gabriel in Next Content Update

Road to VR

Sólfar Studios , the Iceland-based studio behind roguelike VR archery game In Death , today announced that their ghoulish bowshooter is getting a new chapter. Dubbed ‘Paradise Lost’, the addition to the game follows ‘The Pits of Damnation’, an update that brought extremely difficult dungeon challenges to the game along with an asynchronous challenge mode.

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Google moved: IMAX VR to AR

Slashgear

Google made a switch from virtual reality to augmented reality in an apparent hardware-focused move in late 2017. The move was made public this week in a behind-the-scenes confirmation of a cancellation of an IMAX VR project announced previously. Google and IMAX announced a collaboration on a VR camera back in May of 2016 – all that appears to be … Continue reading.

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‘Virtual Virtual Reality’ Set to Launch on Vive via Steam Next Month

Road to VR

Virtual Virtual Reality , a VR gem which first launched on Daydream in 2017 and later on Oculus Go and Rift earlier this year, appears to be on its way to the HTC Vive via Steam. Though there doesn’t appear to have been an official announcement yet from developer Tender Claws, a Virtual Virtual Reality page on Steam has been spotted sporting HTC Vive support and a release date of September 2018.

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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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Ray Tracing for everyone: Made simple today

Slashgear

Video games you play use rasterization while videos you watch use ray tracing – or that’s the way it’s been in the past. Ray tracing focuses on each pixel’s color and how light in the scene made that color so. Rasterization focuses on the objects in the frame at any given time, deciding how light affects the color and brightness … Continue reading.

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Watch NVIDIA’s Gamescom GeForce Event Live Here, Today @ 9AM PT

Road to VR

Gamescom, the world’s largest gaming expo, is only a few hours away from opening their doors to the masses. To kick things off, NVIDIA is hosting a special GeForce gaming event today in Cologne, Germany that most everyone suspects will feature the launch of the company’s latest flagship GPUs, the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti. If you’re in Cologne, you can actually get into the event , which Nvidia says via a blogpost will be “loaded with exclusive, hands-on demos running on t

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Immersive Learning in Virtual Reality: A Few Lessons

Veative

The great bard of Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore, was of the view that education should be a ‘joyous exercise of our inventive and constructive energies’. As an educator, my interest in VR therefore lies in understanding its role and potential in spearheading changes in our educational ecosystems. Although, change, as Larry Cuban rightly points out, is often entangled together with the constant when it comes to school environments, rather than an either/or dichotomy as reformers would have us belie

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Preview: ‘Twilight Path’, From Creators of ‘FORM’, Invites You to a Mystical Realm

Road to VR

Launched in 2017, FORM is a narrative puzzle game from Charm Games that’s become something of a hidden gem in the VR gaming space—lesser known, but well liked, with a strong critical reception and positive reviews from players on both Oculus and Steam. Our preview of the studio’s upcoming follow up, Twilight Path , shows that players can expect to see more of what they loved, this time with a new setting and a mystical flair.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Remote meetings are here to stay - and many are BORING. If you are trying to engage your learners (or any audience), compelling content is critical. But trying to create stimulating content with the same tools you’ve always had is hard, right? Thankfully, wrong! Terrific tools in PowerPoint along with visual assets help you create the kind of dynamic content you need to capture your remote audience’s attention, with functions that allow for interactive sequences and navigation.

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Jay Kothari

EnterpriseWear

Project Lead, Glass at X, the moonshot factory. The post Jay Kothari appeared first on BrainXchange.

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Gamescom 2018 Day 0: NVIDIA reveals RTX 2080 series graphics cards

The Ghost Howls

The Gamescom has not begun yet, but it has already been exciting. Today, the day before the start of the kermesse, NVIDIA has organized the event in which the new GTX 11 graphics cards should have been announced. Thanks to my friend Fabio Mosca, CTO di AnotheReality , I got to knew about how to participate in the event. I arrived there one hour before the start time, but I already found a huge line of people excited to attend this very important launch.

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EA Respawn’s Unannounced Oculus Exclusive Characterized as a “AAA VR Shooter”

Road to VR

Back a Oculus Connect last year, the company teased an upcoming Oculus exclusive game developed Respawn Entertainment, the studio behind Titanfall and Titanfall 2 , which has since been acquired by EA. The title, which has yet to see a formal announcement, appears to be poised for FPS action when it launches in 2019. While VR is certainly suited to doing more than just shooters, it seems that Respawn Entertainment’s upcoming VR game is going to stay true to the studio’s speciality, a

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NVIDIA Turing Propels VR Toward Full Immersion

NVidia VR

Over the last few decades, VR experiences have gone from science fiction to research labs to inside homes and offices. But even today’s best VR experiences have yet to achieve full immersion. NVIDIA’s new Turing GPUs are poised to take VR a big step closer to that level. Announced at SIGGRAPH last week and Gamescom today, Turing’s combination of real-time ray tracing, AI and new rendering technologies will propel VR to a new level of immersion and realism.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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GeForce RTX Cards Announced with VirtualLink VR Connector

Road to VR

Based on the company’s ‘Turing’ GPU architecture, NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX cards include hardware support for the new VirtualLink connector, a standard designed for next-gen VR headsets. Announced last month , VirtualLink is a connection standard designed specifically for VR headsets, which is backed by a consortium of major players in VR space, including NVIDIA, AMD, Valve, Microsoft, and Oculus.

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NVIDIA Turing Propels VR Toward Full Immersion

NVidia VR

Over the last few decades, VR experiences have gone from science fiction to research labs to inside homes and offices. But even today’s best VR experiences have yet to achieve full immersion. NVIDIA’s new Turing GPUs are poised to take VR a big step closer to that level. Announced at SIGGRAPH last week and Gamescom today, Turing’s combination of real-time ray tracing, AI and new rendering technologies will propel VR to a new level of immersion and realism.