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VR’s Trippiest Social-Music Platform ‘TheWaveVR’ Launches on Steam, Adds $4M in Seed Funds

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Social VR platform TheWaveVR is now in open beta and delivering weekly DJ sets in its wild and weird environment filled with psychedelic interactive art. Distributing on Steam Early Access for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the platform lets you watch, host, and socialize in shows while music is mixed live. The company has been developing TheWaveVR for a year, and while it’s basically a social VR platform that lets you invite friends, chat and explore—like AltspaceVR , RecRoom , or VRChat —

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VR creation application Mindshow gets date for open beta, a new website, and a new trailer at VRLA.

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The Mindshow team announced today at VRLA that the Mindshow Open Beta will be available for the HTC Vive Q3 2017. The team celebrated with a brand spanking new website and official Mindshow trailer. [link]. Mindshow lets you make animated movies in VR with your body and voice! Become 3D cartoon characters and act out all the parts. Create with your friends by passing scenes back and forth, then share your shows in VR and on social media.

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‘Mindshow’ Creative App to Launch Open Beta in Q3 2017, Watch New Trailer Here

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Mindshow, the app from Visionary VR that lets you make animated movies in VR with your body and voice, has revealed they are launching into open beta sometime in Q3 2017. Revealed in the description of the new promo released today on the company’s YouTube channel, the makers of Mindshow haven’t cranked down on a definite release date yet, but have said it will be launching on HTC Vive.

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A ‘Brand New’ Google Earth Experience Is On The Way

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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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Two New X86 CPU Vendors coming to Market in 2018, 2020

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One of everlasting legacies from former President of The United States (POTUS) Mr. Barrack Obama will be the creation of Chinese semiconductor industry. Following the ban on completion of Tianhe-2 supercomputer in 2014 , Chinese government did not double down, but decided to put semiconductor industry as one of top 3 national priorities, and started to infuse over a quarter of trillion U.S. dollars, i.e. 2 trillion RMB (Yuan) into the domestic semiconductor industry, creating not a train, but a

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InWorldz stops publishing falling stats

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InWorldz announced that as of this month, it will no longer be publishing its region stats or active user numbers , two statistics which have been falling over the past few months. Total registered user numbers and the number of users currently logged in remain on the login screen , however. According to grid founder Beth Reischl — also known as Elenia Llewellyn in-world — InWorldz shouldn’t be counted as an OpenSim grid, so they removed the stats to keep them from being compared to

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Owner of Seattle’s New VR Lounge Wants To Drive Awareness of VR

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Check this out: The Chemical Brothers enter the VR realm with Within

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A new project from The Chemical Brothers and Within are bringing a VR experience to Google’s WebVR Experiments. This project goes by the same name as the Chemical Brothers’ single: “Under Neon Lights.” To access the entire world with next-level musical excellence, this project is accessible through a smartphone, desktop computer, or Daydream VR headset – with Google Pixel smartphones … Continue reading.

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Oculus’ Next VR Hand Controller May Be A Constellation Glove

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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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Mindshow’s Incredible VR Animation Tool Goes Open Beta In Q3

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Learn How To Create Amazing VR Experiences In 10 Weeks

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Hands-On With Virtualitics: Data Visualization Software Which Raised $4.4 Million

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New HTC Vive Releases For The Week Of 04/09/17

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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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Social App Pluto VR Raises $13.9M To Expand Communication Efforts

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Get A Glimpse Into The Future Of VR From These Amazing VRLA 2017 Booth Photos

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5 Reasons Star Wars: Battlefront 2 Needs VR Support

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Xbox’s Phil Spencer: Sony’s VR Unit Is ‘Great’, Teams Visit Each Other

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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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New Oculus Rift and Gear VR Releases For Week Of 04/09/17

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20 Years Of CCP: Looking Back At EVE And The Groundwork For The Future Of VR

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Daily VR Sketch – Rey From Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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New PSVR Releases For The Week Of 04/09/17

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning

Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?

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VR First and Futuremark Team Up For New VR Industry Standards

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5 Rick and Morty Episodes to Prepare Your Plumbus for Virtual Rick-Ality’s Release (NSFW)

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