VRScout

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The Vatican commissions a Pokémon Go style game that will have you searching for Jesus in the bushes of your neighbor’s yard. Remember that overwhelming feeling that overcame you when you finally captured Pikachu or one of the more elusive Pokémon, like Articuno, in Pokémon Go? Now imagine that feeling when you finally catch Jesus Christ himself!

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Tech Trends went to Sweden to see how Tetra Pak is moving into Industry 4.0 by using technologies such as Mixed Reality. Tetra Pak is one of the largest companies that most people never heard of. Chances are, however, that you’ve used one of their products very recently, as the Swedish company supplies food processing and packaging solutions to manufacturers in more than 175 countries.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 28, 2018

During Melbourne Games Week this week, Valve revealed a fresh set of official figures about it’s user population on Steam. Mashing up the figures with Valve’s monthly Steam Survey data gives us fresh insight into the number of VR headsets currently in use on on the platform. A tweet from Melbourne Games Week , spotted by Gamasutra , shows Valve’s Sean Jenkin and Kristian Miller at a podium giving a presentation during the event, with a slide showing fresh Steam user stats which

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 28, 2018

VRLA co-founder Cosmo Scharf talks about some of the deepest levels of our current socio-political and economic context, and how VR & AR can teach.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2018

During the talk of the National Film Board of Canada at View Conference 2018 , the speakers Eloi Champagne and Martin Viau talked about one of the experiences they have developed, called Museum of Symmetry , that was like a cartoon in virtual reality. I haven’t given much credit to that experience, and in fact, I’ve just dedicated three lines to it in the related article.

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