Mon.Jan 08, 2018

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HTC Unveils New Vive Pro Headset & Wireless Adapter

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Increased resolution without a cord. It’s been nearly two years since HTC first introduced the Vive VR headset, opening up an entirely new world of room-scale VR that’s had us dodging arrows and bumping into furniture ever since. Now the Vive is getting an upgrade. Addressing some of the complaints we’ve had over the years, the new Vive Pro is now lighter, more balanced, has a higher resolution, and is just more fun.

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NextVR Plans 6DOF, Increased Quality, and AR Support for Live VR Video in 2018

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Today, live event broadcasting specialists NextVR announced three technology advancements to their platform coming this year: six degrees of freedom-enabled content, higher resolution output, and augmented reality support. A sneak peek of the technologies is being shown to media at CES 2018. Positional tracking is the dream for immersive video content, but it is a complex hardware and software challenge.

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Homeland Security Releasing VR School Shooting Training Simulator

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Educators can learn how to survive a virtual school shooting. In response to the rising number of mass shootings in the United States, the Department of Homeland Security developed and released a WebVR training simulator last year called EDGE (Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environment), which helped prepare first responders for the stressful moments of responding to an active shooter scene.

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Intel Claims Tiny NUC PC is the “Smallest VR Capable System Ever”

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The latest version of Intel’s miniscule ‘NUC’ PC is VR capable, the company says. Thanks to the power of AMD’s discrete Radeon Vega M graphics, the new NUC can power “premium” VR experiences at 90 FPS, says Intel. Announced at the start of this week’s CES 2018, Intel has debuted a new version of its NUC computer line of tiny enthusiast PCs.

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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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Wield Your Own Lightsaber With Just A Piece Of Paper

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Who needs midi-chlorians when you have the power of AR and a rolled up piece of paper? I think at one point everyone dreams of wielding the awesome power of a lightsaber. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age, the kyber crystal-powered blades are arguably the most recognizable item from the Star Wars universe, serving as the primary weapon for the both the noble Jedi and nefarious Sith.

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HTC VIVE enters CES2018 with new VIVE PRO Upgrade, Wireless VIVE Adaptor, and major upgrade to Viveport

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Heading into CES2018 HTC VIVE announced the introduction of Vive Pro and Vive Wireless Adaptor. In addition, the company debuted new improvements to Viveport VR and Vive Video. These improvements promise on VR users higher resolution, improved audio, greater comfort, wireless freedom and immersive content discovery. Vive Pro is a new HMD upgrade from Vive, built for VR enthusiasts and enterprise users who want the best display and audio for their VR experiences.

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Tactical Haptics’ New Prototype VR Controller Shapeshifts to Fit Your Game

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Tactical Haptics’ newly developed haptic controller prototype uses mechanical sockets that allow them to be mated in different configurations on-the-fly, in order to match a particular virtual interaction more closely than standard VR motion controllers. The controllers incorporate the company’s ‘Reactive Grip’ technology, a unique form of haptic feedback.

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Tactical Haptics is debuting its VR haptic controllers at CES 2018

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Tactical Haptics is debuting it's newly developed reconfigurable haptic controllers and new game content at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). This new design adds the ability to reconfigure and mate the haptic controllers together on-the-fly to transform the user’s virtual reality (VR) interaction to match their hand/controller configuration (see controller images).

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Xiaomi to Bring Oculus Go to China Under Its Own Brand

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Xiaomi, the Chinese electronics giant, officially announced that they’ve partnered with Oculus to not only manufacture Oculus Go, the company’s upcoming $200 standalone VR headset, but also produce a China-only standalone VR headset called Xiaomi Mi VR Standalone. Xiaomi’s headset is said to incorporate everything Oculus Go does hardware-wise, albeit with Xiaomi branding and its own Mi VR content store.

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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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With Facebook being banned in China, Oculus turns to Xiaomi to push the global launch of Oculus Go.

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Today at CES, Oculus shared details about their partnerships with Xiaomi and Qualcomm Technologies. Xiaomi is the hardware partner for the global launch of Oculus Go and are also announcing Mi VR Standalone —a VR headset based on Oculus technology exclusively for the Chinese market. Both are powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Mobile VR Platform and share the same core hardware features and design.

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HTC Vive CES 2018 Press Event Liveblog

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HTC is due to announce updates to its Vive system today during a press event at CES 2018. We’re on the scene to bring you the news live. The event will start at 1PM, follow along below to learn more about the “New Year’s Resolution” teaser that HTC offered up over the weekend. SEE ALSO 'Vive Pro' Leak Suggests Big Bump in Resolution and Optional Vive Wireless Adapter.

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Giroptic launches a new 360 degree video calling service

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Just in time for CES2018 Giroptic launches a new 360 degree video calling service compatible with their popular Giroptic iO 360 degree camera. Simply connect the camera to your smartphone to trigger the iO360 app, then select “call” to launch a video call in 360 degrees. All your friends and family have to do is click on the link they receive to join the conversation via mobile or desktop web.

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Intel gets its game on with Radeon RX Vega M, VR NUC

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Intel might be receiving a lot of flak lately for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, but the chip maker is unfazed and continues moving forward against all odds. Proof is that at CES, it revealed a new 8th gen Intel Core processor that lies in bed with long-time rival AMD to add a Radeon RX Vega M Graphics chip in … Continue reading.

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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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NextVR looks to bring a more realistic live event experience to VR with announcements heading into CES 2018

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Ahead of CES 2018 live sporting event broadcasting specialists NextVR announced three big tech advancements to their platform: six degrees of freedom-enabled content, higher resolution output, and augmented reality support. For sports fans six degrees of freedom, or “6DoF” will make NextVR events much more like a live sporting event with the ability to move forward, backward, left, right, up, and down.

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Oculus Go specs: Xiaomi-made with Snapdragon inside

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Even before Google had a chance to make good its promise of a standalone Daydream VR headset, Oculus last year announced the Oculus Go, a $199, at least back then, VR headset that needed no phone or PC to function. Now at CES 2018, the Facebook-owned virtual reality pioneer has revealed even more juicy details about the device as well … Continue reading.

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CES Innovation Award Honoree ‘Black Box VR’ Gym & Virtual eSport Unveils January 9th

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Black Box VR, a pioneer in virtual reality fitness, has been named a CES 2018 Innovation Awards Honoree for its innovative resistance-based virtual reality fitness experience. The Black Box VR studio has developed the world’s first fully automated cable resistance machine that integrates virtual reality hardware and original virtual eSport software powered by HTC Vive.

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2018 OpenSim Sentiment Survey

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If the survey below doesn’t load, you can access it on its own Google Forms page.

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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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TPCast Announces New ‘Plus’ Version of Wireless VR Adapters for Vive and Rift

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TPCast , manufacturer of wireless adapters for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift systems, has announced an upgraded version of its eponymous wireless system called TPCast Plus. According to the company, the new Plus version, which will be demonstrated at CES this year, offers several hardware and software improvements, including a new mounting system that supports hot-swap batteries.

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First Look: HTC Vive Pro – The New Vive on the Block

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Today at a pre-CES Vive press event, we got a look at the newly announced HTC Vive Pro, a higher-resolution headset from the company acting as a sort of ‘Vive 1.5’ Firstly, the addition of a 2880 x 1600 resolution OLED display ( 1440 x 1600 per display) makes the new Vive Pro a full 78% higher resolution than the standard Vive headset, which is 2160 x 1200.

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