Fri.Nov 09, 2018

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ARHT Introduces Real-Time Holographic Lecturers At London Business School

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‘Hologram’ lecturers will soon beam to universities for the first time, starting with Imperial College London. The UK-based business school is working with Toronto-based holographic media company, ARHT , to bring speakers from all over the world directly into their lecture halls using a projected hologram as a form of teleconferencing. ARHT describes it as “holographic telepresence.”.

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Tech Trends @ VR Sports & Entertainment Summit 2018

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The 2nd Annual Immersive Technology in Sports & Entertainment Summit will be held in San Francisco on November 13-14, 2018. Tech Trends is excited to be a media partner for the event so watch this space for key highlights. With 40 Speakers and over 200 senior executives from Sport, Entertainment, Technology, Global Brands and Broadcasting registered to attend it is set to be the defining event for leaders across sports, technology and entertainment industries.

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Report: New Valve VR Headset Appears in Leaked Images

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When it comes Valve, there’s no telling what’s going on behind their Bellevue, Washington doors. As one of the most reclusive developers of both games and hardware, that goes doubly so for its efforts in VR. Now, reported images of what appears to be a never before seen Valve headset have come to light, and it certainly looks the part of a next gen device.

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Magic Leap Publishes More L.E.A.P. Developer Videos Featuring Insomniac Games, Weta Workshop & More

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After publishing two batches of videos from its L.E.A.P. developer conference, Magic Leap has made the session on Seedling from Insomniac Games available to the public. Featuring Joel Bartley, lead gameplay programmer for Insomniac Games, and Michael Liebenow, lead software engineer for Magic Leap, the session examines how to integrate a 3D engine into an app using the Vulkan API.

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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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‘Budget Cuts’ is Getting More Levels with Launch of New Arcade Version

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Stealth robot-killing game Budget Cuts (2018) launched earlier this year to much fanfare, but also garnered more than a few gripes surrounding bugs at launch. Now in their fifth update to the game, developers Neat Corporation have squashed plenty of bugs over past few months, and have today revealed that more levels are incoming thanks to a newly announced arcade version.

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Facebook Artist Unveils Impressive Oculus Quest Experience ‘The Last Oasis’, Built in ‘Quill’

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Facebook Art Director Goro Fujita works at the company’s Social VR team, and while he’s typically occupied with creating modest, but fantastical “quillistrations” as a part of his daily regime using Facebook’s first-party art tool Quill (2017) , Fujita today unveiled his latest work that he says helped him explore the possibility of bringing larger-scale Quill art to Oculus Quest.

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‘Beat Saber’ for Rift & Vive to Get New Features Soon, New Tracks “at a later date”

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The hit VR rhythm game Beat Saber (2018) is coming to PSVR November 20th , which means the developer Beat Games has been working full time on fleshing out the features, modes, and available tracks in a push to make it ready for PSVR owners. But what about players on Rift and Vive? Beat Games responds to PC VR players in a tweet yesterday to quell some of the fears that the updates to the PSVR version would remain exclusive to the platform, as stated in the initial PS blog announcement.

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‘PokerStars VR’ Brings Multiplayer Freeplay Poker to Rift & Vive

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PokerStars, the online gambling site, today released a social VR app that lets Oculus Rift and HTC Vive users play poker for free. Dubbed PokerStars VR , the online multiplayer game is free and now available in Early Access on Steam , the Oculus Store , and Viveport. Unlike its classic 2D interface, PokerStars VR doesn’t allow real world betting, as users can only play with free chips—an important stipulation for distribution on the platforms mentioned above.

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Modern Day Block-breaker ‘Tetris Effect’ is Now Available on PS4 & PSVR

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Tetris Effect is a modern day adaptation of the classic block-breaker Tetris that promises a number of new features to go along with a host of immersive 3D environments. Created by Rez Infinite (2001) studio Enhance Experience and Monstars , the game is now available on PS4, PS4 Pro and PSVR. Tetris Effect touts over 30 different stages, each of them with their own music, sound effects, graphical style and background that all evolve and change as you play through them.

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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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‘Windlands 2’ is Landing on Steam Next Week for Vive, Rift & Windows VR

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Windlands 2 (2018) made a splash when it hit the Oculus Store in September, but as much fun as the unique co-op adventure-combat game was, it only supported Oculus Rift at the time of launch. Developers Psytec Games today announced that Windlands 2 is headed to Steam next week for all major PC VR headsets. Landing on Steam November 16th, Windlands 2 is bringing it single-player and four-player co-op goodness to HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows VR headsets.

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