Fri.May 31, 2019

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Game Of Thrones VR Experience Now Available Exclusively On Viveport Infinity

VRScout

Incredible visuals, lukewarm gameplay. Available today exclusively on HTC’s Viveport Infinity game subscription service, Beyond The Wall places you in the shoes (boots?) of a member of the Night’s Watch, a rag-tag military order tasked with guarding the Seven Kingdoms against the many threats lurking beyond the wall. While the 7-minute experience could have been an incredible opportunity for fans of the series to step further into the fictional world of Westeros, Beyond The Wall instead offers a

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My Taiwanese XR Chronicles part 1: Cave, zSpace, Brogent hands-on

The Ghost Howls

Two weeks ago, I had a fantastic trip to Taiwan together with my Chinese assistant Miss S. I had the pleasure of participating to the “VR Visionaries” event in Kaohsiung and then I headed to Taipei to meet some XR companies (like HTC ) and people. I had really a great time there, both from a personal and professional side , and I want to thank Michael, Sandy and Kei for having made this possible and for having helped me with travel, accommodation, and all the other necessities.

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Ultrahaptics Acquires Leap Motion for a Reported $30M

Road to VR

Leap Motion, the pioneer in optical hand-tracking, has been acquired by Ultrahaptics, the enterprise-focused immersive haptics company. According to the Wall Street Journal , Ultrahaptics reportedly acquired Leap Motion for approximately $30 million. The company maintains in a company blog post that the acquisition won’t affect support for the Leap Motion community, and that “new and exciting products” are coming down the bend.

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Upcoming 10th Augmented World Expo To Shine Light On Immersive Computing

Charlie Fink

The 10th edition of the Augmented World Expo (AWE), co-founded by Super Ventures partner Ori Inbar, and executive produced with Tom Emrich and BrainXchange, opens its three day conference and expo on Wednesday, May 29th, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley. Right next door to where the 49ers football team plays. Oh, and Great America amusement park is next door to that.

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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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‘Super Smash Bros’ Gets Limited Support for Switch VR Labo Goggles

Road to VR

Nintendo today announced that the latest update to Super Smash Bros Ultimate has added a special mode which allows the game to be played with the Switch VR Labo Goggles. Nintendo launched the Switch Labo VR Kit back in April—part of the company’s ‘Labo’ product line which offers built-it-yourself cardboard accessories for Switch. The Labo VR Kit includes a heap of interesting accessories and specially made VR content , but we were quite surprised when the company also added VR

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