Mon.Nov 13, 2017

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HTC Officially Announces Vive Focus, Its Standalone VR Headset

VRScout

It’s time to cut the cord. Today at Vive Developer Conference in Beijing, HTC announced its long-awaited standalone headset, called Vive Focus. Since we first started hearing about the prospect of a Vive standalone a few months ago, the VR community has been eagerly awaiting its public release. Now it’s here. And it’s 6DoF. Vive Focus takes us from room-scale to “world-scale” tracking.

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HTC Announces ‘Vive Focus’ Standalone VR Headset

Road to VR

Today during the Vive Developers Conference in Beijing, HTC revealed the Vive Focus, a standalone VR headset with inside-out positional tracking. The headset is positioned for the Chinese market. Update (11/14/17): HTC has confirmed to Road to VR that the company is cancelling plans to bring a Daydream-based version of the Vive Focus headset to Western markets, including the US and Europe.

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Volkswagen Launches Custom VR Exhibit At Historic Brand Tower

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VW celebrates the world premiere of T-Roc with a VR experience for first-time users. . Volkswagen Group is back again with yet another VR project that continues to prove just how much faith the German automaker truly has in the immersive medium. We’ve seen the company use the technology before on everything from collaborative group meetings between team members to a simulator that lets you drive an Audi in a sandbox track.

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HTC Scraps Plans to Bring Daydream-based Vive Focus to Western Markets

Road to VR

HTC revealed their new standalone Vive Focus headset today , poised to launch into the Asian market. Earlier this year the device was teased to be heading to Western markets as part of Google’s Daydream platform in 2017, but now HTC confirms they’ve canceled those plans. The Vive Focus headset was actually first announced for the Western market back at Google I/O 2017 in Q2.

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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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The HTC VIVE Developer Conference brings a new platform and wireless HMD to the ecosystem.

Cats and VR

HTC held its VIVE™ Developer Conference 2017 (VDC2017), where it announced VIVE WAVE™ ( www.vive.com/cn/vive-wave-en ), a VR open platform and toolset that will open up the path to easy mobile VR content development and high-performance device optimization for third-party partners. 12 hardware partners announced their support for the integration of Vive Wave as well as the VIVEPORT™ VR content platform into their future products.

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President of the Seychelles Visits Virtual and Augmented Reality Company EON Reality Mauritius

EON Reality

President of the Seychelles, His Excellency Danny Faure visited EON Reality Mauritius on Saturday 28 October during his three days official tour in Mauritius. He was accompanied by a level delegation from Seychelles and by the Mauritian Minister of ICT and Innovation, as well as the Ministers of Agriculture and the Minister of Local Government and Outer Islands.

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PSVR Titles ‘The Inpatient’ & ‘Bravo Team’ Delayed Until Early 2018

Road to VR

Supermassive Games has delayed two of its upcoming PSVR titles originally expected for Q4 releases, Bravo Team and The Inpatient. Both games are now set to launch in Q1 of 2018. Bravo Team, a cover-based shooter, was originally slated to launch December 5th; and The Inpatient, a prequel to the Until Dawn franchise, on November 21st. According to a PlayStation Europe tweet, The Inpatient will now launch next year on January 24th, and Bravo Team on March 7th.

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‘From Other Suns’ Review

Road to VR

If FTL: Faster Than Light (2012) and the Borderlands franchise had a baby, the freakishly hard offspring would invariably be From Other Suns, a first-person shooter/spaceship management sim from Gunfire Games, the makers of Dead & Buried (2017), Chronos (2016) and Herobound: Spirit Champion (2016). Like its procedurally generated spiritual progenitor FTL , FOS will leave you gasping for breath at every turn, never sure if the two to three hours you spent fighting pirates, aliens, or

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