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Magic Leap One Makes a Surprise Appearance During World Cup TV Show

Next Reality AR

Magic Leap shows up in the weirdest places. Last week, right at the start of World Cup fever, for some reason, the Magic Leap One appeared on a Brazilian television show. Worn by show presenter Tiago Leifert, a popular television host in Brazil, not only do we clearly see the Magic Leap One, but the host also appears to have it attached to the Lightpack hip-mounted module.

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Ever Wonder What The Inside Of A Dog Looks Like? There?s An AR App For That.

VRScout

From animal anatomy to digital twinning and mining simulations, this Canadian company is bringing game development know-how to VR experiences. After meeting Charles Lavigne and Kevin Oke at the BCTECH Summit last month, we were enticed to visit their headquarters on the beautiful Island of Victoria and try out their latest VR demos. But it wasn’t just the prospect of the beautiful seaplane ride from Vancouver that hooked us.

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Mastering Reality with Project North Star

Leapmotion

At Leap Motion, we’re always looking to advance our interactions in ways that push our hardware and software. As one of the lead engineers on Project North Star, I believe that augmented reality can be a truly compelling platform for human-computer interaction. While AR’s true potential comes from dissolving the barriers between humans and computers, I also believe that it can help improve our abilities in the real world.

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Beyeonics Raises $11.5M to Further Develop AR/VR Surgical Visualization Platform

Road to VR

Elbit Systems , an Israel-based defense company, recently announced that its medical technologies subsidiary Beyeonics Surgical successfully concluded its first funding round of $11.5 million, which the company says will be used to expand product development and accelerate commercialization of its surgeon-centric AR/VR technologies. Founded in 2012 by Elbit senior engineers, Beyeonics is developing its Clarity Bionic Visualization Platform, an AR/VR solution designed to provide surgeons with vis

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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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AR Glasses For Diabetics: Magic Leap Considers ?Glucose Monitoring? Eyewear

VRScout

The glasses of the future might watch your glucose levels. According to a patent released last week by the US Patent and Trademark Office, AR startup Magic Leap has begun exploring the concept of smart glasses that can “monitor glucose levels over time” along with other vitals. The patent was first filed by Magic Leap in November of last year.

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Leap Motion Shares Amazing Demo of Augmented Reality Table Tennis with AI Opponent

Next Reality AR

Hand tracking technology company Leap Motion has built a stunningly fluid augmented reality ping-pong game that not only showcases the capabilities of its open source Project North Star augmented reality headset, but also demonstrates how artificial intelligence can elevate immersive experiences. With the Project North Star headset, handheld paddle controller, and an actual table tennis table, players can hit a virtual ping-pong ball and play against an AI opponent.

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?Echo Combat? Open Beta Weekend Starts Tomorrow on Rift

Road to VR

If you didn’t get a chance to jump into the closed beta last month of Echo Combat , the upcoming online shooter expansion to Ready at Dawn’s Echo Arena (2017) , then you’ll certainly have a chance this weekend, as the studio is opening up their pod bay doors to all Rift users starting tomorrow. Echo Combat throws you into a beefier combat-ready avatar with a few guns and secondary weapons at your disposal.

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Xbox One won?t have VR, mixed reality and this is why

Slashgear

The Sony PlayStation might be getting a lot of flak lately over its Fortnite cross-play snub, but PS fans can now gloat over the Xbox rivals over one aspect. The PlayStation has its own VR system and, if things continue as they are now, the Xbox won’t. Microsoft is now practically going back on its own marketing that plays up … Continue reading.

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?Oculus Home? Update Adds Virtual Screens, Custom Object Importing

Road to VR

Oculus Home , the hub space that users see when putting on their Oculus Rift, has been updated with virtual screens for embedded Dash content and the ability to import custom objects. Announced in a post this week on the Oculus Blog , Oculus Home version 1.26 is rolling out to users and now offers up several screen-like items into which users can embed Dash screens.

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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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Janelle Haines

EnterpriseWear

Ergonomic Analyst – Biomedical Engineer. The post Janelle Haines appeared first on BrainXchange.

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Janelle Haines

EnterpriseWear

Ergonomic Analyst – Biomedical Engineer. The post Janelle Haines appeared first on BrainXchange.

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Todd Boyd

EnterpriseWear

President & CRO. The post Todd Boyd appeared first on BrainXchange.

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Todd Boyd

EnterpriseWear

President & CRO. The post Todd Boyd appeared first on BrainXchange.

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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.