Mon.Jul 17, 2017

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Become A Jedi, Play Holochess With This Star Wars AR Headset

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Disney reveals an exciting augmented reality partnership with Lenovo at D23 conference. With every new Star Wars film comes new tie-ins, video games, merchandise and pretty much anything else you can slap a picture of R2D2 or Finn on. So naturally Disney’s D23 conference in Anaheim, California was filled to the brim with new content from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

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Leap Motion Grabs $50M Investment for Class-leading Hand-tracking Tech

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Leap Motion, a veteran player in the virtual reality sector (having been founded two years ahead of Oculus), has announced the closure of a Series C investment round totaling $50 million. Led by JP Morgan Asset management, Leap Motion’s Series C investment brings the company’s total public capital raise to just over $94 million, according to Crunchbase.

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VR Roller Coasters Collide in Madrid; 33 Injured Including Children

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Spanish authorities say 33 people, including six children under 10 years old, have been injured in a roller coaster collision equipped with VR headsets. According to the Associated Press, 27 people needed hospital treatment for minor injuries when two roller coaster cars collided Sunday on the “Tren de la Mina” (Mind Train) at Madrid’s Parque de Atracciones theme park.

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Disney Is Using VR To Help Film The Lion King Remake

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Disney is remaking one of its most beloved classics, The Lion King, in live action, and it’s using VR to help do so. The Hollywood Reporter recently published a quote about the 2019 movie from VFX supervisor, Rob Legato. “We are going to use a lot of virtual-reality tools so it feels akin to what you are looking at [if you were on a real set],” Legato said during a keynote talk at the NAB Show back in April. “You can walk around the set like a cameraman.

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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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Battle Alongside Friends In ‘Marvel Powers United VR’

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Jump into the shoes of an iconic Marvel hero in what may be the more important Rift experiences of next year. I think we’ve all had the dream. You know the one I’m talking about. The dream where you’re running alongside the Hulk into battle, strapped to the teeth with superhuman abilities capable of saving the entire Universe. And while we’ve had our opportunities to taste the dream with various superhero video games, there has yet to be an experience that truly puts us in the shoes of our favor

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Leap Motion Raises $50 Million For Its Finger Tracking Technology

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VR and AR headsets are heading to market from Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others that have a wide range of capabilities. Just last week we learned about Facebook’s plan for a $200 headset that occupies the low end of the market while Google continues work on a six degrees of freedom standalone headset. What’s unclear is just how you’ll be able to interact with the virtual worlds and objects produced inside these headsets.

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Rift Sale Eases Buyer’s #1 Concern, But All-in Cost Still Hinders Mainstream Traction

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The six week Oculus Rift sale has made tangible waves within the VR community with its ‘best-yet’ $400 price point. And while the new price is bringing more early adopters into the fold, mainstream adoption is still hindered in large part by the need for high-end computer hardware to power the headset. Guest Article by Colin McMahon. McMahon is an Industry Analyst at Greenlight Insights , the global leader in virtual and augmented market intelligence.

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JigSpace With ARKit Gives You AR Manuals For Just About Anything

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We’ve seen how AR can thrive as an instructional platform before, but what if there was a singular AR app that could teach you how to work with practically anything? JigSpace wants to be that app. You can think of JigSpace as a sort of ‘How To’ manual that aims to cover practically any product and device on the planet with a little help from Apple’s ARKit.

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WaveOptics Raises $16M to Create Optics For Small Form-Factor AR Headsets

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WaveOptics , a UK-based firm involved in designing and engineering optics for augmented reality, has today announced a successful series B funding round amounting to £12.0m ($15.7m). Investors include Touchstone Innovations , Robert Bosch Venture Capital GMBH , Octopus Investments , and Gobi Ventures. The company is currently developing AR glasses using holographic waveguide technology, a nano-scale technique that the company says can superimpose digital imagery across endless optical shapes, si

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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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Microsoft Is Making First-Party Content For Its Windows 10 VR Headsets

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Microsoft will need the support of the greater VR development community if its new Windows 10 Mixed Reality VR headsets are to succeed when they launch later this year, but what about potential first-party content too? That’s in the works already, the company assures. Speaking to GameSpot , Microsoft general manager Dave McCarthy stated that “several” of the company’s first-party studios are working on content for the headsets, which are made in partnership with companies

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Leap Motion secures $50M to continue its work in VR/AR hand-tracking tech

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Leap Motion, Inc., the leading creator of motion tracking technology for natural input in virtual and augmented reality, today announced $50 million in Series C funding led by clients advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management. The funding enables Leap Motion to drive global expansion, particularly in Asia, which the company will serve through the opening of an office in Shanghai, China; advance innovation and adoption of its groundbreaking hand and finger tracking technology; and broaden its reach

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7 Superheroes We Want To Play As In Marvel Powers United VR

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Our inner comic book nerds had their prayers answered over the weekend, as Oculus and Disney announced Marvel Powers United VR for the Rift. For the first time ever we’re going to be able to suit up as our favorite Marvel heroes and do battle with iconic bad guys using spectacular powers. Three heroes have already been announced for the four player co-op game.

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Wilsons Heart – First Time Live Play Oculus Rift Pt. 1

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Join me while I take my first look into the eyes of Wilson as I look for my heart! Wilson’s Heart is a cool mysterious Oculus experience that uses an interesting technique to immersive the user into a movie-like experience. Very Interesting I might say! Consider Subscribing To RealityCheckVR! .

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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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From Bards To Wizards: How The Mage’s Tale Pushes Dungeon Crawl RPGs Forward Using VR

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The dungeon crawl RPG isn’t quite as popular nowadays as it used to be — at least, not in its most traditional form. Created as a way of adapting the likes of Dungeons & Dragons to a digital computer game interface mixed with the tenants of text adventures like Zork , the first dungeon crawlers were visually sparse and full of ambition, nothing like modern entries in the genre such as The Mage’s Tale in VR.

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Marvel is bringing its superheroes to VR with a new Oculus-exclusive game via @TechCrunch.

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Marvel is bringing its superheroes to VR with a new Oculus-exclusive game via @TechCrunch [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 17, 2017.

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Unity Is Creating VR Ads For A New Film In The Saw Horror Franchise

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Various industries are regularly embracing VR’s potential to expand their business and film has been heavily active in a variety of ways. In addition to several tie-in VR experiences we’ve seen, the dawn of immersive VR ads are now a thing as well. Today, we’ve learned that Lionsgate is embracing that concept by partnering with Unity to promote a new entry in the Saw horror franchise.

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Why Would Anyone Want to Program and Control IoT in Virtual Reality? via @ENGINEERINGcom.

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Why Would Anyone Want to Program and Control IoT in Virtual Reality? via @ENGINEERINGcom [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 18, 2017.

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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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Reborn: A Samurai Awakens Looks Like Metal Gear Rising For PSVR

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One of the best features in 2013’s insane Metal Gear Solid spin-off, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, was the ability to cut up enemies at will with a razor-sharp sword. Reborn: A Samurai Awakens, looks like it will bring that feature to PlayStation VR (PSVR). This new title was announced today by developer Geronimo Interactive. You’re cast as Yukimura Sanada, a sci-fi samurai in the year 2480 and must do battle with alien machines using a pair of pistols and lightsaber-like laser swo

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Nexus Studios finds ARKit’s tracking works with Google’s Cardboard via @VentureBeat.

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Nexus Studios finds ARKit’s tracking works with Google’s Cardboard via @VentureBeat [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 17, 2017.

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Check Out Three New Videos of SmashBox Arena on PSVR Before Launch Next Week

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We were surprised to hear that BigBox VR’s SmashBox Arena will be coming to PlayStation VR (PSVR) earlier this year, and now we know we won’t have to wait long at all to play it. The port of the multiplayer VR game will arrive on July 25th. That’s next week, just in case you haven’t checked your calendar. Don’t know what it’s all about?

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JigSpace With ARKit Gives You AR Manuals For Just About Anything via @UploadVR.

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JigSpace With ARKit Gives You AR Manuals For Just About Anything via @UploadVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 17, 2017.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning

Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?

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AR Startup WaveOptics Targets New Markets With $16 Million Funding

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When writing about the future of mixed reality in December, we highlighted WaveOptics ‘ efforts to curve the scalability and quality issues that were plaguing MagicLeap at the time. The company’s patented waveguide provides a hologram-based alternative to conventional augmented reality projection and they’re taking the £12 million ($15.6 million) from a series B round of funding to expand into new markets.

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‘Medium’ Update Lets You Sculpt in VR With Friends via @RtoVR [link]

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‘Medium’ Update Lets You Sculpt in VR With Friends via @RtoVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 17, 2017.

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Powers United VR: Marvel’s Universe to Arrive on Oculus Rift

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In 2008, Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) debuted with Robert Downy Jr. playing the role of Tony Star / Iron Man. This action movie started a juggernaut series of movies which took home $11.76 billion after 16 movies. As 2018 will mark full decade of the movie, Oculus joined forces with Walt Disney Pictures and announced their first collaborative title, Powers United VR.

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Sketchfab adds 3D sound to its 3D model sharing platform via @TechCrunch [link]

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Sketchfab adds 3D sound to its 3D model sharing platform via @TechCrunch [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 17, 2017.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?