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JUNE 11, 2018

DigiLens , a developer of transparent waveguide display technology, is creating a reference headset aimed at wide FOV AR with hand-tracking, dubbed AR HUD. The company showed the first glimpse of the headset at AWE USA 2018. Bolstered by growing interest in wearables and augmented reality, DigiLens recently announced the closure of a $25 million Series C investment to grow the company which has developed what it says is a proprietary, low cost waveguide manufacturing process.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot drops you into the role of a resistance hacker on a mission to tear apart the Nazi forces in Paris using their own machines. Take control of a fire-breathing Panzerhund and more as you fight Nazis in the City of Love in order to aid the French resistance. Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot will be available as a standalone VR game in 2019.

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VRScout

JUNE 11, 2018

Enter Steph VR. While Stephen Curry and his Golden State Warriors teammates were triumphantly laying it down on the court during the 2018 NBA Finals, a team of digital artists were feverishly at work in anticipation of the team winning their third championship in the past four years. With the Warriors having swept the NBA Finals in just four games, Under Armour is revealing their latest celebration of Curry’s third ring with an immersive Steph VR experience and live pop-up event in Oakland set t

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Tech Trends VR

JUNE 11, 2018

SpaceVR will use Virtual Space Tourism to connect us to our planet and to each other, expanding the limits of human consciousness. “Let’s launch cool s**t into space!”. As far as elevator pitches go, that’s not a bad start, but as I talked to Ryan Holmes about plans for his company’s upcoming launch later this year, things got even curiouser. From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty.

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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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Next Reality AR

JUNE 11, 2018

With the announcement of ARKit 2.0 at WWDC 2018, Apple is bringing some powerful new capabilities to mobile augmented reality apps this fall. Shared experiences, persistent content, and 3D object recognition will enable more social, transcendent, and immersive experiences for apps, and developers are already hard at work on harnessing the features of the update.

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VRScout

JUNE 11, 2018

Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls: Blades mobile experience will support everything from iPhone to Oculus. Bethesda pulled zero punches at this years annual Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California. The AAA game studio dropped a treasure trove of spine-tingling reveals and announcements, from exciting new information regarding their mysterious Cyberpunk 2077 project, to the announcement of two new Elder Scrolls adventures – one of which has been confirmed to support mobile 

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

SimSpray is a VR training system targeting educational institutions, manufacturers, and trade unions, all with the eye for lowering costs over traditional training and offering some unique insight only available in VR. Training to become a commercial spray painting technician costs time, money, and requires the use of special equipment—all of which is fundamental to learning the trade, but VR can replicate some of this while providing important insight you wouldn’t otherwise get.

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VRScout

JUNE 11, 2018

Bethesda announces two new VR game modes as part of their ‘Mooncrash’ DLC out this summer. Bethesda is on a roll this year. The company slayed their E3 press conference with multiple high profile reveals, as well as continued support for some its best pre existing titles. This includes big changes to first-person survival horror Prey in the form of Mooncrash , a brand new DLC adventure that not only introduces a brand new protagonist, but three new game modes as well.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

TheWaveVR , the social VR music platform, and electronic music group The Glitch Mob are collaborating to launch a new interactive VR version of the band’s third and latest studio album, ‘See Without Eyes’ The interactive VR album will take users on what TheWaveVR calls “a VR odyssey of shifting dreamscapes choreographed to a 20-minute custom mix of the album.

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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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JUNE 11, 2018

Usually, the camera adds 10 pounds, but with a new augmented reality effect in Like's mobile app, the camera can actually make you look slimmer. Called "Shaping Magic," the body recognition effect uses artificial intelligence to modify the width of the user's body or selectively augment the shape of their head, shoulders, waist, hips, or legs. The new feature is reminiscent of the Lens feature on Snapchat that comically contorts a user's faces in a pre-configured manner.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

During Bethesda’s E3 Showcase, the company announced a new standalone VR title: Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot , a game set to launch sometime in 2019. Now it appears a trailer in German has surfaced, showing some gameplay elements. Set in Paris in 1980, you join The Resistance and fight the occupying Nazis with their own machines. Playing as a hacker, you take control of the fire-breathing Pazerhund and unleash holy hellfire and upturn cars on top of Nazi super soldiers.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Electronic music group The Glitch Mob and TheWaveVR , the creator of the world’s first social virtual reality (VR) music platform, today announced an upcoming show featuring music from the band’s third studio album, 'See Without Eyes'. The free experience launches Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. PST, at which time fans will be able to immerse themselves in an interactive, VR version of the album.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Squanch Games, the studio headed by Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland, today announced a new VR game at Sony’s E3 2018 keynote. Dubbed Trover Saves the Universe , the platformer is targeting PS4 and PSVR. Not much is known about Trover Saves the Universe outside of what the Roiland-voiced presenter ‘Bathtub Guy’ tells us: “There’s some action-platforming stuff!

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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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VR Bites

JUNE 11, 2018

Today Sony announced a new PSVR title! Ghost Giant is a completely new game from Zoink Games. In this amazingly cute game you’ll act a giant ghost that is protecting and helping a little cat-like person named Lois in a colorful ‘Nintendo-like’ environment. You can use your see-through hands to lift furniture, vehicles and trees. You can rotate and open entire buildings while communicating with the creatures in that world.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Déraciné is a newly announced PSVR story adventure from Dark Souls and Bloodborne developer From Software and Sony Japan Studio, and is coming exclusively to the platform. According to the teaser trailer’s description, Déraciné is about a young girl in a secluded boarding school who summons a spirit. While the studio is fairly mum on the specifics, the game is said to task the player with proving the spirit’s existence and building “a unique bond with the students through cl

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VR Bites

JUNE 11, 2018

Wolfenstein: Youngblood is a co-op game in which the daughters of Anya and BJ go looking for their father. This new part in the Wolfenstein series has to be released next year. There will also be a VR game called Cyberpilot. In Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot players crawl into the skin of a hacker helping the French resistance against the Nazis with the Panzerhund vehicle.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Ubisoft has announced the closed beta dates for its upcoming zero-G multiplayer VR shooter, Space Junkies , which will be available from June 28th to July 2nd with signups open to all. First revealed at E3 2017, Space Junkies is Ubisoft’s latest multiplayer VR title following Eagle Flight (2016), Werewolves Within (2016) , and Star Trek: Bridge Crew (2017).

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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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VR Bites

JUNE 11, 2018

Wolfenstein: Youngblood is a co-op game in which the daughters of Anya and BJ go looking for their father. This new part in the Wolfenstein series has to be released next year. There will also be a VR game called Cyberpilot. In Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot players crawl into the skin of a hacker helping the French resistance against the Nazis with the Panzerhund vehicle.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Ghost Giant is an upcoming puzzle adventure that has a lot of heart, as it you, the Ghost Giant, keeps a lonely kid named Louis company on his adventures through the picturesque town of Sancourt. Created by Zoink , the minds behind Fe (2018) and Flipping Death (TBA), Ghost Giant tasks you with using your see-through hands to lift furniture, vehicles, and trees, and even rotate and open entire buildings to reveal the stories going on inside, says Zoink in a recent PlayStation blogpost.

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VR Bites

JUNE 11, 2018

Today Sony announced a new PSVR title! Ghost Giant is a completely new game from Zoink Games. In this amazingly cute game you’ll act a giant ghost that is protecting and helping a little cat-like person named Lois in a colorful ‘Nintendo-like’ environment. You can use your see-through hands to lift furniture, vehicles and trees. You can rotate and open entire buildings while communicating with the creatures in that world.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Elijah Wood took the stage at Ubisoft’s E3 keynote today to show off a new launch trailer for Transference, an upcoming VR thriller first revealed at last year’s E3 by his studio SpectreVision. Transference is a psychological thriller from SpectreVision and Ubisoft that aims to bridge the gap between movies and games by blending live action sequences with rendered environments into a perspective-shifting narrative.

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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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Slashgear

JUNE 11, 2018

If the Star Trek Holodeck is the virtual reality dream, then Sandbox VR has got closer than most. Opening in new pop-up locations in San Mateo, CA, as well as other US cities, ahead of fixed centers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, it’s a tried-and-tested group VR experience that has already seen success in Asia. Now, it’s … Continue reading.

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EON Reality

JUNE 11, 2018

IRVINE, CA, June 11, 2018 – EON Reality, the world leader in Virtual Reality based knowledge transfer for industry and education, and Eastern Iowa Community Colleges (EICC) announce the opening of an Interactive Digital Center (IDC) in Davenport, Iowa. This is the second phase of the EON Reality and EICC partnership that started with opening a VR Innovation Academy in 2016 at their downtown Davenport location.

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Veative

JUNE 11, 2018

In order to exhibit our immersive and interactive VR modules, we are attending the EDUWEEK 2018 which will take place on the 15th & 16th June at The Ticketpro Dome, Johannesburg. Do visit us at E12A stand, and experience our VR learning modules for K-12. EduWeek is the only all-encompassing industry event in the African education sector, bringing together 170 leading companies and over 5,500 attendees from the African education community.

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VRWorld

JUNE 11, 2018

This week, a lot of health-centric stories broke in the world of VR, including a story concerning VR childbirth. This is Stories You Might’ve Missed, and we’ll quickly summarize the two most strange, interesting VR stories that broke this week. Birthual Reality brings VR childbirth to the masses. The aptly-named Birthual Reality is an application from Nordic insurance company Gjensidige Insurance.

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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?

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