VRScout

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Facebook uses iPhone’s AI depth-sensor to a new layer of realism to your photos. Originally announced during the 2018 F8 developer conference back in May, Facebook’s 3D Photos feature is now officially available on your News Feed and in VR. By utilizing the 3D depth maps stored with portrait photos taken recent dual-lens iPhone models, 3D Photos is able to differentiate the distance between subjects in the foreground, from the background surroundings.

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Next Reality AR

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Have you ever browsed through Lenses on Snapchat and got bummed out when the app recommends that you "try this with a friend" and you're all alone? Well, now you can take AR snaps with your cat! The new Lenses for cats and their humans reside in the carousel alongside all of the AR experiences designed for just for humans. Users can identify the cat AR experiences by a blue paw print icon on the Lenses icon (if the image of a cat in the icon wasn't enough).

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Media Molecule, the creators of LittleBigPlanet (2008) and Tearaway (2013) , have been working on their upcoming game/game-creation tool Dreams for PS4 for the past few years, and although we knew PSVR support was destined to come someday, as first announced at Paris Games Week 2015 , we weren’t sure if PSVR users would get the chance to play at launch.

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Next Reality AR

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Players of Pokémon GO on Android now have a reason to turn on AR mode with the release of AR+ support via ARCore. Pokémon GO enthusiasts on iOS have had access to AR+ mode on ARKit-compatible iPhones and iPads (yes, I can attest to playing the game on a tablet, don't @ me) since Dec. 2017. Thanks to the horizontal surface detection in the respective AR toolkits, Pokémon appear anchored to the ground or other flat surfaces and locked into their appropriate scale based on their distance from the p

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This Saturday I have been to the Milano Games Week. If you don’t know what it is, I can describe it as the little Italian brother of the Gamescom: it is much smaller, but it features anyway a lot of games , both from popular major players and from indies. I went there to try some virtual reality stuff and I can say with much satisfaction that there was a satisfying number of VR installations.

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Charlie Fink

OCTOBER 12, 2018

XR's quest for world domination takes several steps forward with news from Magic Leap, Ubiquity6, HTC, SPACES, ExitVR, Re-flekt, Upskill, Sansar and more.

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CraneMorley

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Learning that drives business performance requires more than formal training. Knowledge and skills need to get applied on the job. Measurement is also critical and is more than just test scores. Providing support in the flow of daily work is a new and exciting way to improve on the job performance. WE CAN HELP YOU DESIGN A LEARNING & PERFORMANCE STRATEGY THAT WORKS: That’s why we are espcially excited about our partnership with Microsoft to bring the latest Holographic technology, AI a

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Charlie Fink

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The boundaries of new immersive tech are pushed by visual artists in this LA exhibition.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2018

FlyInside FSX , the crowdfunded VR plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006) , was built well before first-party VR motion controllers existed, developed back in the DK2-era of 2015 as an ad hoc way of jumping into an already highly-detailed flight sim. Now, the creators of FlyInside FSX have released their own dedicated flight simulator in beta, dubbed FlyInside Flight Simulator, that’s built from the ground-up for VR.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Who said that the life of developers is boring? I’ve spent the last Saturday night in a real discotheque in Milan to make people try our virtual reality experience Beat Reality and I really had tons of fun. Beat Reality is the experience that I have developed together with Enea Le Fons , the man of the #30DaysInVR initiative. He is super-fond of music and so proposed to do together this mixed reality application for the Vive Focus , that lets you see your real world beating following the r

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VRPlayin

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This is the last part of the “VR in Japan” Series, for 2018 at least. If you haven’t followed so far, then I recently went to Japan on a work-vacation, work-cation, trip and have done my very best to sample all the country has to offer in terms of virtual reality. Needless to say, I was almost disappointed, but there is hope. In previous parts I’ve given an overview of the industry, talked about VRZONE (probably the largest VR venue in the world, size and headset count wise), I’ve talked abo

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