ARPost

DECEMBER 13, 2019

For half a century, Dame Jane Goodall has been changing how we see humankind and our nearly-human neighbors, the chimpanzees. Now, an AR experience by Falcon’s Creative Group for the National Geographic Association in collaboration with the Jane Goodall Institute is changing how we see her. The Partners. The National Geographic Museum is located in Washington DC.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

We're a few weeks away from the fireworks associated with New Year's celebrations, but that doesn't mean you can't start a little early — in augmented reality. The team at Weta Workshop, recently released a small immersive game called Boosters that they created for a little office fun, so we decided to take it for a spin to see how it works and found a couple of cool surprises.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The popular Vader Immortal game mode will be available at select pop-up locations just in time for The Rise of Skywalker. Good news for all you Lucas Hounds out there. Lightsaber Dojo –the insanely fun lightsaber training ground simulator available as part of Vader Immortal – A Star Wars VR Series –is receiving a dedicated arcade release available at select pop-up locations beginning December 19th.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2019

HoloLens creator Alex Kipman tried Valve’s upcoming VR title Half-Life: Alyx and shared some choice words about his experience. Microsoft and Valve have long had close ties, both geographically and historically. Valve was co-founded after two Microsoft employees, Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington, left the company after working on some of the earliest versions of the Windows operating system.

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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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AR Insider

DECEMBER 13, 2019

XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, as well as narrative analysis and top takeaways. Speakers’ opinions are their own. For a deeper indexed and searchable archive, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. Snapchat currently holds the lead in active AR usage among consumer-AR providers.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 13, 2019

High Fidelity, a virtual world platform from Second Life founder Philip Rosedale. (Image courtesy High Fidelity.). High Fidelity is shutting down its apps, marketplace and virtual currency, shutting down its open source project, and laying off about half its staff, founder Philip Rosedale announced in a post rather misleadingly titled “ Updates, and a New Beginning.” Rosedale is best known as the founder of Second Life.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Everyone’s favorite block-slashing rhythm game, Beat Saber (2018), just got a new music pack featuring the tunes of Green Day. The newly released Green Day music pack comes alongside a free update for all supported platforms that includes the long-awaited 360 and 90-degree mode for a number of levels. Beat Saber’s newest music pack launched last night at The Game Awards, which also just so happened to feature a live performance by the group.

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EON Reality

DECEMBER 13, 2019

No matter what your native language is, you can now learn, train, and perform in it with EON Reality’s AVR Platform. With the latest update to the AVR Platform, EON Reality is expanding its multilingual support and localization to include dozens of the world’s most common languages and unique regional dialects. The linguistic addition comes as the latest in a series of minor updates to the world-leading AR and VR company’s flagship product to close out 2019.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Launched last month in beta, Oculus Link lets you connect your Oculus Quest standalone headset to a VR-ready computer, letting you play PC VR games simply by hooking up a high-quality USB 3 cable. Users with AMD graphics cards however were a bit dismayed to find out that exactly zero were supported at the beta’s launch last month, although thankfully that’s changed now.

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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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VirtualiTeach

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This is the third year I've done an end of year Top 10 list for VR Education apps. In 2017 I did a Vive-only list here on VirtualiTeach which you can find here. In 2018 I produced a list with a broader focus of platforms for VR Focus which you can find here. This year I'm back on VR Focus with my Top 10 List of VR Education Apps for 2019. It was a fun list to compile and you'll see that I had no shortage of honourable mentions outside the actual Top 10 itself.

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SpringboardVR

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Press Release Location-based VR leaders SpringboardVR and VRstudios join forces to expand VR content offering for players and businesses. Los Angeles, CA and Redmond, WA?—?December 12, 2019 ?—?SpringboardVR, a leading content marketplace and distribution platform for VR Arcade operators and VRstudios, an innovator of turn-key wireless multiplayer Virtual Reality (VR) systems for Location-Based Entertainment (LBE) businesses, are pleased to announce a partnership to deliver a selection of Springb

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Oculus

DECEMBER 13, 2019

It’s the time of year for parties and gatherings, especially those among close family and friends. Whether it’s an ugly sweater shindig or a friendly.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2019

At last night’s Game Awards, Oculus announced it’s been working with Twisted Pixel Games to create a new VR beat’em up called Path of the Warrior, which is out now on for Rift and Quest. Inspired by classic arcade titles such as Double Dragon (1987) , Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game (1989) , Streets of Rage (1991) and Final Fight (1989) — Path of the Warrior promises to let you attack your opponents “with any number of objects from pool cues and trash

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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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