Wed.Jun 06, 2018

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China’s Oculus Go Variant Sells Out in Minutes, 50,000+ Await More Stock

Road to VR

The Chinese variant of the Oculus Go, sold by Xiaomi as the ‘Mi VR Standalone’, appears to be seeing strong launch demand, with the headset quickly selling out, in some cases within just minutes. XR intelligence firm Greenlight Insights estimates that 30,000 Mi VR Standalone headsets were sold in the headsets first day, and apparently constrained by stock availability; the headset sold out completely at the official Xiaomi site in just three minutes, Greenlight notes, and the 32GB ve

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Report: Kids and VR

Tech Trends VR

Immersive technologies bring new opportunities to engage, teach and entertain children, but what are the safeguards we must put in place? The overall sense that emerges from the research is that immersive technologies such as VR could become valuable learning tools Click To Tweet. As more children start using virtual reality, it will be critical for parents and teachers to understand the effect it can have.

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7Invensun is a Chinese company that wants to disrupt the VR eye tracking sector

The Ghost Howls

Eye tracking is, in my opinion, a technology that will disrupt completely the VR ecosystem , exactly as room-scale did with the first HTC Vive. The reason is that eye tracking will enable a lot of new features in VR, like for instance: Foveated rendering , that will let VR experiences have more polygons and VR devices use displays with more resolution without resulting too heavy on the graphics card; Varifocal displays , as the Half-Dome prototype showcased by Oculus; A completely new UX for VR

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Project North Star is Now Open Source

Leapmotion

At Leap Motion, we envision a future where the physical and virtual worlds blend together into a single magical experience. At the heart of this experience is hand tracking, which unlocks interactions uniquely suited to virtual and augmented reality. To explore the boundaries of interactive design in AR, we created Project North Star , which drove us to push beyond the limitations of existing systems.

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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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Magic Leap Finally Delivered a Live, Public Demonstration of the Magic Leap One, Here's What Happened

Next Reality AR

On Wednesday, the people at Magic Leap finally (FINALLY) decided to give the public a dedicated, slow, feature by feature walk through of the Magic Leap One: Creator Edition. How was it? About as good as it gets without actually getting to see what images look like through the device when wearing it. Host Alan Noon, Magic Leap's senior learning resources technical artist, was joined by Shanna De Iuliis, from the company's technical marketing team, for the second installment of the company's Twit

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Magic Leap Reveals Partnership with Oscar-Winning Effects Studio Behind Marvel's Biggest Hits

Next Reality AR

For years, Magic Leap has promised to deliver stunning augmented reality experiences that will outperform any other competitor, and a newly revealed partnership hints that the company may be able to deliver on those promises. Framestore, the Oscar-winning studio behind many of the stunning visuals in Avengers: Infinity War, has emerged from stealth mode to announce that it has been working with Magic Leap for the last few years on content designed to be experienced on the Magic Leap One: Creator

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Build Your Own Useless Rube Goldberg Machine In VR

VRScout

A totally unnecessary contraption is just a headset away when ‘Ruberg’ leaves pre-alpha later this year. If campy 80’s cinema has taught us anything, it’s that every suburban family has at least one genius child building overly complex machinery designed to perform painfully-basic tasks. Often referred to as Rube Goldberg Machines, these convoluted devices use chain reactions to accomplish incredibly simple tasks – which means quite a bit of clean-up for very little pay-off.

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Former Meta Exec Launches DreamGlass AR Headset, Shipping at End of June for $399

Next Reality AR

Just a year after facing trade secret theft allegations from his former employer, ex-Meta Company employee Kevin Zhong and his new company are ready to ship the product that triggered the lawsuit. Starting Wednesday, interested parties can order the DreamGlass AR headset from Dreamworld's website for $399, with the first batch of devices expected to ship to developers by the end of June.

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Sony Announces Tetris Effect For The PSVR

VRScout

The creators of Rez Infinite are bringing one of the most legendary titles in gaming to VR for the first-time. With E3 2018 just around the corner, we’re already being treated to a generous serving of new pre-con reveals and announcements. This morning was particularly exciting however as Sony made its first VR-related announcement of the conference in the form of Tetris Effect for the PSVR.

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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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New ‘Jurassic World’ VR Game to Debut at Dave & Buster’s Across North America Next Week

Road to VR

Universal and The Virtual Reality Company (VRC) today announced Jurassic World VR Expedition , an out-of-home VR rescue adventure that puts you in the dense, dino-filled jungles familiar to the film franchise, is debuting on June 14th at more than 100 Dave & Buster’s entertainment centers. The adventure supports up to four people at a time, and uses HTC Vive headsets, and what the companies call a “state-of-the-art VR motion simulator.” The game, which is said to last five minut

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From the creators of Rez Infinite come Tetris Effect for PSVR

Cats and VR

From the people who brought you stylish hits like the award-winning Rez Infinite and Lumines: legendary creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi, and the developers at Monstars Inc. and Resonair. Includes the all-new “Zone” mechanic, where players can stop time (and Tetriminos falling) by entering “the Zone” and either get out of a sticky situation that could otherwise lead to “Game Over,” or rack up extra line clears for bonus rewards.

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Sony Announces ‘Tetris Effect’ for PSVR & PS4, Coming Fall 2018

Road to VR

It looks like the alleged Sony E3 leak , which showed Resident Evil 2 (1998), Spider-Man, and BioShock Resurgence coming to PSVR, hasn’t gotten its moment of vindication yet, as Sony today announced that a new Tetris game is coming to the PS4 console with PSVR support. Dubbed Tetris Effect, the new game is apparently named after the real-world phenomenon where a player’s brains continues to see the iconic blocks well after the session is finished.

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Virtual Trainer Nominated for AR & VR Futureproof Award at Tech XLR8

EON Reality

This week, Tech XLR8’s dedicated immersive reality event, AR & VR World, announced its final picks for the annual Futureproof Awards – with EON Reality currently at the top of the 7-strong shortlist. EON Reality has a first-time nomination recognized for Virtual Trainer, our innovative multi-user LMS-based Virtual Reality (VR) training system.

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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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‘Space Pirate Trainer’ Studio Hints at PSVR Version of Hit Arcade Shooter

Road to VR

If the news that Tetris is coming to PSVR hasn’t flipped any wigs, the makers of Space Pirate Trainer (2017), the super successful arcade shooter, have just tossed out a not-so-subtle hint that PSVR owners will soon be able to dive head-first into the galactic robot shooter. Indie studio I-Illusions tweeted out today that it’s “time to get off the couch,” featuring the game’s logo wearing a PSVR headset.

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Meet USDZ, an AR file format from Apple and Pixar

VRWorld

As part of Apple’s recent ARKit 2.0 announcements , Apple also debuted USDZ, a new file format from their partnership with Pixar. We’ll dive into this below. What is USDZ? This file format is described as a “zero compression, unencrypted zip archive” by Pixar. It’s made to work with a USD runtime and doesn’t require unpacking on the user’s end.

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To the Dismay of Its Audience, Magic Leap Livestream Dodges Key Questions

Road to VR

Years of Magic Leap’s hype-building seems for many to be turning from excitement to disappointment, as the company continues to evangelize its AR headset with little attempt to demonstrate what it’s actually like to use it. During the company’s latest livestream where it was teased that viewers would get to “meet Magic Leap One,” mundane details like power buttons and LEDs were talked about as the hosts dodged or ignored the audience’s most pressing questions.

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SpaceVR wants to take you to outer space

VRWorld

As its name implies, SpaceVR wants to take you into space. By itself, this isn’t that interesting: there’s already plentiful VR games and simulators taking place in space, for instance. What makes this one interesting isn’t the concept, it’s the execution. How does SpaceVR take you into space? By launching a satellite, called the Overview 1.

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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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InstaVR Raises $5M Series B to Further Grow Its Enterprise VR Authoring Platform

Road to VR

InstaVR , a VR authoring, publishing, and analysis company, announced it has successfully closed a Series B financing round, which the company says will help further its mission in providing enterprise customers the tools to create their own VR apps. The company received $5 million, bringing its total funding to date to $7.2 million. Series B participants include YJ Capital, ITOCHU Technology Ventures, Mizuho Capital Partners, GREE Ventures, COLOPL NEXT, and The Venture Reality Fund.

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Dave & Buster’s to debut Jurassic World VR Expedition

VRWorld

In a partnership between Universal, VRC and Dave & Buster’s, customers will soon be able to have a Jurassic World VR Expedition. We’ll dive into more detail below. What is the Jurassic World VR Expedition? Jurassic World VR Expedition is an interactive VR experience based on the Jurassic World franchise. The VR Expedition is set to release on June 22nd, to coincide with the theatrical release of Fallen Kingdom.