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New York Times AR Coverage of Guatemala Volcano Disaster Shows AR Isn't Ready for Breaking News

Next Reality AR

The latest augmented reality feature from The New York Times gives readers a close-up view of the damage left behind by the eruption of Volcán de Fuego in Guatemala earlier this month. Through the NY Times app for iOS and Android, readers can walk around a truck in the village of San Miguel Los Lotes buried up to its windows in ash. The 3D scene can be toggled between tabletop model and life-sized scale.

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Rift & Vive Summer Sales Offer Big Savings on Hundreds of VR Titles

Road to VR

While we’re still waiting on the Steam Summer Sale to materialize, this year’s big Rift and Vive annual summer sales are already here, and hundreds of VR titles are on deep discount on the Oculus Store and Viveport until the beginning of next month. Many of the top VR games from 2016 and 2017 are hovering around half price for the next week, so check out some of the notables below to get a good idea of what’s in store.

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?No Obstacle? Stopping Google From Bringing USDZ To Android AR, Adobe Exec Says

VRScout

A new open source file format is helping pave the way for augmented reality. Apple announced earlier this month they would adopt the new USDZ file format for 3D content across its AR-enabled iPhones and iPads, which can display illusory, animated images placed in your real surroundings. But the file format could also make its way to Android, Adobe’s head of AR has told VRScout.

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Magic Leap Shows Off Spatial Computing Demo, FCC Docs Reveal New Controller Images

Next Reality AR

Magic Leap just did something it didn't do during its recent Twitch hardware demo: actually show us some new demo footage of what augmented reality really looks like through the Magic Leap One. During this week's Unite Berlin conference, an event dedicated to Unity developers, Magic Leap's Brian Schwab and Aleissia Laidacker, two of the company's Interaction Lab experts, took to the stage for a special presentation.

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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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VR Drama ?Kiss Me First? Arrives On Netflix June 29th

VRScout

Live-action meets CGI in this six-part adaptation of Lottie Moggach’s hit YA novel. A suspenseful cyber-drama series developed by Bryan Elsley, Kiss Me First tells the story of Leila (Taboo’s Tallulah Haddon), a lonely 17-year-old haunted by the death of her mother. In order to escape the tortures of her reality, Leila has become addicted to a massive VR universe, known as Azana, where she spends a majority of her time.

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John Sallaway of vSpatial

Everything VR & AR

We’re joined today on the show by John Sallaway, CEO and Co-Founder of vSpatial. vSpatial is redefining the way we meet, and the way we work with VR meetings and offices, allowing people to work from anywhere. John talks about the unique user interface their team built, and the amazingly vast amount of usability within vSpatial whereby they’e integrated most any browser or application you can use on your laptop, into vSpatial.

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Magic Leap One Motion Controller Appears in FCC Filing, Suggesting 2018 Launch

Road to VR

Magic Leap One, the long-awaited AR headset from the secretive titular Florida startup, appears to be on its way to its supposed 2018 release date, as the headset’s motion controller, dubbed Control, has just hit the FCC for testing. When we first heard about Control at the headset’s unveiling late last year, we were told the motion controller featured a touchpad, a trigger, a single button, and both haptic feedback and something called “force control.” According to the F

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Virtual Trainer Wins the AR & VR Futureproof Award at TechXLR8

EON Reality

It is with delight that we can officially confirm EON Reality’s Virtual Trainer scooped the winning prize as the Best Product, for London Tech Week 2018! During London Tech Week’s anchor event, Tech XLR8 , Virtual Trainer was named the winner of the AR & VR Futureproof Awards. The reasons for the win included how it stood out as ‘the most innovative, business-relevant’ example of Virtual Reality.

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?Echo Arena? Becomes ?Echo VR? to Make Way for ?Echo Combat?, and Maybe More One Day

Road to VR

With the Echo Combat beta opening today, and the full experience launching later this year, Oculus and Ready at Dawn are doing some reorganization to set the stage for the ongoing expansion of the Echo universe. Today, Echo Arena becomes Echo VR , which will encompass both Echo Arena and Echo Combat. Oculus today announced that Echo Arena is becoming Echo VR , in order to make room for Echo Combat, the FPS take on Echo Arena’s zero-G competitive formula.

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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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Apple Details Latest VR Optimizations Coming to macOS Mojave (10.14)

Road to VR

Earlier this month at Apple’s annual WWDC conference, the company introduced their latest operating system, macOS Mojave (10.14). Due to roll out as a public beta later this month, and launching widely this Fall as a free update, Mojave brings further VR-specific optimizations to Apple’s Metal graphics API, which the company detailed in a session at WWDC.

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