VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

What’s better than making art with friends? As you might guess from checking out our annual art show or watching Art Attack , our mixed reality series produced with Soul Pancake, we at VRScout are big believers in the possibilities for art and content creation in VR. Over the past year, MasterpieceVR has emerged as one of the most robust art creation toolsets and artist communities in the world, with appearances at the Magik Gallery debut exhibition, Art of VR, and AWE.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Today Google has launched an update to Google Earth VR which brings the company’s huge library of street-level imagery into the application which lets users immersively explore the entire globe. Google Earth VR is a stunning VR experience which we called “ a breathtaking new way to know our planet ,” back when it launched in late 2016.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The new update brings Street View imagery from 85 countries. Last year Google launched a VR version of Google Earth , letting you visit locations around the world in 3D. A favorite app for many, Earth VR lets you fly over a city, stand on top of the highest peaks, or just casually walk down the street of your childhood home. It’s a beautiful app with so much possibility.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Magic Leap, the mysterious augmented reality startup with a multiple-billion dollar valuation , could soon be taking on more investments, bringing its total valuation close to $6 billion, Bloomberg reports. Citing sources “familiar with the situation,” the report contends that Temasek Holdings Pte. , a Singaporean investment company, is considering taking part in a new financing round amounting to more than $500 million.

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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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Everything VR & AR

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Ryan Peterson , CEO of Finger Food talks about the work his company is doing for clients by applying Artificial Intelligence and IOT to the major platforms of mixed reality, augmented reality and virtual reality. Ryan talks about pivoting his company early-on with Co-Founder and CTO, Trent Shumay, from originally being a video gaming company, to now being a software and hardware development firm for big enterprises and growing the company to over 100 employees with no VC funding.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Magic Leap Inc. , a Florida-based startup that’s raised more than $1.3 billion to build a wearable computing device, is trying to raise even more cash as it readies a long-awaited debut product. According to Bloomberg , one of the organizations that are most interested in investing is no other than Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd. , investment arm of Singapore’s government.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

STXsurreal, the immersive media division of STX Entertainment , is partnering up with Google’s VR team to launch a new “pay-per-experience” app on the Daydream VR platform, which will host a selection of curated live-action 360 films. Casting it as the ‘HBO or Showtime of VR’, the deal allows STXsurreal to develop and produce multiple live-action scripted VR series coming to Daydream in the next few months.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

A “virtual reality” headset hand-crafted by Sir David Brewster , a Victorian instrument-maker from Dundee, Scotland – is to be offered for sale at an auction next week , according to The Times. The Brewster stereoscope gave the illusion of depth using the same optical technology as VR headsets. The device, made of walnut and satinwood, held two images side by side which, when observed through lenticular lenses, converged into a single three-dimensional image.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Marshmallow Laser Feast is a collective of artists who are interested in using VR technologies to capture the aesthetic beauty of nature, and provide immersive experiences that inspire people to cultivate an even deeper with the reality that surrounds them. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. [link]. Marshmallow Laser Feast’s Treehugger experience provides an immersive telling of the lifecycle of water in trees as rain makes its way up from the roots of a Sequoia tree and is released as o

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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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SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

A “virtual reality” headset hand-crafted by Sir David Brewster , a Victorian instrument-maker from Dundee, Scotland – is to be offered for sale at an auction next week , according to The Times. The Brewster stereoscope gave the illusion of depth using the same optical technology as VR headsets. The device, made of walnut and satinwood, held two images side by side which, when observed through lenticular lenses, converged into a single three-dimensional image.

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