Mon.Aug 13, 2018

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Nintendo Switch ‘Test VR Mode’ Reportedly Uncovered by Modders

Road to VR

While Nintendo has lent its Mario Kart IP to a arcade VR experience , the company has so far steered clear of VR on its consoles. It seems it hasn’t been completely off the their radar though, as a Nintendo Switch ‘Test VR Mode’ has reportedly been uncovered in the system’s software by modders. As reported by UploadVR , Nintendo Switch modder @random666_kys attempted to execute a ‘SetVrModeEnabled(bool)’ flag that was uncovered by modder @OatmealDome.

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Meet Global VR Creators at The Inaugural VeeR Creator Conference

VeeR VR

The inaugural VeeR Creator Conference is going to take place on August 17th in Beijing. For the first time, VeeR gathers outstanding global VR content creators to share ideas and experiences in their productions. Participants will be able to access to the first-hand industrial insights, get to know the latest VeeR products, and try the most recent VR devices from VeeR’s partners.

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Magic Leap's Good News — the Haters Are Wrong, Bad News — Now Everyone Will Focus on Apple Glasses

Next Reality AR

I've had a few days to live with the Magic Leap One and it's time to finally weigh in with some thoughts as someone who has been tracking this company from the beginning, for almost five years now. Let's get right to the meat of the matter: Magic Leap One is not a flop. Not in terms of sales (the target, for now, is developers), and not in terms of performance and overall experience.

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How Mixed Reality Will Bring Us Industry 4.0

Tech Trends VR

More sectors are realizing the potential of immersive technology to dramatically maximize efficiency and profits. When I demoed the Daqri Worksense Mixed Reality application at the Pioneers conference in Vienna a couple of months ago, what struck me the most – apart from the fact that I was told the glasses made me look like a Minion – was that the visuals were much sharper, and that the additional definition made it feel like this could really be a tool that you could feel comfortable using on

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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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Hands-On: Magic Leap's Screens App Is the Closest Thing to a Killer App for the Magic Leap One, For Now

Next Reality AR

By now, you already know that the Magic Leap One ships with an array of apps to immediately get you accustomed to operating in your new spatial computing reality. The first one we're going to focus on is Screens, an app we told you about previously, but only now have managed to try for ourselves. The Screens app is just one of six apps listed in the initial app carousel when you first launch the Magic Leap One (seven if you count the unreleased Dr.

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UK's Largest Children's Hospital Is Adopting HoloLens to Assist Surgeons

Next Reality AR

In recent years, medical professionals have demonstrated how the HoloLens can assist in surgeries, ranging from collarbone repairs to spinal surgeries to cosmetic procedures. Now, the largest children's hospital in the United Kingdom is also ready to deploy the technology. Alder Hey Children's Hospital, a Liverpool-based facility treating more than 270,000 children per year, is using the Microsoft HoloLens to help surgeons visualize 3D anatomical images and patient information, such as ultrasoun

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#SeeTheWorld Winner Announcement

VeeR VR

Saint Augustine once said: “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” This July, we’re proud to say that we read many pages of this incredible book, by the #seetheworld (or #??? in Chinese, and #?????? in Japanese) entries contributed by our wonderful creators. We visited Paris, “la ville lumière” with ChantalTV; we had […].

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Magic Leap's Good News — the Haters Are Wrong, Bad News — Now Everyone Will Now Focus on Apple Glasses

Next Reality AR

I've had a few days to live with the Magic Leap One and it's time to finally weigh in with some thoughts as someone who has been tracking this company from the beginning, for almost five years now. Let's get right to the meat of the matter: Magic Leap One is not a flop. Not in terms of sales (the target, for now, is developers), and not in terms of performance and overall experience.

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Seven VR Titles Nominated At This Year’s Emmy Awards

VRScout

VR continues its mainstream invasion as a new pack of virtual content makes its way to the prestigious award ceremony. This September the Primetime Emmy Awards will celebrate its legendary 70th anniversary, once again honoring the absolute finest in U.S. television entertainment. For the last two years, VR content has managed to quietly infiltrate its way into the awards through various interactive categories.

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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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NVIDIA’s New High-end Quadro RTX First to Include VirtualLink VR Port

Road to VR

Today at SIGGRAPH 2018 NVIDIA announced ‘Turing’, their next-generation GPU architecture aimed at real-time ray tracing, and the first high-end GPUs built atop it, the Quadro RTX 8000, 6000 and 5000. The cards are the first to include the recently revealed VirtualLink port, a new connection standard specially designed for next-generation VR headsets.

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Shower thoughts on the Magic Leap One

The Ghost Howls

We are in the days of the Magic Leap hype : developers that have bought it are posting videos everywhere and every one of us is trying to understand if the device is valuable or not. In these days I’ve read lots of reviews, tweets, and comments from the community and so I’ve now a personal idea on this device and its company. So, here you are my editorial regarding Magic Leap.