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AR Costumes – Disney Introduces Auto Augmenting Outfits

VRScout

Disney Research Hub debuts a practical new method for overlaying watertight digital costumes onto standard RGB images. In a short video posted to the official Disney Research Hub YouTube channel earlier yesterday morning, Disney Research introduced AR Costumes, a new method of AR capture that automatically overlays a “watertight” digital costume onto a subject’s body from just a standard RGB image.

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Magic Leap’s John Gaeta talks about the future of cinema, storytelling and mixed reality

The Ghost Howls

One of the best moments ever at View Conference 2018 , has been when I was able to interview John Gaeta. If you don’t know who John Gaeta is… well, he is the inventor of the bullet-time of the movie The Matrix. Now, this genius that has revolutionized cinema has landed in the mixed reality ecosystem , to try to improve it as well. He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company.

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Every Choice You Make Is Life Or Death In This Daydream Impact VR Experience

VRScout

How would you react when faced with the starkest of choices? Most of us have been lucky enough to have never experienced urban conflict first-hand. VR, however, can give us a sense of what the chaos looks – and feels – like, allowing us to better empathize with the millions of people who live this reality everyday. . VR has been used multiple times to help showcase the dreadful consequences of the ongoing Syrian conflict.

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5 Incredibly Spooky VR Games to Play This Halloween

Road to VR

It’s that time of the year again, when you bring out the big bag of candy, put on your spookiest outfit, and turn off the lights and pretend no one’s home. It’s Halloween! And to celebrate, we rounded up five of our favorite VR games which span a number of horror sub-genres: Resident Evil 7 biohazard (PSVR). If you own a PSVR, you might look no further than Capcom’s Resident Evil 7 biohazard (2017) , one of the best VR adaptations on the PlayStation Store currently.

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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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Happy Halloween! We are giving you a chance to win one of the scariest PSVR games of the year, "Home Sweet Home"

Cats and VR

Happy Halloween Cats And VR Fans and to celebrate we are giving away a PSVR copy of one of the scariest VR games of the year. All you have to do is follow @CatsAndVR & @MastiffGames on Twitter. Make sure you comment on this page what your twitter handle is for a chance to win. Interesting about Home Sweet Home is that it comes from a company who specializes primarily in high-end video production for commercials and advertising.

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Sony and Lenovo just made a weird VR agreement

Slashgear

Sony Online Entertainment today announced that it has struck a new patent licensing deal with Lenovo. The agreement will allow Lenovo to license the design of the PlayStation VR for use its own Mirage Solo headset. What this agreement ultimately means is, at the moment at least, anyone’s guess. After all, the Mirage Solo headset isn’t exactly a new device. … Continue reading.

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Sony Licenses PSVR Headset Design to Lenovo for New Mirage Solo

Road to VR

Sony and Lenovo announced they’ve signed a two-year patent license agreement that will allow Lenovo to base a future VR headset off the PSVR industrial design. Lenovo says the PSVR design will be used in the making of a new Mirage Solo VR headset. It’s unclear what Lenovo specifically needs from the four year-old headset design , as the company’s Daydream standalone headset Mirage Solo already utilizes a number of design elements popularized by PSVR, including a remarkably simi

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EON Reality Establishes Augmented and Virtual Reality Center in Ontario, Canada with Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology

EON Reality

The partnership will establish an Interactive Digital Center located on Mohawk College’s campus in Hamilton, further developing the area’s the AVR and digital infrastructure and education. IRVINE, CA, October 31, 2018 – EON Reality Inc., the world leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, together with Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology, today announces the establishment of an Interactive Digital Center in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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Facebook Working to Bring ‘Quill’ Artwork to Oculus Quest

Road to VR

Quill is Facebook’s first-party VR art tool. While users can view Quill artwork in the program itself and inside of Facebook Spaces , the company is hoping to unlock the artwork by making it viewable on Oculus Quest too. Oculus launched Quill initially back in December of 2016, alongside the launch of the Touch controllers; Facebook eventually took over development and has been iterating on the application ever since.

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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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#711: Political Philosophy as Game Design: Resolving Paradox & Confusion with Play

Voices of VR

Rust LTD is composed of four avant-garde artists who are experimenting with political philosophy as game design through surrealist narratives and open world sandboxes of.

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Request for Startups: Human Augmentation

Boost VC

Apply to Tribe 12. To quote Arvind Gupta from Indie Bio, “Humans are evolving from Homo-sapiens to Homo-consilio,” meaning “Designed man.” We are entering a time when any human will have the ability to be a super hero. Whether it is designed humans through cells like our company NextBiotics or computers/robotics on the body like our portfolio companies ROAM Robotics , Gravity or Jetpack Aviation , technology is solving problems that is pushing the evolution of human beings.

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How You Can Explore Nefertari’s Tomb in Hyper-Realistic VR

NVidia VR

Nefertari’s tomb is hailed as one of the finest in all of Egypt. And now visitors can explore it in exquisite detail without hopping on a transoceanic flight. Nefertari was known as the most beautiful of five wives of Ramses II, a pharaoh renowned for his colossal monuments. The tomb he built for his favorite queen is a shrine to her beauty — every centimeter of the walls in the tomb’s three chambers and connecting corridors is adorned with colorful scenes.

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How You Can Explore Nefertari’s Tomb in Hyper-Realistic VR

NVidia VR

Nefertari’s tomb is hailed as one of the finest in all of Egypt. And now visitors can explore it in exquisite detail without hopping on a transoceanic flight. Nefertari was known as the most beautiful of five wives of Ramses II, a pharaoh renowned for his colossal monuments. The tomb he built for his favorite queen is a shrine to her beauty — every centimeter of the walls in the tomb’s three chambers and connecting corridors is adorned with colorful scenes.

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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.