VRScout

AUGUST 30, 2019

MR technology brings this disaster preparedness segment to life with immersive visuals. The Weather Channel is no stranger to immersive mixed reality technology. Over the past couple of years, the network has worked alongside mixed reality specialists The Future Group to enhance its coverage with everything from virtual ice storms and wildfires, to hyper-realistic tornados and flooding that tears apart TWC HQ.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2019

XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, as well as narrative analysis and top takeaways. Speakers’ opinions are their own. One company that’s arguably gotten the most accolades for AR commerce implementation is Houzz. The 11x boost in conversion rates from its View in My Room feature is perhaps the most cited data point from AR proponents, on the stage and on the page.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 30, 2019

L’Oréal, Ford, HTC Vive, Nestlé and more discuss the future of immersive technologies across different industry verticals in the massively popular VRX webinar series. Many sectors, particularly the education, engineering, manufacturing, retail and healthcare fields, are already seeing the value that can be brought from investing in XR capabilities. Yet with such variety of use-cases, approaches and solutions on offer, understanding where to invest and where the ROI lies can prove a challenge for

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ARPost

AUGUST 30, 2019

The fourth annual European Augmented World Expo is set to take place on October 17 and 18 in Munich Germany. ARPost is excited about any XR technology conference but as AWE’s partner, we’re particularly excited about this one. So, why should you be excited about AWE EU ? AWE EU 2018 Day 2. For one thing, it’s huge. There are expected to be over 2,000 attendees, over 100 exhibitors, over 100 sessions, and over 125 speakers.

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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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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2019

Sony is taking down a few beloved games from the PlayStation Store tomorrow, including Driveclub, Driveclub Bikes, and Driveclub VR. Servers are said to remain online until March 31st, 2020, however the Driveclub series and their DLC will be removed from the store starting tomorrow. At the time of this writing, European-facing PlayStation Stores have already removed Driveclub VR, although the US store shows it still available for $15.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2019

The second-generation HoloLens, first unveiled at Mobile World Congress earlier this year in Barcelona, still doesn’t have a firm release date yet, although it appears that’s about to change pretty soon. As reported by Reuters , Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai yesterday, saying that HoloLens 2 will go on sale sometime in September.

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Charlie Fink

AUGUST 30, 2019

"These Sleepless Nights" a spatial computing experience for the Magic Leap One that explores the feeling of homelessness, premieres at the Venice Film Festival today.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2019

Road to VR is running a survey with our partner Gamer Network to better understand our audience. Your participation is entirely optional and anonymous, but we’d be thrilled if you’d share your responses with us. You may recall that Road to VR partnered with Eurogamer parent company Gamer Network in 2017. In an era where many publications are allowing paid and sponsored content to increasingly bleed into editorial, this partnership allows us to create an important firewall between editorial

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 30, 2019

Alan – and XRIgnite — isn’t the only XR shepherding game in town! Samantha Wolfe — who co-authored Marketing New Realities with previous XR for Business guest Cathy Hackl — drops by to share her own insights on how best to help brands, businesse s , and campaigns venture into the XR minefield, and come out the other end unscathed.

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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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Slashgear

AUGUST 30, 2019

The game goes by the name “Acron: Attack of the Squirrels!” and it ties together VR gameplay (for one player) with smartphone gameplay (for 2+ other players). The game puts the VR player in the role of the evil tree, while the 2-or-more other players are squirrels. The tree attacks the squirrels. The video you’re about to see will make … Continue reading.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 30, 2019

Alan – and XRIgnite — isn’t the only XR shepherding game in town! Samantha Wolfe — who co-authored Marketing New Realities with previous XR for Business guest Cathy Hackl — drops by to share her own insights on how best to help brands, businesse s , and campaigns venture into the XR minefield, and come out the other end unscathed.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 30, 2019

Immersive technology can be a powerful medium when used correctly to draw attention to particular issues, such as when the United Nations (UN) and Here Be Dragons created Ground Beneath Her. Currently, the United States is going through a housing crisis with eviction cases on the rise. It’s why a new mixed reality (MR) installation These Sleepless Nights was created to highlight what’s actually going on.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 30, 2019

Alan – and XRIgnite -- isn't the only XR shepherding game in town! Samantha Wolfe -- who co-authored Marketing New Realities with previous XR for Business guest Cathy Hackl -- drops by to share her own insights on how best to help brands, businesse s , and campaigns venture into the XR minefield, and come out the other end unscathed. Alan: Today's guest is Samantha Wolfe, managing partner at we are PHASE2.

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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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Peter Graham

AUGUST 30, 2019

AltspaceVR was one of the earliest social apps available for headsets like Samsung Gear VR, a virtual space where people could not only hangout but also create events and more. The app has had a few ups and downs over the years but seems to be growing stronger of late. Fortunes should only improve next month when Oculus Quest support is added. There are a number of social apps available for virtual reality (VR) headset yet AltspaceVR is one of the few which allows a wide variety of users to e

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Charlie Fink

AUGUST 30, 2019

Big announcements, strategic partnerships and product launches cap exciting summer of XR developments

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 30, 2019

HTC Vive’s Viveport platform wants to be completely hardware agnostic, supporting as many virtual reality (VR) headsets as possible. Currently, only HTC Vive and Oculus Rift owners can use the store and its Viveport Infinity service but from tomorrow Valve Index will also be added to that roster. Viveport announced back in May that it would be adding support for Valve Index as well as an offer of two free months of Viveport Infinity.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2019

Google has released to researchers and developers its own mobile device-based hand tracking method using machine learning, something Google R esearch engineers Valentin Bazarevsky and Fan Zhang call a “new approach to hand perception.” First unveiled at CVPR 2019 back in June, Google’s on-device, real-time hand tracking method is now available for developers to explore—implemented in MediaPipe , an open source cross-platform framework for developers looking to build processi

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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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Peter Graham

AUGUST 30, 2019

Yesterday Resolution Games released its eighth virtual reality (VR) title in the form of social multiplayer Acron: Attack of the Squirrels. Supporting a range of headsets one of the best to play the videogame on is Oculus Quest thanks to its wire-free portability. And thanks to our friends at Resolution Games VRFocus just so happens to have several Acron: Attack of the Squirrels codes for Oculus Quest to giveaway.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 30, 2019

Everyone likes a good party game to build some atmosphere – who wants to just sit around a talk nowadays? – and there are a few choice virtual reality (VR) titles available which fit the bill. Resolution Games is a VR developer which has generally stuck to single-player experiences ( Bait!, Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs ) until now, creating what could well be one of the best social VR videogames in Acron: Attack of the Squirrels.

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