Fri.Jan 24, 2020

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Sundance: Breathe Is A Multi-Person Mixed Reality Experience Powered By Breathing

VRScout

Breathe offers a fresh take on climate change awareness with a breathing-focused coop experience. Environmentally-conscious XR is all the rage at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival New Frontier showcase. One such project, a mixed reality experience called Breathe , is offering a new angle on public awareness that uses mixed reality technology and biometric trackers to tug at your heart-strings. .

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Rhythm Shooter ‘Audica’ to Launch on Quest Next Week with Rift Cross-buy

Road to VR

Audica (2019) , the VR ‘rhythm shooter’ from Guitar Hero studio Harmonix, is officially set to arrive on Oculus Quest on January 28th. This, the studio said in a recent tweet , also includes cross-buy with the Rift version available through the Oculus Store. Audica first launched on PC VR headsets in Early Access back in March 2019, and then later on PSVR late last year, which carried with it four new songs exclusive to PSVR as well as five paid DLC songs from household names such a

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Krikey Annual Chinese New Year AR Experience

ARPost

Most of our readers probably have New Year’s in the rearview mirror. However, the Chinese New Year isn’t until January 25. The Chinese zodiac works on a cycle of years instead of months, with each year getting its own animal. For the last two years, Krikey celebrated with a dog and a pig AR experience. This year they’re back with a rat AR experience. “ The very first year that we did this with the Year of the Dog, we hadn’t started building games yet… we had some mi

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‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ Coming to Quest & PSVR This Year

Road to VR

The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (2020) launched on PC VR headsets yesterday, and basically established itself as one of the most gritty and violent entries into the VR horror-survival genre. Now, Skydance Interactive says both PSVR and Oculus Quest users should expect the game on the respective platforms later this year. Skydance confirmed via Twitter today that both PSVR and Quest support will arrive in 2020, with the PSVR version slated for Spring 2020 and the Quest version for Q4 2020

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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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The AR Show: Projecting AR’s Fate in 2020

AR Insider

This article features the latest episode of The AR Show. Based on a new collaboration, episode coverage now joins AR Insider’s editorial flow including narrative insights and audio. See past and future episodes here or subscribe. AR Insider’s ongoing coverage of The AR Show episodes is an exercise in deconstructing and synthesizing the musings of spatial computing’s top minds.

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How to utilise AR this Veganuary

Zappar

How AR has been and can be used as a valuable tool to promote Vegan campaigns now and in the future.

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Cas & Chary Present: ‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ Gameplay Overview

Road to VR

Launched yesterday, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is a heavy physics-based survival adventure game set in the zombie apocalypse of the Walking Dead universe. In this video and article, we wanted to showcase the core gameplay mechanics without spoiling too much of the story. . Cas & Chary Present. Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016.

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The Road to ‘Path of the Warrior,’ Part 3 of 4

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In Part 1 of this four-part blog series, Twisted Pixel Games Project Director of Development Mike Henry took us behind the scenes of Path of.

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Couch Co-op Heist Game ‘Covert’ Launching on PSVR in February

Road to VR

Covert (2018) , an action-adventure title that puts asymmetric co-op at its core, is coming to PSVR next month. White Elk Studios says in a tweet that Covert is arriving on PSVR February 25th. White Elk is also known for the VR adventure title Eclipse: Edge of Light (2017) which recently landed on PSVR and PC VR headsets. First launched on Oculus Go in 2018, Covert offers up asymmetric gameplay by way of a mobile companion app, which supports most Android and iOS devices.

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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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Zappar X Darabase Partnership

Zappar

Darabase and Zappar partner to launch world’s first permission-based GeoAR service

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms’ Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

Upskilling things like floor management or assembly time, that’s easy in XR. But soft skills, like understanding and empathy? A bit more challenging — but importantly, not impossible. Cortney Harding talks with Alan about how emerging tech, like VR and 360 video, can help us all be a little kinder to one another. Alan: Hey, everyone, Alan Smithson here.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms’ Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

Upskilling things like floor management or assembly time, that’s easy in XR. But soft skills, like understanding and empathy? A bit more challenging — but importantly, not impossible. Cortney Harding talks with Alan about how emerging tech, like VR and 360 video, can help us all be a little kinder to one another. Alan: Hey, everyone, Alan Smithson here.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms' Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

Upskilling things like floor management or assembly time, that's easy in XR. But soft skills, like understanding and empathy? A bit more challenging -- but importantly, not impossible. Cortney Harding talks with Alan about how emerging tech, like VR and 360 video, can help us all be a little kinder to one another. Alan: Hey, everyone, Alan Smithson here.

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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.