Fri.Sep 07, 2018

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How to fix Vive controllers not working inside SteamVR games

The Ghost Howls

We all love virtual reality, but sometimes it gives us big headaches. And not because of the motion sickness , but because something doesn’t work. And that’s ok, it is still a new technology and it has already made big steps forward (I remember all the computer crashes I had at the Oculus DK 2 times!), but sometimes it is still tricky and problematic.

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3D Scanning App for iPhone Makes Capturing & Sharing AR Content as Easy as Taking a Picture

Next Reality AR

Augmented reality app developer Laan Labs has shared a preview of a beta app that achieves 3D scanning with just an iPhone and produces highly-detailed models for sharing with others. But it might be a while before we see it in the App Store. According to a tweet from the company, the prototype app uses the beta 6D.ai SDK, which can generate dense point clouds through a standard mobile camera sensor.

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Magic Leap Taps Andy Serkis For ‘Orc-Like’ Motion Capture Character

VRScout

The Oscar nominated actors performance-capture studio partners with Magic Leap to bring fresh content to their MR platform. With credits including legendary franchises like The Lord of the Rings, Planet of the Apes, and Star Wars , Andy Serkis has proven himself a legend within the world of motion capture technology. Now the celebrated actor, director and author has taken his talents to augmented reality thanks to an ongoing partnership with Magic Leap.

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Warner Bros. Conjures 'The Nun' Snapchat AR Lens to Scare Up Ticket Sales

Next Reality AR

The latest sponsored augmented reality experience on Snapchat from a movie studio might be its scariest — and perhaps most popular — yet. The Sponsored Lens, purchased by Warner Bros. to promote the new The Nun horror movie, uses background segmentation to provide a mostly darkened front-facing camera view. Users are asked to blow out the virtual candle in the foreground, an action that's detected via facial cues by Snapchat.

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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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Watching the BBC Proms in Virtual Reality

Tech Trends VR

The world’s biggest classical music festival is embracing Immersive Technology. This summer for the first time, the BBC Proms are holding an event in virtual reality. Produced by BBC VR Hub , Nothing to be Written commemorates the centenary of the First World War and was created by composer Anna Meredith and 59 productions – the Tony Award-winning company of artists behind the video design of the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

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Virtual Reality in Japan – Part 4 – Promotion & Added Value

VRPlayin

This one is dedicated to those of you who are more into marketing, but even if that may not be your cup of tea, it may still expand your view of VR and how it can be used. And of course if fun is what you’re after everything below revolves around fun things that get you thinking about the technology and the context in which you’ve used it. But before we delve deeper, and you don’t know what you’re delving into, here are the past 3 articles in the series, and I recommend going through Part 1 R

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Pimax “8K” to Begin Shipping By Month’s End, Pimax “5K” Plus Announced

Road to VR

While Pimax has been met with several delays in delivering its ultra-wide FOV headsets, the quest to get headsets out the door to backers of its successful Kickstarter campaign may soon be coming to a conclusion. The company says the first “8K” and “5K” headsets will begin shipping to backers by the end of September, and also announced a new “5K” Plus model; backers of the original “5K” will automatically be upgraded to the “5K” Plus.

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#693: Pain Management & Other Medical Applications of VR

Voices of VR

Howard Rose is a pioneer in creating medical applications for Virtual Reality, and I had a chance to catch up with him about his company.

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‘Gravity Sketch’ 1.5 Update Brings New Tools for 3D Design Concepting

Road to VR

Gravity Sketch fills an interesting role in the world of VR modeling tools. More focused on design than art, the app functions much like a 3D sketchpad for exploring ideas of form and color as part of a broader modeling workflow. An update to the Early Access app brings new and improved tools to make 3D ideation faster and easier. Update 1.5 for Gravity Sketch , which is now available on the Oculus Store and Steam, brings a handful of new tools and improved functionality, much of which the compa

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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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Couch Co-op Platformer ‘Carly and the Reaperman’ Gets Single-player VR Experience

Road to VR

Odd Raven Studios , the Stockholm-based developers behind Carly and the Reaperman – Escape From the Underworld (2018), announced that the VR couch co-op platformer is getting a single-player experience starting today. Carly and the Reaperman was originally designed as an asymmetrical cooperative game, where a non-VR player controls Carly in the third-person, while another steps into the first-person role of a giant ghostly figure named ‘the Reaperman’ to assist her along th

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This Magic Leap One Demo Offers a Peek into the Future of Multiplayer AR

Road to VR

Magic Leap One, the company’s long-awaited AR headset, has been out for a month now. While we’ve been teased with some pretty interesting upcoming content for the platform, such as Weta GameShop’s shooter Dr. Grordbort’s Invaders and a newly announced mocap project with Andy Serkis (Gollum from Lord of the Rings ) performing as an “orc-like character”, you’d be forgiven if you thought most of the still unreleased games and apps planned for the headset a