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Students Use HoloLens To Create Batman’s High-Tech Cowl

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Microsoft AR technology could make Batman’s advanced crime-fighting headpiece a reality. Ok so the last couple of films to feature everyone’s favorite bat-themed vigilante superhero haven’t exactly blown audiences or critics away. However despite some questionable decisions regarding the script, there’s no denying that this most recent Dark Knight is one of the coolest iterations we’ve seen.

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Magic Leap Takes on Funding from Media Company Axel Springer

Road to VR

German media company Axel Springer today announced that it has taken part in a new round of financing of Magic Leap. The company hasn’t disclosed the amount of the investment, or mentioned whether other companies have also taken part in the new round. As first reported by Tech Crunch , Axel Springer says their investment in Magic Leap will allow them to “actively participate in innovative technologies bearing the potential to present journalistic content and classifieds in new format

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This Snapchat AR Portal Takes You To Space With Starman

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Snapchat lens portals are racking up the views. Back in December, Snapchat released a new tool that let anyone create their own custom lenses. Similar to the internal app that Snap uses to build lenses for Snapchat, Lens Studio gives the rest of us the same power to design and build AR experiences ourselves. Considering there are some 70 million users a day who interact with lenses, it was only a matter of time before we started seeing some really creative uses of AR lenses.

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‘EVE: Valkyrie’ and ‘Wands’ Free Weekend Coming This Month

Road to VR

Even with a wide selection of gameplay videos and written reviews, it’s hard to know if you should buy a VR game without ever having tried it yourself. Oculus’ solution: extended all-access free weekends on select titles. To that effect, Oculus is putting out two free weekends this month for magic dueling game Wands (2017) and space dogfighter EVE: Valkyrie (2016).

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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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New gameplay footage of the upcoming PSVR title Moss shows that it is still going to be one of the cutest games of 2018.

Cats and VR

Moss is an adorable adventure game puts you in a fantasy world, aiding a courageous mouse on her journey through bright forests and damp caves. Many have become captivated by this upcoming cute PSVR title since it was revealed at E3 2017. Though Moss is the first title Polyarc is releasing as a studio, the team has years of experience and Moss looks to be a real work of heart.

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VR Innovation Academy at University of Nebraska Medical Center: Now Recruiting!

EON Reality

Augmented and Virtual Reality are some of the fastest growing sectors of our economy. These technologies are spreading far beyond the gaming world and into business and education, where its being used to train employees and better educate students. Find out how you can get started on an exciting career and earn an accredited certificate. START DATE: JUNE 4, 2018.

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NBA All-Star and Weekly Regular Season Coverage Comes Live to VR via TNT and Intel

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TNT and Intel have teamed up to bring NBA All-Star coverage to VR on Gear VR and Daydream. Based on Intel’s True VR technology, TNT is bringing live and on-demand VR coverage of NBA All-Star events to Gear VR and Daydream headsets via the NBA on TNT VR app. The app is available today on the Oculus store and the Google Play store. Turner Sports says that fans will be able to see highlights, recaps, and live and on-demand full games in VR (provided they are logged in with an applicable TV pr

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This Snapchat AR Portal Takes You To Space With StarmanSince its.

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This Snapchat AR Portal Takes You To Space With Starman Since its release on Thursday, Elon Musk’s Tesla and pilot Starman have garnered hundreds of thousands of views on the platform. SVRF’s inspiration to make the portal came from the breathtaking images of Elon Musk’s Starman circling the earth in his Tesla Roadster. “We wanted to be Starman, to see and feel that beautiful immersive view of Earth and space,” said SVRF CEO, Sophia Dominguez.

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Sony Reveals 14 Minutes of New ‘Moss’ PSVR Gameplay Ahead of February Launch

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With PSVR adventure game Moss set to launch this month, Sony is ramping up the hype for Quill, the game’s adorable little mouse buddy, with 14 minutes of new gameplay. First revealed at E3 2017 back in June, Moss is a third-person puzzle-adventure from the newly christened studio Polyarc Games. We got a chance to go hands-on with Moss, and from what we’ve played, it seems to strike a notable mix of high visual polish and unadulterated cuteness.

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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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Dodge, Climb & Sprint – Great VR Parkour and Obstacle Challenge Games

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With action platformer "Sprint Vector" receiving raving critic reviews on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR, we have taken a closer look at other VR games that might help quell our thirst for speed, heights and obstacle dodging. Race your friends to the top, soar through the sky or leap from platform to platform as you find your personal challenge!

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Balancing Player Control & Authorial Control with “Virtual Virtual Reality”

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Danny Cannizzaro. Virtual Virtual Reality by studio Tender Claws is a Daydream-exclusive interactive story that won the best VR experience at the 2017 Google Play Awards VR , and it’s one of my personal favorite interactive narratives within VR. Virtual Virtual Reality (aka VVR ) does a great job of balancing your control as a player with the authorial control of the story.

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Boston Dynamics presented upgraded SpotMini – a robot dog

VRWorld

We all remember Atlas , the “ crazy ” robot that was jumping and doing flip-overs all around. Well, now he got himself, well, a “ pet ” in a matter of speech. On Monday,Boston Dynamics presented a kind of a “ robot dog ” that is learning new tricks every day. The company, currently owned by SoftBank, showed its SpotMini bot opening a door and holding them open, using its extendable arm/neck.

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The Display Resolution of Head-mounted Displays

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What is the real, physical, display resolution of my VR headset? I have written a long article about the optical properties of (then-)current head-mounted displays , one about projection and distortion in wide-FoV HMDs , and another one about measuring the effective resolution of head-mounted displays , but in neither one of those have I looked into the actual display resolution, in terms of hard pixels, of those headsets.

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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.

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China starts with AI facial recognition in fighting terrorism

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Just a few weeks before Chinese Lunar New Year festivities starts, Chinese authorities decided to take even more precaution measures. The Chinese will be making around 3 billion trips during these days and there is a new high-tech law enforcement tool that will help them feel secure. Facial recognition eyeglasses have already been tested and proven useful in Zhengzhou’s East Railway Station when they helped local police capture seven people connected to major criminal cases, and a further 26 tra

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