VRScout

JANUARY 25, 2019

Transform a surreal digital environment with your own body while enhancing your well-being in this social VR experience. With a vast majority of VR titles focused on evoking powerful emotional responses from users – whether it be excitement, anger, or even disgust – with thrilling, action-packed immersive content, it’s easy to forget that virtual reality has also proven immensely useful as a tool for mindfulness, meditation, and overall body wellness.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 25, 2019

Oculus released screencasting in beta late last year, and while it’s been a great way of letting someone outside of VR see what’s happening during a VR session, the company just made this a lot easier in a recent update to the Oculus Mobile app. The only method before now to cast VR content to a phone using the Oculus Mobile App was to first initiate the cast from an in-headset menu, and then fumble with your phone to accept the invite.

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Charlie Fink

JANUARY 25, 2019

All the XR news that's fit to click.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 25, 2019

Oculus today announced that it’s bringing two VR experiences to this year’s Sundance Film Festival— the previously announced Traveling While Black for Oculus Go & Rift, and the newly unveiled The Under Presents for Oculus Quest. The Under Presents. immersive theater and VR, allowing you to interact with characters and other participants within the experience’s magical ship called ‘The Under’ Oculus says in a blog post that in ‘The Under,’ the user

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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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CraneMorley

JANUARY 25, 2019

The global leader in mobile memory chip development thinks so. Qualcomm makes a compelling argument in this article which includes a downloadable, in-depth report making the case. From an enterprise point of view, technologies such as XR that started in gaming and entertaining are always suspect in their future viability. If you are concerned about making a present-day investment, the broader applications envisioned by Qualcomm may ease your mind.

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Next Reality AR

JANUARY 25, 2019

If you've blocked out your calendar to watch the NHL All-Star Game this weekend, then you might be excited to know that USA Today has given its readers the opportunity to meet Washington Capital's John Carlson in augmented reality. And if you didn't know that the NHL All-Star Game was this weekend, now you know. But, either way, you can now check out the news company's app on iOS or Android via ARKit or ARCore-compatible devices to learn why USA Today singled out Carlson for its first AR story i

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