VRScout

MARCH 16, 2019

Reports indicate Oculus’ next headset will make its debut later this month. In October of last year, a report by Techcrunch claimed that Facebook’s Oculus would be abandoning its plans of a proper Oculus Rift 2 in favor of minor hardware updates to the existing Rift headset. Dubbed the ‘Rift S’, the 1.5 VR headset would supposedly feature a higher resolution than its original counterpart, and–more importantly–do away with tracking cameras thanks to inside-out tracking.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2019

Beat Games, the Czech Republic-based indie developers behind Beat Saber (2018), announced they’ve sold over one million copies of their popular block-slashing rhythm game—a figure calculated across all supported VR platforms. Beat Games CEO Jaroslav Beck announced the news in a video blog , saying he optimistically expected the game to reach 150,000 copies before its release, a number three times larger than the team’s pre-launch estimation. “What happened, nobody could have ev

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Voices of VR

MARCH 16, 2019

Restorative Justice practices are an alternative form of justice that’s a victim-centered that creates a space for offenders to own the harm done, and for.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2019

SVVR, one the leading VR community groups in the Bay Area, is hosting its 6th annual VR Mixer event during GDC next week. The event is a gathering of the VR and AR community featuring the ‘demo dungeon’, and entire floor dedicated to showing off independent XR projects. On Wednesday, March 20th, the 2019 VR Mixer will be hosted at the Temple night club in San Francisco, two blocks from GDC.

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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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Voices of VR

MARCH 16, 2019

There’s a lot of intensity in the world right now, and it reminded me of a short excerpt about VR shooters from a longer conversation.

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