VRScout
JANUARY 16, 2019
Brain surgery can be a terrifying process; this VR tour of your brain could help ease anxiety. Catherine Kumpitsch was talking with her doctors about recent unexplained headaches, dizzy spells and other sensations she had never felt before. It was during that appointment that she began displaying symptoms associated with absence seizures , prompting her doctor to insist on immediate brain scans.
Tech Trends VR
JANUARY 16, 2019
Mk2 partners with Secret Location to create worldwide VR distribution network. As Location-Based and cinematic VR continues to expand in a number of directions, with new cutting-edge arcades popping up all over the place, we’re also seeing some of the more established players in the immersive entertainment space collaborating as they figure out how best to scale and monetize this sector.
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Next Reality AR
JANUARY 16, 2019
The mystery surrounding the release of the next version of the HoloLens has been swirling for months, but at least some of that mystery may removed in the coming weeks. In an invite sent out on Wednesday, Microsoft is inviting members of the media to an event at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain. That's fairly normal for MWC, but what stands out is one name included on the invite: Alex Kipman, the inventor of the HoloLens.
Road to VR
JANUARY 16, 2019
The developers behind Bigscreen Beta , the social VR app that lets you stream and share your desktop’s screen in VR, have been pretty quiet over the past year, although that’s about to change in what studio CEO & founder Darshan Shankar calls some “massive new features” coming to the app. “We have been heads down totally overhauling Bigscreen with some massive new features that will be rolling out in a series of updates in the next 3 months,” Shankar says
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.
InstaVR
JANUARY 16, 2019
New Feature Spotlight: . App Usage Analytics (aka Reports). Analytics have gone from a “nice to have” to a “need to have.” Successful companies make informed decisions with data. So it’s no surprise that some of our most active InstaVR users have requested detailed analytics related to the VR apps they’ve created and distributed.
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Cats and VR
JANUARY 16, 2019
Brud , the transmedia studio that created Lil Miquela , is now in the process of closing a new funding round that will bring their valuation to around #$125m. The team plans to use the money to further push their initiatives. Story worlds that have the power to introduce marginalized ideas wrapped in the familiarity of entertainment. Story worlds that can create a more tolerant world by leveraging cultural understanding and technology.
Road to VR
JANUARY 16, 2019
Bolvërk Games and PlayStack released word today that a new sequel to their VR shooting gallery Dick Wilde (2017) is slated to launch sometime in February. The sequel, dubbed Dick Wilde 2 , promises to bring cross-platform online co-op, more boss fights, levels, and a wider range of difficulty levels for all supported headsets, which include PSVR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive.
VRScout
JANUARY 16, 2019
Nintendo continues to tease the VR industry. As early as 2016, former Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima had already hinted that the company was “looking into” VR. In a later interview in 2017, that interest had been somewhat upgraded to say they were “studying” the possibility of perhaps adding a HMD accessory to the Nintendo Switch once they were convinced users could play for longer durations without experiencing issues.
Road to VR
JANUARY 16, 2019
Co-founded by former CERN engineers who contributed to the ATLAS project at the Large Hadron Collider, CREAL3D is a Switzerland-based startup that’s created an impressive light-field display that’s unlike anything in an AR or VR headset on the market today. At CES last week we saw and wrote about lots of cool stuff. But hidden in the less obvious places we found some pretty compelling bleeding-edge projects that might not be in this year’s upcoming headsets, but surely paints a
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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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