VRScout

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The future of fitness could be virtual thanks to companies such as YUR. YUR, short for “why you are,” wants to make fitness more entertaining and accessible, starting with their first product — the YURfit Plug-in, which will track the calories you burn while playing in VR. The product uses tracking data to monitor the movement of the motion controllers and headset to understand roughly how many calories players burn while playing VR games, similar to how FitBit devices track your steps and

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

How can we use technology to tell compelling and worthwhile stories, engage audiences, and make a living in the bargain? Those were some of the questions I got to explore during a recent visit to the University of Oregon. Fellow Brit Damian Radcliffe, who is the Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism at UO, invited me when he heard that I was over in this part of the world, and so I found myself as a guest in the Demystifying Media series, which aims to give students a real taste of what wo

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Red, Chuck, Bomb, and the Blues face-off against their piggy nemeses in VR for the first-time. So many green pigs, so little time… Rovio and Resolution Games’ fully immersive version of their popular Angry Birds franchise is now available on the HTC VIVE and Oculus Rift. Players have access to over 50 levels of exploding birds spanning across exotic beaches, steep cliffs, snowy slopes, and a party city as Rovio Entertainment attempts to bring their massively-successful formula to the vir

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The first chunk of February came with good news for those with Windows VR headsets. On February 1st, Microsoft released a preview version of Windows which comes with a slew of new features including the ability to run regular desktop apps in VR; it’s been possible to run apps from the Windows Store with Windows VR headsets but, until now, apps from outside the store—like Photoshop, Spotify, Chrome, and others—were excluded.

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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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Next Reality AR

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Mobile app publishers are using augmented reality to solve everyday measurement problems from measuring the length or height of items to previewing furniture in the home. Now, it looks like checking luggage dimensions for carry-on eligibility is another volumetric problem increasingly being solved by augmented reality, as UK airline easyJet has added just such a feature to its iOS app.

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Next Reality AR

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

If there was a version of the Doomsday Clock for counting down the release of Microsoft's HoloLens 2, then the caretakers of that imaginary clock would move the minute hand to "one minute to midnight." On Monday, Alex Kipman, Microsoft's technical fellow in charge of the HoloLens (and NR30 member), published a teaser video for the company's media event at Mobile World Congress Barcelona on Feb. 24.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Microsoft is starting to ramping up the teasing for its upcoming press event at MWC on the 24th. A new video today all but confirms that we’ll be seeing HoloLens 2 (or whatever the next iteration is called) at that event. A short video teaser posted today shows some flashy animations of a computer chip and the silicon that forms it, as well as carbon and carbon-fiber structures, the latter of which may be a hint about the weight of the headset.

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Next Reality AR

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The augmented reality walking navigation mode for Google Maps appears to be closer to an upcoming release for the general public. Google recently granted the Wall Street Journal (paywall) a sneak peek at the navigation mode via a preview build, and the newspaper published its first impressions on Sunday. According to the paper, Google will soon roll out the feature to select Local Guides, the app's user-generated content participants.

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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Popular virtual reality game Beat Saber has been updated with, among other things, increased controller motion limits. This change is only relevant to the best players, the experts who, the developers explain, exceed “what we thought was humanly possible.” The change was based on tracking data gathered from Beat Saber professionals capable of making moves insanely fast.

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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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Voices of VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Kathy Bisbee started the first publicly funded VR lab called PublicVR Lab, and she’s leading an initiative for the 1500 community media centers in the.

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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

It may not have a foldable smartphone to reveal, but Microsoft will nonetheless be at MWC 2019 with some new technology to show off. The company today teased its announcement, and though the teaser it published was vague, it seems to have something to do with HoloLens. Does that mean we’ll see the rumored HoloLens 2 announced in Barcelona later … Continue reading.

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Voices of VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Your brain can fuse together so many different layers of reality so seamlessly that it’s quite flexible and capable of blending the digital and the.

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Charlie Fink

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Paramount's resident Futurist, Ted Schilowitz, on why the future of VR is MR.

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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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Oculus

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

This morning, we gave the VR community a sneak peek of what you can expect from Oculus at GDC. With new Oculus Quest demos and.

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Oculus

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

GDC 2019 is just over a month away, and we’re excited to give you some details on what we’re up to. Head of VR Product.

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