VRScout
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Facebook purchases AR startup Scape Technologies for a reported $40M. The future of Facebook appears to be centered around VR and AR. During Oculus Connect 6 , the company announced Facebook Horizon , a social VR world where you can literally step into a virtual version of your Facebook page. The company also confirmed the long-rumored development of its own dedicated AR glasses.
ARPost
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
No longer just for immersive entertainment, virtual reality applications now help save lives. VR simulation technology enables better medical training , more effective health therapies, and enhanced disaster management training. Improving Performance in Medicine Through Clinical Skills Training. Different medical groups are now using virtual reality applications for clinical skills training.
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VRScout
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
“Whimsical, fun, disarming.” This immersive spa experience is the luxury escape you’ve been looking for. Tucked down a cobblestone street just a block off from the East River in Brooklyn hides The Oddly Satisfying Spa , an immersive art and technology wellness experience produced by Luxury Escapism. . The venue feels like some sort of secret given its only marking is a small sign hanging in front of a discrete set of stairs that lead to an expansive 4000 square foot basement.
AR Insider
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
“Trendline” is AR Insider’s series that examines trends and events in spatial computing, and their strategic implications. For an indexed library of spatial computing insights, data, reports and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. As AR struggles to get off the ground and find a path to mass-market scale, there are a few confidence signals for the sector’s long term health.
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.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
VR adoption is accelerating thanks to the Oculus Quest. We’ve seen over 100 VR titles break $1 million in revenue, growing the total VR software market by 3x in 2019. Top grossing VR titles have cleared $10 million in revenue, and can reach up to $60 million in sales given the current distribution of headsets in the market so far. Though still small, VR is a growing and sustainable platform?
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Road to VR
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Virtual reality therapy startup Oxford VR today announced its secured $ 12.5 million in Series A financing to further its research and development into VR-based therapy programs. The latest funding round was led by Optum Ventures and supported by Luminous Ventures. Existing investors include Oxford Sciences Innovation, Oxford University Innovation, and GT Healthcare Capital Partners.
Peter Graham
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
When it comes to virtual reality (VR) applications some of the most interesting work is being conducted in the healthcare field. Oxford VR is a company developing immersive therapy for a range of conditions and to help in this process has recently announced the completion of a new investment round totalling $12.5 million USD. . Pictured Barnaby Perks, Founding CEO, Oxford VR and Ash Patel, Principal, Optum Ventures.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Magic Leap recently announced some new programs that aim to get developers creating for the its AR headset, Magic Leap 1. The company additionally released dates for its developer conference, LEAP Developer Days, which will be held in May at Magic Leap’s headquarters in Florida. Magic Leap is starting another hardware initiative soon, dubbed ‘Access Hardware’, which aims to get its AR headset into the hands of developers who are “serious about publishing applications with
Peter Graham
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Back in November 2019 Estonian developer CM Games launched its first virtual reality (VR) on Steam Early Access, Into the Radius. After several updates, the studio has confirmed that Oculus Rift owners will be able to purchase the title directly from the Oculus Store this week. The title is an open-world horror where you have to survive the post-apocalyptic Pechorsk Radius zone.
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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.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
With no information some 10 months after the announcement of its latest VR headset, the ConceptD OJO, we started to wonder what had come of the device. After reaching out to the company, Acer has confirmed to Road to VR that the headset has been cancelled. Following its original Acer WMR headset and the Acer OJO 500, the company had announced in April last year the newest OJO headset which was intended to fall under the company’s new ‘ ConceptD ‘ brand, a high-end product seri
TechCrunch VR
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Tim Merel. Contributor. Tim Merel is managing director of Digi-Capital. More posts by this contributor. VR/AR startup valuations reach $45 billion (on paper). Despite short-term questions, games software/hardware to top $200 billion by 2023. Apple is seen by some as critical to the future of augmented reality, despite limited traction for ARKit so far and its absence from smartglasses (again, so far).
Peter Graham
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
As there are no permanent The VOID locations in the UK at the moment when VRFocus was over at CES 2020 in Las Vegas it seemed like the ideal time to test the location-based entertainment (LBE) company’s latest offerings, Jumanji: Reverse the Curse and Avengers: Damage Control. You can read what the impression of Jumanji in VR was like here. As for becoming an Avenger, don’t expect to be Captain America or Black Widow just yet.
Enter VR
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
TLDR : Make sure you check with people about any medical conditions that might affect their VR experience. Some VR experiences can. The post Virtual reality almost killed my mom. How I learned a valuable lesson the hard way. appeared first on Enter VR.
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.
Peter Graham
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
No VRFocus hasn’t gone mad and moved the regular Sunday feature forward a couple of days by mistake (Sunday’s VR Job Hub will still go ahead as per usual), this is a special VR Job Hub as we’re hiring once again. Dedicated to covering the latest virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) news from both the consumer and enterprise industries, VRFocus is now looking to build its team with a new Staff Writer.
The Ghost Howls
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Masterpiece VR is one of the best VR 3D modeling softwares because it lets you create 3D elements easily and also animate them, all in virtual reality, all in an intuitive way. It is a professional application , and many people in the field are already using it. The solution is continuously improving, and in fact, the software has recently had a big update launching a full suite called Masterpiece Studio.
Peter Graham
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Last month Skydance Interactive in collaboration with Skybound Entertainment launched The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners for PC VR headsets, receiving widespread acclaim in the process. While it’s the latest videogame linked to The Walking Dead franchise, there have been numerous others by Telltale Games and now Steam is offering one giant bundle for fans.
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