The Ghost Howls

APRIL 30, 2018

Do you remember one of my popular posts published in December 2017 when I announced the shutdown of VRTK ? Well, some days ago things have changed and VRTK has returned from the world of the dead. This is a great news for the VR community. If you missed some episodes of this story, well, I’ll try to summarize things for you. VRTK is a toolkit aimed at making things easier for VR Unity developers : it offers out-of-the-box functionalities (like locomotion, objects interactions, etc…)

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2018

Standalone VR headsets represent a new headset segment that sits somewhere between smartphone-based VR devices, and tethered, high-end VR systems, while offering some notable advantages over both. In this article we compare three standalone VR devices which will be available worldwide this year: the Oculus Go, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and HTC Vive Focus.

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VRScout

APRIL 30, 2018

Explore over 1,500 paint options for your walls. . Nothing spruces up a drab looking room like a new coat of paint to make the walls pop with color and personality. But, if you’ve ever taken on the task of painting a room, then you know that the process can be time consuming and frustrating – and that’s just picking out the colors! The folks over at Sherwin-Williams have understood this frustration since 2015, launching their ColorSnap Visualizer app that helps you navigate the overwhelming co

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Tech Trends VR

APRIL 30, 2018

Film premiering at Tribeca brings the nuclear horrors of the past to life as warnings for the future. It was the blast heard around the world: On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima, Japan, killing approximately 80,000 people and injuring another 35,000. Yet, society seems to have forgotten the true catastrophes of that day; Hiroshima has become a chapter in a textbook, a history lesson we pay attention to for the sake of

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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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VRScout

APRIL 30, 2018

SNL, Vanderpump Rules, SYFY WIRE and seven other shows get the 360-degree treatment in this multi-episode collaboration. It appears as though NBCUniversal is making an even deeper commitment to VR after announcing a new partnership with Google to bring some of its most popular original programming to the world of VR in the form of 10 multi-episode 360-degree productions.

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Next Reality AR

APRIL 30, 2018

Last week, we told you about Microsoft's Alex Kipman and his nomination for the annual European Inventor Award, presented by the European Patent Office (EPO). And while that's big news in and of itself, it turns out we overlooked a very important detail buried in the EPO's video presentation. What was it? Only one of the most sought after data points related to the HoloLens since its launch: how many have been sold.

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Slashgear

APRIL 30, 2018

Chrome 66 just came out of production, finally blocking annoying autoplaying content, but Google is already whetting developers’ and users’ appetites on what’s coming next. While it might not be a grand launch just yet, Chrome 67 will be laying the foundations that will make Web-based mobile experiences better by taking advantage of the smartphone’s sensors as well as the … Continue reading.

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Next Reality AR

APRIL 30, 2018

Last week, we told you about Microsoft's Alex Kipman and his nomination for the annual European Inventor Award, presented by the European Patent Office (EPO). And while that's big news in and of itself, it turns out we overlooked a very important detail buried in the EPO's video presentation. What was it? Only one of the most sought-after data points related to the HoloLens since its launch: how many have been sold.

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