VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Native hand tracking, PC/standalone hybrid functionality, and new games confirmed for the Oculus platform. That’s a wrap on Oculus Connect 6. Facebook’s annual two-day developer conference dedicated to all things Oculus brought its A-game this year delighting users with a series of surprise bombshells, as well as updates on several highly-anticipated updates and experiences.

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Next Reality AR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

There have been enough music artists releasing Snapchat AR experiences over the past week to fill a small festival. Count them with me: Bruno Mars. Gucci Mane. Kodak Black. Missy Elliot. Imagine Dragons. Panic! At the Disco. The barrage of AR camera effects come courtesy of Lens Studio, which is also making the extra effort to draw attention to these Lenses via its Twitter account.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Asgard’s Wrath is launching exclusively on Rift October 10th, so you know exactly how much time you’ll need to either clear out space on your SSD, or buy a new one for what appears to be one of, if not the largest game by file size to land on the Oculus Store. According to its store listing , the Norse-themed combat-adventure is slated to take up 121.08 GB of space on your hard drive.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, as well as narrative analysis and top takeaways. Speakers’ opinions are their own. Facebook announced a lot of things at OC6 this week. That most notably included its admission of long-rumored work on AR glasses, as well as its own version of an AR cloud, known as Live Maps.

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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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Announced at Oculus Connect 6 this week was a new title from Stress Level Zero, the studio behind Hover Junkers (2016) and Duck Season (2017). The game, which is said to arrive on Oculus Quest sometime next year, is slated to take place in the same universe as the studio’s upcoming physics-based adventure Boneworks. Teased during the opening keynote, the game is basically a complete mystery at this point, although the same can be said for Boneworks , which is slated to launch sometime in

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Boost VC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Tribe 13: Request for Startups?—?Crypto, The Future of Money In 2014 we made a pledge to invest in 100 crypto startups. We succeeded last year but are still looking for more. In 2009 with the invention of Bitcoin by Satoshi Nakamoto?—?we have seen what true decentralization can do to money. The implications of a decentralized programmable money are endless.

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Charlie Fink

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

OC 6 announcements dominate a busy week in XR.

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Oculus

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

ESL One New York is a major esports event, with two days of action spanning Semi-Finals and a Cache Showmatch leading up to the Grand.

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InstaVR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Oculus Connect 6 (OC6) took place this Wednesday and Thursday at the San Jose Convention Center. Unlike last year’s event, with the unveiling of the Oculus Quest and Rift S, there wasn’t any expected major hardware announcements. But Oculus Connect is always a great opportunity to see advancements in the overall ecosystem. This year certainly didn’t disappoint.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

After years of anonymity, Chanel Miller, the survivor of the Brock Turner assault, has stepped out from the shadows to tell her story. Stanford has silenced her. However, its students are helping her share her story through augmented reality. Stanford senior Khoi Le, and recent graduates Hope Schroeder and Kyle Qian, are the brains behind Dear Visitor.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As the lead writer and head of content at BrainXchange, Emily Friedman has had ample chances to explore a lot of XR-related topics. She lets Alan pick her brain about a few of them, from getting millennials interested in trades, to democratizing knowledge, and how humanity will enter The Cloud. Alan: Welcome to the XR for Business Podcast with your host, Alan Smithson.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As the lead writer and head of content at BrainXchange, Emily Friedman has had ample chances to explore a lot of XR-related topics. She lets Alan pick her brain about a few of them, from getting millennials interested in trades, to democratizing knowledge, and how humanity will enter The Cloud. Alan: Welcome to the XR for Business Podcast with your host, Alan Smithson.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As the lead writer and head of content at BrainXchange, Emily Friedman has had ample chances to explore a lot of XR-related topics. She lets Alan pick her brain about a few of them, from getting millennials interested in trades, to democratizing knowledge, and how humanity will enter The Cloud. Alan: Welcome to the XR for Business Podcast with your host, Alan Smithson.

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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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