ARPost
APRIL 22, 2020
What comes to mind when you think of virtual reality ? Perhaps it wanders to highly visible applications in gaming, film, art, and retail. But with VR poised to be disruptive, most, if not all, industries will be reshaped by it. That includes banking. The immersive nature of virtual reality makes the often dull world of finance more compelling for people.
VRScout
APRIL 22, 2020
The hypnotic technodelic is now available on PC VR headsets. Since we can’t leave our homes and we’re stuck where we’re at, why not take a trip to the middle of your mind? Launching this week after almost a decade in the making, SoundSelf is an interactive, psychedelic journey to the center of you. Behind the scenes is Robin Arnott and his team at Andromeda Entertainment, a games publisher serving the burgeoning community around mindful immersive entertainment.
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The Ghost Howls
APRIL 22, 2020
I had the pleasure of having a quick chat with Hugo Falgarone, the founder and CEO of SkyReal , a startup offering CAD models visualization in VR. SkyReal is a French company that started as a project inside Airbus, and then evolved into a separate company. Its mission is to help enterprise companies , especially the ones working on manufacturing big and complex products like planes, ships and such.
VRScout
APRIL 22, 2020
The New Jersey-based company believes its technology could help save lives during the pandemic. . The X2 MR Glasses weigh just 300 grams and claim to be the world’s smallest mixed reality glasses. Nick Cherukuri, CEO of ThirdEye Gen, says the devices can give front-line medical personnel treating COVID-19 patients access to critical life-saving data and communicate with emergency rooms and command centers in real-time. “A doctor located 100 miles away could see exactly what the medic sees
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
APRIL 22, 2020
Social VR app VRChat is seeing a surge of users thanks to a well timed update and people around the world looking to connect with others while being asked to stay at home. VRChat is a social VR app which lets VR and non-VR users connect to chat and explore worlds and experiences created by the game’s community. The app went viral back in 2018 , bringing an unbelievable 17x rise in usership over the course of just a month to a peak of 20,000 concurrent users of the game on Steam.
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Road to VR
APRIL 22, 2020
Valve today announced the top 20 best selling games on Steam released in March. And coming as little surprise to anyone, Half-Life: Alyx (2020) has made it on the list. In its monthly top sales list, Valve is accounting for two weeks of sales, which helps put Half-Life: Alyx on more equal footing with the rest of the games released during the entire month of March.
TechCrunch VR
APRIL 22, 2020
Rocio Wu. Contributor. Rocio Wu is a venture partner at F-Prime Capital who focuses on early-stage investments in software/applied AI, fintech and frontier tech investments. More posts by this contributor. Will China’s coronavirus-related trends shape the future for American VCs? While some U.S. investors might have taken comfort from China’s rebound , we still find ourselves in the early innings of this period of uncertainty.
Road to VR
APRIL 22, 2020
Magic Leap today announced layoffs impacting “every level of the company” and a pivot away from the company’s near-term consumer ambitions and toward the enterprise space. In a blog post published by Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz , it was announced that the company is facing seemingly major layoffs and reorganization as it attempts to survive as a massive pre-revenue startup in an economically uncertain time.
VirtualiTeach
APRIL 22, 2020
It’s been a couple of months now since the experimental hand tracking feature was added to the Oculus Quest. Whilst there has not been much in the way of integration in mainstream apps, there have been some striking demo experiences available via SideQuest. If you are new to SideQuest, don’t be scared – it’s pretty straightforward. SideQuest is a free platform that allows you to load content (including apps) onto your Quest without going through the official Oculus Store.
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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
APRIL 22, 2020
Pixel Ripped 1995 is a retro-inspired VR game which, as you would imagine, follows in the footsteps of its predecessor, Pixel Ripped 1989 (2018). It’s an absolute nostalgia trip that revisits the series’ unique ‘game within a game’ storytelling style while honing in on what made the fourth console generation truly great: colorful platformers, side-scrolling beat ’em ups, and RPGs aplenty.
TechPrior
APRIL 22, 2020
The Vuforia Spatial Toolbox , as well as the Vuforia Spatial Edge Server, comprise a shared research platform for the exploration of spatial computing. COVID-19 has us all at a standstill and confined to our homes. The world is in a state of lockdown, and people have to work from home. In such a scary scenario, innovations and novelties are bound to happen.
Oculus
APRIL 22, 2020
It’s the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and while we’re all staying inside, there are still places we can go to commemorate this day of.
Tech Trends VR
APRIL 22, 2020
FundamentalVR collaborated with Imperial College to offer free virtual training in ventilating COVID-19 patients. There is an unprecedented demand for ventilators due to the coronavirus pandemic, yet the physical machines are really only part of the equation. There is an unprecedented demand for ventilators due to the coronavirus pandemic Click To Tweet.
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.
Road to VR
APRIL 22, 2020
XRHealth , a Boston-based medical company, today announced that it’s raised $7 million in funding to expand its telehealth platform targeted at VR headset users. The company announced the funding via a press statement today, stating that the new funding round was led by Bridges Israel, Flint Capital, and 20/20 HealthCare Partners. According to CrunchBase , this brings the company’s overall funding to $15 million, with its latest seed round secured in late 2018. “We are excite
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