VRScout

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The leading providers of horror-based VR offer yet another selection of terrifying experiences guaranteed to get you in the holiday spirit. If you’re the kind of person who enjoys binge-watching scary movies during the Halloween season, might I recommend upgrading your seasonal routine with a new series of frightening virtual reality experiences provided by the fine folks over at Dark Corner.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In a patent issued this week to Oculus, the company describes a wireless relay system designed to prevent loss of signal even when a user is out of range of the primary transmitter and receiver. Spotted by Redditor valdovas , the document specifically seeks to patent a calibration process on the wireless relay which aims to eliminate feedback in the connections between the headset and the relay, and the relay to the host device.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Learn how to play piano using just your iPhone and a crisp one dollar bill. . Instant Musician, previously only being available as a Microsoft HoloLens app, has now made its way to iOS, offering users a way to learn proper piano skills using their smart phones. . Using a dollar bill on your piano mantle as a marker for your cell phone camera, the app registers the AR components and visualizes the song in long bars above each key.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Aiming to become a hub for AR and VR development, the government of China’s Jiangxi province says it plans to raise funds totalling $460 million to be invested into AR and VR companies. Last week the first ever World Conference on VR Industry event was hosted in Nanchang, the capital city of Jiangxi, China, which reportedly attracted 2,000 attendees.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Niantic's most successful app, Pokémon GO, has become the first app to integrate the company's Real World Platform, the developer's AR cloud technology that enables multiplayer AR, persistent content, and occlusion with physical objects. "RAD!" you say to yourself. "Now Pikachu will run behind trees, park benches, people, and other physical objects like in the Real World demo video.

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Next Reality AR

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Magic Leap has already entered the realm of entertainment and enterprise, but on now it has blazed its way into a new augmented reality frontier: fashion. On Wednesday, Moschino and H&M held a fashion show in New York City that, in addition to the traditional runway model vamping, included an AR fashion presentation powered by the Magic Leap One.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 25, 2018

vTime , the company behind the titular social VR app, today announced the studio is making a strategic expansion into North America with the opening of its San Francisco office. Brian Blau, former Research Vice President at Gartner, has been tapped to run vTime’s US office, and joins the executive team to “develop strategic partnerships and further expansion opportunities, as well as manage and build out the US-based team.” Blau has held several senior positions at companies su

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Augmented reality endorsement picks up pace, according to a recent market forecast. The AR market volume is expected to hit $30 billion by 2023, growing at 39 percent CAGR. This growth is rooted in AR’s utility. Augmented reality proves itself a multi-purpose technology, being eagerly adopted across different domains, such as manufacturing, healthcare, education, travel, and, of course, entertainment.

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Everything VR & AR

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We are joined by Tim Nakonechniy, CMO at Live Animations, who is talking with us from Kiev, Ukraine. Live Animations is an international IT company specializing in the development of innovative products with augmented reality (AR) for children. Live Animations has released 4 world-famous children's books with Little Hippo: "Little Red Riding Hood", "Three Little Pigs", "Velvet Rabbit", "Masha and the Three Bears".

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Qualcomm believes that the future of XR is mobile. TechCrunch published rumors published that the Oculus Rift 2 headset was being cancelled, which catalyzed a.

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Boost VC

OCTOBER 25, 2018

I was calling this industry OceanTech, but the sector calls itself BlueTech , it refers to any technology or problem solving startups who are focused under the water (salt or non-salt water). so I have adopted BlueTech as the term. The deeper I dive (no pun intended) into BlueTech the more fascinating it is. So many talented people in one sector building earth saving or evolving things.

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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 25, 2018

As the elevator opens, you enter into one of the most terrifying and mysterious places -- the psychiatric hospital. You are strapped in the wheelchair pushing by a guy who is trying to comfort you. Yes, you didn’t hear it wrong. In the last few minutes of your life, you are taken care of by a stranger, neither your families nor friends. Pathetic? It’s not the time to be sentimental and shed tears because more strangers, those you should regard them as beasts, are haunting you.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 25, 2018

HammerheadVR , the studio behind SYREN (2017), today announced the single-player VR survival-horror game is coming to PSVR soon. First released on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift in February 2017, SYREN is now slated to release on PSVR November 6th. If you haven’t heard of SYREN, here’s the quick and dirty. You’re marooned in an underwater research facility that’s teeming with gruesome and deadly creatures called Syrens.

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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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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 25, 2018

As the elevator opens, you enter into one of the most terrifying and mysterious places -- the psychiatric hospital. You are strapped in the wheelchair pushing by a guy who is trying to comfort you. Yes, you didn’t hear it wrong. In the last few minutes of your life, you are taken care of by a stranger, neither your families nor friends. Pathetic? It’s not the time to be sentimental and shed tears because more strangers, those you should regard them as beasts, are haunting you.

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