VRScout

APRIL 3, 2020

With MLB baseball on hold, the Boston Red Sox turn to AR to reconnect with fans. With nearly all nonessential services shut down due to the Coronavirus, people are desperate to reconnect with their favorite places and activities that have been rendered inaccessible while under lockdown. This includes major sporting events. All professional leagues have been put on hold until it’s completely safe for people to once again congregate in large groups.

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Road to VR

APRIL 3, 2020

You’re still burning through Half-Life: Alyx (2020) , but if you’re wondering where to go after playing one of the highest-rated VR games to date, you may do well to jump into these five ‘guaranteed fresh’ VR titles next. The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners. The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is a slightly tuned-down RPG that’s just begging to be bigger in size, although it didn’t bite off too much in its quest to deliver an engrossing story, excellent

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AR Insider

APRIL 3, 2020

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Find out more or contact us to participate here. Authors’ opinions are their own. . Virtually perfect training: How HR leaders can harness the power of VR. by Tom Symonds. Put on a virtual reality (VR) headset and you can enter a fantasy world of dragons and. monsters, but VR can also create a world that looks very much like our own.

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Road to VR

APRIL 3, 2020

A new Boneworks patch, Update 1.4, is confirmed to be coming next week with a handful of additions and tweaks. Launching next week on April 9th, Boneworks update 1.4 will bring three new maps to the game’s Sandbox mode, a new weapon (the P350 handgun), and changes to the game’s hand physics. This is according to Boneworks creator Brandon Laatsch who teased the update this week.

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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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ARPost

APRIL 3, 2020

The internet and social media made possible for anyone to connect with their favorite influencers and celebrities. Now, a company wants to take things further. HelloStar, an AR-powered influencer marketplace will allow users to receive personalized messages and e-cards from their celebrities of choice. Launched first in Russia, HelloStar is now preparing to launch in India as well.

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Charlie Fink

APRIL 3, 2020

Immersive Cinema360 will be available free on Oculus TV through April 25th.

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Peter Graham

APRIL 3, 2020

Just like most other large scale events around the world, the annual Tribeca Film Festival has had to shutter its physical operations which usually take place in New York City during April. The event will still be providing select programming online including Tribeca Immersive’s Cinema360, with a range of virtual reality (VR) content being shown in partnership with Oculus.

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Charlie Fink

APRIL 3, 2020

Facebook signs exclusive supply deal with AR display manufacturer Plessey and other news.

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Oculus

APRIL 3, 2020

This week on Oculus Picks, we’re looking at experiences on Oculus Quest to help you relax after a day at the (home) office or marathon.

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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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Road to VR

APRIL 3, 2020

Looking for a solid VR headset on the cheap? Or maybe a legacy headset for your growing collection? Oculus is now selling its 2016-era Rift for $300 for a limited time. The company is selling a limited supply of refurbished packages containing the original Oculus Rift and Touch controllers direct on its website. The new Rift S costs $400, although stock has proven to be touch and go due to coronavirus-related supply chain disruptions.

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Oculus

APRIL 3, 2020

Last week, Twisted Pixel Games Senior Engineer Mike Henry gave us a look at B-Team’s campaign runner missions and Endless Runner mode. Today, our series.

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Peter Graham

APRIL 3, 2020

Currently, the Oculus Rift S is proving to be very hard to come by, with Oculus’ website continually saying out of stock and other resellers aren’t fairing much better. So the company has taken a leaf out of HTC Vive’s handbook from 2019 and begun selling refurbished Oculus Rift CV1’s. Whilst stocks last – they are limited supposedly – customers in the US can buy one of the original Oculus headsets first released in 2016 for the low price of $299 USD.

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Peter Graham

APRIL 3, 2020

If you’re looking for unique and unusual virtual reality (VR) content at the moment then Tender Claws’ The Under Presents for Oculus Quest and Rift is a good place to start. Those who already enjoy The Under Presents should be glad to hear the live actors feature is being extended whilst other PC VR headsets are getting support on Steam later this month.

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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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Peter Graham

APRIL 3, 2020

At the start of March, there was a little influx of virtual reality (VR) horror videogame announcements such as the recently released Lies Beneath. Also part of that bunch was Project TERMINUS VR by indie development team CVR, which has recently launched it Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign to help complete development. Unusually for a lot of VR videogame Kickstarters, you can already sample Project TERMINUS VR across a range of headsets, with demos available for Oculus Quest , Oculus Ri

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