Thu.May 14, 2020

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XR Technology at AWE and the Auggies: Exclusive Content From Ori Inbar

ARPost

The Augmented World Expo is nearly upon us. As the XR technology showcase gets closer, the news gets more exciting. While I was looking for background on the Auggies, AWE’s XR technology awards, AWE founder Ori Inbar shared some anecdotes from the early days of AWE. He also shared insider information and exclusive updates breaking early on ARPost. We’ll end with a sneak-peak at the Auggies finalists – published here first.

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Unreal Engine is Now Royalty-free for the First $1 Million in Revenue

Road to VR

The Unreal Engine 5 tech demo on PS5 wasn’t the only news Epic Games revealed today. The company also announced a change to the pricing structure of Unreal Engine which waives royalties on the first $1 million of project revenue, as well as the launch of Epic Online Services, a free suite of tools to enable in-game friends lists, matchmaking, lobbies, and more.

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VR Solution for Telehealth Offered Through Pico and XRHealth Partnership

ARPost

The physical infrastructure of healthcare can seem like a real catch-22, particularly in a pandemic. When you most need healthcare, you are most contagious and most susceptible to picking up contagions in the hospital. As a result, hospitals are encouraging people to stay away during the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, we can’t just pause our healthcare needs because there’s a pandemic.

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‘Tetris Effect’ Arrives on Oculus Quest Today

Road to VR

Tetris Effect (2018) first released on PlayStation 4 and PSVR in late 2018, later coming to PC via the Epic Store , which included support for SteamVR headsets. Now the award-winning stacker puzzle game is available on Oculus Quest starting today. Created by Tetsuya Mizuguchi and the team behind Rez Infinite and Lumines, Tetris Effect delivers some pretty familiar gameplay while at the same time surrounding the player with fully three-dimensional, reactive worlds.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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Case Study: The DOs and DON’Ts of Industrial AR

AR Insider

AR Insider Case Studies examine learnings from industrial AR deployments. This post extracts a case study from ARtillery Intelligence’s recent report, Industrial AR: Benefits & Barriers. See more or subscribe here. I ndustrial AR’s early days are all about proving the technology’s efficacy and ROI. Scope AR is one player that’s taken this to heart, publishing data for AR proof points like increased manufacturing output, better accuracy in maintenance, and reducing tim

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Apple just acquired NextVR for magical, virtual event presence

Slashgear

The latest major acquisition made by iPhone company Apple was that of NextVR, a company that deals primarily in the broadcast of sports events in virtual reality. Users of NextVR’s platform in the past have had access to NBA games for basketball, boxing, NHRA racing, WWE (wrestling events), ICC soccer, and other events. This system is still active (for the … Continue reading.

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‘Phantom: Covert Ops’ Preview – A Compelling Take on VR Stealth, but Comfort Challenges Could Muddy the Waters

Road to VR

The premise of Phantom: Covert Ops almost sounds ridiculous at first blush: you’re a special forces dude in a tactical kayak who is slinking around the waterways of an old Russian base. But don’t let the silinees of a tactical kayak fool you, this is actually a fundamentally compelling and immersive approach to a VR stealth game, but with one unfortunate conceit.

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‘Boost VC’s $500k Sci-Fi Accelerator?—?Apply to Tribe 14!

Boost VC

‘Boost VC’s $500k Sci-Fi Accelerator?—?Apply to Tribe 14! Are you a Sci-Fi Founder looking for investment? Apply to Boost $500k accelerator. www.boost.vc/apply We are investing $500k in 10 startups for Tribe 14. What’s new at Boost VC? Last Fall, we announced our New Boost VC Accelerator: $500k for Sci-Fi Startups. We are looking for ambitious entrepreneurs using Sci-Fi tech to solve the worlds hardest problems.

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Vibrating Headsets Help VR Motion Sickness? Ep. 1

Full Dive Gaming

Welcome to the Full Dive Gaming podcast, bringing a weekly dive of all the news, discussion, and condensed nerd talk you need for VR gaming every Friday. We start our first week of the podcast with some exciting news pieces: rumors surrounding the next Oculus Quest, Gorn is announced for PSVR, Iron Man VR gets a release date, Half Life Alyx reaches a crazy milestone, research suggests vibrotactic devices may help motion sickness, and Rec Room gets a major update.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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Transformation of workspaces post the COVID-19 crisis

Trenzi VR

The Coronavirus pandemic has upended our ways of working, transforming where and how we operate as… The post Transformation of workspaces post the COVID-19 crisis appeared first on Trezi.

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Resolution Games Debuts Trailer for ‘Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale’

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Announced by Resolution Games in February, Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale throws you and up to three friends into a wacky and whimsical fairytale world for.

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Transformation of workspaces post the COVID-19 crisis

Trenzi VR

The Coronavirus pandemic has upended our ways of working, transforming where and how we operate as professionals. And, today, it is tough to imagine a post-pandemic time post-pandemic. When that time does come, a significant shift in the workplace would have occurred. So, what will the new normal look like in the post-COVID-19 world? While work from home will certainly carry on, it may become the norm rather than a mere option.

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Block Party: Award-Winning Puzzler ‘Tetris Effect’ Now Available on Oculus Quest

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Virtual reality can often make familiar experiences feel new again. In the case of Tetris Effect, VR adds new life to the classic block puzzler.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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The Future of Fitness - Shanna De Iuliis of Within

Everything VR & AR

Tyler and Sophia talk with Shanna De luliis of Within about how they are striving toward helping with mass adoption of VR. Introducing, Supernatural, the new VR fitness app that customizes workouts to the individual and let's you compete with your friends. Connect with Shanna: LinkedIn: [link] Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get involved with this worldwide organization to help gain exposure and share ideas and best practices with other ex

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Cooperative VR Cooking Game Cook-Out Launches On Oculus Headsets Later This Year

VRScout

Work with other players to serve up some delicious grub for hungry enchanted creatures. Resolution Games, developer behind VR titles such as Acron: Attack of the Squirrels and Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs, is having one hell of a busy year. Just last month the company teased an upcoming competitive VR dueling experience and today Resolution has revealed yet another upcoming VR title, Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale.

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