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The most interesting AR/VR news from Google I/O 2018

The Ghost Howls

As I’ve promised in my latest newsletter , I’m going to briefly summarize the most interesting AR/VR news from last week’s Google I/O 2018. Exactly as Facebook F8 , we had no disruptive news , but we could appreciate some interesting stuff nonetheless. ARCore 1.2 New features. Google ARCore reaches version 1.2 and introduces a lot of interesting features.

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WEARVR Announces Winners of $10,000 ‘Remastered’ Competition – Bringing New Life to Old VR Favorites

Road to VR

It’s hard to believe it’s already been five years since the first Oculus Rift dev kits shipped to Kickstarter backers, many of them developers looking to create for the future of VR consumer hardware. As the medium inevitably marches on though, many of the earliest VR demos have fallen to the wayside. In a bid to revive some of these fan favorites, WEARVR , an independent virtual reality app store, started its $10,000 ‘Remastered Competition’ back in January—a challenge

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Former Valve writer and VR ambassador Chet Faliszek signs on with the team behind hit VR shooter Arizona Sunshine

Cats and VR

Vertigo Games, the VR game studio behind hit VR shooter Arizona Sunshine , today announced that Chet Faliszek has joined its advisory board. Faliszek will be providing the company with strategic counsel as it enters the next phase of growth with an undisclosed VR title currently in development. Faliszek was at Valve for 12 years where he was co-project lead on the Left 4 Dead series and a writer/developer on numerous franchises at Valve including Half-life, Portal, and CS:GO.

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Playing ‘Beat Saber’ Could Burn the Same Number of Calories as Tennis

Road to VR

According to recent testing by the Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise , Beat Saber (2018) may be more than just a fun way to spend an evening in. With all that block slicing, dodging and leaning, you could burn as many calories as playing tennis. The Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise, which collaborates with professionals in the field of Kinesiology, bases their data on a game’s observed metabolic equivalent (MET) score, a standard way of defining the energy cost

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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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PETA’s ‘Eye To Eye’ Delivers A Haunting VR Portrayal Of Animal Cruelty

VRScout

The world’s largest animal rights organization hopes VR’s immersive capabilities can finally put animals and humans on equal terms. With over 6.5 million active members and supporters spread across the globe, PETA, or the “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals” animal rights organization is the largest in existence. According to PETA’s Mobile Clinics Division , in 2017 the massive organization spent a whopping $57,325,933 on just its outreach programs alone, spaying as well as neutering 13

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Tech Toothbrush from Samsung Incubator Graduate Uses AR to Help Kids Improve Brushing Habits

Next Reality AR

Kitten Planet, a spin-off company that grew up in Samsung's C-Lab incubator, has developed a connected toothbrush that teaches and motivates children to brush their teeth better via augmented reality while tracking their performance. Called Brush Monster, the $49 toothbrush connects to smartphones and tablets via Bluetooth, with the augmented reality experience delivered through the companion app for iOS and Android.

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16 Minutes of ‘Red Matter’ Gameplay Revealed – a Sci-fi Soviet Retrofuture Adventure

Road to VR

Ahead of its launch later this month, we got a chance to dive into the beginning of Red Matter , an upcoming VR adventure puzzle exclusively for Oculus Rift that puts you in a wonderfully weird Soviet-style retrofuturistic world. With launch quickly approaching, Spain-based developers Vertical Robot gave us the green light to show off a respectable chunk of the game’s beginning, which places you in the boots of an astronaut—Agent Epsilon of the vaguely American-sounding Atlantic Union.

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How to Become a Google Street View Trusted Photographer

VeeR VR

A market research conducted in July 2015 on the impact of virtual tours on increasing consumers’ interest in local businesses showed that when searching for businesses, consumers use mapping products 44% of the time. On average, 41% of these searches result in an on-site visit. Listings with photos and a virtual tour are twice as likely to generate interest.

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