VRScout

MAY 28, 2019

Copy text, discover new products, and translate foreign languages automatically. While VR technology may have been absent at this year’s I/O Developer Conference in Mountain View, California, Google did reveal several AR and machine learning-based updates coming soon to Google Lens. Today, those improvements begin rolling out to iOS and ARCore compatible devices, offering users a bounty of helpful features designed to assist them throughout their day-to-day lives.

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Road to VR

MAY 28, 2019

Neat Corporation, the studio behind stealth VR game Budget Cuts (2018), just unveiled their next project. Dubbed Garden of the Sea , the game puts you on your own island in a magical world where you tend to your garden, gather resources, and raise local fauna. There’s no definite Early Access launch date yet, although Neat Corp maintains in the game’s Steam store page that it should be “soon.” As somewhat of a departure from their development on Budget Cuts , which was

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VRScout

MAY 28, 2019

The creator of Beast Saber brings custom tracks to Quest just a week after release. Last week Brian Tate, creator of Beat Saber modding group Beast Saber , posted footage to YouTube showing a custom track running on Beat Saber for the Oculus Quest, albeit with a desync between the audio and reciprocating blocks. Since then the developer has been providing incremental updates on his progress, and after just a week after the release, Tate already has a custom song working 100% on the standalone he

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Road to VR

MAY 28, 2019

Meta View is a newly formed startup that’s looking to take up where Meta Company left off, the creators behind the Meta 2 AR headset. Meta View today announced the acquisition of Meta Company assets, and are bringing Jay Wright, former Qualcomm executive and Vuforia President, to the position of CEO. Wright is tasked with charting the wholly new and unaffiliated company “on a new course,” although it’s not clear at this time exactly what direction the company will go, be

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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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MAY 28, 2019

Streem, an AR startup based in Portland, OR, announced today that it had acquired UK-based computer vision and machine learning startup Selerio, Ltd., which spun out of research from the University of Cambridge and a Google fellowship. At the same time, Streem is announcing the close of an additional round of funding from existing and new strategic investors.

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