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MAY 30, 2018

Oculus Venues , the social app that allows ‘thousands of users’ to watch live events en masse in VR, is now available on Oculus Go and Gear VR starting today. The company has also published a full list of upcoming live events (below). Announced last year at Oculus Connect 4, Venues lets you connect with friends and thousands of other VR users to watch live events like concerts, sporting events, stand-up comedy, movies, and more.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2018

Google announces the full release of Expeditions AR as well as updates to its Expeditions app. In a continued show of confidence towards VR & AR technology as influential tools in the classroom, Google has today made its limited Google Expeditions AR tours program available to the public free of charge. Previously only available to a lucky one million students over the course of the last school year during the Expeditions AR Pioneer program, the informative tool is now open to all via the Go

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MAY 30, 2018

As Facebook, Apple, Samsung, and others offer augmented reality selfie effects and content that challenge its platform, Snapchat has continued to innovate with its augmented reality capabilities. The latest example, released to the app's Carousel on Monday, is a Lens that reacts to sound. The Lens attaches a pair of translucent neon bear ears to the user's head.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2018

Your ticket to live social events in VR is here. You can now watch live concerts, sports, and comedy shows with friends in VR. A month after the launch of Oculus’ $200 standalone VR headset, Oculus Go, the long teased Oculus Venues app is finally available for download. Available on both Oculus Go and Gear VR, Oculus Venues attempts to bring the stadium fan experience to VR.

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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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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2018

Neat Corporation today announced that Budget Cuts, their upcoming VR stealth game, is being delayed until further notice, citing framerate stability and other bugs encountered in the game. The studio announced the news via a Reddit post , saying that the long-awaited Budget Cuts still suffers optimization issues. The studio says they’ll be taking the time to improve the game’s stability and framerate until it’s “consistent and acceptable,” delaying Budget Cuts l

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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2018

Sprint Vector (2018), the Mario Kart -style VR foot racing game from Raw Data (2017) developers Survios , just got new content update called the ‘Big Bang Update’ which includes a new map, two new playable characters a new leaderboard for racers. The new map, called Cosmic Odyssey, puts you in the heart neighboring black hole and in a top-secret research center nearby studying the singularity.

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VRWorld

MAY 30, 2018

At the Augmented World Expo , Varjo will be showing off their latest VR headset, set to release by the end of the year. Boasting two displays per eye, foveated rendering and high-end display technology, the new headset should impress. More important than the new VR headset, however, is their Mixed Reality add-on, planned for release in early 2019 to their Early Access Partners.

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VeeR VR

MAY 30, 2018

0. false. 18 pt. 18 pt. 0. 0. false. false. false. Kevin Kunze is an award-winning director with over a decade of experience in feature and commercial filmmaking. In 2014, Kunze’s first documentary “Mobilize” permired at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco winning the Best Documentary Feature award at the California Independent Film Festival. Kunze served as Director of Photography for the 2015 Singularity University “GSP Project Videos” which were featured on TechCrunch.

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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2018

Downward Spiral: Horus Station is a sci-fi adventure that puts you aboard a vast, abandoned space station that was cleared out of all life after military-grade robots turned on the station’s human inhabitants. There’s a lot to admire about the full release of Downward Spiral— an expanded universe first seen in Downward Spiral: Prologue (2017) , a 20-minute taster that released on Steam in fall of last year—although after playing through the campaign, which features first-person shoo

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