Tue.Sep 11, 2018

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New York Times Releases Holographic Experience Starring Ashley Graham

VRScout

Celebrate New York Fashion Week with a volumetric AR runway show featuring model and activist, Ashley Graham. From going on a daring spacewalk to hanging out with your favorite cartoons, VR is beloved for its ability to make the unreal feel real. However, in a just released AR experience in honor of New York Fashion Week, The New York Times is doing just the opposite by showcasing supermodel Ashley Graham as she walks the “runway” in an innovative 360-degree holographic video that is

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‘Superhot’ Studio “Never really left VR,” Considering VR Version of Upcoming Expansion

Road to VR

With the unique ability to control time with your movements, the embodied gameplay of SUPERHOT VR (2016) can make you feel like you’re in The Matrix. Available on all major VR platforms, the game has come to be known as a top VR title. Since then, the indie studio behind the game has been relatively quiet about the potential for future VR projects as they remain heads down on a standalone expansion called SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE.

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Creating Immersive À La Carte Storytelling With VR

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Entertainment industry heavyweights partner up to bring epic Renaissance plot to room-scale VR. . Michael Conelly is a prolific visual effects designer with one heck of an impressive résumé. Throughout his two decades working as Digital Effects Supervisor at Rhythm and Hues Studios, Conelly and the studio worked on everything from the Coca Cola Polar Bears and Babe the talking pig, to The Golden Compass, Harry Potter, and Pi, among other projects.

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8th Wall Beats Google & Apple to Market with an AR Platform for Web

Next Reality AR

Google and Apple are working to enable augmented reality content for the web, but startup 8th Wall has managed to launch a web AR platform that works on mobile browsers now. On Tuesday, the company launched 8th Wall Web, a platform that adapts the company's own environmental-mapping engine for markerless augmented reality experiences to mobile web via JavaScript and WebGL standards.

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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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‘Guided Meditation VR’ Makes Great Use of Carmack’s 5K Playback Tech on Oculus Go

Road to VR

Earlier this year Oculus CTO John Carmack revealed a new video playback technique designed to bring high-resolution video to mobile headsets like Oculus Go. Oculus released a sample of the system and developer Cubicle Ninjas saw a perfect opportunity to adapt the code to their Guided Meditation VR app, resulting in a vastly improved visual experience.

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The People's XR Conference

Charlie Fink

The VR/AR Global Summit, hosted by the VR/AR Association (VRARA), returns to Vancouver September 21st and 22nd.

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VR Images Never Be So Clear

VeeR VR

VeeR has long been a community for the leading VR content creators in the world. We know that the iconic VR pioneers like you are keen to share your incredible VR image with the audiences without compromising the resolution. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce that the ultra-HD VR images are now supported on VeeR, what's more, and rendering speed is now up to 7 times faster.

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‘Windlands 2’ Review: The True Starting Point For a High-flying Series

Road to VR

As one of the first full-length games for VR, Windlands (2016) pioneered a movement scheme that sends you soaring high into the air, using your grappling hooks to swing from bush to tree in the desolate world that was fractured and destroyed after a planet shaking conflict. The latest Windlands isn’t simply a continuation of the hunt for all-important power crystals and Easter eggs though, now boasting enemies, multiplayer co-op, races, and a classic gaming-inspired story that confronts p

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VR Images Have Never Been So Clear

VeeR VR

VeeR has long been a community for the leading VR content creators in the world. We know that the iconic VR pioneers like you are keen to share your incredible VR image with the audiences without compromising the resolution. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce that the ultra-HD VR images are now supported on VeeR, what's more, and rendering speed is now up to 7 times faster.

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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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VR Images Never Be So Clear

VeeR VR

VeeR has long been a community for the leading VR content creators in the world. We know that the iconic VR pioneers like you are keen to share your incredible VR image with the audiences without compromising the resolution. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce that the ultra-HD VR images are now supported on VeeR, what's more, and rendering speed is now up to 7 times faster.