VRScout

JANUARY 9, 2019

Boys learn best from a drone, while girls benefited most from a female researcher. Guido Makransky, Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, has been actively studying the benefits of VR technology in the education sector since 2014, conducting numerous studies that tested hundreds of highschool and university students’ cognitive and emotional learning processes.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2019

Games like Beat Saber and Creed: Rise to Glory are a great way to get your heart pumping while having a blast, and after having played a number of these types of games at a near constant since they came to VR headsets, I thought I was in decent enough shape to take on NordicTrack’s upcoming consumer exercise bike with VR headset integration.

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VRScout

JANUARY 9, 2019

Better tidy up, you have visitors on the way. Oculus today introduced its Public Homes beta on the Rift platform, allowing users the opportunity to open up their private virtual spaces to hordes of internet strangers. Not only that, but they’ll also be able to livestream the ensuing chaos directly to Facebook Live. Image Credit: Oculus. OCULUS PUBLIC HOMES.

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Next Reality AR

JANUARY 9, 2019

With CES in full swing, it seemed like Magic Leap would have little to announce at the major tech event, but it turns out that one of its partners has weighed in with a rather substantial update regarding the company. On Wednesday, AT&T announced that it will be expanding its 5G technology-fueled partnership with Magic Leap to include enterprise business efforts.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2019

This week at CES 2019 Qualcomm is showing off a new VR reference headset sporting impressive new displays that may well define the next wave of VR headsets. Qualcomm has been a somewhat silent enabler of most of the recent and upcoming standalone VR headsets, not only because it makes the Snapdragon chip that’s central to many of these devices, but also because of its ‘HMD Accelerator’ program which helps companies rapidly bring VR headsets to market by supplying reference desi

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2019

Last year at CES we took a good long look at Pimax’s “8K” headset and saw potential, but identified a number of key issues that would need addressing before the headsets actually hit the market. This year at CES, our hands-on with Pimax’s latest headsets shows that they’ve made big progress and addressed most of the major issues seen last year.

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Slashgear

JANUARY 9, 2019

Oculus Rift’s first platform update of the year is rolling into testing today, and it’s bringing a couple of interesting new features along with it. The first allows you to open your Home to any and all visitors who might want to drop in. The second is Facebook livestreaming, which – given the fact that Facebook is the parent company … Continue reading.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2019

AMD today unveiled their next gaming GPU, one the company hopes will directly take on NVIDIA’s RTX 2080. Dubbed the AMD Radeon VII, it’s touted as the world’s first 7nm gaming GPU. The AMD Radeon VII is slated to launch on February 7th, 2019 and will be priced at $700. AMD’s add-in-board (AIB) partners are expected to offer the Radeon VII GPU as well.

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CraneMorley

JANUARY 9, 2019

With affordable Virtual Reality options becoming available, people are showing more interest in VR’s practical uses. If you are like myself or many others, you’ve probably found yourself intrigued yet skeptical towards the thought of VR being used as a workplace tool. But picture giving your workers the tools to practice handling hazardous or otherwise uncontrollable situations in safe environments, or holding live virtual courses with other workers around from around the globe.

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