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Denmark Is Turning To VR To Combat Teen Drinking Problem

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The country uses VR to educate teenage drinkers on the dangerous effects of alcohol. Alcohol abuse amongst teens is a common issue across the globe, but in Denmark, it is a huge dilemma. Danish teens between the ages of 15 to 17 years-old are the heaviest drinkers for their age in Europe according to a recent ESPAD (European School Survey on Alcohol and Other Drugs) report.

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Miller Lite & Trigger Global Turn St. Patrick's Day into an Augmented Reality Celebration

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Every year, fans of Irish culture, as well as those looking to celebrate their own culture, come together on St. Patrick's Day, March 17. Although beer isn't an official component of the day, many often raise a glass of brew to commemorate the occasion, and this year that activity was given a bit of a boost through augmented reality. Don't Miss: Amazon Sumerian Now Available to Anyone Who Wants to Create AR & VR Apps US-based beer brand Miller Lite released a web-based AR experience (no app

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GDC 2019: Beat Saber Will Be An Oculus Quest Launch Title

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VR’s best-selling title is confirmed for release on the upcoming standalone headset. This years highly-anticipated Game Developers Conference kicked-off with a bang today as Oculus confirmed the release of Beat Games’ insanely popular beat-slashing rhythm game on the upcoming Oculus Quest. According to an official blog post released by Oculus earlier this morning, the Quest version of Beat Saber will be identical to the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PSVR releases, with exception of course to the cu

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OpenXR Standard Ratified, Microsoft, Oculus, & Others to Release First Implementations

Road to VR

OpenXR is a royalty-free standard for cross-platform VR and AR development. It’s backed by many of the biggest names in the VR and AR industries and has been in development by the consortium for two years now, organized by Khronos Group. The group today announced the ratification of OpenXR 0.9, a provisional version of the specification, which is now available for feedback from developers and implementers.

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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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Oculus Quest nabs Beat Saber as a launch title

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Last year, Facebook revealed the Oculus Quest, a new standalone VR headset that falls somewhere between the Oculus Go and Oculus Rift. Essentially, the Quest is Oculus’s attempt to take standalone VR to the next level after introducing an entry-level standalone headset in the Go. Today, Oculus is celebrating a pretty major win, as it announced at GDC that Beat … Continue reading.

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'The Inventor' And 'Breakthrough' At SXSW, Two Tales Of Science Gone Right And Wrong

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While Theranos was busy swindling investors and endangering patients, research scientist Jim Allison developed a cancer treatment and was awarded a Nobel Prize.

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Viveport to Support Windows VR Headsets Later This Year

Road to VR

HTC’s Rikard Steiber today announced at GDC 2019 that Viveport, the company’s digital distribution platform for VR games, is going to support Windows VR headsets later this year. The company first opened up Viveport to Oculus Rift in September 2018, having originally only supported the company’s two PC VR headsets at the time, the original Vive and Vive Pro.

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Freestyle: ‘Beat Saber’ Joins the Oculus Quest Launch Lineup

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Last week, Beat Saber hit a major milestone with over 1M copies sold. And today, we’re excited to confirm that this high-energy fan favorite is.

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Breakout VR Hit ‘Beat Saber’ Confirmed as Oculus Quest Launch Title

Road to VR

Beat Games is getting ready to take their massively successful block-slashing rhythm game to new heights, as Oculus today announced that Beat Saber (2018) is coming to Oculus Quest at launch. According to an Oculus blog post , the Quest version of the game will deliver the entire Beat Saber experience, including all of the songs currently available on Rift, Vive, and PSVR, as well as “maybe more to come,” an Oculus spokesperson tells us.

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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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QuiVr: Vanguard–Perfect for VR Arcades

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BlueTeak releases VR Arcade Build of flagship title QuiVr This article was written by Hunter Lane, Content Team Ninja and Technical Support Account Manager at SpringboardVR. For out-of-home VR Arcade venues, the vast majority of their customers have never tried VR, so making sure they experience the absolute best content is non-negotiable. Some developers have grasped onto this and ran with the idea of making their titles better suited for the out-of-home VR space in general.

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Oculus YouTube Highlights, March 2019

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April showers may be looming on the horizon, but March isn’t going anywhere just yet—not with so many can’t-miss Rift games left to play this.

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