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APRIL 23, 2019

One of the most interesting people that I have met at Vive Ecosystem Conference has been Naoki Yamaguchi (?? ??), the CVO (Chief Virtual Officer) of Japanese startup Virtual Cast. Virtual Cast is a solution that lets you be a Vtuber , that is a Virtual youtuber. You can put your headset on and see yourself inside a virtual stage. In this virtual stage, you can do your personal show , of whatever type you want: you can speak, dance, teach stuff, play games, etc… Your personal show will be s

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VRScout

APRIL 23, 2019

Anna has no memory of her past, but she continues to dream about a mysterious key. Anna is having trouble remembering her past. She dreams about it every night, however, the details are unclear. The only thing she can remember is a mysterious key that she knows is somehow critical to unlocking her puzzling past. The Key is an astonishing room-scale interactive VR journey that will have you making incredibly difficult and delicate decisions under intense pressure.

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Road to VR

APRIL 23, 2019

If you’ve been paying attention to the VR space at all in 2019, you’ve likely noticed the increasing buzz, no doubt thanks to four major VR headsets set to launch over the course of the next few months. Here’s the quick breakdown of what we know. Oculus Quest. Image courtesy Oculus. What is it? Quest is Oculus’ first standalone VR headset that includes 6DOF tracking on the headset and controllers.

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Next Reality AR

APRIL 23, 2019

Apps that can display virtual furniture in the home are one of the most popular applications of mobile AR today, but Houzz has decided to raise the stakes with its latest update. On Tuesday, the company rolled out a floor tile AR feature to its iOS and Android apps. Don't Miss: Augmented Reality App Maker Houzz Reveals Major Data Breach Using the same View In My Room 3D feature that the app uses to preview furniture on floors and paintings on walls, customers can scan for horizontal surfaces, ma

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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

APRIL 23, 2019

Virtual pets have seen quite the revival since consumer VR took off nearly three years ago. As an early entrant back in 2016, Konrad the Kitten took some of the much beloved game mechanics from the classic hand-held digital pet Tamagotchi and imbued them into a friendly little kitty named Konrad. In the new 2.0 update, which arrives today to all major VR headsets, Konrad is getting some little pals and a much bigger opportunity to bond with the star of the show.

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Road to VR

APRIL 23, 2019

Metanaut , the developer behind early VR experience MSI Electric City (2016) , is releasing its first bonafide game today in Early Access, the very Rube Goldberg-inspired gadget game Gadgeteer. Gadgeteer is a physics-based VR puzzle game that tasks players with building massive (and silly) machines to solve complex puzzles with a wide variety of parts.

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Veer

APRIL 23, 2019

The 2nd Sandbox Immersive Festival (SIF), held in conjunction with Qingdao International VR Week 2019 , will take place on 24-30 June 2019! As the official virtual extension partner, VeeR is calling for all talented creators to submit your work and sign up for the Official Selection and Pitching Session now! As the first festival in China dedicated to promote international immersive and interactive media content, SIF 2019 will give you the opportunity to enjoy top immersive projects curated by a

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Robert Scoble

APRIL 23, 2019

How is the entertainment industry going to change in the 2020s? To get a taste, and as part of our research tour to see how the world is about to change, Infinite Retina’s CEO, Irena Cronin, and its Chief Strategy Officer, Robert Scoble, meet with University of Southern California student Sagar Ramesh and get a tour through its MXR lab. This is where students do Spatial Computing research and is only one of such labs at USC.

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VRScout

APRIL 23, 2019

The future of XR technology is now in the hands of the young and ambitious. Michigan students Michael Zhang and Matthew Kosova successfully hosted over 70+ attendees at their homegrown XR Midwest Conference on April 7, bringing companies like Ford to share VR/AR projects with a nascent but optimistic young audience. Image Credit: XR Midwest Conference.

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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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InstaVR

APRIL 23, 2019

How to Use the Oculus Go for Sales & Marketing Presentations. We’ve already established that Virtual Reality (VR) is great for sales and marketing presentations. It’s immersive, interactive and memorable. It transports viewers through sight and sounds in an incomparable way. Now that Oculus Gos are widely being used in B2B and B2C contexts, we wanted to explore more about how to use the headset specifically for these types of presentations.

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