Mon.May 13, 2019

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Noctvrnal: audio in AR/VR is 51% of the experience

The Ghost Howls

I had the amazing pleasure of interviewing Helena McGill and Anna Wozniewicz of Noctvrnal , a startup focused in audio and music production, with special attention to immersive experiences. Helena and Anna from Noctvrnal (Image by Noctvrnal). When I develop a VR experience, I usually give a lot of attention to the visual aspect, while I often leave the sound and music always as the last thing to care about.

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HP Reverb Release Date Slips, Retailers List Headset as ‘Out of Stock’

Road to VR

The new HP Reverb Windows VR headset was due to launch initially in “late April”, but eventually the company settled on a May 6th release date. The date has come and gone, but the headset still isn’t technically available despite being listed at several retailers. A week on and HP hasn’t offered an update on expected availability.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

How will the convergence of 5G and AR and artificial intelligence lead to the creation of experiences that no one’s ever imagined? Join Forbes columnist and author Charlie Fink to find out! Alan: Hello everybody. Today’s guest is one of my good friends and someone I consider a mentor. XR consultant, columnist, speaker, and author, Mr. Charlie Fink.

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Somnium Space Raises $1M to Expand Social VR Platform

Road to VR

Somnium Space , the studio behind the titular social VR platform, announced they’ve successfully completed a $1 million seed round, something the company says will help them “further strengthen its development of a huge-scale Persistent, Open and Social Virtual Reality world.” Somnium Space is also opening its offices in Prague this month, the same city that boasts VR developers Beat Games, LIV, and Vrgineers (creators of XTAL).

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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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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

How will the convergence of 5G and AR and artificial intelligence lead to the creation of experiences that no one’s ever imagined? Join Forbes columnist and author Charlie Fink to find out! Alan: Hello everybody. Today’s guest is one of my good friends and someone I consider a mentor. XR consultant, columnist, speaker, and author, Mr. Charlie Fink.

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#766: Open AR Cloud: Interoperable Spatial Computing for All

Voices of VR

The Open AR Cloud is a volunteer organization whose mission statement is to “drive the development of open and interoperable spatial computing technology, data, and.

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Steam Survey: HTC & Windows VR See Gains as Oculus Awaits New Headsets

Road to VR

As the VR market is poised for a handful of new headsets launching in the coming weeks, the latest Steam Survey unsurprisingly shows Vive and Windows VR making some gains after Oculus discontinued the Rift ahead of the launch of the Rift S. Each month Valve collects data from Steam users to determine some baseline statistics about what kind of hardware and software is used by the platform’s population, and to see how things are changing over time; that includes which VR headsets are connected to

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Digital Human Presents Live TED Talk

VRScout

Digital Domain’s Doug Roble delivers a talk alongside his ‘DigiDoug’ virtual avatar. Digital Domain’s Head of Software R&D Doug Roble made history during this year’s TED Conference after conducting a live talk alongside a highly-detailed virtual avatar modeled after the VFX industry veteran himself. During the brief 12-and-a-half minute talk, DigiDoug—as the team has come to call it—mirrored every action and expression made by the original Doug as he went into detail explai

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Snapchat’s Gender Swap AR Face Filter Is A Big Hit

VRScout

Imagining yourself as the opposite sex is as simple as taking a Snap. Snapchat unleashed their new AR gender swap face filter over the weekend, and the internet has been thrown into a tizzy as users reimagine themselves, their friend—pretty much any image of a face they can get their hands on as the opposite sex. In some cases, the AR filter—available now in your face filter carousal—has been giving users some incredibly surprising results, many of which are so realistic itR

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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.