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4D Interactive Batman VR Skydiving Experience Heads To San Diego Comic Con

VRScout

Don the cowl and glide through Gotham City in pursuit of a dastardly villain. San Diego Comic-Con is no stranger to extravagant location-based VR installations. During the 2018 conference, Amazon Studios set up a VR obstacle course in support of their new Jack Ryan original series, offering attendees the chance to zip line and repel from a helicopter while in VR.

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63% of Advertising Creatives Struggle with AR Technology Adoption, Unity Survey Finds

ARPost

AR technology is more and more in demand by consumers and marketing and advertising clients. However, a significant proportion of creatives have trouble implementing it in their campaigns. This is one of the significant findings of a Unity Technologies survey among UK and US ad creatives. The company released its findings during the second day of the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival and followed them up with a solution to this issue.

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Doctor Who: The Edge of Time VR Experience Introduces A New Creature To The Doctor Who Universe

VRScout

Take a behind-the-scenes look at Maze Theory’s upcoming Doctor Who VR game. The Doctor is trapped somewhere on the edge of time. A virus has been unleashed into the universe that will destroy all reality unless it’s stopped, and it’s up to you to make things right. But in order to save the universe, you’ll need to recover a series of powerful time crystals and save the Doctor from certain doom. .

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Walmart is Using VR to Assess & Promote Employees

Road to VR

Walmart is no stranger to VR, from its nation-wide VR training program , to its recent traveling VR installation to promote How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019). Now, the company is putting the technology ever closer to the heart of its business by using it to determine if prospective middle managers have the right stuff to make it up the corporate ladder.

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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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FaceTime for iOS 13 Uses ARKit to Help Callers Pretend They Are Maintaining Eye Contact

Next Reality AR

You can now add feigning eye contact to the list of ways that augmented reality is improving our lives. In the official release of iOS 13 this fall, FaceTime will gain a new feature called Attention Capture, which corrects the users' eye gaze to appear as though they are maintaining eye contact with parties on the other end of the video call. Don't Miss: Warby Parker Makes It Easier to Try on Eyeglasses at Home with AR Update to Glasses App for iPhone X Series Evidently, the secret sauce to this

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XR4ALL Opens Financial Applications to Distribute €1.5m Across European XR Startups

Peter Graham

Competition within the XR industry is fierce and ever-growing, so trying to get an idea off the ground generally requires an external investment of some sort. There are various avenues startup companies can pursue and now the European Commission is providing another. XR4ALL is an initiative to strengthen the European Immersive Technologies Industry, and it has €1.5 million EUR to distribute to successful applicants. .

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The Ultimate VR Sculpting Tournament: Relive the ‘Road to Tokyo’ Drama + Watch the Series Finale

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VR art creation has never been more intense! Spanning three cities and featuring 24 artists, Oculus Medium’s Road to Tokyo documents the ultimate VR sculpting.

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OrbusVR: Reborn’s new Demo is the Full Game, Just Capped in Certain Places

Peter Graham

When gamers want proper value for money one of the best genres to look at is MMORPG’s. In the field of virtual reality (VR) that slice of gaming pie is dominated by OrbusVR: Reborn which left early access a few months ago. Now, in a bid to attract more players into its universe developer AdAlternum has released a free demo. This isn’t just any normal demo either, which usually show a singular level or small portion of the core experience.

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‘Gran Turismo’ Studio: Next Game to Embrace ‘past, present & future’, Suggests VR Support

Road to VR

Kazunori Yamauchi, CEO of Polyphony Digital and developer behind the Gran Turismo franchise, recently sat down with GT Planet to reveal a bit about the studio’s next Gran Turismo title. Yamauchi says that not only is the next GT game already in works, but it will embrace the “past, present and future.” Furthermore, Yamauchi says he believes in the future of VR, and confirms it’s “very suited for a driving game.” Although Yamauchi was reticent to speak specif

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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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Become a Spartan in Halo Training Grounds’ Free-Roaming VR Multiplayer Starting This Weekend

Peter Graham

This sees the start of several events dedicated to the massively popular Halo franchise on Xbox. Called Halo: Outpost Discovery, the travelling live event experience will be heading to various US cities and as part of it VRstudios has created a free-roaming virtual reality (VR) multiplayer called Training Grounds. . Halo Training Grounds is an arena style competitive experience where two teams of three fight it out as Spartan drones.

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Preview: Lone Echo II – 2020 Just Seems too Far Away

Peter Graham

It’s safe to say that here at VRFocus we’re big fans of Ready At Dawn’s ambitious sci-fi experience Lone Echo. It was one of the best reasons to own an Oculus Rift back in 2017, and when news broke at Oculus Connect 5 (OC5) last year that a sequel was in the works (it was a sure thing anyway); 2019 was shaping up to be a good year. Alas the schedule for Lone Echo II has been pushed back to 2020, but at least the videogame made an appearance during the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) last mont

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RADtv is the Latest Madcap Mini-Game VR Experience Coming to Oculus Rift

Peter Graham

Titles like Vacation Simulator , Five Nights at Freddy’s VR: Help Wanted and Loco Dojo showcase the variety and fun that can be had with mini-game style virtual reality (VR) experiences. Next month Oculus Rift will get another added to its roster, RADtv. . Created by Ruffian Games (best known for Halo Reach and Crackdown 2 ), RADtv is a compilation of 25 mini-games across five environments.

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