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XRDC Interviews AR and VR Industry Experts in Healthcare Report

ARPost

Are you attending XRDC’s AR and VR conference in San Francisco on October 14-15? Do you follow all the latest tech trends? The XRDC AR/VR Healthcare Report is out now and is a must-read. Healthcare affects everyone. The report covers the latest advancements in AR and VR with interviews from 5 leaders using this tech in healthcare. The Healthcare Industry, VR, and AR.

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DUSTNET Is A PC, VR, AR Deathmatch Experience Set Inside An Adondoned Counter-Strike Server

VRScout

Sign-in to a long-forgotten de_dust2 server and take part in an asymmetrical cross-platform battle. Available today on PC, SteamVR, Google Play, and the App Store, DUSTNET is an asymmetrical cross-platform deathmatch experience that allows players on various platforms, including desktop PC/Mac, VR, and mobile AR, to fight with or alongside each other in an abandoned de_dust2 sever from the original Counter-Strike.

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‘Tetris Effect’ Coming to PC with VR Support Next Week

Road to VR

Tetris Effect (2018) , the latest entry in the iconic tile-stacker series, is officially headed to PC on July 23rd, which also includes support for VR headsets. Tetris Effect for PC is coming exclusively to the Epic Games Store , and is said to support both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift—including gamepads & their respective motion controllers. Originally released on PlayStation 4 late last year, Tetris Effect for PC is said to run on traditional monitors at resolutions of 4K or more with an unc

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VR Collaboration Tool The Wild Adds Support for Oculus Quest

Peter Graham

When it comes to enterprise use cases for virtual reality (VR) technology one of the best is the ability to help teams collaborate on projects. While not always practical to have full tethered VR systems in an office taking up space, the advent of standalone devices has removed that issue. The Wild is a collaboration platform for architecture and design teams which has just launched support for Oculus Quest.

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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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Disney Animation Studios to Debut VR Short Film ‘A Kite’s Tale’ Later This Month

Road to VR

Disney Animation Studios is set to debut its second VR short film, A Kite’s Tale , late this month at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles. Following the debut of their first VR short film, Cycles , last year at the same conference, Disney Animation Studios will offer the first showing of A Kite’s Tale at SIGGRAPH 2019 in the ‘VR Theater’ portion of the show.

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5 Great Ways to Celebrate the Moon Landing’s 50th Anniversary in VR

Road to VR

Exactly 50 years ago today, Apollo 11 took off from Kennedy Space Center with the mission of putting the first human beings on the Moon. And although humanity has only visited our celestial neighbor a handful of times since then, now it’s possible for anyone with a VR headset to strap in and experience the final frontier for themselves. Here’s a few great space-themed experiences (in no particular order) to help you celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon mission.

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#786: XR Safety Initiative: Security, Privacy, & Ethics in XR

Voices of VR

The XR Safety Initiative (XRSI) was co-founded by Kavya Pearlman and formally announced at the Open AR Cloud Symposium on Tuesday, May 28, 2019. XRSI.

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The State of the AR Cloud with Jan-Erik Vinje, Christine Perey, Jason Fox, and Colin Steinmann (Open AR Cloud Association)

The AR Show

Today’s conversation is with a quartet of key contributors to the Open AR Cloud initiative. - Jan-Erik Vinje is the Managing Director and Co-founder of the Open AR Cloud, and spends his days as the Senior AR-Architect and lead developer at Norkart. - Christine Perey is the Governing Board Member for the Open AR Cloud as well as the Founder and Board member of the AR for Enterprise Alliance. - Jason Fox is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft and key contributor to the Open AR Cloud. - Colin S

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New Teaser Trailer Drops for Playful Exploration Experience Paper Beast

Peter Graham

French indie developer Pixel Reef announced virtual reality (VR) videogame Paper Beast for PlayStation VR back in April and has now released further info about the project. Alongside a new trailer and screenshots, the studio has confirmed it’ll be attending Gamescom 2019 for media to demo the beautifully surreal experience. The new trailer and images showcase a dynamic environment filled with strange yet familiar creatures.

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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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Submit your project: 360 Film Festival

Veer

As an international platform dedicated to all immersive formats (VR/360, AR, large formats), the 360 Film Festival celebrates the energy of creators in new immersive digital formats. The Festival’s fourth edition put on the spotlight technical aspects—which other film festivals often overlook—, with not only three Grand Prizes for VR, AR, large formats, and best screenplay, but also prizes for best interactivity/integration, best immersion, best visuals, best sound design, and best animation acr

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I Expect You To Die Updated With Free ‘Seat of Power’ DLC

Peter Graham

Schell Games’ first virtual reality (VR) title was the popular escape room experience I Expect You to Die, released at the end of 2016 for devices like PlayStation VR and Oculus Rift. The studio might be working on its upcoming sword-fighting title Until You Fall but that hasn’t stopped the team finding time for I Expect You to Die, releasing a free DLC content pack today.

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Introducing the 2018 Oculus Launch Pad Scholarship Recipients

Oculus

Last year, we kicked off our third annual Oculus Launch Pad program, quickly followed by our annual boot camp tradition in Menlo Park. At boot.

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Vive X 2019: LIV’s Dr Doom Talks Mixed Reality Video Capture

Peter Graham

If you love playing virtual reality (VR) videogames and want to show how awesome they are then the best way of doing so is with mixed reality (MR) video. This style of video puts you, the gamer, inside the title to give viewers a taste of the VR greatness you’re playing. While not as easy to record as a Twitch stream, for example, improvements have been made over the years and one of the most popular pieces of software to record MR videos is LIV.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Remote meetings are here to stay - and many are BORING. If you are trying to engage your learners (or any audience), compelling content is critical. But trying to create stimulating content with the same tools you’ve always had is hard, right? Thankfully, wrong! Terrific tools in PowerPoint along with visual assets help you create the kind of dynamic content you need to capture your remote audience’s attention, with functions that allow for interactive sequences and navigation.

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The Glitch Mob To Perform Live In VR For The First Time

VRScout

Fans can expect a never-before-heard set, virtual pyrotechnics, and zero gravity. LA-based electronic music trio The Glitch Mob will make their VR debut tomorrow afternoon ( 5PM PT/8PM ET ) when they perform a live 1-hour set on VR social platform Sansar. According to the ticket page: Be there when the Mob plays every city in a single night in Sansar – complete with a custom set, breathtaking virtual pyrotechnics, and yes: zero gravity!

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Epic Games Store to Exclusively Sell Tetris Effect for PC, VR Support Will be Available

Peter Graham

The PlayStation VR has had its fair few virtual reality (VR) exclusives, with one of the biggest in 2018 being Enhance Games’ Tetris Effect. Now the studio has announced that the title will be coming to PC via the Epic Games Store next week, with additional support for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. In a move that will likely annoy a few PC and VR gamers alike, Tetris Effect will be an Epic Games Store exclusive.

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Riding the Hyperloop in Virtual Reality

Tech Trends VR

VR Hyperloop Passenger Experience in Virtual Reality Unveiled at SpaceX. We’ve been reporting on the Hyperloop for a while here at Tech Trends. Elon Musk conceived the Hyperloop in 2013 as a revolutionary high-speed ground transport system, and this concept is now being worked on around the globe by the world’s top engineers, architects and designers.As part of this, a yearly competition is held at SpaceX HQ in California among University teams who test out the concepts they have been work

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Survios to Hold Battlewake Closed Beta Starting This Friday

Peter Graham

One of VRFocus’ favourite virtual reality (VR) title from the recent Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2019 had to be Survios’ upcoming pirate combat title Battlewake. The videogame was revealed back in May, and at the same time, sign-ups for a closed beta were opened. Now the team has announced when that beta will take place, it starts this Friday 19th July.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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New Feature Spotlight: User Input Screen (aka “Add User ID”)

InstaVR

New Feature Spotlight: . User Input Screen (aka “Add User ID”). One of our newest features is perhaps one of the most valuable — the “User Input Screen” add-on found in the Branding section of the Console. Users of your apps can identify themselves prior to the VR experience loading. This could be their name, a User ID you give them, a special identifying number.

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