Road to VR

AUGUST 24, 2019

Light Field Lab, known for its advancements in light-field display technology, successfully completed a Series A funding round, scoring the firm over $28 million in venture capital to manufacture and distribute working products. The investment round was led by Bosch Venture Capital and Taiwania Capital. Light Field Lab hopes to build large scale light-field displays capable of offering a ‘holodeck’-like experience.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 24, 2019

While the reality of Ready Player One’s ‘The Oasis’ may still be a long way off, companies are already making headway when it comes to social virtual reality (VR) universes. One of those is Somnium Space , an open-world launched for PC VR headsets in 2018, designed so that users can not only create but also own thanks to the power of blockchain.

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InstaVR

AUGUST 24, 2019

InstaVR Interviews: Meet the VR Practitioners. InstaVR Interviews is a blog series where we turn the spotlight on our customers. We find out why they create VR, how they use InstaVR, and what the future of VR will look like. To read more interviews, visit the InstaVR Interviews homepage. Kevin Liptak and Lauren Konopacki of Refresh VR. Kevin Liptak is the Owner and Chief Creative Officer of Refresh Advertising.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 24, 2019

Over the last few years, there have been several virtual reality (VR) projects nominated and even successfully taking home an Emmy Award. This week, creative studio Fable and its project Wolves in the Walls achieved the coveted award. In doing so, helping lead character Lucy become the first virtual being to win an Emmy. Wolves in the Walls: It’s All Over (Part 1) won the primetime Emmy Award for ‘Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Media’, a project which was a VR adaptat

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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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Peter Graham

AUGUST 24, 2019

When listing some of Bill Murray’s greatest films what do you automatically go for, Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, Zombieland or how about Groundhog Day? The latter might not be most people’s first choice for a virtual reality (VR) videogame but that’s exactly what Tequila Works is going for with VR sequel Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son. Demoed for the first time on the PlayStation VR stand during Gamescom this past week, the title is a mixture of mini-games designed to make everyone happy.

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