Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The perennially avant-garde singer-songwriter Björk has brought her entire 2015 album, Vulnicura , to virtual reality. Available today, headset owners can finally get to dive into a collection of immersive music videos that only previously graced museums worldwide via the Björk Digital Exhibition since late 2016, Pitchfork reports. The Vulnicura Virtual Reality Album is now available Steam (Oculus Rift, Valve Index, HTC Vive) priced at $30.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Kerry Davis’ guest talk at DigiPen will touch upon his most recent work on the companies first VR title. Earlier this week, rumors once again began circulating in regards to the long-rumored Half-Life VR spin-off after Valve News Network discovered source code buried within a new update to Valve’s The Lab experience that points towards the existence of a Half-Life VR game. .

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Virtual reality drumming app Paradiddle recently accepted submissions for VR drummers to show off their skills. One drummer, who says they’ve never played drums in the real world, submitted a killer cover of ‘Assassin’ by MUSE. Yet another case for the power of VR training: YouTuber ElNeax claims to have “never played a drumkit in my life, either acoustic or electronic.” But after 100 hours in VR drumming app Paradiddle , he would have had me fooled: According to

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Esqapes VR Massage Center in Los Angeles. Esqapes VR Massage Center is an oasis that everyone should experience! So many of us have neck pain from staring down at the phone. Or we have back pain from bad posture when we sit or stand for long periods. Some of us don’t have pain but do have stress and tension. If this sounds like you, keep reading. The world’s first virtual reality massage center, which opened in June 2019, is located on bustling Wilshire Boulevard inside the famous SAG-AFTRA Buil

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

When it comes to game development, Valve is probably one of the most notorious of black boxes; there’s still no telling what the studio has in store for its promised three ‘full-length’ VR titles, let alone the one planned to launch later this year. Developer Kerry Davis however will be holding a guest lecture soon at his alma mater, DigiPen, to talk about his 15 years’ experience shipping games at Valve as well as his most recent work on the studio’s upcoming VR ti

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Lenovo first released its smartphone-powered Mirage AR headset last year alongside its sole title, Star Wars: Jedi Challenges (2018) , a collection of short AR games that let you do things like fight Darth Vader & Co. with a lightsaber-shaped controller, play HoloChess, and challenge the Empire in a tabletop RTS. Now, Lenovo is returning with a new AR game, MARVEL Dimension of Heroes , and a pair of 6DOF controllers too.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Tired of waiting for the US treasury to put a female face on the $20? (Because you’ll probably be waiting a while yet!) Google’s got you covered, or rather, your cash: they’ve developed an AR app to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. That’s just one of the interesting bits of XR news Alan has in store for this week’s news update.

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InstaVR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Before the Oculus Quest launched this summer, we wrote up a preview of the VR headset. The article could be summed up like this: for businesses serious about incorporating VR into their workplaces, the Quest is a great fit. For more casual business users, or those just starting out in VR, the Oculus Go could likely suffice. Now that we’re a few months into hands-on use with the Quest, we wanted to re-visit this topic of Go vs.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Tired of waiting for the US treasury to put a female face on the $20? (Because you’ll probably be waiting a while yet!) Google’s got you covered, or rather, your cash: they’ve developed an AR app to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. That’s just one of the interesting bits of XR news Alan has in store for this week’s news update.

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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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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

It’s been another successful week for virtual reality (VR) projects on crowd-funding platform Kickstarter. Yesterday VRFocus reported on VRGO Mini hitting its target and today cyberpunk adventure Low-Fi has done the same, soaring past $60,000 CAD in only four days. The work of indie VR developer Iris VR, Low-Fi is the spiritual successor to Technolust, the team’s first immersive experience released in 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Tired of waiting for the US treasury to put a female face on the $20? (Because you’ll probably be waiting a while yet!) Google’s got you covered, or rather, your cash: they’ve developed an AR app to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. That’s just one of the interesting bits of XR news Alan has in store for this week’s news update.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Remember the Lenovo Mirage AR headset from 2017 and the only videogame available for it, Star Wars : Jedi Challenges ? If you didn’t drop £250 GBP on the device then possibly not, as it was a bit of a one-trick pony. However, Lenovo isn’t giving up on augmented reality (AR) launching a new Mirage AR device alongside a new smartphone experience MARVEL Dimension of Heroes.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Tired of waiting for the US treasury to put a female face on the $20? (Because you'll probably be waiting a while yet!) Google's got you covered, or rather, your cash: they've developed an AR app to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. That's just one of the interesting bits of XR news Alan has in store for this week's news update. A white paper published by Microsoft found that test scores among students using immersive technologies improved by as much as 22 percent , with the effect maintained

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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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Charlie Fink

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Another busy week with mobile XR leading the way.

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Oculus

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Dubbed “a frantic new smash ’em up” by UploadVR and a slice of “chaotic rock star mayhem” by Destructoid, Hotel R’n’R lets you play as.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Even with all the advancements in CG animation, it can’t capture that distinctly lifelike essence that a real human exudes. But XR can capture that essence — volumetrically. Metastage CEO Christina Heller drops by to discuss the process of transcribing the aura of a person into XR space. Alan: I have a really special guest today; Christina Heller, the CEO of Metastage.

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Oculus

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

We’re back from an amazing time at PAX West, which ran August 30 – September 2 in Seattle. Today, we’re sharing a quick look at.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Even with all the advancements in CG animation, it can’t capture that distinctly lifelike essence that a real human exudes. But XR can capture that essence — volumetrically. Metastage CEO Christina Heller drops by to discuss the process of transcribing the aura of a person into XR space. Alan: I have a really special guest today; Christina Heller, the CEO of Metastage.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The annual Tokyo Game Show (TGS) will return next week with Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia (SIEJA) having a big presence at the event for both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR. Japanese developer Amata K.K. will be attending, showcasing its upcoming virtual reality (VR) escape room title Last Labyrinth. . It’ll be the second time the PlayStation VR version has been shown – the first during PlayStation Matsuri TOKYO 2019 in July – and possibly the last time it’

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Even with all the advancements in CG animation, it can't capture that distinctly lifelike essence that a real human exudes. But XR can capture that essence -- volumetrically. Metastage CEO Christina Heller drops by to discuss the process of transcribing the aura of a person into XR space. Alan: I have a really special guest today; Christina Heller, the CEO of Metastage.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Korean developer SKonec Entertainment has a long and varied history in virtual reality (VR) development, having released first-person shooter (FPS) Mortal Blitz VR for Samsung Gear VR back in 2015. The studio has developed other titles since then but the Mortal Blitz franchise remains a core IP, especially when it comes to location-based entertainment (LBE).

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Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning

Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

This article features the latest episode of The AR Show. Based on a new collaboration, episode coverage now joins AR Insider’s editorial flow including narrative insights and audio. See past and future episodes here or subscribe. We sometimes have core principles engrained early in our careers that stay with us for years. And those among us who are fortunate enough to have quality mentors can benefit from good lessons during those impressionable stages.

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