Sat.Apr 13, 2019

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Research Suggests VR May Help Patients Suffering From Parkinson’s

VRScout

Research into VR’s benefits on balance and motor control continue to reveal new information. More than 10 million people worldwide live with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and experience the neurological disorder that progressively affects their movement. Individually, the results can vary, but will usually include muscle rigidity, tremors, loss of balance, and changes in speech and gait.

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New Oculus VR controllers accidentally include bizarre hidden messages

Slashgear

Oculus, the Facebook-owned VR hardware company, is gearing up to release a pair of new headsets in the coming weeks: the Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S. But during the manufacturing process it seems some unintended Easter eggs were added to the motion controllers that will ship with the devices, the company has revealed. Silly phrases like “This Space For … Continue reading.

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Oculus Touch Controllers May Hold Accidental Hidden Messages

VRScout

Oculus co-founder confirms Tens-of-thousands of devices may be affected. In a series of tweets made by Nate Mitchel, the Oculus co-founder and head of VR product at Facebook revealed that tens-of-thousands of Oculus Rift and Rift S controllers have released with “easter egg” messages hidden within their internal components. Michel clarified on Twitter that the messages were originally added by members of the Oculus Touch development team to a number of prototype controllers meant for internal us

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Get ready for a new era of personalized entertainment

TechCrunch VR

Jarno M. Koponen. Contributor. Jarno M. Koponen is working on intelligent systems and human-centered personalization. He currently is product lead at Yle, one of the leading media houses in the Nordics. More posts by this contributor. A new hope: AI for news media. AI on your lock screen. New machine learning technologies, user interfaces and automated content creation techniques are going to expand the personalization of storytelling beyond algorithmically generated news feeds and content recom

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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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Releases Recap April 8 - 12

Oculus

This week, we released over 25 titles and updates across the Oculus Platform. Here’s a rundown of the highlights.

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