Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Best Buy’s consumer electronics brand, Insignia, has released a charging station for the Oculus Touch controllers. Out of the box the Oculus Touch controllers use AA batteries (disposable or rechargeable) for power. The new product from Insignia includes two rechargeable batteries (1200 mAh, up to 10 hours of use), a charging dock, AC power adapter, and two special battery compartment covers which expose charging contacts to the charging dock without removing the covers.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 29, 2017

MasterCard, Osterhout Design Group (ODG), and Qualcomm turn to AR and eye technology to provide consumers a secure and seamless way to pay for items. Consumers and retailers just got a sneak peek into the future of shopping during the Money2020 event in Las Vegas. The AR shopping experience not only included a way to browse items and and read about product details—it also included a checkout process that uses your eyes for authentication.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2017

At Google’s big October 4th press conference, the company announced a new Pixel 2 phone and a range of new ambient computing devices powered by AI-enabled conversational interfaces including new Google Mini and Max speakers, Google Clips camera, and wireless Pixel Buds. The Daydream View mobile VR headset received a major upgrade with vastly improved comfort and weight distribution, reduced light leakage, better heat management, cutting-edge aspherical fresnel lenses with larger acuity and

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VRScout

OCTOBER 29, 2017

The studio gets behind Microsoft’s new VR headsets with some exclusive content just as it wins an Emmy award for its Collisions experience. Jaunt has become a leading provider of software and integrated hardware to the industry since they were founded in 2013, yet their main drive is pushing the boundaries of VR as a creative storytelling medium. Earlier this month, for example, Jaunt Studios premiered Free The Night— its first six degrees of freedom (6DOF) original interactive experience—at The

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Halloween is nearly here, and there’s no better way to scare your friends and family (and you poor cat or dog) than a disturbingly immersive VR horror game. From now until 11:59 pm PDT on October 31st ( local time here ), selected Rift and Gear VR titles will be available from 25% to 50% off. Don’t forget to check out Steam’s Halloween sale too, which goes from now until November 1st, 10AM PDT ( local time here ).

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Same like Overstock and IKEA before it, Target is tapping the magic of augmented reality to bypass anything that can make buying home goods a real headache. While two objects (or sofas) cannot occupy the same space at the same time in the real world, they can in AR’s parallel universe. Target calls the feature “See It In Your Space,” because, like Ikea’s Place app for iOS, you can literally use it to see what a piece of furniture would look like in your home.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Chinese search engine giant Baidu and Shouqi Limousine & Chauffeur, a car-hailing operator, are joining up to develop driverless vehicles , said Reuters. Baidu will supply Shouqi with the tools it needs for both its existing business and driverless cars, including map services, its Apollo autonomous platform and its conversational AI platform DuerOS.

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