VRScout

APRIL 9, 2019

Trade in your cubicle for a snorkel in this delightful follow-up to the 2016 smash hit. Available now. When Owlchemy labs released its freshmen effort Job Simulator back in 2016, I don’t think the team was fully aware of the impact their deceitfully-simple game would have on the budding VR industry. Widely-regarded as one of the first true AAA VR gaming experiences released on Vive, the title tasked players with performing over-the-top approximations of real-world jobs to the delight of a sarcas

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Road to VR

APRIL 9, 2019

Facebook for the first time will offer a special VR livestream of the keynote presentation at the company’s upcoming F8 2019 developer conference. Users with Oculus Go or Gear VR headsets will be able to watch in VR, but it’s unclear if there will be a VR livestream that’s accessible by Rifters. Facebook will offer a VR livestream for the keynote of its upcoming F8 developer conference which will be held in San Jose, CA on April 30th and May 1st.

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Next Reality AR

APRIL 9, 2019

While The New York Times' augmented reality section has largely been dormant in 2019 (so far), USA Today has continued to crank out AR news stories. On Monday, the news outlet published a feature story about the world's tallest buildings (and the recent lack of new skyscrapers in the US) on its mobile app for iOS and Android. To access the experience, you first need to open the app and go to the front news page of the app, and then scroll down to the "Interactive Story" section (in bold blue let

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Road to VR

APRIL 9, 2019

Drifter Entertainment, the studio behind Gunheart (2017) and Ready Player One: Rise of the Gunters (2018) , is taking the reigns of porting Epic’s impressive arcade shooter Robo Recall (2017) to Oculus Quest. In an Oculus blog post today, the studio showed off a bevy of screenshots, and gave a peek into just how difficult it was to bring the PC VR game’s photorealism to the standalone headset platform.

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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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Next Reality AR

APRIL 9, 2019

The era of AT&T and Magic Leap has quietly entered a new phase that ramps up the mainstreaming of the cutting edge augmented reality device. This week, the wireless giant began offering the Magic Leap One for sale directly on its website, a move that aligns with its recent decision to begin offering the device in five select stores across the US.

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Next Reality AR

APRIL 9, 2019

The era of AT&T and Magic Leap has quietly entered a new phase that ramps up the mainstreaming of the cutting edge augmented reality device. This week, the wireless giant began offering the Magic Leap One for sale directly on its website, a move that aligns with its recent decision to begin offering the device in five select stores across the US.

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Oculus

APRIL 9, 2019

From Lead Programmer on Gears of War and its critically-acclaimed sequel to an impressive tenure at Microsoft that included stints as CTO for Xbox and.

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WITHIN

APRIL 9, 2019

Within’s Community Reading Initiative pairs kids with iPads loaded with the award-winning AR app, Wonderscope, designed to encourage movement, reading aloud and exploration. Story time has sprung to life this month as hundreds of Los Angeles school children are receiving the chance to interact with a wild and wonderful assortment of characters through the magic of augmented reality.

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Voices of VR

APRIL 9, 2019

Owlchemy Labs have been pioneering VR experiences exploring hand presence and embodied gameplay in VR since the release of Job Simulator and Rick & Morty.

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APRIL 9, 2019

It’s been a few years since Job Simulator set the stage for truly quirky-yet-humdrum humor in VR—and we’ve all earned a little R&R. Pack your.

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Road to VR

APRIL 9, 2019

As a day-one launch title for HTC Vive, PSVR, and Oculus Rift’s Touch controllers, Job Simulator (2016) was an ideal first VR experience; it’s so simple anyone can immediately put on a headset and get to exploring the comically bad interpretation of what human jobs must have been like after an apparent robot takeover. Now a few years later (it’s 2060 if you’re keeping track), the robots are again back at their antics, this time trying to recreate the lost art of vacation

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VirtualiTeach

APRIL 9, 2019

Last week HTC Vive launched their much-heralded Viveport Infinity subscription service. Dubbed “The Netflix of VR”, Infinity removes Viveport’s previous subscription limit of 5 apps per month and instead allows users to download as many of the 600+ titles available whenever they want. [link] Working out at $99 a year, Infinity offers a convenient “all you can eat” option for schools looking to use VR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 9, 2019

Coatsink, the studio behind the Esper series and Augmented Empire (2018), released a new video showing off a few more stylish gameplay mechanics coming to Shadow Point, the upcoming story-driven puzzle adventure for Quest and Rift. Shadow Point is a first-person single player game that throws you into a mystical world that unfolds between a mountaintop observatory and an ever-changing fantasy environment.

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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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VRScout

APRIL 9, 2019

According to CNBC, this modified version of the HoloLens 2 will be used on and off the battlefield. During November of last year, it was reported that Microsoft would be entering a $479M contract with the United States military to supply the Army with 100,000 modified HoloLens headsets. That following February, A group of Microsoft employees released a statement to Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, and its president, Brad Smith, condemning the actions of the company and expressing outrage over the p

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