VRScout

MAY 3, 2019

Celine Tricart’s narrative VR experience takes home gold at Tribeca Film Festival. The 18 th annual Tribeca Film Festival has announced the winner of their Storyscapes Award, an award that recognizes groundbreaking storytelling told through new technologies. This year’s first-place selection was The Key , an intense narrative-based interactive VR experience where your participation is crucial to help unravel a mystery across several dreamlike worlds.

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EON Reality

MAY 3, 2019

The EON Reality-Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Future of Education Global Summit in Singapore brought out the who’s who of the academic world. The two-day event featured keynote speeches, presentations, and discussions with leading representatives across the spectrum of academia, business and government on the topical issue of education. Representatives from esteemed organisations and public agencies such as NTU, National Institute of Education, Macquarie University, Beijing Normal Unive

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Voices of VR

MAY 3, 2019

The Oculus Quest is a gamechanger for the VR industry as the inside-out tracking is an engineering marvel, & the untethered experience lowers the friction.

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EON Reality

MAY 3, 2019

The EON Reality-Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Future of Education Global Summit in Singapore brought out a who’s who of the academic world. The two-day event featured keynote speeches, presentations, and discussions with global academic leaders all centered around the topic of how technology is changing the world of education. Representatives from esteemed organizations such as NTU, National Institute of Education, Macquarie University, Beijing Normal University, SkillsFuture Singapore,

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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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Charlie Fink

MAY 3, 2019

Another whirlwind week where XR news is happening faster than we can write about it.

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Slashgear

MAY 3, 2019

The New York Police Department is testing the use of virtual reality as a training tool for officers. The test started in early April and involved a couple hundred officers over the course of a single week at a facility in Brooklyn. This is the first time the NYPD has used virtual reality for training, and it joins the police … Continue reading.

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