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SIF: Hands-on with Spheres, Buddy VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

I’ve returned to Italy, but there is still so much I have to tell you about the Sandbox Immersive Festival in Qingdao! Are you ready for some new reviews? Beautiful view of Qingdao at night. Spheres. I know the name “Spheres” since a lot of time. This experience created some buzz because it has been the first virtual reality storytelling experience that has been acquired for a seven-figure amount.

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Robot Remix VR to Premiere Film Festival Experiences in Pasadena Starting This Month

ARPost

When the summer sun’s out in Los Angeles, vacationers and Angelenos flock to movie theaters and art exhibits to cool off. sp[a]ce gallery at Ayzenberg is premiering VR films shown at festivals to the public from July 6 to September 8. Robot Remix VR will be exhibiting the films in Pasadena, which guests with an affinity for art, film, gaming, and technology won’t want to miss.

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Snapchat Drapes the Statue of Liberty in the American Flag for Fourth of July Augmented Reality Lens

Next Reality AR

Under the rocket's red glare and the bombs bursting in air, the Statue of Liberty is swaying in celebration this Fourth of July thanks to Snapchat. On Thursday, Snapchat launched a new augmented reality experience to commemorate Independence Day for those at or in the vicinity of Liberty Island in New York City. Using its new Landmarker Lens technology, the Snapchat camera can detect the presence of the monument and bring it to life.

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Pioneering VR Demo ‘Waltz of the Wizard’ to Live on in New ‘Extended Edition’

Road to VR

Waltz of the Wizard (2016) is a exceptionally well-built VR experience from Iceland-based studio Aldin Dynamics. As one of the pioneering demos to heavily feature object interaction back at the birth of consumer VR, it always felt like the curiously magical prologue to something much larger. And although Aldin hasn’t promised as much today, the studio is continuing on with development of Waltz of the Wizard in a new ‘Extended Edition’, heading to PC VR headsets next week.

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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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Drifting champion tackles Goodwood with VR, 5G and one tiny startup’s tech

TechCrunch VR

Stunt driver Vaughn Gittin Jr. took a Lincoln MKZ through its paces at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, drifting the vehicle and taking it up a signature hill climb. Except Gittin wasn’t in the car. Donning a Samsung VR headset, Gittin was controlling the vehicle miles away from the Goodwood arena using a teleoperation system developed by Portland, Ore., startup Designated Driver and Vodafone’s 5G network.

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How AR is changing the art world

Zappar

Talented creatives are turning to AR to create fascinating new experiences in galleries, museums and educational spaces all over the world. Blurring the line between visitor and participant, these immersive experiences are transforming the way we perceive of art, and we take a look at how ZapWorks users have been using Studio and Designer to explore this new era of spatial storytelling.

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Varwin Beings Open Beta for VR Reality Management System

Peter Graham

We live in an ever-connected, 24-hour world where clients can be both local and international, instantly able to contact teams working on projects. This can be particularly stressful for developers who might be working on a commissioned project and the client wants to make continuous changes no matter the time of day. Enter Varwin Reality Management System (Varwin RMS), a tool switch can allow those with little experience in virtual reality (VR) to make basic alterations while developers can con

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Celebrate the 4th of July in VR

Oculus

It’s Independence Day in the US, and we’re celebrating with a thematic selection of games and experiences that bring the festivities to you in VR—wherever.

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E3 2019 Interview: Woojer is all About the Bass

Peter Graham

Haptic feedback can come in all shapes and sizes when it comes to virtual reality (VR) use cases. Ultrahaptics , for example, use arrays of ultrasonic transducers to project haptic feedback into the air, while the Dexmo Enterprise Edition gloves go for a more mechanical force feedback solution. Woojer also goes for a direct approach to immersive feedback, with a couple of devices which you can strap to your body.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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New Adventures in Hi-Fi

Doc-Ok

I’ve been spending all of my time over the last few weeks completely rewriting Vrui ‘s collaboration infrastructure (VCI from now on), from scratch. VCI is, in a nutshell, the built-in remote collaboration / tele-presence component of my VR toolkit. Or, in other words, a networked multi-player framework. The old VCI was the technology underlying videos such as this one: Figure 1: Collaborative exploration of a 3D CAT scan of a microbial community, between a CAVE and a 3D TV with head

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Varwin Begins Open Beta for VR Reality Management System

Peter Graham

We live in an ever-connected, 24-hour world where clients can be both local and international, instantly able to contact teams working on projects. This can be particularly stressful for developers who might be working on a commissioned project and the client wants to make continuous changes no matter the time of day. Enter Varwin Reality Management System (Varwin RMS), a tool switch can allow those with little experience in virtual reality (VR) to make basic alterations while developers can con

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How to Cast or Mirror an Oculus Quest Headset to a Mobile Phone

InstaVR

How do I cast or mirror from my Oculus Quest to my mobile phone? Oculus Quest is amazingly simple to Cast/Mirror on a smartphone. Show your powerful VR presentations not just to the headset wearer, but everyone else too. Of course, it works great with InstaVR created apps! Not only articles, but also YouTube videos illustrate how to use Cast/Mirror.

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Vive Studios Titles to see Arcade Distribution via Synthesis VR

Peter Graham

Studios need to get their projects out to as many customers as possible to gain revenue, doing so by supporting multiple headsets as well as appearing on numerous sales platforms. Location-based entertainment (LBE) is another avenue has proved fruitful for a number of virtual reality (VR) studios. Today, Vive Studios has announced a partnership with Synthesis VR to distribute its content VR management and licensing platform.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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.