Tue.May 12, 2020

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Miniature Beat Saber Powered By Oculus Quest Hand Tracking Looks Incredible

VRScout

All the fun of Beat Games’ VR rhythm slasher, minus the physical exercise. When he’s not serving as the head of AR & VR at Shopify, Daniel Beauchamp, better known by his online handle “ Push Matrix “, is pushing the boundaries of Oculus Quest hand tracking technology and sharing his wild experiments with the online community.

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KaviAR Tech Launches New Augmented Reality App for Travel

ARPost

French startup KaviAR Tech has launched “the world’s first augmented reality teleportation app”, according to the company, called KaviAR Gate. It allows you to explore exotic destinations all over the world. It offers immersive, 360-degree experiences from the comfort of your home, which is proving to be a safe way to entertain yourself during these trying times.

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Popular Co-op Game Spaceteam Heading To Oculus Quest & PC VR This Month

VRScout

In space, everyone can hear you scream. Spaceteam , the super infectious mobile game in which players frantically perform a series of goofy tasks and shout out commands in order to keep their spaceship from blowing up, is coming to the Oculus Quest, PC VR, and PlayStationVR as a full VR experience called Spaceteam VR. Later this month you and your team of space cadets (up to six players) will don VR headsets and step into a janky spaceship in need of constant repair.

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Snap Defines the Art of ‘Camera Marketing’

AR Insider

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Lessons From AR Revenue Leaders, Part I: Snap. It includes some of its data and takeaways. More can be previewed here and subscribe for the full report. A lot can be learned from consumer AR’s early leaders. What are they doing right? How are they engaging users? And how are they making money?

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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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Miniature ‘Beat Saber’ Concept Offers a Peek into the Future of AR Games

Road to VR

Oculus released optical hand-tracking on Quest as an experimental feature late last year, and ever since developers have been showing off their own unique and creative ways of integrating users hands into VR. Yet again we look at developer Daniel Beauchamp for inspiration on the future of XR design, as he’s put together a literal mini-version of Beat Saber (2018).

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Getting Miners Used to Gigantic Tires in VR, with Sheridan College’s Nick Ullrich

XR for Business Podcast

Surface miners, like the ones safety instructor Nick Ullrich teaches, get to play with some pretty big toys, like loading trucks with tires three times taller than the average person. But tires that big come with some pretty big blind spots, and Nick is using VR to get them used to those blind spots before putting them behind those gigantic wheels. Alan: Welcome to the XR for Business Podcast, with your host, Alan Smithson.

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Sketchfab launches team platform to share and collaborate on 3D models

TechCrunch VR

Sketchfab is enabling multiplayer mode today with a new Sketchfab for Teams feature. The startup lets you share 3D models with other people in your company so that they can view, edit and download models. It could be particularly useful for companies working on augmented reality products, video games or even e-commerce websites with 3D configurators or visualizations.

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Getting Miners Used to Gigantic Tires in VR, with Sheridan College’s Nick Ullrich

XR for Business Podcast

Surface miners, like the ones safety instructor Nick Ullrich teaches, get to play with some pretty big toys, like loading trucks with tires three times taller than the average person. But tires that big come with some pretty big blind spots, and Nick is using VR to get them used to those blind spots before putting them behind those gigantic wheels. Alan: Welcome to the XR for Business Podcast, with your host, Alan Smithson.

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‘Echo VR’ Adds Cross-Play to Oculus Quest Open Beta—Plus 4v4 Matches On Rift

Oculus

The Echo VR Open Beta kicked off one week ago on Oculus Quest, welcoming an influx of new players to the Echo Games community. And.

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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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Getting Miners Used to Gigantic Tires in VR, with Sheridan College’s Nick Ullrich

XR for Business Podcast

Surface miners, like the ones safety instructor Nick Ullrich teaches, get to play with some pretty big toys, like loading trucks with tires three times taller than the average person. But tires that big come with some pretty big blind spots, and Nick is using VR to get them used to those blind spots before putting them behind those gigantic wheels. Alan: Welcome to the XR for Business Podcast, with your host, Alan Smithson.

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Carrie Shaw (Embodied Labs) on the Denial, Anger, and Fear of Growing Old

The AR Show

Carrie Shaw is the CEO and co-founder of Embodied Labs, a company changing the way professional and family caregivers view — and care for — older adults through the use of immersive experiences. After graduating from UNC Chapel Hill with a B.S. in Public Health, Carrie spent 2 years working as a Health Education Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic where she fell in love with the way visual communication tools have the unique potential to cross cultural, language, and education barrie

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Trezi release 1.13 is now available

Trenzi VR

Release 1.13 contains bug fixes and adds the ability to access IFC files from the BIMObjects… The post Trezi release 1.13 is now available appeared first on Trezi.

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Go More Places From Home, Only in VR

Oculus

We’ve been indoors for quite a few weeks now, and we’re adjusting to a new normal. If you want to explore mystical lands, break a.

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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.

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‘Supernatural’ Review – Fun Gameplay, Breathtaking Visuals, But Hefty Entry Price

Road to VR

There’s no better moment than now to find a reason to get up and moving, which is probably why acclaimed AR/VR studio Within launched its at-home VR fitness app Supernatural (2020). The gameified fitness app will get your heart pumping to the beat of a list of songs from popular artists, all while you have a digital personal trainer piped into your ears for encouragement.

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Witness the Empty Streets of April 2020 in ‘When We Stayed Home’

Oculus

In the wake of COVID-19, many of us are sheltering in place, and the streets of some of the world’s most bustling cities have stood.

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Trezi release 1.13 is now available

Trenzi VR

Release 1.13 contains bug fixes and adds the ability to access IFC files from the BIMObjects catalog. Here are the complete release notes: New features and updates New: Assets from BIMObjects catalog stored in IFC format can now be accessed in Trezi New: Objects in My Library can be sorted with by Date, Time, and Category for files and folders in ascending or descending order at any level of navigation New: Objects from Manufacturers’ catalog users can now be accessed in Trezi New: Users can now

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