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Disney’s Upcoming Lion King Remake Pushes The Boundaries Of VR Filmmaking

VRScout

Director Jon Favreau ditches physical sets in favor of 360-degree virtual environments. Arriving in theatres July 19th , Disney’s photorealistic CGI Lion King remake is the product of multiple cutting edge technologies. Over the course of his celebrated career, director Jon Favreau has dipped his toes into multiple avenues of filmmaking, never shying away from the adoption of new technologies or techniques; such as his use of mixed reality capture in 2018’s The Jungle Book.

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Unreal Garden AR Experience Opens to Visitors with Epson Laser Projectors

ARPost

Many fans of XR technology were disappointed at this year’s E3, which wrapped up last week. There wasn’t much talk about upcoming VR or AR experiences , though some other title releases were exciting. The event, one of the world’s biggest trade shows for videogames and associated technology, had little for XR enthusiasts. That is, in terms of speakers and title releases.

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Oculus Teases Updates To VR & AR Lineup At Oculus Connect 6 This September

VRScout

‘A new chapter of virtual and augmented reality’ arrives September 25th. Facebook’s sixth annual Oculus Connect will take place September 25th & 26th at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA, introducing developers, content creators, and other VR fanatics to the latest advancements made by the Oculus team. Last year at OC5 we received our first official look at the Oculus Quest, went hands-on with several standalone 6DoF VR experiences, and learned more about Expressive Avat

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Watch 20 Minutes of ‘Asgard’s Wrath’ Gameplay

Road to VR

Sanzaru Games and Oculus Studios showed off a new demo for their upcoming melee adventure Asgard’s Wrath at this year’s E3. We got a chance to not only jump in to see more of the game’s questing, but also get a feel for the scope of the world ahead. I had around 20 minutes in the new demo—only just enough to sample other important components of the game besides rote combat, which I saw a fair bit of in my first hands-on at GDC in March.

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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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BMW To Augment US Dealer Service With AR

Charlie Fink

347 BMW centers and select MINI Dealers in the U.S. are now equipped with voice-controlled, rugged RealWear HMT-1 head-mounted monocular microdisplays running Ubimax Frontline.

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France’s NewImages festival features VR films and interactive experiences

Hypergrid Business

Still from the French premiere of film “Pneumo Hacker” by Taiwan’s Poké Poké Creative & Redbit Pictures and the Innolux Education Foundation. (Image courtesy NewImages Festival.). If you are a resident of Paris or visiting this week, check out the NewImages Festival. For five days, the “City of Lights” will host an array of innovative VR program that includes virtual reality films as well as outdoor experiences, keynote speeches, and table discussions.

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Oculus Rift S: Unboxing, Set Up, Tutorial, and Type C Converter

InstaVR

Oculus Rift S: Unboxing, Set Up, Tutorial and Type C Converter. The new Oculus Rift S headset has been released and a member of our marketing team put together a series of fun videos. You can watch as she shows the content of the Oculus Rift S unboxing, initial headset programming, a tutorial on how to launch and use the Rift S, and a quick warning with regards to the Type C converter.

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Jesse McCulloch of Microsoft

Everything VR & AR

Tyler and Sophia catch up with Microsoft's Jesse McCulloch to talk about how Microsoft is fostering the growth and success of the developer community. Connect with Jesse McCulloch: Twitter - @jbmcculloch Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get involved with this worldwide organization. Subscribe to the podcast wherever podcasts are found or listen to past interviews at www.TheVRARA.

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Save the Date: Oculus Connect Returns to San Jose McEnery Convention Center, September 25 – 26

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We’re less than halfway through it, and 2019 is already shaping up to be a banner year for VR. The launch of Oculus Quest let.

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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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Journey to the Dark Side: ‘Vader Immortal’ Episode I Lands on the Rift Platform, Plus Wield Your Own Lightsabers in Oculus Home

Oculus

With writing from David S. Goyer, voice acting by Maya Rudolph, and immersion on a cinematic scale, Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series from.

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