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Get Your Sweat On During Quarantine With These Fitness-Focused VR Experiences

VRScout

Don’t let the coronavirus outbreak prevent you from getting a great workout. The coronavirus outbreak is proving to be a major disruptor in terms of our day-to-day lives. In order to prevent unnecessary exposure, many schools and businesses have started to close, with those still open seeing low attendance due to self-imposed quarantines. Unsurprisingly, many public and private gyms have already begun shutting their doors to the public.

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Is 2020 Virtual Reality’s Breakout Year?

ARPost

After decades of speculation, anticipation, hype, and disappointment, is 2020 virtual reality ’s breakout year? As someone who studies the psychology and ergonomics of virtual and augmented technologies, I’ve long known the key to mass adoption lies in a positive user experience, which virtual reality is now poised to deliver. Early research on the latest devices shows that the VR technologies of today have made significant progress on the fundamental comfort and usability challenges that

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Hands-On: HTC Cosmos Elite Offers Big Improvements With Its Elite Faceplate

VRScout

HTC’s modular headset delivers a great VR experience. Just a few weeks ago, HTC announced a new suite of Cosmos headsets and faceplates aimed at delivering VR solutions to both average consumers as well as businesses. For the highest-quality VR experience, however, prospective buyers will want to take a look at the HTC Cosmos Elite, an HTC Cosmos with a pre-installed Elite faceplate.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

Another week closed at home, sending big hugs to all of you VR enthusiasts of the world. Many countries are locking down because of the coronavirus, so I hope you all stay safe, healthy and will be able to keep in touch with the people you love. And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read.

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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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Facebook’s Game Developers Showcase Starts Today, Promising New Oculus Reveals

Road to VR

The 2020 Game Developers Conference (GDC) would have started today had it not been canned like basically every major expo from here until summer. To compensate, Facebook is hosting what it calls its Game Developers Showcase, and it’s starting today. Running from March 16th – 19th, Facebook will be announcing new updates and trailers from what it calls “anticipated games” coming to both its Quest and Rift platforms.

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More Than 20 Oculus Quest Titles Have Surpassed $1M in Revenue

Road to VR

Facebook today announced that 20 Oculus Quest games have broken the $1 million revenue mark, a big milestone for the VR industry as a whole. Oculus Quest famously sold out during the holiday season, and then promptly fell victim to the coronavirus supply chain slowdown, tallying among its marketplace competitors Valve Index, and more recently the SteamVR-compatible faceplate for HTC Vive Cosmos.

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Oculus Quest VR system will get major UI redesign later this month

Slashgear

In an announcement today, Facebook’s VR company Oculus revealed plans to release an updated user interface for its Oculus Quest headset. Oculus calls this a ‘major update’ to its system, one that will bring a more ‘flexible and social’ experience for users. Headset owners can expect multi-window support for 2D applications, a redesigned universal menu, and more.

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Oculus Quest System Update to Make Multitasking Easier, Experimental Features Coming Soon

Road to VR

In place of GDC this year, which was postponed due to the coronavirus , Facebook is announcing some of its news via the decidedly more sterile environment of the Oculus blog, starting today and going until Thursday, March 19th. Today, the company unveiled its next major update to the Oculus Quest system experience. Facebook says in a blog post that its next Quest update will make VR “more flexible, social, and easy to use than ever before,” touting a redesigned Universal Menu, new im

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Facebook Enhance the Oculus Quest Experience With New UI, Multitasking & More

Peter Graham

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) might not be taking place this week but that isn’t stopping Facebook and Oculus from rolling out the announcements. Today sees the company reveal new improvements for standalone headset Oculus Quest, with a new user interface, immersive overlays and support for multitasking. Oculus wants the headset to be more than just a gaming platform, more akin to a laptop or smartphones which everyone uses in their everyday lives.

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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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OpenXR Coming to Quest & Rift Developers Soon in Prototype Release

Road to VR

Facebook today announced that a prototype version of OpenXR , the royalty-free open standard from The Khronos Group, will be available to Oculus Quest and Rift developers in an update coming later this month. OpenXR is a work-in-progress standard that aims to unify the underlying connections between VR and AR hardware, game engines, and content, making for a more interoperable ecosystem.

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First Trailer For Sword Reverie Reveals JRPG Inspired Gameplay

Peter Graham

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) might have been cancelled but that isn’t going to stop studios around the world from showcasing their latest projects. Isekai Entertainment, a studio focused on creating anime and manga-inspired virtual reality (VR) titles has just released its first official trailer for Sword Reverie, an action-adventure videogame slated for release later this year. .

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Cosmos Elite & External Tracking Faceplate Review – Better Tracking, Same Core Issue

Road to VR

HTC’s Vive Cosmos Elite headset is set to ship on the 18th and we’ve been testing the unit to bring you a full review. Cosmos Elite is the same base headset as Cosmos, but equipped with a faceplate that offers SteamVR Tracking instead of inside-out tracking. HTC also plans to also sell the ‘External Tracking Faceplate’ separately so that Cosmos users have the option to upgrade.

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Introducing the New Oculus Quest System Experience

Oculus

The VR platform of the future must enable people to multitask easily, navigate between apps seamlessly, stay connected with others, and quite simply do more.

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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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Cosmos External Tracking Faceplate Delayed Due to Coronavirus, Cosmos Elite Still on Track to Ship

Road to VR

The supply chain slowdown due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) has affected a few notable VR companies, including Valve and Facebook with their respective flagship headsets. Now it seems HTC is experiencing similar issues with its upcoming SteamVR External Tracking Faceplate for its recently released PC VR headset, Vive Cosmos. While HTC’s full Cosmos Elite package will be ready to ship by the original March 18th launch date, the platform’s first foray into modularity is taking a hit du

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Where’s the Zoom of VR?

TechCrunch VR

Remote collaboration tools like Zoom are gathering massive amounts of attention as people begin working from home en masse. But, as with most trends, virtual reality seems to be sitting out this boom. This should be surprising to absolutely no one, but the lack of widespread adoption is not for lack of trying. Virtual reality has already had a rough couple of years.

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Over 20 Titles on Oculus Quest Have Achieved $1m in Revenue

Peter Graham

Facebook has begun its Game Developers Showcase today with lots of Oculus Quest news. By the end of the month, there’s going to be a raft of experimental features coming including a whole new dashboard. Also in the announcements were several important facts about how well developers on the platform are doing and the influx of gamers the company is seeing. .

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Facebook: Game Developers Showcase News

Oculus

Welcome to the Facebook: Game Developers Showcase! Now through March 19, you can tune in for breaking updates and new trailers from hotly anticipated titles.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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New Lies Beneath Gameplay Videos Surface

Peter Graham

A couple of weeks ago Drifter Entertainment revealed its latest virtual reality (VR) project was a scary first-person shooter (FPS) called Lies Beneath. Even more surprising was the speed of the launch, first coming to Oculus Quest at the end of the month. Naturally, the studio has begun releasing several gameplay videos to highlight some of Lies Beneath’s features.

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Celebrating Women in VR: Q&A with Helen McWilliams

Oculus

International Women's Day may be one day out of the year, but Oculus is celebrating all month. So, today, I'd like to highlight one of.

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