Fri.May 22, 2020

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Adventure Lab Offers VR Escape Rooms With Live Hosts On Oculus Quest

VRScout

Team-up with friends online for a one-of-a-kind remote location-based experience. Created by the newly launched company Adventure Lab , Dr. Crumb’s School for Disobedient Pets is a live-hosted multiplayer game brings to life the fantasy tabletop role-playing genre in a way only VR can. You are an agent for the Virtual Intelligence Agency (V.I.A.), an underground group that uses VR technology to solve mysteries that the more traditional authorities can’t seem to unravel.

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XR Talks: Advertising in the ‘Experience Economy’

AR Insider

XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, as well as narrative analysis and top takeaways. Speakers’ opinions are their own. A R comes in many flavors. That includes everything from gaming to commerce to enterprise productivity. But the most lucrative form to date has been AR advertising.

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Nreal Announces Dev Kit Bundle, Partnership, and New MR Game

ARPost

ARPost has been following Nreal for a while now, and they just shared a gem that we can’t wait to pass on. The release included several layers of content – some for general users and some for developers. We’ll start with the general public announcements and finish on the developer notes. Let’s dive in. Web XR Support. WebXR, the ability to host XR experiences on websites, will be supported by Nreal.

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Facebook’s ‘Oculus for Business’ Quest Enterprise Platform is Finally Openly Available

Road to VR

Facebook today announced that its Oculus for Business program is finally openly available. The program, which was announced more than a year ago, was slow to roll out as Facebook dealt only with a small number of select partners. Now any business can purchase the $1,000 business-ready version of Quest. The consumer version of Quest (128GB) starts at $500 and is largely designed for gaming and entertainment.

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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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This Week In XR: Virtual AWE, HTC Invests In VR Conferences, Happy Birthday Quest

Charlie Fink

We're about to find out if virtual conferences will work.

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RoboVacs, Power Banks, and Wireless Earbuds: The Best Anker and Eufy Deals of the Day

GizModo VR

Featured Deal: Anker Roav Dual Dash Cam | $90 (Coupon + code: DUALDC519) Read more.

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

The Ghost Howls

Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest , thanks to an affordable device running great content , it is making strides in the market. But in the enterprise space, it has always been behind the competition of companies like HTC or Pico. It tried to change this situation 3 years ago, when at OC4 it announced the Oculus For Business program, aimed at selling enterprise version of its devices.

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GIVEAWAY! Oculus Quest Makes 100 Million, Goodbye Link Cable. Ep. 2

Full Dive Gaming

Welcome to the Full Dive Gaming podcast, bringing a weekly dive of all the news, discussion, and condensed nerd talk you need for VR gaming every Friday. We begin our second week of the podcast with a quick announcement regarding two VR game giveaways. Then with the news, 5:50 Oculus makes 100 million in Quest software sales, 9:10 you can now use USB 2.0 cables for the Quest Link, 13:34 BeatSaber gets a new update with lots of content, and 17:40 Oculus officially implements Oculus Quest hand tra

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Idle Hands etc. etc.

Doc-Ok

A friendly redditor sent me this link to a popular post on /r/funny yesterday (see Figure 1 for the picture). I might have mentioned before how it was that exact scene in the original Star Wars movie that got me into 3D computer graphics and later VR, so it got me thinking how that particular shot would have looked like if the miniature ILM used to film the trench run scene had not been flat , but exhibited the proper scaled curvature of the Death Star.

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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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Catch the ?SXSW 2020 Virtual Cinema? Event, May 22 ? 31 on Oculus TV

Oculus

Over the last few months, we’ve seen an extraordinary lineup of cinematic experiences on Oculus TV. From The Key and Dear Mom to When We.

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Facebook Shows Prototype AR/VR Interface Designed to Replace Your Laptop

Road to VR

In light of the global pandemic, Facebook announced last week it was making way for more productivity and collaboration apps on the Oculus Store to help bridge businesses together in a time of social distancing. Now, Facebook has shown off a concept interface that gives us a peek into what the company calls “the future of augmented workspace.” Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, Facebook’s VP of AR/VR, showed off the concept yesterday which he says uses a prototype VR headset.

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