Sat.Oct 28, 2017

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Samsung Introduces Pro-focused ‘360 Round’ Camera for 4K 3D Livestreaming

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Announced at the Samsung Developer conference last week, the 360 Round is the company’s new camera for creating and streaming 4K 3D content. The camera appears to be a reboot of the ‘Project Beyond’ camera that the company introduced back in 2014 but never brought to market. A total of 17 lenses (eight stereo pairs aligned horizontal, and one centered vertical lens), and 6 internal microphones allows for capturing 3D 360 video and spatial audio.

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Hulu Gets In The Halloween Spirit With Huluween VR Experience

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Hulu’s new anthology of horror shorts accompanied by some spooky VR bonus content. With Halloween just around the corner, most fans of this incredible holiday are most likely deep into day-long scary movie marathons or already in candycorn-enduced comas. After all, every major streaming service on the market is stuffing its platforms with spooky movie and TV playlists.

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Gartner’s Brian Blau on the State of the VR & AR Industries

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Brian Blau is the vice president of research for personal technologies at Gartner Research where he’s in the business of making predictions about the consumer adoption of virtual reality and augmented reality technologies. I last interviewed Blau in 2015 when he was saying that his predictions were a lot more conservative than other analysts who were predicting more explosive growth for VR, and Blau tells me that his more conservative estimates have more closely matched with reality where

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Is VR Safe For Children? Leeds University Warns Against It

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We’ve covered VR and how it relates to health quite a few times before, but this is one of the first times in recent memory that we’ve covered a negative concern. As covered by The Guardian, researchers at Leeds University have performed a study on twenty children aged between 8 and 12. These children were tasked with playing a virtual reality game for 20 minutes, after which they were physically examined for signs of problems with eyesight, nausea and so on.

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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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Lucky Sevens From Sony Coming Monday

VRWorld

Looks like Sony is feeling pretty bold. At the upcoming Paris Games Week event, Sony will be unveiling 7 new games for the PS4, and at least a few of them are very likely to be PSVR titles. Proudly boasting in their blog post that “E3 was just the beginning”, Sony announces a livestream starting at 8 AM Pacific Time where they’ll provide updates on 21 games and announce seven new titles for PS4 and PSVR.

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