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APRIL 11, 2018

How a group of high school students used VR to bring their coursework to life. The most exciting possibility that Immersive Technologies bring are to accelerate and supplement learning in ways that simply haven’t been possible, practical, or scalable before. Students are now able to showcase their imagination, creativity and content mastery in new ways, allowing teachers to recognize the extent of their understanding, and classmates to learn in an intensely immersive experience.

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APRIL 11, 2018

Tune in to Coachella’s YouTube Channel to watch select live performances April 13 – 15. One of the first festivals to bring VR to the masses with custom Google Cardboard headsets mailed to ticket holders back in 2016 , Coachella has aways been experimenting with immersive technology and exploring new ways they can bring the music festival experience to the rest of the world unable to attend.

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APRIL 11, 2018

Teardown experts iFixit have disassembled the new Vive Pro to see what they could find. In addition to confirming that the headset’s new displays are made by Samsung, the organization also gave the headset a favorable repairability score. IFixit , which provides repair manuals and tools for consumer electronics, is the king of teardowns, and their latest victim is newly released Vive Pro.

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APRIL 11, 2018

(Image courtesy CGTrader.). With sexism still strong in the gaming industry, a Europe-based 3D model marketplace is looking to create a welcoming place for women developers in the surging virtual reality industry. With almost as many women using virtual reality as men — 14 percent versus 20 percent, according to a study by EY — the VR industry does not seem like it should be a boys-only playground.

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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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APRIL 11, 2018

vTime , the social VR platform, today announced the closure of a $7.6 million (£5.4 million) Series A funding round led by Deepbridge Capital with included investment from Liverpool, UK-based institutional loan and equity provider MSIF. vTime founder and CEO Martin Kenwright says the investment will “accelerate global growth and product development, and fuel R&D for the brand’s augmented reality (AR) experience coming later in the year.” “The advent of consumer AR at scale

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APRIL 11, 2018

Google this week introduced a new “High Quality” option for their Jump Assembler, an automated 3D 360 video stitching service for creators shooting with Jump cameras. The new approach brings more accurate stitching with enhanced depth maps resulting in sharper 3D output. In a blog post this week, Google software engineer David Gallup detailed the new High Quality stitching option for creators using the Jump Assembler.

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APRIL 11, 2018

Steve Spielberg’s newest virtual-reality fantasy “Ready Player One” hit theaters last month and stirred up a whole round of discussion on VR technology. The film is based on Ernest Cline’s 2011 bestselling of the same title novel, which features characters escaping harsh reality by plugging on virtual reality headsets and entering into an immersive virtual universe, OASIS.

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APRIL 11, 2018

The Dubai Mall, one of the world’s largest shopping complexes, is now home to VR Park , an indoor theme park spanning two floors and over 75,000 square feet of space, offering a wide variety of VR experiences, including several physical rides. At the opening of the park we went hands-on with the main attractions, many of which utilise the high-resolution, high-FOV StarVR headset.

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Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2018

Developer Tomáš ‘Frooxius’ Marian?ík, known for his work on the early Oculus experience SightLine , just released word that his latest project, NeosVR , is right around the corner and heading into beta soon. Marian?ík describes NeosVR as a “metaverse engine,” although you might think of it more as a multi-user platform that lets you build worlds and experiences in VR itself while collaborating with others in real-time.

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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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