Road to VR

JULY 20, 2019

The Knight Foundation, focused on journalism and the arts, is opening a call-for-ideas from creatives and organizations using immersive technology to bring art to their audiences. Selected projects will be awarded a share of a $750,000 grant pool, as well as mentorship and “technology support” from Microsoft. Founded in 1950, the Knight Foundation is the legacy of John “Jack” Knight and James “Jim” Knight, brothers who founded Knight Newspapers.

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Peter Graham

JULY 20, 2019

Dog’s might be called ‘man’s best friend’ but that’s generally because they’re highly dependant on their owners. Cats, on the other hand, are a law unto themselves, one-minute loving and adoring the next nonchalant and dispassionate. It’s why if the human race suddenly vanished off the face of the earth, cats would probably do a lot better than dogs.

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VRScout

JULY 20, 2019

German engineers have created a VR controller that gives you the sensation of weight in VR. Haptic feedback from your controllers plays a pretty big role in your VR experience. It adds a physical layer that allows you to feel digital objects in VR (sort of). Hit an object with your virtual hand and the controllers will quickly vibrate, giving you that sensation of two objects colliding; take a punch from Clubber Lang in Creed: Rise to Glory , and you’ll feel your controller rumble.

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Oculus

JULY 20, 2019

It’s been a great week for VR!

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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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