Fri.Oct 13, 2017

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This VR ‘Extravaganza’ Puts You Inside a Puppet Show from Hell

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Director Ethan Shaftel’s satirical short starring Paul Scheer and John Gemberling makes its public debut. We’re in desperate need of more comedy within VR. We’ve seen plenty of horror, action, travel and documentaries, but it seems as though creators are still a little hesitant to dip their toes into humorous 360° content. Well popular VR studio and content distribution Wevr recognizes this unfortunate drought and as a result, has released a brand new immersive short sure to have you cracking up

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Apple CEO on AR Headsets: ‘We don’t want to be first, we want to be the best’

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Apple CEO Tim Cook thinks augmented reality is going to be something big, a fairly simple claim to make thanks to the company’s recent inclusion of its AR tech into every Apple device capable of updating to iOS 11. But when we talk about AR, the natural terminus isn’t the smartphone’s screen, but rather a perfectly immersive pair of AR glasses that have yet to come.

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Eye Doctors Can Now Prescribe VR Lazy-eye Treatment for Home Use

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Vivid Vision offers a virtual reality based treatment for lazy eye disorders. Optometrists have been able to use the company’s treatment in their practice since 2015; this week Vivid Vision announced a new offering for the hardware/software-based eye-treatment that extends lazy eye treatment to the home. Founded by James Blaha in 2013, Vivid Vision (formerly called Diplopia) is a virtual reality treatment for lazy eye disorders—characterized by both eyes not cooperating normally to achieve

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Pixar Announces First VR Project ‘Coco VR’, a ‘Next level social experience’

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Revealed during the Oculus Connect 4 keynote today, Coco VR is Pixar Animation Studios’ first-ever VR project, coming to Oculus Rift and Gear VR. Timed with the launch of Disney-Pixar’s new animated film Coco in November, Coco VR is described as a “next level social virtual reality” experience. The brief gameplay footage shown the trailer, which appears to run at an unusually low framerate, shows various scenes in which players appear as characters from the Land of the Dead, with plenty of inter

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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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Oculus Gets Down to Business With New Rift Bundle Aimed at Commercial Use

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A new commercial-focused hardware bundle including Rift headset, Touch controllers, three Sensors, and three facial interfaces was revealed at Oculus Connect 4 this week. The bundle, which can be ordered in bulk, for the first time offers a commercial license, enterprise-grade warranty, and dedicated customer support. Hugo Barra, VP of Virtual Reality at Facebook, announced the Oculus for Business program on stage during the event’s opening keynote, highlighting two examples of existing co

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Hands-on: ‘Windlands 2’ Gets a Change in Tone with the Addition of Co-op Combat

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Windlands (2016), the high-flying exploration game from Psytec Games , is getting a sequel next year that’s looking to alter its predecessor’s formula with the addition of co-op adventuring as well as combat. We got a hands-on with the newly revealed game at this year’s Oculus Connect, which puts a bow and arrow in your hands on top of your trusty grappling hooks.

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Oculus Friday the 13th Flash Sale Brings Deep Discounts to Spooky Rift Games

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Just in time for the superstitious day of ‘Friday the 13th’, a one day flash sale on the Oculus store offers up some big discounts on scary & suspenseful games. With Halloween approaching, it’s a ripe time to load up your VR library with scary games. Today-only Oculus is offering discounts on 15 spooky titles : Game. Sale Price.

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Don’t Miss Your Last Chance to Get ‘Echo Arena’ For Free

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After October 20th, zero-gravity multiplayer sports game Echo Arena will no longer be free and will become priced at $20. The standalone multiplayer spin-off from Ready at Dawn’s hit VR title Lone Echo has been available for free to all Oculus accounts since its launch in July , but the limited time offer is coming to an end in just over a week. Anyone with an Oculus account just needs to claim Echo Arena from the Oculus Store in order to ‘own’ the title indefinitely.

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