Next Reality AR

MAY 24, 2019

The potential of augmented reality is often shown in science fiction movies, but a new exhibit marries the genre with very real world AR technology, to great effect. "Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy" is a new exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, and the best part of the display, called Worlds Reimagined, uses the HoloLens 1.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2019

Vacation Simulator (2019) , Owlchemy Labs ‘ recently released sequel to their smash hit VR parody game Job Simulator (2016) , seems to be garnering its fair share of kudos; Valve today announced that Vacation Simulator was one of the top 20 earners for all games released on Steam in April. In a Steam blog post , Valve says that only games released between April 1st – 30th were taken into consideration.

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Next Reality AR

MAY 24, 2019

The new film Brightburn, a horror take on the superhero genre produced by Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, debuted in theaters on Friday, and it has some promotional backing from Snapchat to drive ticket sales. Available via Snapcode, the augmented reality experience uses the front-facing camera on your smartphone. When Snapchat users raise their eyebrows, they are turned into the movie's eponymous anti-hero, complete with glowing eyes.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2019

Google seems to be taking somewhat of a step back from VR, as Variety reports the company will be shutting down its Jump program for good next month. Google posted an updated Jump FAQ recently regarding the shutdown of the VR video service, outlining that Jump will officially go offline on June 28th, 2019. The ability to upload video will be suspended on June 26th; the 27th is the cutoff date to back up whatever files you may have uploaded via the service.

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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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Charlie Fink

MAY 24, 2019

Our annual Augmented World Expo (AWE) curtain raiser. Over 7,000 people from around the world. are expected to attend this 10th anniversary edition.

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Charlie Fink

MAY 24, 2019

Big XR news this week with more to come as Augmented World Expo, the industry's largest XR conference and expo is May 29th, immediately followed by Apple's WWDC.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2019

Speaking this week at the Collision 2019 conference in Toronto, Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Vice President of Research and Development, Dominic Mallinson, detailed a number of “must-have ‘evolutionary’ improvements” for future VR headsets. As reported by VentureBeat , Mallinson reiterated that Sony is still strongly behind its PlayStation VR initiative, and has plans to continue its work in VR on PS5. “There are over 96 million PlayStation 4s in the mark

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VRScout

MAY 24, 2019

The perfect AR app for all your doodlin’ needs. A few short weeks ago, my friend and former colleague, the prolific Aidan Wolf , connected the dots between an old school effect built into a JVC camcorder and the seemingly infinite possibilities of AR resulting in an app he’s called, Doodle Cam. Inspired by a clip chronicling each camera ever used by James Rolfe, aka Angry Video Game Nerd, Wolf found inspiration in the “Title-Memory” effect.

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