Peter Graham

DECEMBER 29, 2019

With the festive season now over it’s time to look ahead and into the new year. CES 2020 kicks January into gear with lots of exciting tech announcements but for those after a change, a new job role might be in order. So for this week’s VR Job Hub VRFocus has found vacancies from two of the biggest companies in the VR business, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) and HTC.

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Doc-Ok

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Here’s another frequently-asked question about VR headsets, or at least those that use LED-based displays: Why does my headset show dark grey when it’s supposed to show black? Shouldn’t LED displays be able to show perfect blacks? I addressed this in detail a long time ago , but the question keeps popping up, and it is often answered like the following: “LED display pixels have a memory effect when they are turned off completely, which causes ‘black smear.’ Th

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VRScout

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Immersive technology opens up new possibilities for athletes lacking access to professional training centers. A paramedic student by day and triathlete and track cyclist by night, 28-year-old Elliot Brown began his quest for Olympic glory three years ago after discovering the sport of skeleton racing. First introduced to the Winter Olympics in 1928, the high-risk sliding sport involves a single athlete racing headfirst down a frozen track using a small “skeleton bobsled.” .

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Doc-Ok

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Although I’ve taken many through-the-lens pictures of several common VR headsets with a calibrated wide-angle camera, until recently I was still struggling how to compare the resulting fields of view (FoV) quantitatively, how to put them in context, and how to visualize them appropriately. When trying to answer questions like “which VR headset has a bigger FoV?

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Happy Holidays and have a fantastic new year you all! I wish you a wonderful 2020! Of course, not much has happened in the VR field in these days, because most VR companies are in vacations, and VR journalists are not writing many posts as well (in these days, we just see a lot of fluff articles like “The best 25 games for Oculus Quest” and things like that).

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