Sun.Sep 29, 2019

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Microsoft Announces Release Date For Minecraft Earth AR Sandbox Mobile Game

VRScout

Move over Halloween, this October is all about Minecraft Earth. Returning once again to celebrate all things Minecraft, Mojang kicked off its annual MINECON Live event yesterday, revealing a bevy of new updates coming to the core experiences, a new cinematic for their upcoming spin-off title Minecraft Dungeons , as well as an official board game. . Of course, the news we’ve been most anxiously awaiting is the public release date for Minecraft Earth , an upcoming augmented reality sandbox mobile

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The VR Job Hub: Lucky VR, Fireproof Games & More

Peter Graham

It may be warm still but Autumn is definitely upon us and that means doing away with the light clothing and grabbing something warm and snuggly. As the seasons change its as good a time as any for a change in circumstances and job, with some quality vacancies available this week. Location. Company. Role. Link. Toronto, Canada. Lucky VR. Unity 3D Developer.

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Facebook’s plan for our post-web future

TechCrunch VR

Let us connect some dots. Five years ago, Facebook acquired VR pioneers Oculus for $2 billion. This week, it snapped up neural-interface pioneers CTRL-Labs for somewhere north of $500 million, and announced that its own massively multiplayer VR shared universe Horizon will launch early next year. Oculus became (somewhat creepily named) Facebook Reality Labs , headed by Andrew Bosworth , one of the company’s first 15 engineers, who also headed the company’s transition from desktop to

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All you need to know on Oculus Connect 6: the most important news in one single article!

The Ghost Howls

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. And as any year, Oculus has really amazed us: for sure you have already read my short recap published after the first keynote of OC6 where I told you about amazing stuff like Oculus Link, Facebook Horizon and Hands Tracking.

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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.