VRScout

APRIL 20, 2020

The Russo Brothers join Holoride’s new advisory board alongside Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey. Holoride, one of the leading companies in the rapidly-expanding in-vehicle entertainment industry, last week announced the formation of a brand new strategy board composed of several big names in both tech and entertainment. Included in this lineup of esteemed advisors are Anthony and Joseph Russo (aka the Russo Brothers), directors of numerous Marvel Cinematic adventures including Captain Amer

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AR Insider

APRIL 20, 2020

Data Point of the Week is AR Insider’s dive into the latest spatial computing figures. It includes data points, along with narrative insights and takeaways. For an indexed collection of data and reports, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. In “new normal” shelter-in-place life, lots of businesses are suffering — especially high touch services and local storefronts.

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VRScout

APRIL 20, 2020

Researchers at Purdue introduce a new source of sustainable energy powered by crustacean shells. When you hear the term “sustainable energy,” what exactly comes to mind? Wind turbines? Solar panels? Geothermal heating systems? As humanity continues its gradual shift away from nonrenewable resources, researchers are continuing to develop new and innovative ways of generating clean, sustainable energy.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2020

DigiLens , the Silicon Valley-based waveguide maker, today announced that Samsung’s venture capital group Samsung Ventures is increasing its stake in the company. At the time of this writing, neither firm has detailed the extent of the investment, stating simply that Samsung Ventures is again investing through a convertible debt instrument. DigiLens most recently closed its Series C financing back in May 2019 to the tune of $50 million, which saw Samsung Ventures join alongside UDC Venture

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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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ARPost

APRIL 20, 2020

Depending on where you are in the XR space, “VR headsets” and “elderly” may or may not go together. Sure, we don’t think of our grandparents playing Beat Saber. However, the elderly often struggle with social isolation as well as limited mobility. As a result, some elder-care facilities have used VR headsets as a way to help their home-bound residents.

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ARPost

APRIL 20, 2020

Depending on where you are in the XR space, “VR headsets” and “elderly” may or may not go together. Sure, we don’t think of our grandparents playing Beat Saber. However, the elderly often struggle with social isolation as well as limited mobility. As a result, some elder-care facilities have used VR headsets as a way to help their home-bound residents.

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EON Reality

APRIL 20, 2020

The former HTC, Google, and MTGx executive joins EON Reality to assist with investments, marketing, and sales strategy. EON Reality, the world leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer for industry and education, announces the addition of Rikard Steiber to its global Advisory Board. After serving as one of the most well-known executives in the VR industry for 4 years, Steiber recently left his position as the President of Viveport at HTC.

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EEVO

APRIL 20, 2020

Candidates used to come into the office to interview and get a tour. New global hires used to fly into the headquarters for onboarding. Will these things be changed for 6 months, a year, or maybe even forever for your company? Will you do all interviews and onboarding remotely? One of the big things we are discussing at eevo is the long-term effects of the fear created from COVID-19.

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EON Reality

APRIL 20, 2020

Approximately 200 students will create up to 500 lessons for the AVR Platform starting this month. EON Reality, the global leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer for industry and education, announces the latest large-scale adoption of the recent self-directed learning initiative at Al Akhawayn University in Morocco.

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With a rapidly changing economy, Avangrid Renewables looked to virtual reality to develop a standardized form of immersive training in order to onboard and upskill technicians faster than ever before.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Heeeeelllo VR people! It’s time for another mega roundup of news! But before reporting to you what has happened this week, I’m pleased to announce that I will actually be a speaker at AWE in the end! There won’t be a physical AWE, but there will be an online one, made through online webinars. The AWE Online Global will be held on May 26–29 and I will speak on May, 27th from 01:20 PM to 01:40 PM.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2020

Mozilla Hubs is the company’s impressive WebXR social app which allows users from almost any device (VR or not) to jump into a virtual room with the click of a link. But the company’s ambitions go much further; soon Mozilla will take a major step toward achieving its “master plan” by launching Hubs Cloud. Hubs is perhaps the most ambitious WebXR project to date—an entirely web-based, device agnostic virtual space that can be joined and shared with a plain old URL through

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