Wed.Nov 13, 2019

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Turn Your Home Into A Mixed Reality Record Store With Spotify On Magic Leap

VRScout

Playlists change depending on what room you’re currently in. Spotify — the Starbucks Coffee equivalent to digital music streaming — this week announced its arrival on the Magic Leap One mixed reality headset, adding yet another entry into its list of compatible devices. Available for download now via Magic Leap World, the Spotify mixed reality app allows Premium subscribers to access their personal catalog of music and playlists in a mixed reality setting.

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Oculus & Unity Release Free VR Development Course with 20 Hours of Content

Road to VR

Already have some basic game dev experience and looking to get into VR? Then you may be interested in Oculus and Unity’s new intermediate level VR game development course, which is not only free, but can get you some valuable feedback from Oculus on your creation. Called ‘ Design, develop and deploy for VR ‘, the course is said to offer extensive intermediate level training that takes you through all aspects of creating a VR game by helping you build a vertical slice of an esca

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Last Labyrinth Is A Nightmare-Fueled Escape Room Tailor-Made For VR

VRScout

Silent Hill meets Saw in this uniquely-crafted horror puzzler experience. Last Labyrinth released worldwide on major VR headsets today and sufficeth to say AMATA K.K.’s escape-room-style experience is nothing short of horrific. Not in terms of quality; far from it in fact. The adventure puzzle experience is loaded with complex challenges and features a natural character interaction system that perfectly compliments the VR format.

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John Carmack Moves to “Consulting CTO” Role to Make Time for Non-Oculus Ventures

Road to VR

Legendary programmer and Oculus CTO John Carmack today announced he’ll be moving to a “consulting CTO” role in order to reduce his time spent at the company to a “modest slice.” This, he says, will make way for him to pursue new ventures outside of VR. Carmack announced his move from Oculus full-time CTO to much-less-than-full-time CTO in a Facebook post today : Starting this week, I’m moving to a “Consulting CTO” position with Oculus.

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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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HitMotion:Reloaded launches in Early Access on Nov. 27th, watch the trailer here

The Ghost Howls

With great joy, today we of New Technology Walkers are going to share new details about our upcoming game HitMotion: Reloaded! Do we want to start with the coolest of them all? Have a look at our official launch trailer! I think our friends at MID Studio have made an amazing job in creating a short video that could make people curious about it… and you?

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Snapchat Transports Gucci Fans to Trippy Tropical Island for Holiday Promotion

Next Reality AR

Baby, it's cold outside, but, with some help from Snapchat augmented reality, Gucci is thawing our wintery hearths with a virtual trip to the tropics. On Wednesday, Snapchat launched a Portal Lens for Gucci designed to mirror the brand's Gift Giving advertising campaign featuring the photography of director and screenwriter Harmony Korine (Gummo, Spring Breakers, Kids).

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HoloLens 2: A Look into the Technology Powering Microsoft’s New MR Headset

ARPost

Over three years ago, technology giant Microsoft released its mixed reality headset. After all that time, the HoloLens remains one of the most technologically advanced MR headsets on the market. It’s also one of the most expensive. That doesn’t mean that the HoloLens 2 hasn’t been highly anticipated. Microsoft announced the second generation model earlier this year.

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Magic Leap Adds Spotify Music to Growing Arsenal of Spatial Computing Apps

Next Reality AR

The spatial computing world of Magic Leap is no longer limited to the rarefied tones of Sigur Rós and Sennheiser's Ambeo Augmented Audio app. Now, the entire music universe will be at your augmented reality fingertips. On Wednesday, Spotify launched its music app specially made for the Magic Leap One. Don't Miss: 5 Magic Leap Apps You're Probably Missing, Including Star Wars, the Magicverse Matrix, AR Jenga, & More The app is available to Spotify Premium users, a service that allows users to

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Digital Statues as ‘Stormland’s’ Pre-order Bonus Portend a Curious Future of Virtual Merch

Road to VR

Stormland , the VR open-world adventure from Insomniac Games, is set to launch tomorrow. The studio isn’t only offering the chance to unlock virtual collectibles for display in your Oculus Home when you actually play the game (a function made available to Rift platform titles some time ago), but in a bid to coax pre-orders, Insomniac is also offering exclusive collectibles to anyone who plonks down the $40 now before it goes live, raising a few important questions: ‘Are VR digital pr

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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A Fisherman’s Tale wins 'VR Game of the Year' at The VR Awards, shortly ahead of its Oculus Quest launch

Cats and VR

Vertigo Games and Innerspace VR have won at the VR Awards in the ‘VR Game of The Year’ category with their VR title A Fisherman’s Tale, only weeks ahead of the game's launch on Oculus Quest later this year. In addition to winning the prestigious award, Vertigo Games' Arizona Sunshine - LB VR Edition was nominated in the ‘Out-of-Home VR Entertainment of the Year’ category.

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Gaming legend John Carmack moving away from Oculus and into AI

Slashgear

There are few game developers who have achieved rockstar fame as much as the two Johns of the former id Software. And of the two, one is moving on from games or at least from working on games directly. John Carmack will always be remembered for his pioneering work not only iconic franchises such as Doom and Wolfenstein 3D but … Continue reading.

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Oculus & Unity Team up to Teach you how to Build a VR Game

Peter Graham

After playing hours and hours of virtual reality (VR) content have you ever wanted to make your own immersive videogame? While it might seem daunting, Oculus and Unity want to make that process a little easier. So they’ve teamed up to create a course to help anyone out there who’s interested in learning about all aspects of VR creation. Now you can’t just go in cold having never even looked at Unity (a game engine by the way).

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Tower Tag Pricing Reduction On SpringboardVR Due To Breakout Success

SpringboardVR

Competitive VR Shooter, Tower Tag, has been taking over Asia and its LBE debut around the world is starting off strong. So strong that the VR Nerds team has issued a price reduction! It might have been the best VR game you’ve never heard of, but that is changing fast. Tower Tag took Asia by storm and last month launched on the SpringboardVR platform in North America and Canada.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Remote meetings are here to stay - and many are BORING. If you are trying to engage your learners (or any audience), compelling content is critical. But trying to create stimulating content with the same tools you’ve always had is hard, right? Thankfully, wrong! Terrific tools in PowerPoint along with visual assets help you create the kind of dynamic content you need to capture your remote audience’s attention, with functions that allow for interactive sequences and navigation.

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Vive Developer Day Comes to VR Days Europe

Peter Graham

VR Days Europe is one of the biggest events dedicated to virtual reality (VR) on the continent, offering a chance for industry professionals from across the globe to get together and discuss what’s happening now and in the future. As part of the three-day event HTC Vive will be hosting its bi-annual Vive Developer Day on Friday. Part of the Vive X accelerator programme, the Vive Developer Day in Europe will offer developers a series of workshops, talks and panels to help them make the most

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‘Stormland’ Review – The New Bar for VR Open-world Adventure

Road to VR

With Stormland , Insomniac Games set out to figure out if an open-world adventure game could really work in VR. The result? Not just ‘the new bar’, but a rather high one at that (not to mention one of VR’s first great co-op games). Stormland Details: Official Site. Developer: Insomniac Games. Available On: Oculus ( Rift ). Reviewed On: Rift S, Rift CV1.

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Review: The Curious Tale of the Stolen Pets

Peter Graham

It’s always nice when virtual reality (VR) developers really experiment and try something different and a bit left field, whether it works or not. These titles can quite often be the hidden gaming gems that don’t get all the attention and praise but are still worth your time and effort. Fast Travel Games’ The Curious Tale of the Stolen Pets falls into this category.

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Behind-the-Scenes of ‘Stormland’ with Insomniac Games Lead Gameplay Programmer Joel Bartley

Oculus

Stormland comes out tomorrow from Insomniac Games, and IGN just released the highly anticipated launch trailer. Take a look at what’s in store for the.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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Review: Stormland

Peter Graham

Insomniac Games as built a reputation for high quality virtual reality (VR) titles over the past few years, beginning with single-player experience Edge of Nowhere and then delving into eSports territory with The Unspoken. All Oculus Rift exclusives, a trend which may soon be coming to an end thanks to the studios’ acquisition by Sony Worldwide Studios.

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‘Last Labyrinth’ Brings Escape Room Adventure Home to Oculus Quest and the Rift Platform

Oculus

Trapped in a merciless mansion with hidden dangers at nearly every turn, how will you find your way out? New from AMATA K.K., Last Labyrinth.

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What AR Business Models Drive the Most Revenue?

AR Insider

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Mobile AR Strategies & Business Models. It includes some of its data and takeaways. More can be previewed here and subscribe for the full report. In AR’s early stages, a common question continues to be asked: where’s the money? There have been oscillations in excitement and doubt over AR, but the ultimate proof point will be revenue.

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Building the Foundation of XR with 5G, with Nokia’s Sandro Tavares

XR for Business Podcast

We’ve had a lot of people from a lot of different industries on XR for Business, and many of them have espoused how much things are going to change when the world finally has a global 5G network to work on. Well, in today’s episode, we have one of the folks responsible for laying the groundwork for that network — Nokia’s Sandro Tavares — on to talk about how that’s coming along.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning

Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?

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Building the Foundation of XR with 5G, with Nokia’s Sandro Tavares

XR for Business Podcast

We’ve had a lot of people from a lot of different industries on XR for Business, and many of them have espoused how much things are going to change when the world finally has a global 5G network to work on. Well, in today’s episode, we have one of the folks responsible for laying the groundwork for that network — Nokia’s Sandro Tavares — on to talk about how that’s coming along.

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Building the Foundation of XR with 5G, with Nokia's Sandro Tavares

XR for Business Podcast

We've had a lot of people from a lot of different industries on XR for Business, and many of them have espoused how much things are going to change when the world finally has a global 5G network to work on. Well, in today's episode, we have one of the folks responsible for laying the groundwork for that network -- Nokia's Sandro Tavares -- on to talk about how that's coming along.

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