The Ghost Howls
JULY 29, 2019
You probably have heard about Leap Motion’s Project North Star , that should be able to offer people affordable augmented reality. Anyway, there’s still a lot of confusion and mistery about this device. There are some typical questions that arise in the mind of the AR enthusiasts of the world: how is it? Is it good? Is it easy to assemble one?
VRScout
JULY 29, 2019
Get your mullets ready; MacGyver is heading to VR in 2020. We’ve seen a lot of bizarre VR adaptations over the past couple of years, whether it be the confusing VR sequel to the classic 1993 Bill Murray film, Groundhog Day , or a surprisingly-physical location-based VR experience centered around the Jack Ryan Amazon series. . Last week Imverse , a voxel graphics company specializing in location-based entertainment and 3D technology, announced a new location-based VR escape room experience center
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Road to VR
JULY 29, 2019
Mozilla has finally brought its made-for-VR web browser, Firefox Reality, to Oculus Quest. In September of last year, the company initially released Firefox Reality on Oculus Go, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and Vive Focus (and other Vive Wave headsets) for free. Now, according to a press statement , users on Quest can jump into the immersive web with what Mozilla calls “sharp text, high quality videos, and a seamless transition from 2D to 3D immersive modes.” The company also boasts that
AR Insider
JULY 29, 2019
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. For Snap, 2019 will be remembered for a sizeable rebound. We don’t know where it will go from here, but the company has demonstrated quite a turnaround from its beleaguered post-IPO run.
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.
Road to VR
JULY 29, 2019
OpenXR, a widely supported initiative which aims to streamline AR/VR development across headsets and platforms, has reached its 1.0 release today. It’s a major milestone, according to Khronos Group which has overseen development of the standard by a consortium of many of the biggest names in the AR/VR sector. OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to unify the underlying connections between VR and AR hardware, game engines, and content, making for a more interoperable ecosystem.
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ARPost
JULY 29, 2019
When many of us think about some of our favorite VR experiences , we probably think about games first. However, more and more video content is made using VR all the time. It was only a matter of time before Amazon got involved. Their new streaming service for VR experiences launched last week. Introducing Prime Video VR. The site, Prime Video VR , launched on July 24, according to a release shared with ARPost.
Next Reality AR
JULY 29, 2019
The latest immersive production from Magic Leap Studios finally got its debut on Monday at Siggraph, during which the company also released the app to the general public, so we took it for a spin. It's called Undersea, and its goal is to submerge you in a virtual environment that makes it seem as though your surroundings have been suddenly sunken to the bottom of the ocean.
Road to VR
JULY 29, 2019
NOLO VR , the Beijing-based VR startup behind one of the earliest mobile 6DOF tracking platforms, announced the completion of the $15 million series A+ financing. The funding round was led by Joy Capital, followed by BlueRun Ventures and Peakview Capital. Joy Capital’s involvement in Nolo’s latest funding road comes alongside a broader $700 million investment in various early stage startups across a variety of sectors.
Next Reality AR
JULY 29, 2019
In recent years, the US military has been utilizing augmented reality as a training tool, giving officers and soldiers an opportunity to train and hone their decision-making, tactical efforts, and weapons accuracy via virtual scenarios. Now, the US Navy is also delving into the AR space at the Center for Security Forces Detachment in Currituck County, North Carolina.
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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.
Charlie Fink
JULY 29, 2019
Aris MD has discovered its NASA award winning method for turning medical scans into 3D spaces can do the same for industrial scanning.
Peter Graham
JULY 29, 2019
To help grow and support the growing virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) industries, The Khronos Group and its affiliates have been working on the OpenXR standard since 2016. Today, the consortium has announced the launch of the 1.0 OpenXR specification. The public release of the OpenXR specification creates a unifying, royalty-free, open standard for cross-platform access between XR platforms and devices.
Peter Graham
JULY 29, 2019
When Schell Games announced its next big title earlier this year, Until You Fall, it certainly seemed like a different venture from the team’s previous virtual reality (VR) titles. Having created the comedic escape-room experience I Expect You to Die and colourful puzzler Water Bears VR, Until You Fall is poles apart from these previous videogames.
Peter Graham
JULY 29, 2019
There are a growing number of military shooters for virtual reality (VR) headsets, some good, some not so. South Korean developer Dragonfly is hoping to break into this market by reimagining an old PC title from 2004, Special Force. For 2019 the studio will launch Special Force VR: Infinity War for VR headsets compatible with Steam. Special Force VR: Infinity War brings the storyline from its original IP, set in the near-future where a new cold war has broken out between the US, Russia and
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.
Peter Graham
JULY 29, 2019
Film festivals around the world have been embracing immersive content creation for a while now, with the likes of Sundance, Tribeca and even prestigious events such as the Venice International Film Festival welcome new crops of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) content. Later this year, and returning for its fourth instalment is Co_Lab_Create , an XR event held alongside the Byron Bay International Film Festival.
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