Thu.Nov 01, 2018

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Oculus Reportedly Planning Minor ‘Rift S’ Upgrade For 2019

VRScout

Facebook has supposedly abandoned their plans for a next-gen Rift headset in favor of minor hardware updates. According to a new report by TechCrunch , Facebook has abandoned their plans for a next-gen Oculus Rift headset in favor of minor hardware updates to the original model. Currently referred to as ‘Rift S,’ this new iteration would feature several significant hardware updates to the popular PC VR headset, but not enough to warrant the title, ‘Oculus Rift 2.’.

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Walmart Turns Its iPhone App's Barcode Scanner into an Augmented Reality Price Comparison Tool

Next Reality AR

While many retailers have introduced try-before-you-buy features in their apps, Walmart has gone in another direction by bringing shoppers an augmented reality tool to help them compare products they want to buy. Available exclusively for iOS (app versions 18.20 and ARKit-compatible devices running at least iOS 11.3), shoppers can access the new tool through the existing barcode scanner by tapping the 3D cube icon.

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PanguVR mixes virtual reality and artificial intelligence to revolutionize interior design

The Ghost Howls

When I went to China , one of the companies that I wanted to visit was PanguVR , but unluckily its CEO was not available at that time because of some business stuff he had to do. PanguVR works with two amazing technologies like virtual reality and artificial intelligence , so I was really interested in talking with him. We agreed that we would have met virtually so that I could discover more about his company anyway.

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Noovie ARCade App Brings Wreck-It Ralph Movie Experience to Augmented Reality for Fans

Next Reality AR

One of the funniest scenes from the teaser trailer for the Wreck-It Ralph sequel is the basis for the new pre-show augmented reality experience via the Noovie ARCade app. Arriving in theaters on Nov. 21, Ralph Breaks the Internet finds the titular character expanding his digital travels beyond arcade games and onto the world wide web. Eventually, he finds his way into a children's mobile game called Pancake Milkshake Café, where hilarity ensues.

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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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Report: Oculus is Planning a Modest Upgrade to Rift, Releasing Early as Next Year

Road to VR

Oculus co-founder and Facebook’s head of PC VR Brendan Iribe is leaving the company amidst a TechCrunch report that Facebook cancelled its second iteration of Rift. Now, a new report maintains the company is heading in a different direction with a much less ambitious upgrade to Rift than the recent ‘Half Dome’ prototype would suggest.

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Report: Apple Nearly Acquired Leap Motion but the Deal Fell Through

Road to VR

According to a report from Business Insider , earlier this year Apple was on the verge of acquiring Leap Motion, but the deal fell through days before it was expected to close. According to the report, this is the second time in some six years that Apple had conversations with the company about an acquisition. Founded in 2010, Leap Motion develops leading optical hand-tracking software.

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Massive growth in the number of VR producers

Hypergrid Business

“We estimate that on average 1.5 new VR studios open for business somewhere in the world every day.”. “Regardless of what you or I may think about it the big brands are the ones sitting on the money to pay for top notch VR. And they are very much incentivized to pay.”. Virtual reality. (Image by Keith Cassatt.). Press release: The rumors of VR’s death have been greatly exaggerated.

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Target to Discount All PSVR Bundles by $100 on Black Friday

Road to VR

Retailers are already gearing up for this year’s big Black Friday deals, and Target is advertising one of the cheapest prices on PSVR bundles we’ve ever seen. At Target, all PSVR bundles are getting a $100 discount on November 23rd. In their Black Friday advert , the big box retailer is promoting the PSVR bundle with CREED: Rise to Glory (2018) and SUPERHOT VR (2017).

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No Headset Required: Lightform Is AR In The Real World

Charlie Fink

“We’re finally free from the rectangle,” Lightform CEO Brett Jones says. “The whole world is now a canvas.

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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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Oliver Noteware and Alice Formwalt of Street Smarts VR

Everything VR & AR

We are joined by Oliver Noteware Co-Founder & CEO and Alice Formwalt, Co-founder & CPO Street Smarts VR, which provides immersive virtual reality simulations for reality-based training of law enforcement and public safety personnel. Their mission is to improve policing outcomes and officer safety. Streeet Smarts VR recently won a $25,000 business grant from Bob Evans Farms (and a one-on-one mentoring session with Daymond John) to help further grow the company and provide more law enforce

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Build a Culture of Bottom-up Innovation and More Advice for Adopting AR/VR and Wearables

EnterpriseWear

In this video from last month’s Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit in Austin, Upskill’s Brian Ballard leads early wearable tech adopters from Toyota, Duke Energy, Merck and Southern Company in a discussion around strategies for accelerating an organization’s wearable journey. Though the panelists represent very different operating environments; they all agree that an agnostic approach to hardware, end user input and feedback, having systems of bottom-up innovation in place, line-side su

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Mixing Realities: Behind the scenes of our HaptX Gloves Trailer

HaptX

A colleague once told me, “Talking about VR is like dancing about architecture.” It’s hard to convey the experience of virtual reality through words and pictures. It’s even harder when you add touch to the mix. Outside of experiencing HaptX Gloves first-hand, we’ve found that video is the best medium to communicate how they feel, what they enable, and why they’re special.

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Build a Culture of Bottom-up Innovation and More Advice for Adopting AR/VR and Wearables

EnterpriseWear

In this video from last month’s Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit in Austin, Upskill’s Brian Ballard leads early wearable tech adopters from Toyota, Duke Energy, Merck and Southern Company in a discussion around strategies for accelerating an organization’s wearable journey. Though the panelists represent very different operating environments; they all agree that an agnostic approach to hardware, end user input and feedback, having systems of bottom-up innovation in place, line-side su

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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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Enjoy Ultra HD 4K 360/VR Videos

VeeR VR

We know your frustrations when you were watching a thrilling and highly emotional 360/VR videos and experienced a loss of quality in a sudden. That’s the worst thing when you get into the character’s world, especially in a highly immersive environment. So we engineered VeeR with one important goal in mind: make your VR videos look in the best quality.

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ESI Design Uses Unreal Engine To Create An AR-Inspired Lobby Experience

VRScout

A two year renovation has transformed The Crossroads lobby into an interactive digital experience powered by Unreal Engine. A Silicon Valley office building located in San Mateo, CA, called The Crossroads, recently completed a major structural overhaul that transformed its standard lobby from a drab entrance with muted colors and old dusty photos, into a state-of-the-art welcome area that uses the power of Unreal Engine, along with 86” high-definition 4K vertical LCD displays, to create an inter

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HTC Joins VirtualLink to Support Connection Standard for Future VR Headsets

Road to VR

Back in July, many of VR’s biggest players announced the VirtualLink Consortium , a group unified around creating a connection standard for future VR headsets. HTC was seemingly the odd one out back at the initial announcement, but this week the company joined the group in support of the standard. Representing most of the VR industry’s core hardware and software makers, NVIDIA, AMD, Valve, Oculus, and Microsoft were the initial members of the VirtualLink Consortium.

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