VRScout
JUNE 28, 2018
The popular online payment platform patents AR glasses in hopes of a ‘look-and-buy’ economy. Have you ever wished you could just walk down an aisle at any store, and simply look at an item to find out if it was in stock, how much it cost, what the payment options are, get information on the return policy and then purchase the item without ever having to go through a checkout or even pulling out your smartphone or credit card?
Next Reality AR
JUNE 28, 2018
Location-based gaming pioneer Niantic has offered a preview of its augmented reality cloud platform that could change the immersive content game yet again. Previously disclosed by Niantic CEO John Hanke in an interview, the Niantic Real World Platform for mobile apps enables not only multiplayer, cross-platform augmented reality experiences, but also facilitates environmental understanding for occlusion, or the ability for AR content to appear in front of or disappear behind objects in the real
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Road to VR
JUNE 28, 2018
Medium , Oculus’ first-party VR sculpting and modeling tool, today gets a major update in version 2.0, bringing better performance, improved tools, and the ability to export your creations into your own Oculus Home space. Having launched Medium initially back in late 2016, Oculus has been continuing to tune the tool for the needs of professional artists and modelers.
Next Reality AR
JUNE 28, 2018
The spirit of Google's Tango augmented reality platform lives on at Vivo, a China-based company that has developed its own 3D sensor for mobile devices. Presented during this week's Mobile World Congress in Shanghai, the smartphone maker revealed its new the time-of-flight (ToF) 3D sensing technology and demonstrated its various features. The sensor is capable of mapping objects within three meters, which positions the sensor to compete with the iPhone X's TrueDepth camera, as opposed to the roo
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
JUNE 28, 2018
Bloomberg reported this week that the $500 million penalty levied at Oculus in last year’s case brought by ZeniMax has been reduced to $250 million. A motion seeking to prevent sales of Oculus products using code attributed to ZeniMax has been rejected, according to the publication. ZeniMax took Oculus to court after its acquisition by Facebook in 2014; the company alleged that Oculus stole intellectual property developed by Oculus’ now-CTO John Carmack back when he was employed by Z
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The Ghost Howls
JUNE 28, 2018
It is the time of MWC Shanghai and HTC has showcased some very cool stuff. The Taiwanese company has made people see demos of the Vive Focus features showcased at the Vive Ecosystem Conference : Gesture Detection, VRidge streaming, etc… One of the features that were announced was the possibility to use your phone as the controller for your VR headset , so that you could for instance play the guitar in VR.
Road to VR
JUNE 28, 2018
High Fidelity , the social VR platform founded by Second Life founder Philip Rosedale, today announced it’s successfully closed a $35 million Series D financing round. The company says it’s using the funds to continue development on its global infrastructure for VR experiences, to accelerate hiring, and to open a new office in Seattle.
Everything VR & AR
JUNE 28, 2018
Tyler Kem, Founder and CEO of Visionary Tax is our guest on this episode. Visionary Tax is a R&D tax credit consulting firm focused on providing valuable tax expertise to the emerging technology industries including artificial intelligence, blockchain, fintech, software development including virtual and augmented reality. Tyler talks about how R&D tax credits work, how they evolved, activities and expenses that qualify, and how foreign companies doing R&D work in the US can benefit.
Road to VR
JUNE 28, 2018
First Contact Entertainment today announced on the PlayStation blog that Firewall Zero Hour, the upcoming multiplayer VR shooter for PSVR, finally has a release date, and that a special PS Aim bundle will be available at launch. Heading to PSVR on 29th August, 2018, the four vs. four team-based shooter decidedly plays out much like Counter Strike or Rainbow Six.
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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.
VeeR VR
JUNE 28, 2018
Could VR give more realistic experiences? If yes, how? Those are questions every VR creator has been working on. The highest form of immersive media gives its viewers the feeling that they are viewing the scenes in person and directly with their own eyes. We perceive the real worlds around us with two eyes that are 2~3 inches apart. Whatever object we look at, its image gets projected on our left and right eye retinas at slightly different positions, and such binocular disparity helps us perceiv
Road to VR
JUNE 28, 2018
Oculus and Sanzaru Games today announced their upcoming co-op VR game for Rift, MARVEL Powers United VR, finally has a release date. The game, which lets you take on the powers of a number of Marvel superheroes, is slated to launch on July 26th. To boot, the studios also announced they’re including Black Panther to the lineup of playable characters.
Road to VR
JUNE 28, 2018
HTC and China Mobile Communications Corporation today jointly announced a partnership to “accelerate the proliferation of 5G infrastructure and devices in China.” Further, China Mobile, the country’s massive state-owned mobile phone carrier, will help HTC push its VR devices into more retail channels. At MWC Shanghai 2018 this week, China Mobile and HTC signed the “5G Device Forerunner Initiative,” a joint effort to develop the 5G mobile network ecosystem with infrastruct
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