January, 2019

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Nissan Augmented Reality Concept Assists Drivers in Detecting Unseen Obstacles

Next Reality AR

While the technology companies continue to drive forward with autonomous vehicles, Nissan's vision of the future of self-driving automobiles lies in a cooperative experience between human and machine, facilitated by augmented reality. At CES 2019, which officially kicks off this week, Nissan will present its in-car augmented reality concept, dubbed Invisible-to-Visible (I2V), via an interactive 3D experience at its booth in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

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Analysis: Monthly Connected VR Headsets on Steam Have Grown Exponentially

Road to VR

Valve’s monthly Steam Survey has long offered some useful insight into which headsets are actively connected to users computers and the share of the Steam population that’s using each, but the figures provided are relative to the non-static Steam population, which obfuscates the actual adoption trend of VR headsets on the platform. To demystify the data, Road to VR has created a model which derives actual headset counts by correcting for Steam’s changing population.

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Neurosurgery Patients Take A VR Tour Of Their Own Brains

VRScout

Brain surgery can be a terrifying process; this VR tour of your brain could help ease anxiety. Catherine Kumpitsch was talking with her doctors about recent unexplained headaches, dizzy spells and other sensations she had never felt before. It was during that appointment that she began displaying symptoms associated with absence seizures , prompting her doctor to insist on immediate brain scans.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

It’s the beginning of 2019, and this means that this is that time of the year when we all make predictions for this year in AR and VR! We all love to make speculations on the technology and I am no exception. It is fun to make predictions … because if, after a year, you were right, you can say to everyone that you made a perfect prediction… and if you were wrong, you are sure that in one year everyone has forgotten what you had said!

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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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Escaping Into Virtuality

Tech Trends VR

As our reality becomes increasingly hard to deal with, is virtual escapism the answer? The late screenwriting legend William Goldman famously said; “nobody knows anything” so predictions – specially about technology – always run the risk of making people look silly in the not-so-distant-future. That said, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that in the next few years we’re going to see more people becoming “Virtual Reality Refugees.

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CES 2019 Delivers Dazzling Tech But Disappointing Experiences

Forrester VR

I spent this week in Las Vegas at CES to check out the latest and greatest technology wonders, ranging from 3D printing, AI, and cryptocurrency to drones, autonomous vehicles, dancing robots, and wearables. A lot of what I saw has broad CX implications for accessibility, healthcare, and more.

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VR Cameras Now on International Space Station to Capture Space Walks & Missions

Road to VR

Last month, TIME and Felix & Paul Studios launched VR cameras to the International Space Station (ISS) in a new project to bring viewers an intimate look aboard one of the most exclusive places in human existence. Dubbed The ISS Experience, over the course of the next year VR cameras will provide what the makers call “unprecedented access to a participatory experience—one that will culminate with the first-ever filming of a spacewalk in cinematic virtual reality.” The year-lon

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Escape H.H. Holmes’ Murder Castle In VR

VRScout

Navigate a booby-trapped hotel while evading the ‘Devil in the White City’ himself in this horrifying VR game. Next year will see the release of Martin Scorsese’s Devil in the White City , a film adaptation of Erik Larson’s 2003 novel detailing the horrendous activities of H.H. Holmes, America’s first recorded serial killer. Starring Leonardo Dicaprio as the depraved killer, the film will follow Holmes’ beginnings as a medical professional, all the way to his infamous ‘Murder Hotel’ in whi

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HTC announces Vive Pro Eye and Vive Cosmos at CES 2019

The Ghost Howls

The CES is going to start tomorrow, but today HTC has already made its great announcements, showing to the world the upcoming new hardware Vive Pro Eye, Vive Cosmos and software solutions Viveport Infinity and Vive Reality system. HTC loves to announce new stuff at CES : during this exhibition it has already announced the Vive Tracker in 2017 and the Vive Pro in 2018, for instance.

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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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Escaping from Augmented Reality

Tech Trends VR

Scriptum is a new AR escape room app that lets you step into another dimension. But will you be able to find the way out? It is really interesting with any new platform to see what types of games become popular as the medium evolves. And it’s often not what you’d expect. Even as mobiles became able to handle better graphics and high-speed Internet access on the move became ubiquitous, it was still the relatively simple games like FarmVille, Candy Crush and Angry Birds that stole the show and had

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Why Now is the Perfect Time to Start Using VR at Your Company

InstaVR

Why Now is the Perfect Time to Start Using VR at Your Company. Thinking of using VR at your company in 2019? There’s never been a better time! Virtual Reality, if CES is any indication, is going full steam ahead. Both 360-degree camera manufacturers and VR headset makers are displaying great “next generation” technology in Las Vegas — most of which is available now.

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Cinemark teams with Spaces for mixed-reality ‘Terminator’ experience

Slashgear

Virtual reality adventure company Spaces has teamed up with theater chain Cinemark to launch a new, immersive VR experience in San Jose, California. The new product will be found at the Westfield Oakridge Shopping Center starting on February 8, where visitors will experience a “4D” reality that includes 3D face scanning and other technologies centered in the “Terminator” universe.

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Oculus Just Made It Easier to Screencast Mobile VR Sessions to Your Phone

Road to VR

Oculus released screencasting in beta late last year, and while it’s been a great way of letting someone outside of VR see what’s happening during a VR session, the company just made this a lot easier in a recent update to the Oculus Mobile app. The only method before now to cast VR content to a phone using the Oculus Mobile App was to first initiate the cast from an in-headset menu, and then fumble with your phone to accept the invite.

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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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Doctors Are Using VR To Study 3D Models Of Tumors

VRScout

VR could drastically effect how researchers study cancer. Doctors at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK) are creating a new virtual lab that will build use VR to build 3D models of tumor samples, providing a new way to look at cancer. The researchers start by studying a tumor tissue biopsy – the researchers have started by looking at breast cancer – which is then sliced wafer-thin and stained with markers, like what would normally be examined under a standard microscope

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Lenovo Mirage Solo review: should you buy it?

The Ghost Howls

Various months ago, I got from Lenovo a Mirage Solo headset for a limited period of time to review it on my blog. I published various posts about it both here and on my social media channels, but I realized that I never published a proper review of the device. So, here we are, entering 2019 with me fulfilling my promise to Lenovo and closing this series of “should you buy it?

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Betting on Location-Based VR

Tech Trends VR

Mk2 partners with Secret Location to create worldwide VR distribution network. As Location-Based and cinematic VR continues to expand in a number of directions, with new cutting-edge arcades popping up all over the place, we’re also seeing some of the more established players in the immersive entertainment space collaborating as they figure out how best to scale and monetize this sector.

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New Feature Spotlight: App Usage Analytics (aka Reports)

InstaVR

New Feature Spotlight: . App Usage Analytics (aka Reports). Analytics have gone from a “nice to have” to a “need to have.” Successful companies make informed decisions with data. So it’s no surprise that some of our most active InstaVR users have requested detailed analytics related to the VR apps they’ve created and distributed.

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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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With Audi Holoride, I was the Disney VR hero in the backseat of an e-tron

Slashgear

From the outside, it looks as though I’m in the back seat of a new Audi e-tron, being driven around Speed Vegas for roughly two laps. Look closer, though, and I’m not making awkward small-talk with my driver: instead, I donned a set of Oculus Rift virtual reality glasses, was handed a controller, and set to work being among the … Continue reading.

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Leap Motion Reveals Updated Project North Star AR Prototype Design

Road to VR

Last year Leap Motion, makers of hand-tracking technology, revealed Project North Star , an open-source AR headset prototype design meant to be a test bed for the kind of specs and features that more compact AR headsets will hopefully one day provide. This week the company revealed ‘Release 3’ of the headset which further refines the open-source design with the goal of making it “more inviting, less hacked together, and more reliable.” The Project North Star headset is bu

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CBS Sports Coverage Of Super Bowl LIII Will Include AR Enhancements

VRScout

CBS Sports technology make-over includes 115 cameras and AR. CBS Sports have announced plans to use AR during their coverage of Super Bowl LIII at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, promising to enhance your football experience like never before. The NFL and CBS are both being a tad coy with what you and all of your armchair quarterback buddies can expect from the AR infused Super Bowl coverage, but they have confirmed 4 cameras dedicated specifically for AR, including the use of the

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My predictions for virtual reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

Yesterday, I have dressed as a fortune teller and I have given you my predictions for augmented reality in 2019. Now, it is the turn of virtual reality. How has VR performed in 2018? And how it will be in 2019? Let me do some speculations… Virtual Reality in 2018. Virtual Reality in 2018 has not performed that awesomely good : in my opinion, it has just laid the foundations for the success that will come in the upcoming years.

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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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Making VR Stand Up

Tech Trends VR

Virtual laughs can mean big bucks, and Sansar is announcing a host of new live comedy acts to draw in the crowds. Linden Lab has just announced a host of new collaborations designed to attract paying punters to its live events platform, which they launched last year. Linden Lab has just announced a host of new collaborations designed to attract paying punters to its live events platform Click To Tweet.

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What’s new in VR for 2019?

InstaVR

VR Predictions for 2019. Last year was a time of immense growth at InstaVR — in terms of clients, funding, and features. Now we turn our attention to 2019. This year will undoubtedly see VR adoption expand both in terms of users and use cases. InstaVR’s goal is to empower creators to easily develop and distribute VR experiences. The barriers to making virtual reality continue to drop thanks to ubiquitous 360-degree cameras, affordable headsets, and publishing solutions like ours.

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5 Ways VR Will Change Your Life! Travel, Gaming, Shopping, Exploration, and Relationships

Veer

If you’re still undecided about the addition of a VR headset to your tech locker, here’s a reason for every digit on your right hand why VR is gonna rock your world. 1. Travel Firstly, if you’re in the habit of long-distance travel in anything other than first class, chances are you have experienced one of those trips where you dream of an escape from the tight confines and ambient noise of engine-whir and fellow passengers – we’ve all been there!

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Meta Shuts Down Amidst Patent Infringement Lawsuit & Asset Liquidation

Road to VR

Meta , the company behind the Meta 2 tethered AR headset, has shut down amidst a patent infringement lawsuit filed in summer of last year, and a recent asset liquidation that has left the company insolvent. Back in September, Meta lost out on a fresh round of funding lead by a Chinese investor which forced the company to furlough around 2/3 of their staff , leaving Meta’s existence in doubt as they no doubt looked for additional investment.

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The Key to Getting the Best Out of Video-Based Practice & Coaching

Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers

Did you know that companies such as Paychex, 3M, and Honeywell are getting better results by incorporating video-based practice and coaching within their L&D strategy? From sales pitches to soft skills, learners are becoming top performers by applying and validating knowledge transfer using the unique benefits of video. Whether used as a stand-alone application or integrated with a learning platform, video-based practice and coaching platforms give learners the ultimate opportunity to repeatedly