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JULY 18, 2017

You can pre-order the Prism headset today. Fresh out of stealth-mode, Mira is looking to bring augmented reality (AR) to the masses. Dubbed Prism, this untethered AR headset is powered by an iPhone and comes in at an accessible price of $99. In comparison to other higher-end mixed reality headsets like Meta and Magic Leap that will likely require powerful PCs, Mira’s Prism lets you just snap in your iPhone and begin interacting with holographic content.

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JULY 21, 2017

The team behind Daydream, Google’s mobile VR platform, is currently conducting experiments with the aim of broadening virtual reality’s usecase to include more interactive learning. With an experimental VR espresso maker at the ready, the team says “people learned faster and better in VR” than by watching training videos when put to the test on how to brew the real thing.

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JULY 17, 2017

Disney is remaking one of its most beloved classics, The Lion King, in live action, and it’s using VR to help do so. The Hollywood Reporter recently published a quote about the 2019 movie from VFX supervisor, Rob Legato. “We are going to use a lot of virtual-reality tools so it feels akin to what you are looking at [if you were on a real set],” Legato said during a keynote talk at the NAB Show back in April. “You can walk around the set like a cameraman.

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JULY 19, 2017

To celebrate San Diego Comic-Con Oculus announced that Deadpool latest addition to the Marvel Powers United VR roster, joining Hulk, Captain Marvel, and Rocket Raccoon in the lineup for one of the most anticipated VR game of 2018. At Comic-Con this week? Crack wise and crack skulls as you wield katanas and hand cannon pistols—because why bring a knife to a gunfight when you can have both?

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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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JULY 21, 2017

With Comic-Con in full swing this week, the amount of panels, previews, games, and brand activations to check out seem endless. But this year, there was one movie experience we weren’t going to miss. Only a block away from the main convention center, lines wrapped around the block, all waiting to enter a massive tent. It was hard to miss. One big bold sign summed it all up, this was home to the “Blade Runner 2049 Experience.”.

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JULY 20, 2017

Much of Google’s work in VR has been consumer-facing, but one of the first initiatives the company launched with the tech was education-focused. Expeditions was a platform to take entire classes on virtual field trips using Google Cardboard. From this week it’s available to everyone with an Android handset. Expeditions has a new standalone app that allows users to go on solo field trips of their choosing.

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JULY 16, 2017

I consider my self a Disney fan, I love Tron and Darkwing Duck, also since I am a big Star Wars and Marvel fan over the past few years I have to say I have become a bigger Disney fan. All that being said Disney’s D23 Expo was not on my radar and its a damn shame because they just announced some major things for its entertainment empire including big VR and AR news.

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JULY 15, 2017

The next 12 months could be the year of VR. 2016 was supposed to be the year for VR. As many of us who work in the VR industry know, it most certainly wasn’t. Headset sales were much lower than every research report ever made on the subject, the killer VR app was not discovered by an eccentric band of game designers, and VR was not a mainstay in the marketplace.

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JULY 20, 2017

Oculus has confirmed that Crytek’s The Climb is the platform’s best selling Rift game to date, and among a handful of titles that have grossed more than $1 million on the company’s VR storefront. When it comes to VR platforms today, data is hard to come by. The steadily growing ecosystem is something that everyone is interested in, and while there’s at least some data to go by when it comes to Steam, Oculus’ store is a bit of a black box, which makes any official f

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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.

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JULY 15, 2017

Disney announced Star Wars: Jedi Challenges at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA today, and revealed it was partnering with Lenovo and Lucasfilm to create a new consumer AR headset. Not many details were given about the hardware itself, but we did learn you download apps onto your phone then lock it into the headset, similar to Gear VR, although Disney promises full line-of-sight to the outside world and not just staring directly into a screen.

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JULY 19, 2017

Blade Runner 2049: Replicant Pursuit will be making its premiere near Comic Con at the no pass necessary Blade Runner VR installation. If you cant make it to Comic Con no worries it will be available on Gear VR on July 21st, and is developed by Turtle Rock Studios, the team behind Face Your Fears. Oculus partnered with Alcon Interactive Group to bring Blade Runner into VR with a trio of experiences from three different developers.

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JULY 19, 2017

If you own a mobile VR or AR headset, the laptop ban might not be as bad as you think. The US and UK large electronics ban stops thousands of fliers from using their laptops or tablets every week. But the rules — which impact six Mideast countries for the UK and 10 for the US — don’t mean you can’t use augmented or virtual reality headsets to browse the web, play games or get work done.

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JULY 15, 2017

First demonstrated to theme park executives at the Asian Attractions Expo in Singapore last month, Holovis ’ R3ex (Rideable Realtime Robot Experiences) project combines virtual reality with four/six-axis robot arm amusement rides. The technology claims to offer the rider genuine interactivity and ‘complete agency’ over the experience, including real-time control of the motion profile.

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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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JULY 15, 2017

For VR gamers E3 2017 was like a greatest hits of Bethesda’s back catalog. Between Fallout 4 VR , which we already had very high up on our radar and the newly announced DOOM VFR , we didn’t think there was much room left for more from the ZeniMax-owned gaming powerhouse. But then at Sony’s press conference the following night we learned that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is also getting the full VR treatment, this time coming first to the PlayStation VR (PSVR.).

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JULY 20, 2017

Game Engine powerhouse Unity Technologies is taking a shot at figuring out VR advertising. This week Unity Technologies revelaed key components of its plan which detailed a customizable VR native ad format for brands to create their own integrated experiences. Called the Virtual Room It’s being created within the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) emerging ad experience guidelines.

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JULY 21, 2017

Warner Bros. is taking attendees for a ride. If you’re brave enough to hop on a creepy school bus in a parking lot just outside the San Diego Comic-Con Convention Center, then brace yourself for a VR horror experience that includes some of my biggest childhood fears—namely clowns and ominous children standing in the dark. Developed in collaboration with SunnyBoy Entertainment and Warner Bros.

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JULY 20, 2017

Lenovo today unveiled at the company’s annual Tech World conference a new standalone AR headset dubbed ‘daystAR’ Revealed on stage by chief technology officer Yong Rui, daystAR is an augmented reality optical display with what the company says is an “independent vision processing unit and free-formed surface lenses with a 40-degree field of view.” This marks Lenovo’s second big piece of AR news recently, as we saw the company tease a smartphone based AR headse

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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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JULY 17, 2017

VR and AR headsets are heading to market from Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others that have a wide range of capabilities. Just last week we learned about Facebook’s plan for a $200 headset that occupies the low end of the market while Google continues work on a six degrees of freedom standalone headset. What’s unclear is just how you’ll be able to interact with the virtual worlds and objects produced inside these headsets.

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JULY 21, 2017

Futurlab has launched a competition to win a PlayStation 4 Pro, PSVR kit, copies of Tiny Trax plus high-res artwork of gamers set in the stunning Tiny Trax world. Launched today on Twitter, the competition invites gamers to post their #TinyTraxWow faces. Follow the @FuturLab Twitter account Take a photo of yourself pulling your most OVER THE TOP WOW FACE.

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JULY 20, 2017

Oculus debuts the first of three upcoming Blade Runner VR titles for Gear VR & Rift along with an immersive new experience in San Diego. Blade Runner 2049 , the long-awaited sequel to the 1982 cult classic Blade Runner , hits theaters this October and I’m still having trouble believing it’s true. The trailers, while jaw-dropping, won’t be nearly enough to keep me satisfied until the release, something I’m sure many sci-fi nerds can sympathize heavily with.

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JULY 17, 2017

Leap Motion, a veteran player in the virtual reality sector (having been founded two years ahead of Oculus), has announced the closure of a Series C investment round totaling $50 million. Led by JP Morgan Asset management, Leap Motion’s Series C investment brings the company’s total public capital raise to just over $94 million, according to Crunchbase.

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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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JULY 21, 2017

Stranger Things was one of last year’s best new shows on Netflix or otherwise. It captured a unique sense of nostalgia for the 80s as well as channeling a unique and fresh take on sci-fi, thriller, and suspense genres, all with an ensemble cast of standout child actors. At San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) this week we got the chance to stop by the Netflix interactive loft at the Hilton Gaslamp and see elaborate displays for Marvel’s Defenders, the upcoming Netflix-only film Bright, and of

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JULY 18, 2017

Skydance Interactive debuted its first virtual reality game, the award-winning first-person shooter Archangel – exclusively on PlayStation VR. Players will step into the cockpit to pilot a six-story high war machine and lead their squad mates in an incredible VR battle across the scarred landscapes of a post-apocalyptic America. Archangel is now available at the official PlayStation Store for $39.99.

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JULY 17, 2017

Disney reveals an exciting augmented reality partnership with Lenovo at D23 conference. With every new Star Wars film comes new tie-ins, video games, merchandise and pretty much anything else you can slap a picture of R2D2 or Finn on. So naturally Disney’s D23 conference in Anaheim, California was filled to the brim with new content from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

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JULY 20, 2017

Sometimes sci-fi games need only put you head-first into a shiny new world, let you inhabit a universe seemingly ripped from TV and film, and call it a job well done. Then there’s games that use science fiction as a backdrop to a more human story, one that’s been told a million times and in a million ways before, but because we’re human, we always love to hear.

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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

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