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UNESCO awards the use of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality based knowledge transfer solutions

EON Reality

A McKinsey report on Education to Employment , highlighted a paradox of two global crises – high youth unemployment rate and shortage of workforce with critical job skills (Ref 1). In 2013, the global youth unemployment rate was 12.6{0fab034ea82b07661647ea8532e9066bcdd529bddfd482414d4493f90063c904} – in real numbers, this meant 73.4 million young people were not gainfully employed.

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Everyman's VR: Bridging the Gap between $15 and $1500 for VR Goggles

VRGuy

There is a gap in VR pricing that could slow down the adoption of VR. Today, you can spend about $15 and buy a Cardboard-type phone attachment to get simple VR with your phone. You can also spend $1500 and in a few months you will get a nice computer and what would be considered today a high-performance consumer VR experience, touch controller not included.

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Why Spatial Audio Is Such a Big Deal for Google Cardboard

Wired VR

Google's cheap-and-easy VR platform added spatial-audio support to its SDK. That won't make it an Oculus competitor, but it means Google is serious about VR. The post Why Spatial Audio Is Such a Big Deal for Google Cardboard appeared first on WIRED.

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Journeys Into and Out Of The Remarkable VR POV

VR Playhouse

by Dylan Southard I saw "Death Of A Salesman" for the first time at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1997. I was 16 years old and just starting to stumble into what it meant to be an adult and as I watched Willy Loman, crumbling under the weight of so many different familial and societal pressures, miraculously, I started to recognize myself. I saw myself in that 63 year old salesman and in that 50 year old play.

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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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Discovering the Secrets of the Universe with VR + Embodied Learning

Leapmotion

From the moment we’re birthed, we begin to move. We move by virtue of our legs, our bodies, the motion of our arms and hands, the intricate articulation of all of our fingers. Each of these movements correlates with synaptic connections in the brain and provides the rich landscape required for exponential neuronal growth. We as a species are constantly engaged in the process of using our bodies to interface with this world.

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6 Hidden Gems from our Dev Gallery

Leapmotion

With such a strong global community, we see a stream of creators building and sharing new content all the time. This week, we wanted to showcase some community projects that you may not have seen yet. Betatron. Betatron is a 3D immersive puzzle game played by moving beta particles through the environment. Through the use of various devices like lasers, shrink rays, and additional particle systems, each puzzle gets more and more complex.