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Surgeon Chooses VR Over Sedatives For Patients

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A surgeon in Mexico City is ditching painkillers by bringing virtual reality into the operating room. Is virtual reality a powerful enough experience to distract humans from pain? Dr. Jose Luis Mosso Vazquez seems to think so. The accomplished surgeon has actually been using the immersive technology on his patients as a replacement for complicated sedatives for years.

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We Tried an Underwater VR Headset, and it Worked

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In the space of just one year virtual reality has gone from a highly anticipated hobbyist kit, to a commercially available consumer product available at Best Buy. While the overwhelming majority of that is positive, one thing I do find myself missing is the days when one, or two innovators could blow our collective minds with a hacked together prototype.

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HoloLens ‘Final Fantasy XIV’ Concept Video Shows AR as a Perfect ‘Second Screen’ for Today’s Games

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Augmented reality is conceptually so broad, there’s almost no limit to what you could imagine doing with the technology. But rather than throwing out the playbook entirely, we’ll to our grand visions through useful incremental steps that begin with integration into existing content built around today’s paradigms. A concept video using HoloLens and Final Fantasy XIV , shows how AR could be incredibly useful as a ‘Second Screen’ companion for gaming and more.

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How the past few months with Virtual Reality got me to the Super Bowl!

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So I am going to start off that it has been a goal of mine to be able to get to the Super Bowl for free because its a place where a weirdo punk rock dude who is trying his best to make it in the Bay Area and who loves Cats And VR is not necessarily supposed to make it into. Second, I will say making it into the Super Bowl has to be one of the most ridiculous fake it till you make moments of my life.

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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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Discover the Amazon in VR with Conservation International

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Conservation International and Jaunt partner to let you discover the riches and ruins of the Amazonia. Trees stand tall on both sides of the riverbank as I zoom down the Amazon by kayak. The forest is lush, teeming with life; fish swim underneath the surface of the muddy river, a sloth lounges in a tree, and the birds flying through the cerulean sky are caught up in song.

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Watch: IKinema’s HTC Vive Powered Full Body Motion Capture System is Impressive

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Motion capture specialist IKinema has demonstrated its new in-development low-cost motion capture system which uses use 6 points of SteamVR tracking points to deliver a pretty accurate recreation of real world motion. The potential diversity of uses for Valve’s SteamVR tracking system Lighthouse is something we’ve pondered before, especially with the company recently opening up licensing for the technology for use in potentially any device.

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Ex Sony London VR team launch new VR company, Dream Reality Interactive.

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Dave Ranyard his former Sony London teammates Richard Bates, Artemis Tsouflidou, Albert Bentall and John Foster, who were all integral to the development of ‘VR Worlds’ for Sony’s PSVR headset. announced the formation of his new, independent studio Dream Reality Interactive, to focus on development of virtual reality games and experiences. With an impressive background in creating innovative titles including ‘Singstar’, ‘Wonderbook: Book of Spells’ and ‘VR Worlds’ featuring ‘London Heist’ Dave’s

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Virtual Reality Is Art in the Sixth Dimension

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VR is the ultimate lifehack. Many decades ago, astrophysicists realized that certain problems could only be solved in higher dimensions than the four—the fourth being time—that humans can perceive. Today, super-string theory, an outgrowth of quantum mechanics, solves its equations in ten-dimensional spacetime. It turns out that the arts aren’t as far behind the sciences as we might have thought.

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Microsoft Announces Siri Competitor with Voice-Activated VR Experience

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You may not be aware of this but for years now Microsoft has been steadily working to build the world’s smartest computer brain. Now, that brain is getting a whole lot smarter. Meet CRIS and LUIS. Today, Microsoft is announcing Custom Speech Service, the latest program to join the ranks of Microsoft Cognitive Services. This is a suite of innovations that tackle emerging AI issues like computer vision and machine learning.

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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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Valve Confirms Development on “three full [VR] games, not experiments”

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Valve has confirmed that the company is in development of not one, but three “full” VR titles being built in conjunction with their ongoing VR development. The company behind some of the greatest games ever made— Half-Life , Portal , Counter Strike , Team Fortress , to name a few—is far from done with VR. Having designed the SteamVR Tracking system, and co-created the HTC Vive, there’s now the matter of VR’s missing killer app, which the company seems poised to take a sta

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AltspaceVR and Cyberia are teaming up to present a free VR film festival this weekend.

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AltspaceVR and Cyberia are teaming up to present a new kind of film festival – one taking place entirely in virtual reality VR. Styled after conventional film festivals, audience members can choose from a curated schedule of 38 short films of assorted genres from all over the world. AltspaceVR is a leading social VR platform and Cyberia has over a decade of experience planning film festivals.

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Six Flags Unveils Mixed Reality VR Roller Coasters

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The Gear VR powered coasters include complex gameplay and use of the passthrough camera. When Six Flags first joined forces with Samsung last Spring to include Gear VR headsets on rides at theme parks across the country, it was unclear how first-time VR users would react. But based on some of the reactions we’ve seen from riders , adding VR to roller coasters kinda made sense, refreshing existing coasters and taking the entire ride experience to a new level of interactivity.

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Developers Showcase Incredible Full Body Tracking With Vive

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We have yet to see a solution for full body tracking that is affordable, easy to use, and can work in a wide range of VR experiences. That’s not keeping developers from forging ahead anyway though. The prize for developers creating virtual worlds and implementing full body tracking is a more immersive experience overall. You’d have an experience in which your shadow on the ground, reflection in the mirror and arms and legs when you look down all accurately represent the movements of

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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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Facebook CEO Asks for Investor Patience on VR, ‘it’s not going to be really profitable for us for quite a while’

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Ever since Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus in 2014, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has poised the move as a strategic bet on a technology that would eventually change the way we communicate. In the company’s most recent earnings call, Zuckerberg asked for “the patience of the investor community” as he reminded them about his belief in Oculus as a long term bet.

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The long awaited John Wick VR game is out today for the HTC Vive!

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Starbreeze have opened the doors of the notorious Continental Hotel with the launch of John Wick Chronicles. Developed in collaboration with Grab Games, Big Red Button and GamecoStudios, this electrifying first-person VR shooter is available today on the HTC Vive virtual reality headset for $19.99. John Wick Chronicles puts players in the role of the legendary assassin himself, out for vengeance against the criminal underworld in a land of hired guns.

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Mark Zuckerberg Teases Prototype Oculus VR Gloves

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The VR gloves that will let you type and shoot spider webs from your hands. Oculus wants your AR/VR experience to not only be a 360 immersive visual experience that includes real time head tracking and full immersive audio during your VR experience, but would also include real time hand tracking as part of the virtual and augmented experience. During his recent visit to the company research lab in Redmond, WA today; Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg recently posted photos of himself using a prototyp

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Portal On HoloLens Might Be The Coolest Use Of Mixed Reality Yet

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If our wishes come true, Valve will one day bring Portal to VR headsets. But what might the beloved puzzle series look like if it was brought into the real world with mixed reality? That’s a question developer Kenny W set out to answer with this incredible fan-made project that combines the crazy world of Aperture Science with our own. As a simple side project, the developer has brought a fully functioning Portal gun onto Microsoft’s HoloLens, and it’s able to shoot its iconic

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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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Have You Found These 9 Secrets in Valve’s ‘The Lab’?

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Valve’s collection of VR-minigames, The Lab , is one of the highest rated SteamVR titles and it’s free. With support for both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, there’s no reason not to try it if you own a PC VR headset. Beyond some very polished mini-games, Valve has included quite a few easter eggs to uncover. Released all the way back in April 2016, the company has proven their game development talent once again with The Lab , a free collection of Valve-developed VR mini games

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Mark Zuckerberg may be working with OptiTrack for their new glove system. Check out video of how that may work.

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Mark Zuckerberg has revealed a potential new Oculus Rift input system. These Oculus gloves bring to mind the future Nintendo predicted with the Power Glove. The pictures Mark shared on his Facebook wall look like they are using OptiTrack sensors. If that is the case I had the opportunity to try these out a while back in October.

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Snapchat Expanding Its AR Feature With Advanced Lenses

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Company confirms smarter Lenses capable of object recognition are on the way. Once simply an app that allowed users to quickly send disposable photos to one another, Snapchat has since evolved into one of the most popular augmented reality tools currently in the market. It’s clean face-tracking technology and animated camera overlays have delighted users and accessed a whole new realm of advertising for companies looking to infiltrate the young-adult and teen demographics.

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Science Teachers Report Benefits Of A VR Curriculum

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Virtual reality can be a gateway to spaces and interactions that would otherwise be out of reach in normal circumstances, and two science teachers at Alta Vista School in San Francisco, Elizabeth Kramar and Toni Setteducato, took advantage of the technology for their classrooms and shared their findings. “Learning comes to life at the moment the VR headset is placed on the student’s head,” the teachers observed in a document developed in partnership with Lifeliqe, creators of a

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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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Facebook Teases “breakthrough technologies” Coming to New Oculus Products, Tours R&D Lab

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Following the recent unfavorable court decision which saw a $500 million judgement levied on Oculus and some of its founders last week , Facebook has shared a glimpse into what they call “the most advanced virtual and augmented reality research center and team in the world.” Today Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted photos of himself touring the Oculus Research lab in Redmond, Washington , where he says “some of the best scientists and engineers in the world are pushing the bou

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Tyler Hurd made the best Cat VR experience out now and the Cat Gods have not let me check it out.

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Ex Double Fine Art Director Tyler Hurd made an amazing Cat VR experience and apparently I am not cool enough to try it. You get to shoot metallic kittens from your mechanical kitten hands and the world is soooo cruel they wont let me play. The experience is called Chocolate, named after the Giraffage song that it is actually a VR music video for. Chocolate is being called the definitive Cats And VR experience.

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Hyundai Surprises Troops With Super Bowl Livestream They’ll Never Forget

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Watching the Super Bowl is one thing, but watching it with loved ones is better. As millions of fans watched the Super Bowl with friends and family, U.S. military personnel stationed on base in Zagan, Poland got a Super Sunday surprise of their own. In their latest campaign to make Super Bowl better for the “ones who make that day,” Hyundai selected three soldiers in the 4th Infantry Division to watch the big game with people they probably miss the most while off serving our country — their fami

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E3 2017 Will Be Open to the Public

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The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is the biggest video game-focused trade show on the planet. It takes place in Los Angeles, CA every year and attracts game publishers, developers, and marketing companies to the nexus of the game industry for an entire week. This year it takes place from June 13-15, right in the middle of the week from Tuesday-Thursday like usual.

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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