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Sansar Partners With Monstercat On Live VR Music & Entertainment Series

VRScout

One of EDM’s most influential music labels is throwing a massive dance party in VR, and you’re invited. Founded back in 2011, independent Canadian recording company Monstercat has spent the last eight years developing a massive catalog of genre-defying EDM, in the process becoming one of the most prominent and well-respected dance music recording labels in the world.

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MobiledgeX Offers Early Access to Proprietary Edge Computing Research Data

ARPost

MobiledgeX is giving away 3-year worth of proprietary use case research involving edge computing. The company has decided to offer early access to developers to its research data. Thus, according to the company, they hope to boost knowledge sharing and collaboration across various industries. What Is Edge Computing? Edge computing is a computing system that brings processes closer to the source of data, that is, the user’s device (computer, smartphone, or tablet).

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Esqapes massage center uses VR to offer ‘immersive relaxation’

Slashgear

On July 5, a new massage center will open in Los Angeles, but it won’t resemble the type of spas you’re familiar with. Called Esqapes, the center will combine automated massaging technology with virtual reality to transport customers into a different, more relaxing environment. The company calls this an ‘immersive relaxation experience,’ one that is like ‘a mini vacation’ without … Continue reading.

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HTC Doubles Down With Vive VR Enterprise Solutions

Charlie Fink

HTC's new business unit, VIVE Enterprise Solutions, will deliver a full portfolio of extended reality (XR) solutions for business.

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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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Vive Enterprise Solutions Unit to Help Businesses Expand XR Portfolios

Peter Graham

Consumer virtual reality (VR) may have restarted the industry as a whole but solutions for business have become a key part of many immersive companies strategy. Today, HTC Vive has announced a new business unit which aims to help in that endeavour, Vive Enterprise Solutions. Having launched the HTC Vive Pro Eye and Vive Focus Plus headsets, both squarely aimed at the enterprise market, the new business unit will help companies integrate XR hardware, software, and services for their professional

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Gamescom 2019 to Host The VR Games Showcase Featuring Six Titles

Peter Graham

Next month the biggest videogame event in Europe takes place in Cologne, Germany, Gamescom 2019. And for the first time, several studios from the virtual reality (VR) industry will be hosting a tie-in event called The VR Games Showcase. The brainchild of Fast Travel Games’ Andreas Juliusson, The VR Games Showcase will feature Carbon Studio, Survios, Neat Corporation, Resolution Games and Cortopia Studios.

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Cool Off with the Oculus Summer Sale!

Oculus

Summer’s here, and the time is right for some sizzling VR savings. Today, we’re excited to kick off our annual Summer Sale on the Rift.

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Sansar and Monstercat Partner on Music Entertainment Experience Call of the Wild

Peter Graham

Independent music label Monstercat has been growing its virtual reality (VR) of late, most notably thanks to a collaboration with Beat Games and Beat Saber. Today, Monstercat has announced a new partnership with Linden Lab and its social VR platform Sansar, bringing live music and entertainment via Monstercat: Call of the Wild Experience. . Set to launch on 12th July 2019, Monstercat: Call of the Wild Experience will start with a virtual party to celebrate the label’s eighth anniversary

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Disney’s VR Theatre Puts You In The Starring Role Of Aladdin, The Lion King, Frozen

VRScout

Take center stage in Disney’s biggest Broadway productions at the 2019 D23 Expo. With over 65,000 in attendance during the 2017 festivities, the biennial D23 Expo is the single largest Disney fan event in the world. Taking place every two years at the Anaheim Convention Center in California, the three-day spectacle manages to attract tens of thousands of rabid Disney fanatics, each looking to dive even deeper into the films, characters, and worlds that have influenced multiple generations

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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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E3 2019 Interview: Rebellion Shows a Keen Eye for Sniper Elite VR Perfection

Peter Graham

There were a few good virtual reality (VR) games at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2019 last month, and one of VRFocus’ favourites was Sniper Elite VR. In development by Rebellion – the British studio which owns the franchise and the team behind VR title Battlezone – Sniper Elite VR is currently in an early stage of development so VRFocus caught up with Assistant Head of Design Steve Bristow to find out more.

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Hands-on: ‘Battlewake’ Delivers Frenetic High-seas Mayhem with a Splash of Smart VR Design

Road to VR

Survios, the studio behind Raw Data (2017) and Creed: Rise to Glory (2018) , is getting ready to release their next big VR soon, a pirate-themed nautical combat game called Battlewake. The game is set to launch on Rift, Vive, and PSVR sometime this summer. I got a chance to pop in not once, but twice into the Battlewake demo, playing at GDC 2019 in March behind closed doors, and again at E3 in June.

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Creator AVR Training – Series 2

EON Reality

Continuing our effort to help educators and trainers of all types become comfortable with using Creator AVR, EON Reality is happy to announce the next set of our new informational video series detailing the application’s many important aspects. READY TO EXPERIENCE THE PLATFORM? Each brief video provides a detailed walkthrough (complete with full narration) of a single function or feature of Creator AVR.

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‘VR Ping Pong’ Sequel to Launch in September, Trailer Here

Road to VR

VR Ping Pong Pro is the upcoming sequel to the 2016 ping pong simulator VR Ping Pong. However now the studio is bringing their 1v1 ping pong game to PSVR as well in addition to HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. VR Ping Pong Pro is headed to all supported platforms sometime in September. There’s currently both a Steam page and a listing on Viveport , although pricing has yet to be revealed.

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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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Disney on Broadway Celebrates 25th Anniversary With VR Experience at D23 Expo

Peter Graham

This year Disney on Broadway will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in style at the D23 Expo , in Anaheim, California, with an exclusive concert. Adding to the festivities, visitors to the expo will be able to enjoy a new virtual reality (VR) experience putting them centre stage across several production numbers. The VR experience will put viewers inside Aladdin , Frozen and The Lion King productions featuring Broadway’s Caissie Levy (Elsa), Major Attaway (Genie), Telly Leung (Aladdin) a

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Viveport Video “6DOF Lite” mode review: move your head in 360 videos

The Ghost Howls

At VEC 2019 HTC announced the “6DOF Lite” mode for Viveport Video , promising the fact that we would have been able to watch standard 360 videos with the possibility of actually moving the head in the video. But… does it work? Is it good enough? Well, yesterday I’ve tried it at HTC China HQ in Beijing, so let me tell you my hands-on impressions.

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