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Oculus Education Launches Pilot Programs In Taiwan, Japan, Seattle

VRScout

Oculus will provide headsets and training to three new pilot locations alongside a fresh helping of educational VR content. Oculus Education continues its ongoing streak of generosity with the expansion of its educational pilot programs to Taiwan, Japan, and Seattle. HOOVER DAM: INDUSTRIAL VR.

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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

The Ghost Howls

who first immigrated to Japan over 25 years ago. teams for Japan. In my spare time, I enjoy training and running full marathons around the world and playing games on my PSVR. As of 2019, we are an expanding private company with about 40 people based in Japan and funded by Japanese venture capitalists. What is Meleap?

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

Otherwise, now the situation is more or less like before, with the exception of some places where there are still some Oculus devices in stock (for instance in Japan and Taiwan). And apart from being “cool”, it also serves the purpose of making mixed reality training and design solutions more efficient. This is astonishing. Who knows….

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Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

VRScout

Those enterprise customers have enthusiastically been adopting Microsoft’s mixed reality technology in a variety of productivity, collaboration, training, and visualization use-cases; while Microsoft, in turn, have been satisfying the wish-list of those dedicated customers. Trimble XR10 w HoloLens 2 / Image Credit: Microsoft.

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Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and Beyond

Road to VR

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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Users up, land down for holidays

Hypergrid Business

The multi language conference will feature presentations from various grids, conference and training sessions. The following 12 grids were marked as suspended this month: 2nd Oakdene , Alluris Estates , Américas Worlds , CINECA GRID , Kingdom of Creation , KRRRL , Lupopas Welt , PTDE , TUIS Open Grid , UFSGrid , Unreal , and Virtual-EPI.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. Its wizarding successor grossed $12M in its first month.