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VR at work: Virtual training is leading to real-world results with Oculus for Business A note from Maria Fernandez Guajardo, Head of Enterprise AR/VR, Facebook: At F8 last month, we announced a major update to Oculus for Business, with a new suite designed to help companies deploy VR at work. To read up on that announcement, you can head over to the Oculus Blog. Today, I wanted to sha...

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Report: Apple to Announce ARKit Updates at WWDC 2019 Including OS Support for AR Headsets Apple has been continuously iterating on ARKit, its augmented reality development tool that lets creators make smartphone-based AR experiences. The company unveiled ARKit at its World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in 2017, and the 2.0 version at the dev conference a year later. Now, a report from...

Dent Reality Aims to Bring AR Indoor Directions to Malls, Airports & Retail Stores Navigating indoors is still a pretty old school experience: you look for a map of shops, bathrooms, and accessibility ramps and follow signs to your desired destination, all the while knowing that the super powered computer in your pocket has lost a core functionality without GPS signal. Dent Realit...

Snapchat launches Scan, its AR utility platform Point and shoot? No, point and interact. Snapchat can now help with your homework. The app’s camera is becoming the foundation of an augmented reality developer platform known as “Scan.” Snap today announced partnerships with Photomath to add the ability to solve math problems, and Giphy for d...

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Game of Thrones AR Experience Coming To In-Store Magic Leap Kiosks - UploadVR Two exciting bits one news here. One: A Game of Thrones AR experience is on its way to Magic Leap. Two: You might actually get to see it yourself. Instead of releasing on sold Creator Editions of Magic Leap One, Game of Thrones: The Dead Must Die (as it’s called) will be showing at in-store locati...

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Talespin Building Virtual Human Tech to Train Interpersonal Skills in VR With increasing demand among employers for employees with great interpersonal communication skills, VR training company Talespin is bringing ‘virtual human’ training scenarios to its platform. ‘Soft skills’—those that allow you to guide tense interactions with empathy and strong communicat...

Valve's VR headset is called Index, and it's coming soon The Valve-produced headset is going on sale in May, suggests a Steam teaser.

Newzoo: AR has a far bigger opportunity on mobile than VR Market researcher Newzoo reports that augmented reality has a much bigger opportunity on mobile devices than virtual reality does, mainly because AR isn't as clunky.

Sony Announces 4.2 Million PlayStation VR Units Sold Sony today revealed its latest PlayStation VR sales milestone of 4.2 million units. The company says this figure represents headsets ‘sold through’ to consumers, as opposed to total outstanding units that might still be in the hands of distributors. The announcement shows that PSVR sales may eve...