SPIN Play For The iPad Has Arrived!

Nov 26, 2019

Ok, this is big. Like 350,000,000 devices big. Today we are beyond thrilled to announce that SPIN Play for the iPad is available in the iOS app store! (Don’t worry, the iPhone app is coming soon!) This is a pretty big milestone for us, and it’s a big one for you, too. You’ve been viewing [&hel...

Extended Reality (XR) and Bloom’s Taxonomy – How They Can Work In Harmony

Nov 21, 2019

What did you think of the moment you read the heading of this post? If you are like most learning professionals, you probably pictured the pyramid with Bloom’s Cognitive domain of thinking skills. Makes sense – most of us spend our time using this model to create courses that help employees reme...

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How La Marzocco Uses XR Training to Help Café Owners Master the Flow of Their Cafés

Nov 15, 2019

La Marzocco is a world-class espresso manufacturer with machines in some of the finest restaurants and cafés around the world. On top of creating industry-leading equipment, La Marzocco offers sales, distribution, technical support, and training to the coffee community, with the goal of being instr...

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Reality Check: The Latest in XR (October 2019)

Oct 28, 2019

Reality Check is where we keep tabs on the fast-moving world of XR. Here’s a snapshot of some of the most exciting news in immersive tech. Colorado State University Opens Biomedical VR Lab with 100 Headsets Earlier this month, Colorado State University (CSU) deployed a 100-headset lab built around...

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VR film “State Power” snags FIVARS award using SPIN Guide

Oct 22, 2019

Pixvana chats with the director about his award-winning VR experience In the near future, five prisoners are brutally shackled together in miserable conditions in accordance with a new American regime. So is the case in “State Power,” a VR experience directed by Jeff Stanzler, a filmmaker and pr...

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Oculus Connect 6 Highlights

Oct 15, 2019

A couple weekends ago, I flew down to California to attend Oculus Connect 6, a conference which “gathers the industry’s leading developers, creators and visionaries to celebrate VR’s journey and the road ahead.”  Oculus Connect 6 (OC6) was exciting in a very different way than OC5. ...

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Easy XR Device Fleet Management & Expanded Editor Controls from SPIN Studio

Oct 10, 2019

Ok, let’s set the scene. You are about to do an event with 50 headsets, which means one thing – downloading the content locally onto each headset. So there you are, on your 7th headset waiting patiently while your Stories download onto the headset and dreading doing the same thing for the ne...

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SPIN Guide Powers Environmental Sustainability Exhibition at 2019 Fidalgo Bay Day

Oct 8, 2019

On August 24th, Padilla Bay Resort was home to the 2019 Fidalgo Bay Day, a gathering place for environmentally-focused nonprofits and organizations working to promote Protection, Preservation, and Restoration of Puget Sound and Salish Sea. One of the keynote events at the festival was The Virtual Sa...

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Using the Power of Machine Learning Image Classification in our SPIN Studio Pipeline

Oct 2, 2019

At Pixvana, we make XR content creation and delivery as smooth and efficient as possible. One way we accomplished this was by integrating the power of image classification into our SPIN Studio pipeline. When you upload content to SPIN Studio, the platform can now make reasonably accurate predictions...

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Discover the brain science behind VR and immersive learning experiences with Dr. Britt Andreatta

Oct 2, 2019

Immersive learning is changing the way businesses train their people. XR (and the entire spectrum of immersive technologies including VR, AR, MR) significantly increases retention and recall rates compared to traditional methods, with even higher spikes in employee satisfaction and engagement. But w...

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Create and Edit Text in VR

Oct 1, 2019

We are excited to announce that you are now able to create and edit text within our Ingenic Creator! Now, without having to take off your headset, you can generate interactive text assets, change their styling, and even add a background or drop shadow. This feature is designed to create experiences ...

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Beyond headsets: the value of immersive content on non-VR devices

Sep 25, 2019

VR is making waves in workplace training, hands down. But the benefits of wearable VR tech shouldn’t eclipse the untapped potential of immersive learning on other devices; in fact, these other devices represent a valuable opportunity to expand the impact of immersive content. Though 360°, and 180...

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