VRScout
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
Join pick a side and join the battle for control of previous Exotic Matter in this modern revival of the 2013 location-based AR game. In 2013, San Francisco-based software company Niantic launched Ingress , a cutting-edge location-based AR mobile game that had players choose one of two factions and battle others in a geocaching game of capture the flag.
Tech Trends VR
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
A BBC Virtual Reality experience takes you on an emotional journey through the perspective of two young women dealing with a life-altering brain injury. Is Anna OK is a poignant VR experience based on a true story. Anna and Lauren are identical twins. For two decades these two young women were as emotionally and psychologically close as people can get.
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Next Reality AR
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
If you're hungry for pizza and ordering from Domino's in Australia, you can now see what your pie will look like in augmented reality before placing your order. Available through the App Store and Google Play, the updated Domino's mobile app includes New Pizza Chef, an entertaining tool that lets customers build a virtual version of their pizza and their chosen toppings.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
FitXR , the studio behind BoxVR (2017) , today announced that it has raised a $1.25 million seed investment led by Boost VC. BoxVR is a fitness focused VR boxing rhythm game that’s garnered a positive reception on both Steam and Oculus platforms since its 2017 launch. The studio says that they’ve sold some 50,000 copies of the game and that they’re seeing strong traction from players, with average play sessions upwards of 27 minutes.
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.
Slashgear
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
HTC VIVE has announced a new platform for enterprise customers that includes the Vive Focus, a standalone virtual reality headset targeted at businesses. The hardware is part of a platform and software launching for enterprises in North America and Europe that want to create VR experiences for customers and employees. This marks its expansion outside of Asia.
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Voices of VR
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
Paisley Smith’s Homestay is a deeply powerful spatial story that explores her family’s journey of grief from the death by suicide of an international student.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
Rec Room , the social VR platform available for a multitude of devices, is getting another one of its famous co-op Quests starting November 15th, this time letting you team up with a crew of like-minded vampire hunters on a monster-smashing adventure. The Castlevania -inspired Quest, dubbed ‘Crescendo of the Blood Moon’, takes you to a dreary castle where you battle it out weapons like shovels and old-timey blunderbuss guns against skeleton mobs and werewolves.
Charlie Fink
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
VR has had a good week, and the world celebrates with VR Day November 17th.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
With Black Friday deals rolling in as we approach November 23rd, this holiday season Best Buy is offering one of the biggest selections on discounted consumer tech. The big box retailer just published its Black Friday advert, which brings immediate savings on Oculus Rift, and a few deals coming closer to the big day including PSVR bundles, PlayStation 4, and Lenovo’s smartphone-driven Mirage AR headset.
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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.
Everything VR & AR
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
Michael Conelly, President & Creative Director of Blackthorn Media with is an Academy and Emmy award-winning team of content creators, Paula Fairfield, an accomplished sound designer. We discuss their latest project, Caliban Below, an immersive VR experience set in 1680 in Northern Italy where you, Caliban, have to learn why you’ve been trapped in a dream.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
BigBox VR , the VR studio behind the critically-acclaimed multiplayer shooter Smashbox Arena (2016) , today announced that it has secured $5 million in a seed funding round led by Shasta Ventures, with additional funding from GSR Ventures and Pioneer Square Labs Ventures. This brings BigBox VR’s total funding to $6.45 million since its founding in 2016.
VeeR VR
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
Over the past few years, the buzz surrounding VR has reached an all-time high. Without exception, everyone who hears about VR technology is interested on some level, and because of this and its many uses, some have already started using VR technology. Currently, VR technology has been welcomed by a few gamers, educators and others; most people are still waiting for further development before widespread adoption occurs.
The Ghost Howls
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
After a long wait, finally, the Vive Focus is ready to exit from its home country. You will be able to finally buy it in Europe and North America for $599, from the dedicated page on the HTC website. HTC Vive Focus Specs. The Vive Focus is HTC’s standalone headset , the one that the Taiwanese/Chinese company wants to use to start making virtual reality widespread.
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.
VRScout
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
The FUTVRE LANDS VR festival will feature contests with cash prizes, giveaways, and a live musical performance by a Grammy-nominated artist. Founded by Second Life founder and former CEO Philip Rosedale, social VR platform High Fidelity is hosting its first festival event held entirely within their virtual metaverse. Launching November 17th as part of Virtual Reality Day, a 24-hour celebration of VR/AR across 50 cities and countries, FUVRE LANDS is a free VR entertainment festival event allowing
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
While the Vive Focus initially launched with a single 3DOF controller, HTC recently announced a dev kit add-on which brings a pair of 6DOF controllers to the standalone headset. We got our first chance to try out the system today at an HTC press event in San Francisco. The 6DOF controller add-on is comprised of a pair of new controllers and a shell attachment which connects to the front of the Focus headset.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
At a special event today in San Francisco, HTC announced that Vive Focus , the company’s standalone 6DOF headset, is launching for enterprise customers starting today in 37 markets, including North America and Europe. Vive Focus previously launched in China back in January as a consumer device. Now the company is launching the standalone headset internationally as an enterprise-focused device.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
Lenovo Mirage Solo is getting its first big price cut since it launched for $400 earlier this summer. Revealed in Lenovo’s Black Friday sale catalog , both the Mirage Solo headset and Mirage 180 Camera are getting slashed by $100 a piece for a limited time. This brings Lenovo Mirage Solo to much more digestible $300, and the Mirage Camera to $200.
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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