Road to VR

JULY 18, 2018

Seismic Games, the studio behind Google Daydream’s Blade Runner: Revelations (2018) , has been acquired by Niantic, the force behind popular location-based games Pokémon GO , Ingress, and the upcoming Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Seismic Games released the news via a blog post , saying that from now on the team will be working closely with Niantic on “exciting new projects that will add depth to their narrative-driven releases and to help evolve the Niantic Real World Platform.&#

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JULY 18, 2018

Essential put its 4K 360 camera up for sale overnight on a massive discount – as if they were having a fire sale. OH MY GOD IT’S A FIRE… sale, if you know what I mean. This camera requires the assistance of the Essential Phone PH-1 to work, and does not do much of anything on its own. With the … Continue reading.

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VRScout

JULY 18, 2018

Sony Music partners with the David Bowie Archive, Planta, and London’s Victoria & Albert Museum to deliver an incredible VR/AR retrospective of David Bowie’s career. The remarkable David Bowie Is exhibit that will be available as a virtual experience sometime in 2018 thanks to Sony Music’s collaboration with the David Bowie Archive, Planeta , and London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A).

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Tech Trends VR

JULY 18, 2018

VR is being used to design more cost effective homes and developments. The U.K. is in the midst of a brutal housing crisis, and the issue of slow supply of housing to meet demand will only get worse with the reduction in labour that will follow Brexit. Offsite construction is objectively the fastest way to build and results in properties with fewer defects Click To Tweet.

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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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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2018

Unreal Engine 4.20 officially launched today with heaps of updates. In the VR realm, the new version brings native mixed reality video compositing for VR applications, and an update to a much newer Oculus SDK. On the AR front, UE 4.20 adds supports for Apple’s ARKit 2.0 and Google’s ARCore 1.2, along with Magic Leap support. Mixed Reality Compositing.

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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2018

One of Europe’s largest water parks, Therme Erding’s Galaxy Erding water park in Germany, has a new claim to fame: a water slide that outfits guests with a VR headset. Dubbed VRSlide, the system includes a water-resistant VR headset powered by a Samsung Galaxy S8 for a deep dive through the waters of the digital unknown. As first reported by The Verge , the VR headset system was developed by German startup Ballast VR and includes a number of features that aim to keep park guests mov

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VRScout

JULY 18, 2018

From ducking, sweating and running as a kid in a backyard with Nerf blasters, to anxiously sitting in a hot station wagon for about an hour and a half on the way to the only laser tag arena in town, Nerf and laser tag are part of many adults fond childhood memories. When was the last time that you played laser tag or had a solid Nerf battle in your backyard?

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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2018

Plex VR , the free PLEX viewer for VR devices that lets you stream locally stored media to your headset, just got an update that includes cross-platform social watching for all supported platforms, including Gear VR, Oculus Go, and Google Daydream headsets. Called ‘Watch Together’, the social viewing mode in Plex VR lets you watch and share your own TV and movies with up to three other people.

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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2018

Hot on the heels of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018), which hit the box offices last week, comes a newly announced VR rhythm game that lets you grove to the spooky beats DJ’ed by series’ characters Drac, Mavis, or Johnny. Called Hotel Transylvania Popstic , the game is said to be featured at around 500 VR arcades across North America, Europe, and China.

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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.

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