VRScout
FEBRUARY 21, 2017
Wevr’s theBlu featured at Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo. Fresh off of a successful collaboration with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles , Wevr is taking its award-winning immersive experience, theBlu , across the globe to the Dubai Underwater Aquarium & Zoo in an effort to bring awareness and a new type of educational platform to conservation efforts around the world.
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FEBRUARY 17, 2017
Back at CES we met a small creative studio with some big technical plans for the HTC Vive’s upcoming Tracker peripheral. The team’s name was Master of Shapes , and they were one of the groups that HTC had gathered to showcase some of the many applications for the new device. Specifically, they made a technical demonstration for makeshift local multiplayer VR, called Cover Me.
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Road to VR
FEBRUARY 18, 2017
Last week, I traveled to the Houston Area Safety Council in Pasadena, Texas, to put Industrial Training International VR’s new crane simulator through its paces. While ITI has been training crane operators, riggers, and signallers for 30 years, the inclusion of VR in their training programs is a recent development. To test the effectiveness of their VR crane simulator ITI offered to let me—someone who has never operated heavy machinery in their life—spend an hour training with the system
VR Bites
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
When Golf meets the limitless possibilities of Virtual Reality, the green is only inches away! Practice your swing and develop your techniques to improve your handicap. Step onto one of the 36 realistic holes, with additional courses planned for the near future. WP-Appbox: VR Golf Online (19,99 €, Steam) →.
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
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
HTC’s latest financial report for the three months ending on December 31st, 2016 show the company in flux. The first several financial highlights the company made in this call were of positive revenue but an operating loss and a net loss after tax. Revenue for this quarter sits at NT$22.2 billion with a gross margin of 10.5%, while HTC’s quarterly … Continue reading.
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VRScout
FEBRUARY 21, 2017
UPDATE 2/21/16 9:38AM PST: The full video was deleted from YouTube shortly after we published this article. A short clip can be viewed below. Daydream Labs and Google Research show us how having a face in VR could make all the difference. You know how much we love making mixed reality videos and sharing them with the world. It’s one of the best ways to show what a user in VR is actually experiencing and the environment they’re interacting with.
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FEBRUARY 21, 2017
The advent of mixed reality headsets like HoloLens could mean the end of the PC monitor, as apps jump off of the screen and into the real world. That future is a while off, though, and Samsung’s Monitorless looks like an intriguing stopgap. The electronics giant revealed this concept today ahead of a showcase at the 2017 Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona next week.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Lytro have announced another hefty new wedge of funding, with a $60 million series D round led by Blue Pool. What’s more, they’ve partnered with Within, and the first 360 degree 3D light field content is now set to arrive from that partnership in Q2 of this year. There are so many technologies that the advent of accessible virtual reality has encouraged to evolve.
Hypergrid Business
FEBRUARY 25, 2017
Worlds End Landscaping and Roleplay is the best-selling merchant on the Kitely Market. The Kitely Market has passed the $100,000 sales milestone, the grid announced last week. The Kitely Market, which now delivers to 174 different OpenSim grids, is the leading online marketplace for OpenSim content. It accepts payment in both the in-world currency, Kitely Credits, and through PayPal.
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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.
Slashgear
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
It’s actually been a while since we’ve seen new equipment that tries to actually create VR-related content rather than just consuming them. Professional VR cameras still cost an arm and a leg and probably more, but there are always cheaper and more portable solutions around. Some of those come from Insta360, a company that specializes in smartphone-compatible 360-degree cameras.
EON Reality
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
The first ever commercial Idome for EON Reality Inc was inaugurated on Friday 27th of January 2017 in Mauritius. The Idome is situated in a prime site at the Bagatelle mall, one of the most visited malls on the island of Mauritius. It was a fantastic event attended by the Mauritian Minister of ICT, Hon. Y. Sawminaden, Mats Johansson, CEO EON Reality Inc, shareholders of EON Reality Inc (Mauritius Telecom and States Informatics Ltd), stakeholders from various sectors of the economy as well as ove
VRScout
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
Let there be no mistake, I’ve always known first hand just how (delightfully) distracting video games can be. But what I didn’t realize was that if you couple that effect with a focused design, you can turn a potentially traumatic medical procedure into something fun that a kid might actually look forward to. At the time of writing this, clinical trials are in progress at Nationwide Children’s Hospital to test the benefits and feasibility of Voxel Bay, a VR game specifically designed and produce
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FEBRUARY 16, 2017
If VR arcades in the United States are going to find success, it is looking like IMAX VR is going to give it the best try. We went inside the big-screen company’s flagship VR center in Los Angeles this week, and got a good look at their plans for arcade roll-outs this year including centers spread across the globe. In short, I saw a series of well-designed spaces equipped with some of the best virtual reality hardware and software available.
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.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
Valve today announced the Steam Audio SDK, a spatial audio plugin that the company says is made is designed to “enhance all interactive products, specifically VR applications.” The company has launched a beta of the SDK today supporting Unity, and support for Unreal Engine is on the way. Realistic sound is an important but often underappreciated aspect of the immersion equation in VR.
Hypergrid Business
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Active user numbers on the OpenSim hypergrid crossed the 80 percent share mark this month, reaching a new record high, while the hypergrid share of land area reached 95 percent, another new record high. The hypergrid gained 1,781 new active users to reach a new high of 30,655, or 81 percent of all 37,703 actives. Closed closed grids actually lost 454 active users this month, with slight gains on Islands of Enlightenment , Virtual Highway and the Adult Grid not able to make up for InWorldz R
Slashgear
FEBRUARY 20, 2017
We’ve been treated to a couple iterations of Samsung’s Gear VR headset already, but the next one could feature a big addition. According to both a new leak and an interesting new FCC filing, Samsung may be plotting to include a controller with the next Gear VR headset. Unfortunately for us, details on this controller are mostly non-existent at this … Continue reading.
Doc-Ok
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Now that Vrui is working on the HTC Vive (at least until the next SteamVR update breaks ABI again), I can finally go back and give Vrui-based applications some tender loving care. First up is 3D Visualizer , an application to visualize and, more importantly, visually analyze three-dimensional volumetric data sets (see Figure 1). Figure 1: Analyzing a CAT scan with 3D Visualizer on the HTC Vive.
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
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
Your favorite childhood game jumps on the virtual reality bandwagon. It looks like Hasbro is attempting to get in on the VR craze with their own head-mounted entertainment device. The only difference is that where VR headsets such as the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift are designed to transport you to different virtual worlds to explore, this headset is designed to purely play the game Simon.
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FEBRUARY 13, 2017
Still one of the better games for Sony’s PlayStation VR headset, Secret Sorcery’s Tethered [ Review: 7/10 ] will soon be landing on other platforms. The UK-based developer this month confirmed that Tethered is on its way to both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive on PC. A full release date hasn’t been confirmed, but the new versions of the game will support the Oculus Touch and Vive wand controllers respectively.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 25, 2017
It’s emerged that last year’s Star Wars: Rogue One , used existing virtual reality technology – specifically HTC Vive’s Steam VR tracking – to allow the film’s director to compose visual effects shots for the movie. Watch how it was done. Whatever you may have thought of the most recent arrival to the Star Wars movie universe, Rogue One had some undeniably impressive visual effects.
Hypergrid Business
FEBRUARY 25, 2017
If you want to rent land, or sell other products or services, you need a landing page. A landing page is a page that converts someone who is vaguely interested in what you are offering into an actual customer. The effectiveness of your landing page is known as the conversion rate. If you’re selling on the Kitely Market, that’s easy — just send people to your Kitely Market product listing.
Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning
Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?
Slashgear
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
GDC and MWC are just around the corner, and Qualcomm is diving head-first into virtual reality with a new dev-kit and hand-tracking technology. The chipmaker may be best known for its smartphone processors, but that same silicon is just as much at home in head-mounted displays. Indeed, the Snapdragon 835 is the centerpiece of Qualcomm‘s new Virtual Reality Development Kit. … Continue reading.
Everything VR & AR
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
Dallas VRARA Chapter President and Digital Strategist for Groove Jones , Gary Glass joins Kevin to talk about some of the latest things going on at Groove Jones and in the Dallas area as the chapter continues to move forward and grow. Gary also shares what led him to pursue a position with a VR/AR company along with some reasons why he is involved in an upcoming company called VrontRow and how they aim to provide a variety of different experiences in a variety of entertainment industries and mor
VRScout
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
The 8th Annual Lumiere Awards were held last night at Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood. Organized by the Advanced Imaging Society (AIS), the Lumiere Awards have been recognizing and enabling the creation of cutting edge entertainment and storytelling using emerging technologies since James Cameron first set the bar with Avatar. Last year, the AIS announced the VR Society, a division dedicated to virtual reality, at their VR on the Lot event at Paramount Studios.
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FEBRUARY 12, 2017
Today is Sunday. Speaking of Sundays, the most famous work by the French post-impressionist, Georges Seurat is titled A Sunday on La Grande Jatte. I am the king of segues. Completed in 1884, this oil on canvas work is best known to the art world as a prime example of the post-industrial frieze and a masterclass in fine brushwork. Most of us, however, know it because of this guy: The world of high-art was introduced to an entire generation of young people in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s
Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers
Did you know that companies such as Paychex, 3M, and Honeywell are getting better results by incorporating video-based practice and coaching within their L&D strategy? From sales pitches to soft skills, learners are becoming top performers by applying and validating knowledge transfer using the unique benefits of video. Whether used as a stand-alone application or integrated with a learning platform, video-based practice and coaching platforms give learners the ultimate opportunity to repeatedly
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