VRScout
OCTOBER 26, 2017
The second of three Blade Runner 2049 VR games is now available free for the Oculus Rift. If you haven’t seen the new Blade Runner film yet, I suggest you drop what you’re doing and head to a theater immediately. The sequel to the 1982 cult-classic seems to improve on almost every aspect of the original with an engrossing story and some truly stunning visuals.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 23, 2017
Lytro , the once consumer-facing light field camera company which has recently pivoted to create high-end production tools , has announced a light field rendering software for VR that essentially aims to free developers from the current limitations of real-time rendering. The company calls it ‘Volume Tracer’ Light field cameras are typically hailed as the next necessary technology in bridging the gap between real-time rendered experiences and 360 video—two VR content types that for n
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Cats and VR
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Evasion is an intense VR bullet hell game, designed to immerse players in high intensity co-op multiplayer combat in the same vein as Destiny and Halo. Announced today from the Archiact development team in Vancouver BC, Evasion is looking to deliver cinematic destructible environments and intense bullet hell action with an AI enemy behavior system designed to make tactical movement and teamwork critical to your squad’s survival.
Slashgear
OCTOBER 21, 2017
AMC’s The Walking Dead returns for its eighth season this weekend, and to help celebrate the TV network has released a new VR app that will let viewers finally step into the role of the show’s titular zombies. Titled AMC VR, the app is available for download on iOS, Android, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Daydream, and while it includes … Continue reading.
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.
VRScout
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Bong rips and “always blue” in VR. HBO’s Silicon Valley is getting a VR experience and it couldn’t be more spot on. Considering the last season was riddled with VR references, including tech wonderkid Keenan Feldspar—played by Haley Joel Osment as the not so subtle nod to Oculus’ Palmer Luckey, it comes as no surprise that the Emmy Award winning hit is launching a VR experience of its own.
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Cats and VR
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Independent studio Futurlab is embarking on an expansion campaign, as it gears up for its next PSVR project Mini-Mech Mayhem, a robot battle game, where you play the big buddy and your Mini-Mech partner is the little buddy. Futurlab enjoyed a hit with its debut PSVR title Tiny Trax this summer, which followed the firm’s critically-acclaimed and best seller Velocity 2X.
Slashgear
OCTOBER 26, 2017
Warner Bros just launched a horror virtual reality experience for Android users called “IT: Escape from Pennywise VR.” The experience puts viewers inside of Pennywise’s abandoned house, specifically in front of the three doors movie viewers will be familiar with. You’ll have to pick your own path and face whatever fears lie ahead while navigating through the abandoned domicile.
VRScout
OCTOBER 23, 2017
152,000,000 calories have been burned playing Audioshield since its release in 2016. When it comes to losing weight, we’ve already seen the impact VR fitness can have on bodies, especially when paired with a proper diet. From a personal trainer who shed 15 lbs in two months to a gamer who lost 50 pounds riding a stationary bike with a HTC Vive headset, VR workouts can not only be a source for exercise, but also be enjoyable at the same time.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 26, 2017
Today HTC Creative Labs is debuting a beautiful new SteamVR Home environment —the hub space for when players aren’t inside any VR apps—called Driftwood. The environment takes players virtually outside on a beachfront wilderness inspired by the United State’s Pacific Northwest. Not long ago Valve introduced SteamVR Home, a platform for offering VR users a customizable home base from which they can link up with friends and launch VR games and apps.
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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.
Cats and VR
OCTOBER 26, 2017
Resolution Games today revealed the details of their next project called Narrows, a game of swashbuckling pirate adventure. Coming soon on Daydream, Google's platform for high quality, mobile VR, Narrows will follow the studio's wildly successful VR fishing game Bait! "We've been ecstatic about how our first games have been received, but Narrows will be our biggest game yet," said Tommy Palm, co-founder and CEO of Resolution Games.
AllThingsVR
OCTOBER 24, 2017
AMC Channel Launches 360 Video App Featuring ‘Walking Dead’ 360 Shorts @roadtovr [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) October 24, 2017.
VRScout
OCTOBER 21, 2017
AMC has launched a VR app loaded with never-before-seen Walking Dead & Into The Badlands VR content. AMC Networks is one of the most popular American basic cable and satellite television channels currently in circulation, due in large part to their impressive catalog of groundbreaking original programming. Breaking Bad , The Walking Dead , Into The Badlands , Better Caul Saul , Mad Men , the list just goes on.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Microsoft today announced the opening of its Mixed Reality Capture Studios and a ‘Mixed Reality Academy’ in the company’s San Francisco Reactor dev space. Microsoft has a number of Reactors , or physical spaces that are open and free of charge to host technical events like hack-a-thons and meet ups; available across five spaces in four different locations—San Francisco, New York, London, and two locations in Redmond, WA.
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.
Cats and VR
OCTOBER 23, 2017
Florida based development studio Outer Brain Studios have released their VR survival horror adventure ORGAN QUARTER. The title is available on Steam (for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift) now. Organ Quarter is a 5–8 hour adventure taking place across a large, nightmarish urban environment. It is a homage to the classic survival horror games of the ‘90s: players will fight off enemies in carefully designed encounters, manage their ammunition and resources and solve puzzles all while using their map to na
AllThingsVR
OCTOBER 25, 2017
LucidCam Virtual Reality Camera Help Athletes Improve Their Performance via @GeekyGadgets [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) October 26, 2017.
VRScout
OCTOBER 26, 2017
As if Friday the 13th wasn’t spooky enough already. Tis the season for scares, and creepy videos are finding their way all across social channels, letting users get their fix for spooky fun. But if regular 2D experiences don’t give you enough of an opportunity to participate in your nightmares, look no further than VR. NextVR has just released the next, all-new episode of Paranormal Evidence , the scripted horror series that debuted earlier this summer. “Rolling Hills Asylum
Road to VR
OCTOBER 26, 2017
Ramez Naam. Ramez Naam is the author of The Nexus Trilogy sci-fi novels, which explores the moral and sociological implications of technology that can directly interface with the brain. He gave the keynote at the Experiential Technology Conference in March exploring the latest research into how these interfaces could change the way that we sleep, learn, eat, find motivation to exercise, create new habits of change, and broadcast and receive technologically-mediated telepathic messages.
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.
Cats and VR
OCTOBER 22, 2017
Virtro Entertainment – the female-led VR indie game studio out of Vancouver, Canada, today announced the release of Run Dorothy Run – an immersive endless-runner and rhythm VR game, with a cheeky take on the classic novel, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." The game is being released on Sony PlayStation VR in the Fall of 2017, with other platforms to follow shortly after.
AllThingsVR
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Lytro Announces VR Light Field Rendering Software ‘Volume Tracer’ @roadtovr [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) October 24, 2017.
VRScout
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Halloween is nearly upon us…what better way to get your thrills than in full VR immersion? . It’s no surprise that VR can pack a whole lot of scary punch. After all, some of the most memorable VR experiences are the ones designed to test your limits. We love the energy this brings out in VR creators and enthusiasts, which is why we’ve teamed up with CTRL Collective to make tomorrow’s VR Haunted Carnival a living nightmare in the best possible way, bringing you a healthy
Road to VR
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Starbreeze and Acer announced a new capitalization plan for StarVR, the upcoming high field of view (FOV) VR headset, that will see Acer inject $5 million into the project and take a 66 percent majority control of the joint venture. Starbreeze made quite the impression at E3 2015 when they unveiled StarVR , the 210 degree, high-resolution VR headset born from project InfinitEye.
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?
Cats and VR
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Snatchers , launches on 26th October on PC for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, via digital download on Steam Store for 9.99 USD. Developed by a South-Korean based VR content production studio Reality Reflection , Snatchers is a multiplayer VR game where players holding hook guns pilot hoverbikes to score goals in a virtual stadium. Snatchers has two players assigned to each of the two teams, using two Vive or Oculus Touch motion controllers to control a hoverbike and a hook gun to snatch and throw a b
AllThingsVR
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab Is A VR Tie-In That Does The Series Proud via @UploadVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) October 25, 2017.
VRScout
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Vive trackers plus a rescue robot equals the coolest puppet in existence. There are very few terms associated more closely with science fiction than “VR” and “robots.” The two technologies have long been considered the future of entertainment and convenience. So when a project comes along that manages to merge the two fields you can be sure futurists are going to take notice.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 21, 2017
It looks like Fujitsu is adding its name to the list of OEMs producing Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets , which currently include the likes of Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung. Fujitsu’s unnamed headset follows the same reference design as the others in the Windows headset ecosystem, which provide inside-out positional tracking and wireless, optically-tracked motion controllers—allowing the user to set up the VR system without the need of external trackers, basestat
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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