VRScout
DECEMBER 3, 2017
A new depth camera scans the real world and maps it in real-time. Thanks to recent platforms such as Apple’s ARKit and hardware like Microsoft’s HoloLens headset, AR has been on the rise as of late with zero signs of slowing down anytime soon. However, when it comes to delivering truly high quality augmented experiences, the current options available to consumers and even developers are expensive and few.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 8, 2017
There’s an intuitive appeal to using controller-free hand-tracking input like Leap Motion’s ; there’s nothing quite like seeing your virtual hands and fingers move just like your own hands and fingers without the need to pick up and learn how to use a controller. But reaching out to touch and interact in this way can be jarring because there’s no physical feedback from the virtual world.
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Cats and VR
DECEMBER 5, 2017
The Horus Heresy: Betrayal at Calth is a game of turn-based skirmishes between the genetically altered warriors of the 31st Millennium, The Adeptus Astartes. In the campaign players control units of Space Marine Legionaries, guiding them through the underground arcologies of Calth. Fight alongside units of Ultramarines ranging from basic Legionnaires, Veterans, and Sergeants, to elite units of Terminators, and the most venerable Contemptor Dreadnought.
Hypergrid Business
DECEMBER 8, 2017
Kitely Welcome Center’s Merchant Hall area. (Snapshot by Maria Korolov.). What happens if you’re resident on a grid, buy a bunch of products from the Kitely Market for your avatar on that grid, and the grid gets shut down and your avatar inventory is lost? For instance, when ZanGrid closed down this October , many residents lost access to their inventories.
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
DECEMBER 7, 2017
Laser Cat AR is a simple unfinished experiment. So why can’t I stop thinking about it? Another day, another independent developer blowing minds on the internet with yet another intuitive ARKit application. Apple’s augmented reality developer platform has continued to be the birthplace of some of this years most interesting AR experiences from both amateur developers and professionals alike.
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Cats and VR
DECEMBER 8, 2017
Accounting+ is the all-new NIGHTMARE ADVENTURE COMEDY form Crows Crows Crows and Squanch Games for PlayStation®VR. In actuality, it is the PSVR version of the critically acclaimed game collaboration between The Stanley Parable designer William Pugh and Rick And Morty co-creator Justin Roiland but this time with even more Accounting. The game promises great classic reality experiences such as: clean up your office, take the battery out of the cooling machine, play the skeleton xylophone, and/or s
Slashgear
DECEMBER 7, 2017
While virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality have all, or separately, been hailed as the next wave of computing, the truth is they haven’t taken off outside of a still small minority in the tech industry. One reason is the prohibitive cost of PC-powered VR equipment. The other is that few people find any use of the technologies, especially … Continue reading.
VRScout
DECEMBER 4, 2017
With the launch Prism, Object Theory is betting on 3D collaboration and holographic telepresence becoming big business. Object Theory calls itself “the world’s first HoloLens company,” and although all such claims have to be taken with a pinch of salt, they’re probably not far off. Back in 2015, just weeks after the HoloLens was first unveiled to the world, Michael Hoffman left Microsoft—where he was responsible for creating many of the HoloLens showcase experiences such as the Trimble demo —to
Road to VR
DECEMBER 7, 2017
HTC today announced more specifics around Vive Focus, the company’s standalone mobile VR headset for China-based customers. Once destined for Western shores running Google’s Daydream platform, HTC recently surprised the world by scrapping those plans and limiting the release of the standalone headset to China where it will run the company’s ‘open source’ API Vive Wave and a mobile version of the Viveport store.
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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
DECEMBER 5, 2017
HTC VIVE and Nobel Media have announced a partnership to create the first virtual reality experience for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Nobel Media and HTC Vive are creating the virtual reality experience to visualize the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.
Hypergrid Business
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Isle Expo region is ready for the Winter Expo event. (Image by Maria Korolov.). The submission deadline for Tangle Grid ‘s Winter Picture Contest has been extended to Sunday, December 17 following an outage that saw the grid offline for more than a week. The previous deadline was December 1. The grid came back up yesterday after a series of technical issues that included a database error, a database migration, and an upgrade to the latest version of OpenSim, version 0.9.0.0 , released in A
VRScout
DECEMBER 8, 2017
A glowing example of how VR is changing narrative—and social interaction—as we know it. There’s not really a quick way to sum up what Where Thoughts Go is; though we find aspects of narrative and social network in it, neither is ultimately an apt label for the experience. Maybe the best way to describe what it is is to describe what it does : it allows us to engage with each other in an entirely new way via immersive technologies.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 7, 2017
Owlchemy Labs, creators of Job Simulator (2016) and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality (2017) tonight announced their latest VR title, Vacation Simulator. Revealed during the Game Awards 2017 ceremony, Vacation Simulator promises to deliver the same deadpan comedy of its predecessor, which had you exploring what it was like to do a job through the lens of sentient robots who have long since made human labor obsolete.
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.
VRWorld
DECEMBER 4, 2017
Back in May of this year Google announced the creation of an AI (AutoML) that is able to design better AIs. AutoML built a new AI that’s called NASNet that is used to recognize objects. NASNet outperformed its human designed counterparts and the methods used to develop it seems to be the future of advanced AI. The Google researchers automated the design of machine learning models using an approach called reinforcement learning.
Everything VR & AR
DECEMBER 7, 2017
David Trainor, Founder and Principal of Sentireal joins us this week on the Everything VR & AR Podcast. Sentireal specializes in developing apps that deliver personalized education and training experiences using VR/AR. David discusses how VR/AR content itself is generated using machine learning and artificial intelligence technology so that each user automatically gets a tailored experience.
VRScout
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Launch into space with this BBC spacewalk experience. Have you ever dreamed of walking in space? Well now your dreams can finally come true, thanks to the latest release of a VR spacewalk experience from the BBC. Inspired by NASA and ESA training programs and the experiences of real astronauts, Home – A VR Spacewalk enables you would-be astronaut to embark on a spacewalk 250 miles above Earth’s surface, something only 217 people have ever done in real-life.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Announced back in October, Oculus is launching the Rift Core 2.0 update today in beta, a major overhaul to the platform’s underlying experience. The update not only rebuilds the default ‘Home’ environment with huge customization potential, it also introduces ‘Dash’, a new take on the former Universal Menu, which also allows you to use desktop PC applications from within any VR app.
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.
VRWorld
DECEMBER 5, 2017
China has surpassed U.S. as Starbucks ‘ fastest growing market and also the second largest with opening one store in China every 15 hours. Starbucks already operates more than 3,000 stores in the country and 2,000 more by 2021. Focusing on China, Starbucks opened its 30,000 square-feet store, that is now their biggest cafe in the world, in Shanghai.
Immersive Authority
DECEMBER 4, 2017
Immersive Authority offers innovative Communal 360 Degree Mixed Reality display solutions for hire Allows multiple people to view 360 content without the need for a [.]. The post Immersive Display Tech appeared first on Immersive Authority.
VRScout
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Wandering the Nissan showroom? Why not let R2D2 and C3P0 show you the latest advances in safety technology? Nissan can’t seem to get enough of Star Wars or immersive technology this year. The multinational automobile manufacturer has already been responsible for Battle Test: A Nissan 360-Degree Virtual Reality Experience for the Samsung Gear VR as well as Star Wars: Droid Repair Bay for the HTC Vive and Samsung Gear VR.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 6, 2017
VR represents a shift from telling stories to building story worlds that people experience and interact with. There is a process of world building and experiential design that first creates the conditions of the environment, and then the full context of that world helps to drive the narrative design of the stories that can be told within it. This process of building futuristic, sci-fi worlds requires a holistic understanding the co-evolution of technology and culture that takes a lot of imaginat
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?
VRWorld
DECEMBER 6, 2017
A Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei may not have extensive mainstream penetration in the West like Apple and Samsung do, but in 2016 they hit #9 in revenue for tech companies around the world. A lot of their success is based in China, and they often trade places with Apple as the 2nd largest smartphone manufacturer in the world. Huawei is a big name in the industry, to say the least.
VR Spies
DECEMBER 4, 2017
Today I am taking a quick look at the 3dRudder foot controller. The 3dRudder adds a new level of control by allowing the user to map inputs that can be accessed with their feet. The software suite also has several auto configurations for many of the games that are currently available and can also be specifically set up to work with both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.
VRScout
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Relive the glory days of playing N64 in your disgusting bedroom till 3am. If I had to pinpoint my favorite moment in my two decades of playing video games, it would have to be my late night marathons with The Legend Of Zelda: The Ocarina Of Time for the N64. I’d be locked away in my pitch black room for hours tackling those infamous dungeons, the only light coming from my 20 inch CRT television as I traversed brightly lit lava caverns.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 6, 2017
With so many choices for graphics cards out there, it’s hard to know exactly what you should buy to outfit your next VR-ready PC. To make things a little easier, Oculus recently published a list of GPUs that meet minimum specs, and a more comprehensive list of recommended GPUs so you can have what the company calls “the full Oculus Rift experience.” Minimum Spec GPUs.
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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