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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 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 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.

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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) →.

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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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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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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The first IMAX VR Experience Centre has officially opened in LA. The company has unsurprisingly modeled the destination much like a movie theater, one that offers up immersive experiences on the latest VR hardware through a pay-to-play model. With plans to open more locations this year, Road to VR stepped inside the first IMAX VR Experience Centre to find out what you can expect.

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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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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 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.

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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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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Powered by the PS4, PSVR might not be the most powerful VR platform out there, but the newly released Joshua Bell VR Experience shows that execution—not oomph—is a major part of what makes VR great. The VR video experience uses inventive techniques to give you an immersive front row seat to a world-class violinist, featuring positional tracking and impressively sharp visuals.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Seems like everyday my tech news feeds are hit with a new Rothenberg Ventures has f'ed up posts. It's almost like tech journalism has always been looking for someone to make a tabloid martyr out of and Mike Rothenberg fits the bill with almost Kanye West like precision. Young, brash, Cinderella story. It almost comes across as a hip hop lyric about loving you on top but hating you when they can.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

With more than 50 actors, 60 artists, and 4,000 hours of post-production, #BeefeaterXO VR is one of the most ambitious pieces of branded VR content to date. It’s hard out there for a brand. Standing out in the ocean of available content can be, for many, a journey of epic proportions. Beefeater (already the #1 spirit brand in Spain) decided to tackle the problem by taking it to Odyssean levels in BeefeaterXO —tapping Spain’s youngest 3-star chef: culinary enfant terrible Dabiz Muñoz,

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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

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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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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg | Photo courtesy Facebook. Facebook’s 2017 F8 developer conference has seven scheduled sessions dedicated to VR. The company’s annual two-day event is dedicated to exploring the future of Facebook’s family of apps and services (including Oculus), and how businesses and developers can leverage them. With sessions covering topics such as research, analytics and artificial intelligence, as well as their major acquisitions Instagram and WhatsApp, Face

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Uncorporeal Systems, today announced that corporate turnaround genius Peter Cuneo has joined the company as Chairman. Cuneo has a distinguished career in leadership roles at world-renowned corporations across industries, from CEO of Marvel Entertainment to president of a Black and Decker business group, with a reputation for unleashing unprecedented growth.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The Ambiotherm brings a whole new level of immersion to virtual reality with realistic weather simulations. The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive have allowed us to view the virtual world, the Nosulus Rift and OhRoma give us the ability to smell the virtual world and thanks to the efforts of Professor Nimesha Ranasinghe and his team at the National University of Singapore, we’ll soon be able to feel part of the virtual world as well.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Though the entertainment possibilities of augmented and virtual reality are the more immediately intriguing experiences, both forms of tech present a lot of potential in many other industries as well. Augmented reality overlays our surroundings with data and digital imagery, bringing additional layers of information in a convenient way. Virtual reality offers near limitless virtual space to recreate almost anything you can imagine and immerses users into environments they may not be able to expe

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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.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Compound is a VR hobby project from developer ‘Notdead’ which aims to immerse you in a world of lovingly crafted pixel art, retro-styled first person shooter. Ironically, there is a risk that the over abundance of so-called ‘pixel art’ video games in circulation these days of the nostalgia-fuelled art style is in danger of beginning to look tired and dated.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Yesterday Sanrio launched Hello Kitty on Actiongram, the HoloLens video creation app. Created by Vine animator Alicia Herber; you can see some examples of the 14 animations included in the Hello Kitty pack in the above video. Though AR and the Hololens are still very niche and used more as a development tool than for consumer use Sanrio is looking to be ahead of the curve.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2017

The unofficial RC simulator is the Star Wars VR game you never knew you needed. The Star War series has already made it’s virtual reality debut with Trials on Tatooine in 2016 and Lucasfilm has no intention on slowing down its high-end content anytime soon. So it’s surprising that the Star Wars VR experience I’m most excited for is actually a small, unofficial experience that’s more of a tech demo than an actual game.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Showing off what Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed reality can do is difficult without actually putting it on someone’s head, but the company’s new camera hack is providing a helping hand. Whenever we’ve seen HoloLens on-stage at shows like E3 , or Microsoft’s own press conferences, the company will have one person wearing the kit, while the audience sees what they see using a special camera.

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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?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Michael Antonov, Chief Software Architect at Oculus, is due to speak at Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference on April 18th about React VR, a framework that builds on Facebook’s React JavaScript library. This web-based framework allows easier creation of VR content that can run on VR headsets from the browser. The F8 developer conference is Facebook’s annual event to discuss future technology related to the company and its various platforms; virtual reality is one of the key topics, with 7 se

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Following the well received Virtual Reality debut of the Resident Evil franchise on Playstation VR horror fans are clamoring for more VR scares. Enter Paranormal Activity VR, a VR title developed by LA-based VRWERX in partnership with Paramount and based on the HIGHLY profitable movie franchise of the same name. The team recently released a teaser trailer to go along with a short gameplay video release on Twitter last month.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The chicken chain’s cow mascots want you to ‘eat mor chikin in realitee’. The self-preserving bovine who have been asking us to eat more chicken since 1995 have a new marketing tactic up their sleeve. The cows most known from billboards touting hand-painted signs to “Eat Mor Chikin” are now using virtual reality to get their message across. Last week, Chick-fil-A began teasing their latest Cowz VR advertising campaign, which included teaser videos, a cryptic website, and the distribution of thou

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Holographic technology company 8i is announcing today that it has raised a $27 million series B round of fundraising for the development of new products including its new smartphone hologram program: Holo. Holo’s tagline encourages users to: mix your world with holograms. According to 8i, Holo is a: “…Consumer mobile app that gives people an easy way to create mixed reality content with holograms of their favorite celebrities, brands, and characters.

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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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