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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

It’s interesting to note that although Nintendo did not directly develop this virtual version of the 2005 arcade classic Mario Kart GP , it is an official remake and has Nintendo’s blessing… but the experience will be using the HTC Vive and not Nintendo hardware (will the Nintendo Switch soon be the first VR-compatible hardware from Nintendo???).

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‘Edge of Nowhere’ Review

Road to VR

Edge of Nowhere is a third-person VR survival horror game recently released for the Oculus Rift that places you in 1932 in the boots of Victor, a biologist and adventurer attempting to track down his lost fiance Eva. Publisher: Oculus Studios. Available On: Oculus Home (Rift). Reviewed On: Oculus Rift. Immersion.

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Meet Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR

VRScout

To help do that, I coordinate engineering efforts internal to Epic as well as well as manage relationships with other companies like Oculus, Valve and Samsung to make sure that UE4 lets people maximize the potential of the engine to the fullest and that it’s easy to use. We don’t really have any software to show on it.

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OpenSim numbers down as two popular grids drop stats

Hypergrid Business

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. The International Spaceflight Museum , a Texas-based non-profit corporation solely supported by private donors and which has operated in Second Life since 2005, will have a grand opening ceremony for its Kitely branch of the museum at 5:00 p.m.

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12 Can’t Miss VR Talks You Have To See At GDC 2017

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. Cass Everitt (Oculus), Joe Ludwig (Valve), Nick Whiting (Epic Games), Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs), Yuval Boger (Sensics, Inc.), Chris Pruett (Oculus). Room 2005, West Hall.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). I am always fascinated when I speak with someone that is here before the Oculus Kickstarter campaign. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life.

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Reimagining Cinema with Radiant Images’ Michael Mansouri

XR for Business Podcast

He’s been always interested in the overlap of film and technology, so he co-founded Radiant Images in 2005. And part of what we did is we started really looking at our industry, motion picture, media, entertainment, and just in fact, communication, our communication methods. What is the new method of how we engage? What was it?