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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

You’ll be able to sit in a real-world go-kart rig and race around in the virtual world. Teaming up with Oculus and ESL, Intel declared the world’s first virtual reality eSports league — with a prize pool of $200K. BRAND NAME GAMES COME TO VR: E3 HIGHLIGHTS.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

More evidence of Facebook’s big plans for VR/AR: they plan on selling almost half a million Oculus Rift units by the end of 2016. Later this year, HelloVR will be releasing an early version of a huge, open-world social VR experience called Metaworld. Speaking of the Metaverse… say hi to Metaworld.

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A reminder that you can unplug from VR at any time

Immersive Authority

Here’s an example of a Russian guy trying out the roller-coaster experience on an Oculus Rift. I’ve seen tv series and movies from the 70’s where people immerse themselves into virtual worlds and cannot escape unless they achieve a specific goal.

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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. VR makes those sorts of sci-fi dreams a reality today.

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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. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. Alife Virtual : 590 regions. Open Virtual Worlds : 320 regions.

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

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Lessons Learned From A Thousand Virtual Worlds. 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.),

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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

I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. How different was it from today?

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