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100-Year-Old Man Reacts to His First VR Experience

VRScout

He flew C-46 Commando transport planes in WWII, spent a quarter-century as a commercial pilot and flight instructor, later worked as an air traffic controller—and along the way had six children with his wife of 70 years. But recently, at Intel’s campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, Becker added another big experience to his life: VR.

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‘Google Earth VR’ Lets You Experience the Total Solar Eclipse Right Now

Road to VR

Released in an August 12th update, Google has added a new menu function that lets you activate Monday’s total solar eclipse, which can be seen as it passed through 14 US states: Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wyoming.

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‘FlyInside Flight Simulator’ Preview – A Promising Start in VR-native Flying

Road to VR

FlyInside FSX , the crowdfunded VR plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006) , was built well before first-party VR motion controllers existed, developed back in the DK2-era of 2015 as an ad hoc way of jumping into an already highly-detailed flight sim. Image courtesy FlyInside. It’s still early days for FlyInside.

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Taming the Jungle of Ideas, with The Wild’s Gabe Paez

XR for Business Podcast

And it really took that process to key in for me on the insight that the real power of XR is not solely in the simulation itself. A lot of us are here in Portland, Oregon, but our product manager’s remote. Because I always had this feeling that it was more than just what I was seeing at the time. Gabe: [laughs] Exactly!

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Taming the Jungle of Ideas, with The Wild's Gabe Paez

XR for Business Podcast

And it really took that process to key in for me on the insight that the real power of XR is not solely in the simulation itself. A lot of us are here in Portland, Oregon, but our product manager's remote. Because I always had this feeling that it was more than just what I was seeing at the time. It is in the connected nature of it.

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New Oculus Rift and Gear VR Releases For The Week Of 11/20/16

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

It riffs on the humorous plight of games like Oregon Trail, with a fresh coat of paint that pits players against aliens and other trials and tribulations rather than the Old West. Aim the shot with your gaze and shoot with your Xbox One controller — or Touch when it releases. Worth the price with motion controllers.

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Taming the Jungle of Ideas, with The Wild’s Gabe Paez

XR for Business Podcast

And it really took that process to key in for me on the insight that the real power of XR is not solely in the simulation itself. A lot of us are here in Portland, Oregon, but our product manager’s remote. Because I always had this feeling that it was more than just what I was seeing at the time. Gabe: [laughs] Exactly!

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