Fri.Jul 14, 2017

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Editorial: HTC Vive Needs A Major Price Cut To Stay Competitive

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Since the bombshell price drop earlier this week by Facebook’s Oculus, a number of theories have emerged regarding the Rift’s temporary $400 price tag. Is Oculus preparing a second generation and hoping to clear stock? Is Oculus struggling so much that Facebook is dropping the price of the Rift in a last ditch effort to save it?

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6 VR Experiences Nominated for 2017 Emmy Awards, Oculus Receives Multiple Nominations

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The 69th Emmy Awards nominations are out, and while it’s true the Emmys were created to recognize excellence in the television industry, virtual reality as a medium has been lauded with six total nominations this year, three of which are thanks to content created by Oculus. There isn’t an official ‘VR’ section of the Emmys, rather the nominations have been spread between two categories: ‘Outstanding Original Interactive Program’ and ‘Outstanding Creati

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$200 Standalone Wireless Oculus VR Headset Coming 2018

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Oculus seeks to bridge the gap between PC and mobile VR with a mid-level headset. Oculus is all up in the news lately. The Facebook-owned VR manufacturer shut down its Oculus Stories department and revealed a ridiculous $399 Rift & Touch bundle sale running throughout the entire summer. Now the company is teasing brand new hardware in the form of a mid-level VR headset that, while not as powerful as the Rift, still manages to ditch the smartphone.

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‘Echo Arena’ Will Be Free to Anyone Who Downloads in First 3 Months

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Echo Arena, the zero-g VR sports game coming to Rift July 20th, is going to be free for anyone who downloads it in the first 3 months after launch, says production studio Ready at Dawn in an Oculus forum post. Echo Arena is the multiplayer mode launching alongside Lone Echo , a first-person, sci-fi adventure using the same zero-g locomotion system and Oculus Touch controllers.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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Oculus Slashes Rift Price Again: New Touch Bundle $500 When Sale Ends

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The Oculus Rift and Touch controllers are having their price permanently cut again for the second time in two months. Right now the pair are on sale for an impressive $399, which is $200 off the standard price. Today, however, Oculus announced that, when that sale ends in six weeks’ time, the Rift and Touch will be available for $499. After strong demand, the company is also finally bundling the headset, controllers, and two sensors into one box.

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Check Out This First Look At Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One Film

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Many people contend that Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is necessary reading for fans of VR, AR, or other forms of immersive technology. Regardless of how you feel about the book, Steven Spielberg’s big-budget take on the story of Wade Watts’ (played by Tye Sheridan ) journey through The Oasis is poised to be a huge blockbuster when it releases in May of 2018.

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Mel Slater’s Theory of VR Presence vs an Elemental Theory of Presence

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VR Presence researcher Mel Slater is fascinated by what makes the medium of virtual reality unique and different from other communications mediums. He says that VR activates our sensorimotor contingencies in a way that fools our brain that we’re transported into another world, and that what is happening is real. He breaks this into two primary illusions where the Place Illusion answers the question “Am I there?

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Raw Data Hostile Takeover PvP Update With New Class Now Live

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Today Raw Data is receiving its latest update that includes a brand new class, brand new level, and brand new game mode, called Hostile Takeover, that introduces player-vs-player (PvP) gameplay. This new update, like previous updates, is entirely free for all owners of the game. You can watch a teaser trailer for the update right here: The new PvP game mode included with this update is a version of the classic “King of the Hill” mode you might recognize from other non-VR first-person

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nDreams Raises £2.7M to Further Develop VR Games, Signs Deal to Bring Exclusive Content to VR Arcade

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nDreams, creators of The Assembly and publishers of the upcoming brawler Bloody Zombies , have completed an additional £2 million investment with Mercia Technologies, and £700,000 from private investors to create more VR games. In addition, nDreams has signed a deal to bring exclusive new content to a “leading VR arcade company.” According to a nDreams blog post , the VR arcade content partnership is just one of many recent deals with third-party companies. nDreams says they’

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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Mantis Integrated PlayStation VR Headphones Coming August 1st

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VR headset manufacturers are likely hard at work finding ways to improve and update the design and components to provide an even better product in the future. Third-parties are also building different peripherals to improve the user experience, and bionik has set a date for the release of their integrated PS VR headphones: August 1st. Called Mantis, bionik’s design is a lightweight effort to decrease ear fatigue without sacrificing high-quality sound.

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6 VR Experiences Nominated for 2017 Emmy Awards, Oculus Receives Multiple Nominations via @RtoVR.

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6 VR Experiences Nominated for 2017 Emmy Awards, Oculus Receives Multiple Nominations via @RtoVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 14, 2017.

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Jump Is A New Subscription Service For Indie Games Including VR

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A new gaming subscription service wants to take the mantle of Netflix for indie titles, and it looks like VR experiences are included. Jump surfaced online this week in a beta testing phase. This new service is designed to promote many of the games that might slip under the radar in between playing the year’s bigger releases, offering titles like Teslagrad that you can jump into with a few simple clicks.

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See an Exclusive First Look at Steven Spielberg’s ‘Ready Player One’ via @EW.

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See an Exclusive First Look at Steven Spielberg’s ‘Ready Player One’ via @EW [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 15, 2017.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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New PSVR Releases For Week Of 09/07/17

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It’s not the biggest week ever for PSVR but there’s definitely content worth checking out. We’ve got a short new horror experience and a port of one of the best puzzle games for PC VR headsets. There weren’t any new releases last week but you can see the ones from two weeks ago here. UploadVR has launched the ‘UploadVR PSVR Community’ on PlayStation 4!

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Daydream 1.7 adds better VR content discovery, improved Controller performance via @9to5Google.

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Daydream 1.7 adds better VR content discovery, improved Controller performance via @9to5Google [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 15, 2017.

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Dear Angelica, Stranger Things And More VR Nominated in 2017 Emmys

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It was almost a year ago now that Oculus Story Studio’s animated short, Henry, won VR its first Emmy , not that it did the little critter any good. The nominations for this year’s awards have just been revealed though, and there are plenty more VR experiences recognized. A total of six VR projects are getting nods this year. Three are in the Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media Within A Scripted Program category.

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Using Apple’s ARKit, This Company Built Inside-Out Tracking for a VR Headset via @RtoVR.

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Using Apple’s ARKit, This Company Built Inside-Out Tracking for a VR Headset via @RtoVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 14, 2017.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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Oculus Rift gets its 2nd permanent price drop this year

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It appears that Oculus really wants to take the fight to HTC VIVE. The Oculus Rift has been on sale in a bundle with its Touch controllers for a few days now, dropping the package’s price to $399 and severely undercutting the cost of a VIVE headset. Today, Oculus announced that the Rift will be getting a permanent price cut … Continue reading.

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Compete in the World’s First VR Esports League: VR Challenger Brackets Now Open! via @oculus.

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Compete in the World’s First VR Esports League: VR Challenger Brackets Now Open! via @oculus [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 14, 2017.

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EON Reality Recognized As One Of The 10 Best Tech Companies to Work For 2017

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EON Reality was recognized as one of the 10 Best Tech Companies to Work For 2017 by the Singapore Computer Society. Companies had to have a Singaporean office and were judged on five criteria : culture, innovation, financial sustainability, people management, and human resource management. The panel of judges was made up of local Singaporean government and technology heavyweights.

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Oculus: ‘Multiple VR titles have made more than $1M in the Oculus store alone’ via @RtoVR.

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Oculus: ‘Multiple VR titles have made more than $1M in the Oculus store alone’ via @RtoVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 14, 2017.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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New HTC Vive Releases For The Week Of 07/09/17

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Welcome to a new week of HTC Vive releases, far removed from the storm that was the Steam summer sale. Things are somewhat back to normal and we have a couple highlights to check out. Balloon Chair Death Match is a unique deathmatch concept that takes really good advantage of VR’s immersion by having you up in the air trying to shoot down your enemy’s balloons while fearing it happening to yourself.

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Paramount Hires Ted Schilowitz as Futurist in Residence via @TheWrap [link]

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Paramount Hires Ted Schilowitz as Futurist in Residence via @TheWrap [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 14, 2017.

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New Oculus Rift and Gear VR Releases For Week Of 07/09/17

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Rift might be on sale, but its Gear VR’s time to shine on the content side this week with two big new releases. There’s some cool stuff for Rift too, but this is one of those weeks it’s better to be a mobile VR gamer. If you missed the previous entry of this list you can see those new releases here. And don’t forget that UploadVR has a Steam community group , complete with a curated list of recommendations so that you don’t have to waste any money finding out what’s good in

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This Hacked Together Glove Can Translate Sign Language via @PopMech [link]

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This Hacked Together Glove Can Translate Sign Language via @PopMech [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 14, 2017.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?