Road to VR

MAY 4, 2018

Facebook’s VP of AR/VR Andrew “Boz” Bosworth showed a quick glimpse of a “mixed reality” game of soccer using Oculus Santa Cruz, the company’s 6 DOF standalone VR headset prototype. This is the first hint that Santa Cruz could have the ability to not only use its multiple sensors to map the environment for VR positional tracking, but also allow for what Bosworth calls “mixed reality” experiences as well. “It’s just a (very, very early) prototype but that

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

On May 1st-2nd, Facebook has had its annual F8 conference. There it has presented a lot of news regarding all Facebook companies (Messenger, Instagram, Facebook, etc…) and of course, among these pieces of news, we had some AR and VR ones. If you missed some of them, don’t worry because I’ve got you covered and in this post , I’ll summarize all the most important XR news from the F8 event.

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Slashgear

MAY 4, 2018

The Lenovo Mirage Solo is making a splash landing in the virtual reality headset market, and it’s causing waves both in mobile and traditional VR. One of the small handful of truly standalone headsets, it doesn’t demand you slot in your smartphone or plug into a gaming PC. Instead, Lenovo and Google are leveraging smartphone tech and some mighty clever … Continue reading.

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VRScout

MAY 4, 2018

Facebook’s Oculus Go is a great device made even better by easy access to your personal files. During Facebook’s recent F8 developers conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced that everyone in attendance would be walking home with a brand new Oculus Go – the company’s brand new standalone VR headset. On top of that, the device became available in 23 countries in total via the Oculus website, Amazon, and your local Best Buy store. .

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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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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2018

After only 3 days since launch, Beat Saber (2018) , the VR rhythm game that puts two lightsabers in your hands, is now the highest rated game on Steam—not just the highest rated VR game, but the highest rated game out of all titles, flatscreen games included. Even at this early stage of development, it’s already won over the VR community enough to place it just above Valve’s Portal 2 (2011).

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2018

Obduction (2016) , the VR puzzle adventure from Cyan , the studio behind the ’90s point-and-click classics Myst (1993) and Riven (1997), is finally making its way to PSVR next week. Launching on PSVR May 8th, the game is said to be the full version of Obduction including the bonus content that’s already on the non-VR PlayStation 4 version. The game, which we played initially when it came out for SteamVR-compatible headsets back in late 2016, offers tens of hours of exploration and intensel

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Cats and VR

MAY 4, 2018

Blade Runner: Revelations is now available on the Daydream platform. From today, audiences will be able to explore a uniquely immersive and compelling new Adventure/Thriller VR gaming experience based on the award-winning Blade Runner series. The title follows the critically acclaimed release of Blade Runner 2049 from Oscar nominated director Denis Villeneuve, starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford.

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2018

BOXVR (2017), a VR boxing rhythm game from fitness game studio FitXR , is hosting a free access period for Rift players this weekend. BoxVR’s free access weekend takes place between May 3rd and May 7th, ending at 3:00 AM ET ( local end time here ). Simply download the game via the Oculus Store and get punching, ducking, and dodging to the beat.

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Cats and VR

MAY 4, 2018

Following on from the successful partnership that brought ‘Evil Dead: Endless Nightmare’ to iOS and Android, indie publisher Boomdash Digital has today announced that they have brought the companies back together for an exciting new VR project. ‘Evil Dead: Virtual Nightmare’ will offer fans a truly unique opportunity to fully immerse themselves within the Evil Dead universe unlike ever before.

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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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Slashgear

MAY 4, 2018

Virtual reality is gaining steam, but what if you want to create content for the new headsets, not just consume it? That’s where Lenovo’s Mirage Camera comes in. Launching today alongside the Mirage Solo standalone VR headset, it’s a twin-sensor camera designed to capture 3D photos and video without demanding professional videographer credentials first.

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2018

Tis the season of standalones, it seems. Right on the heels of the Oculus Go launch, the Lenovo Mirage Solo is here. The headset promises to bring one of the top features of high-end VR headsets—positional tracking—to Google’s casual Daydream VR ecosystem. Does it succeed? Read on to find out. While Lenovo has previously launched their own PC VR headset (the ‘Explorer’—part of the Windows VR platform), the Mirage Solo is a whole different beast.

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VeeR VR

MAY 4, 2018

Some participants find #MyVeelog is more challenging than the other campaigns on VeeR before, because we require them to add live sticker of Vee in their entries. Here, we'd like to provide some guidance on how to add Vee sticker through different tools. Check other entries. VeeR Editor (Difficulty level: ??). Vee's live stickers have already been updated in VeeR Editor.

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2018

Oculus Go, the company’s recently launched standalone VR headset, is already on store shelves starting at $200 for the 32 GB version. And just like the company’s previous Rift for Business announced last year, now it’s Go’s turn for the commercial treatment. Now available for pre-order for $300 —only $50 more than the equivalent 64 GB consumer version—the new Oculus for Business bundle includes a 64 GB version of the Go headset, a controller, two facial interfaces, a wor

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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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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2018

To The Top (2017), the VR platforming game that first released on Steam, is heading to PSVR on May 29th. Using a the ‘grab the world’ locomotion mechanic, you use your superhuman jumping powers to traverse over 35 levels, replete with obstacles and a diverse set of challenges along the way. To move, you simply point your motion controller at your designated target, and it physically ‘grabs on’ to the game’s many barriers and architecture so you can fling yourself f

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2018

Arizona Sunshine (2016) , the room-scale zombie shooter adventure, is getting its first campaign DLC on Oculus Rift, Vive & Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets on May 24th. The single mission campaign, dubbed Dead Man DLC , is said to arrive on PSVR some time in June. Dropping you in a zombie-infested US missile base, you’re tasked with containing the fresh zombie outbreak.

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