Road to VR

DECEMBER 15, 2017

It’s been a long while coming, but Google has finally launched a YouTube VR app on PC. The app is now available on Steam, officially for the Vive (but also functional with Rift and Windows VR headsets). Google expects YouTube VR to remain in Early Access through 2018 as they continue to develop it based on feedback. As one of the largest video content libraries on the planet, demand for being able to watch YouTube content in a VR headset has been understandably strong.

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Published by Bossa Studios ( I Am Bread , Surgeon Simulator ), Purrfect Date mixes dark British comedy influences with (decidedly furry) dating sim mechanics. Throughout the six main chapters, the player adopts the role of several freshly employed research assistants on an island almost entirely populated by cats and is tasked with uncovering the location’s shady history.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Rockstar Games, the mega studio behind Grand Theft Auto , Red Dead Redemption , and plenty more, has launched its debut VR title, L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files. The game is an adaptation of L.A. Noire (2011), which has had a number of its missions reworked specifically for VR. LA Noire is a unique game to say the least—designed as a sort of action-detective game, the title employed some of the top facial motion capture of its time to present believable characters for players to interrogate a

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Slashgear

DECEMBER 15, 2017

YouTube just launched a virtual reality app for Steam, making it available to HTC Vive users. That’s good news, except that many of those users are reporting some pretty serious bugs, some of them so problematic that the app repeatedly crashes, making it unusable. This isn’t the first iteration of YouTube designed for virtual reality headsets.

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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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VRWorld

DECEMBER 15, 2017

A University of Toronto graduate student is seemingly the first to utilize virtual reality in helping to present research findings during a biochemistry research lecture. PhD student Aidin Balo and his PhD supervisor Professor Oliver Ernst delivered a lecture to 200 people in 2016 at a conference in Berlin, which had the audience use cardboard-based tools in conjunction with their smartphones to immerse themselves in a VR experience.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The traditionally “high-touch” fashion industry is among the latest to embrace augmented reality, with the advent of Code and Craft’s new AR Product Catalog tool. The mobile app, which utilizes Apple’s ARKit technology, allows fashion vendors to showcase their collections in an augmented reality environment. The company says the technology allows them to replace the traditionally expensive sample interaction process with a “life-like 3D online showroom experience.”.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Six artists, one giant collaborative VR painting. We’ve already seen what’s possible when you get VR tools like Tilt Brush in the hands of artists. Whether bringing familiar childhood characters to life live on television or taking turns to create the ultimate hot dog VR sketch , Tilt Brush is a platform for limitless creation. Tilt Brush by Google is a 3D painting tool that lets you paint in space.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Vive Focus, the first consumer-available standalone headset with six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) positional tracking, has officially launched in China. While HTC isn’t shipping Vive Focus outside the country , fresh reports of the headset’s tracking capability seem to be promising. Richard Lai, Engadget China’s Senior Editor-in-Chief, got a chance to go hands-on with Vive Focus recently, saying the headset’s ‘World Scale’ tracking technology was “quite im

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 15, 2017

More than 6,000 German soldiers worked at the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz. Now on the cusp of 2018, the ones that are still alive are in their 90s and 100s, so there’s very few left to actually pursue. That doesn’t mean the German state has given up prosecuting those involved though, as we see in a new documentary from Mel Films called Nazi VR that delves into how VR helped convict SS guard Reinhold Hanning last year.

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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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