VRScout
MARCH 6, 2017
Patients can explore new worlds away from the hospital thanks to VR. VR is being put to use at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse with the help of Samsung Australia and Start VR. Chemotherapy patients at the Australian not-for-profit cancer treatment center, many of whom are no longer physically able to travel, now have the chance to go to a far-off, exotic destination through the use of a Gear VR headset.
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MARCH 6, 2017
Developed by Epic Games and with a budget that nearly matched the original Gears of War , Robo Recall [ Review: 7.5/10 ] is probably the Oculus Rift’s biggest exclusive so far. But a new mod is making sure HTC Vive owners don’t miss out. You may well have heard of CrossVR before. He’s one of the developers behind Revive, a hack that allows Vive owners to play games available on Oculus Home, including exclusive Rift content funded by Oculus itself.
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Road to VR
MARCH 6, 2017
Among other additions to the console’s base experience, the forthcoming PS4 System Software Update 4.50 will bring improved tracking and 3D Blu-ray playback to Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. In time for the launch of Farpoint and the PSVR Aim controller, the PS4 System Software Update 4.50 will launch with tracking improvements that apply to objects tracked with the PlayStation Camera, including the Move controllers and the Aim controller.
VRScout
MARCH 6, 2017
“Power Rangers: Zords Rising” will be available for download March 8 from the Apple App Store, GooglePlay and Gear VR. Your favorite teenage superheroes and their giant robot Zords are back—this time in VR. Before Power Rangers the movie hits theaters on March 24th, you’ll get a chance to gear up and experience what it’s like to be part of the Power Ranger team.
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.
Road to VR
MARCH 6, 2017
Realities, a ‘virtual travel’ title that presents near photo-realistic VR captures of real-world locations, has received a major update. In addition to a new explorable location, the software has been overhauled to support forward rendering and improved support for Oculus Rift and Touch. Practically as old as photography itself, use cases for photogrammetry (making measurements from photos) have evolved over time, from triangulation and georeferencing through to movie CGI production and most rec
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Road to VR
MARCH 6, 2017
At NVIDIA’s upcoming GTC 2017 conference on May 8-11, the company plans to award $30,000 in cash and prizes to the winners of the VR Content Showcase which is seeking companies focusing on content other than gaming which is using or plans to use Nvidia GPU technology like GameWorks, DesignWorks or VRWorks. Submissions close on March 15th. Nvidia’s annual GTC conference will be held May 8-11 this year in San Jose, California.
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MARCH 6, 2017
When HTC invited me to a behind-closed-doors demo at the 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) to show off a brand new VR shooter in development by Skydance Interactive , I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I was familiar with Skydance Media from their work on several film properties, such as Star Trek, True Grit, Mission Impossible, and more, but interactive entertainment such as video games and virtual reality is something else altogether.
Road to VR
MARCH 6, 2017
OSVR is currently offering the HDK 2 at a 20% price reduction as part of their Academia and Developer Program. The HDK 2 is the most recent iteration of the organization’s open-source VR headset, normally priced at $399. The OSVR HDK 2 sits in a unique position in the market, aimed towards developers of VR software and hardware, but also offering an interesting alternative to the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive for enthusiasts willing to take the risk on a not-consumer-ready device.
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MARCH 6, 2017
Tilt Brush and Kingspray are both great for unleashing your creative side when it comes to VR painting, but they’re not much use as professional applications. That’s not a slight against them, but there’s a small market that could make genuine use of a painting app for the working world. I got a small glimpse of such an app at Mobile World Congress last week.
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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.
VRScout
MARCH 6, 2017
Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. First Windows mixed reality dev headset ships, dive into the virtual world via Xbox, high-end VR gets more affordable, Rogue One used VR to direct scenes, the investment & funding wrapup, and much more… FIRST WINDOWS MIXED REALITY HEADSET SHIPS LATER THIS MONTH.
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MARCH 6, 2017
The 2017 Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) is now officially over. This year there was a ton of news and lots of great looking games for all manner of VR systems from the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift to the Gear VR and PlayStation VR (PSVR). One of the highlights of the week was undoubtedly The Mage’s Tale from inXile Entertainment, lauded developers of Torment: Tides of Numenera , Wasteland 2 , and The Bard’s Tale IV.
Hypergrid Business
MARCH 6, 2017
The Educator Commons store on OSgrid’s Wright Plaza. (Image by Maria Korolov.). To help schools and educators create, access and share more virtual learning and educational resources, an Educator Commons shop has been set up on OSgrid ‘s Wright Plaza region by Kay McLennan, a professor of practice at Tulane University. The shop, which is hypergrid-enabled, has virtual world learning and teaching tools, freebies, Do-It-Yourself resources, hypergrid links to showcase education builds b
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MARCH 6, 2017
The Oculus Rift features built-in headphones, and the HTC Vive will get them soon too , but PlayStation VR (PSVR) owners still have to plug in their own headphones or ear phones for the most immersive experiences on PlayStation 4. The Mantis VR wants to change that. This new pair of headphones, announced last week by Torrance-based Bionik, fits onto your PSVR headset much in the same way Rift and Vive’s integrated audio solutions do.
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.
Slashgear
MARCH 6, 2017
We’ve heard of hospitals testing virtual reality headsets as a way to distract patients from pain, and now another industry has found use for the technology: so-called ‘safety-critical’ industries like ones involving nuclear power. VR headsets can, in these cases, be used to train workers in immersive ways that improve knowledge and skills without putting the trainee — or anyone … Continue reading.
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MARCH 6, 2017
Over the last week we learned that by spending essentially $300 to purchase three Vive Trackers, you will be able to bring your legs, feet and torso into VR — so you can kick a dinosaur in the face without even looking at it. Dinosaur kicking for $300 is certainly funny, but it’s also a great example of a broad effort by developers and hardware manufacturers to make virtual worlds more responsive to human behavior.
AllThingsVR
MARCH 6, 2017
Popular Chinese search engine Baidu has announced it is expanding its augmented reality (AR) focus into areas such as travel, architecture and healthcare and moving away from online advertising. Baidu says that artificial intelligence (AI) and AR are two key strategic points for the company as it shifts funding into AI and AR research, including hiring ex-Microsoft executive Qi Lu to run it’s AI division.
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MARCH 6, 2017
From price cuts to new games , Oculus had so much to announce at GDC last week that a few of its reveals slipped under the radar. One such announcement was for Talking With Ghosts , the latest project from Oculus Story Studio. Unlike its previous releases, Talking With Ghosts is not a single VR film but instead four short stories. Each boasts their own distinctive art styles from four different artists, but all were made within Quill, Story Studio’s own creation software first used to crea
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.
Hypergrid Business
MARCH 6, 2017
The welcome region on the formerly-recently-relaunched AviWorlds grid. This time, AviWorlds shut down not with a loud scandal, but without even a whisper. Alexsandro Pomposelli. Over the past few days, grid owner Alexsandro Pomposelli has opted not to renew his grid servers, let his domain name expire, and shut down his media accounts and stopped responding to emails, Skype messages, and phone calls.
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MARCH 6, 2017
Has it been a while since you dived into the wacky world of VR compatible multiplayer shooter, World War Toons by Studio Roqovan? You might want to give it a look over today; there’s plenty of new content inbound. Headlining this update, seen in the trailer below, is a Chinese-themed new map called The Great Brawl. Set in the the wreck of the Axis team’s Dread Zepplin blimp, you’ll dart around a map unlike anything else seen in the game thus far.
VRWorld
MARCH 6, 2017
Since ever there was computing, we needed to save the information somewhere safe. Today, more than ever – we’re generating immense number of different data sets, and consuming data at ever higher rate. Every significant event is captured on a camera or smartphone, and every document is stored on our PC, it is really important to save all those personal and business files somewhere safe.
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MARCH 6, 2017
As if you couldn’t tell by the fact a lot of people spent a large part of 2016 playing it, Niantic’s Pokemon GO was a huge success. The augmented reality (AR) app took the world by storm in the second half of the year and raked in tonnes of cash as a result. But here’s an interesting snippet: Pokemon GO players actually spent less on in-app purchases (IAPs) than any other mobile game last year, despite the game making more revenue than any of its competitors.
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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MARCH 6, 2017
GNOG is… uh… weird. Totally weird, actually. Like really, really weird. So weird, I don’t really know where to begin describing it. “Was this inspired by those huge Olmec heads like Xtapolapocetl from The Simpsons?,” I inquired while playing. “No, we were thinking more Mighty Max and Polly Pocket,” Ko_Op studio director Saleem Dabbous fired back. GNOG – pronounced “nog,” as in “noggin’” – is a colorful point-and-click puzzle game that takes place inside a variety of disembodied creature heads.
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