VRScout
JUNE 27, 2017
Strangeloop joins forces with TheWaveVR 6/28 at 7pm for N-FOLD , a synesthetic immersive music experience, in association with Flying Lotus imprint Brainfeeder. TheWaveVR has been making loads of noise (well, music) over the past year— putting on the world’s first VR rave at VRLA as well as landing $2.5M in seed funding —and now they’re launching their flagship immersive event: N-FOLD.
Road to VR
JUNE 27, 2017
A report from MacRumors provides compelling evidence that Apple has quietly acquired SMI, also known as SensoMotoric Instruments, a company specializing in eye-tracking technology. German-based SMI has specialized in eye-tracking since its founding in 1991. The company has in recent years turned its expertise toward AR and VR, where eye-tracking data can be used for a wide range of useful things from foveated rendering to avatar eye-mapping.
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VRScout
JUNE 27, 2017
A candy throwing face-off. The candy-obsessed brand known for their chewy sour gummy treats has added their own twist on a VR game. Making its debut at Vidcon last week, the Chewy Sours Tart Toss had attendees feverishly throwing virtual candy at a friend in quick two-player battles. Powered by two HTC Vive VR headsets, the Sweetarts VR game placed you in an alternate candy universe where you’re transformed into a giant Sweetarts Chewy Sours bag.
Road to VR
JUNE 27, 2017
Having done the core R&D for what would become the Vive controllers, Valve is continuing to iterate on VR input. The company’s new ‘Knuckles’ controllers are not so much ‘held’ as they are ‘worn’, offering users a natural grab and release motion without dropping the controller. Since their debut toward the end of 2016 at the company’s Steam Dev Days event, a Knuckles development kit is now shipping to select developers and brings ergonomic impr
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.
VRScout
JUNE 27, 2017
Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. YouTube tells you where people are looking in your 360 videos AND embraces 180 degree video, Google’s 180 degree camera, the Meta-Cookie project gets weird and alters your taste, and Intel leans into sports in a big virtual way…. 1.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 27, 2017
Hyper-reality has officially landed in Toronto as today marks the opening of the newest VOID Experience Centre in the fourth largest city in North America and a popular tourist destination. And through a joint venture with Cineplex, The VOID will live in one of their new social venues called The Rec Room, alongside a range of dining, amusement gaming, and live entertainment experiences.
Road to VR
JUNE 27, 2017
Having announced ‘Vive Studios’ at the end of 2016, HTC is steadily building up its first-party VR content offering. After a number of relatively well received titles launched under the umbrella of Vive Studios, we take the latest, Front Defense VR , for a test drive. What is it that makes the HTC Vive special and different from the other VR platforms on the market?
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 27, 2017
A Russian activist was reportedly arrested earlier this month for wearing a VR headset as she explored the famous Red Square in the capital city of Moscow. Katrin Nenasheva is an activist that has in the past worked with members of protest band Pussy Riot and others. Over the past month Nenasheva has been walking the streets and sites of Moscow effectively blindfolded with a VR headset on.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 27, 2017
Weekly Funding Roundup: Apple Buys German Eye Tracking Firm SensoMotoric Instruments, Adobe Buys Mettle’s SkyBox Tools, and Former Valve initiative CastAR Shuts Down 1) Apple has quietly bought SensoMotoric Instruments , a German maker of eye-tracking glasses. Founded in 1991, SMI does work in mobile eye tracking as well as for augmented and virtual reality.
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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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 27, 2017
At Upload, we believe in education that prepares you for the real world. Our skills-based learning approach includes a focus on maximizing learning retention, exposure to real client projects and programs to help you build a powerful professional network. To that end, we have gathered some of the brightest talent in VR world to share their expertise and knowledge.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 27, 2017
Novel acoustics project aims to improve virtual reality, explore ear shape effects on 3-D sound via @physorg_com [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 27, 2017.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 27, 2017
Microsoft’s Xbox One X may be sitting on the sidelines when it comes to VR support for now, but over on Windows 10 it’s a different story. The company is preparing to launch a line of Windows mixed reality headsets in partnership with manufacturers later this year. There’s still a lot to learn about these new devices, but today we’ve heard two developers are making apps for them.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 27, 2017
‘Vive N Chill’ is a Cooling Solution for HTC Vive Users With Sweaty VR Faces via @RtoVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 27, 2017.
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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 27, 2017
Front Defense from Vive Studios is a newly created World War II shooter that does its best to emulate the feeling of being hunkered down behind cover fighting for your life in the heat of battle. Instead of running around the map while gunning down enemies, you’ll need to actually kneel and crouch down behind cover while using a variety of guns and weapons at your disposal.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 27, 2017
Augmented reality is already changing the way big companies do business via @businessinsider [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 28, 2017.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 27, 2017
The PlayStation 4 is already four years old, and it’s around this time that gamers get restless. Inevitably, some are already asking after the consoles successor, the PS5, but don’t expect it to be announced any time soon. In a recent interview with German site Golem.de Sony Interactive Entertainment America President and CEO Shawn Layden noted that it will “probably be some time” before we see the next iteration of the console.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 27, 2017
Tate Modern Brings Early 20th Century Paris to Life in Virtual Reality via @FortuneMagazine [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 27, 2017.
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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 27, 2017
Arizona Sunshine , UploadVR’s 2016 Game of the Year, finally comes to PlayStation VR (PSVR) today. We’ll have impressions later on but, based on what I played at a preview event last month it’s a great port, and using the new Aim Controller makes for one of the best ways to play. Good luck actually trying to find one of the new controllers, though.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 27, 2017
Using VR to Diagnose and Treat Concussions with SyncThink via @RtoVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 27, 2017.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 27, 2017
Last we heard, augmented reality startup CastAR was due to finally launch its pair of AR glasses later this year. Now it looks like they might not be released at all. Polygon reports that CastAR yesterday laid off a significant amount of its workforce (less than 70 employees) and shuttered Eat, Sleep, Play, its recently-acquired internal development studio.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 27, 2017
VR Experiences That Focus User Attention via @vrtigoio [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 27, 2017.
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?
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 27, 2017
Back at the start of the month Apple got serious about VR, revealing its latest iMac Pros would support SteamVR. Now new rumors surrounding the company suggest it’s also looking into one of VR’s most requested features – eye-tracking. Mac Rumors has gathered a pretty substantial amount of evidence that suggests the company has just acquired SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI), a computer vision company that VR enthusiasts will likely be familiar with.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 27, 2017
Former Valve initiative CastAR shuts down via @Polygon [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 27, 2017.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 27, 2017
Ancient Amuletor has all the makings of a fun, if inessential tower defense game. You’ve got bright colors, varied enemy types and a range of character classes. Ti Games sets the stage for multiple hours of simple, accessible VR gaming quite well, the only problem being there isn’t actually multiple hours of content here. At least not yet.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 27, 2017
Recurring Use of VR via @vrtigoio [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 27, 2017.
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?
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