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I’ve used my eyes to interact with a virtual world before, but startup Neurable just enhanced that experience by reading my thoughts too. At SIGGRAPH this week the Boston-based startup is showing its modified HTC Vive which include EEG ( Electroencephalography ) sensors along the interior of the headstrap. This is combined with eye-tracking technology from German firm SMI, which may have just been acquired by Apple.

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JULY 31, 2017

Second Life studio Linden Lab launches open beta for Sansar , a VR world where you build and monetize your own VR content. Since its earliest announcement three years ago —but ramping up considerably during the limited preview period this past winter—there’s been quite a bit of chatter about Sansar (formerly codenamed “Project Sansar”).

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JULY 31, 2017

Linden Lab, the company behind the virtual world Second Life , is today launching successor Sansar into open beta, this time built for the VR era. Though based on much of what the company has learned from running Second Life over the last 14 years, Sansar isn’t exactly a sequel, and instead takes a new approach to virtual worlds. While Second Life was built as one giant world, Sansar’s architecture is more like a platform.

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VRScout

JULY 31, 2017

Augmented reality lets go on a date with virtual idol Hatsune Miku. . Over the course of the past couple of decades, Japan has firmly established itself as the number one “WTF” country on planet Earth. The endlessly entertaining nation is responsible for some of the most interesting trends ever created, from highly-stylized Anime , to used underwear vending machines.

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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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JULY 31, 2017

Chocolate , the latest virtual creation from the mind of Tyler Hurd—the VR animator and director behind BUTTS (2015) and Old Friend (2016) —is set to launch on August 17th on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Chocolate is a real-time VR music video set to a catchy, building electronic track of the same name by artist Giraffage. The short three minute experience is a quick but trippy and polished delight, placing you at the center of a psychedelic stage with choreographed animation happening in coor

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JULY 31, 2017

Decentraland is a virtual world that is using the Ethereum Blockchain to sell plots of virtual reality real estate. They’re selling an initial offering of the currency they call ‘MANA’, from August 8 to August 16, 2017, and they’ll have up to 2 million plots of virtual land that will be sold for 1000 MANA. They hope to create a virtual city with different thematic districts that will help with content discovery.

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HP announced a super high-end backpack PC powered by some of NVIDIA and Intel’s high end chips to power wireless VR for serious commercial use cases. The 10.2 pound wearable PC includes a dock so it can be used as a high-end desktop workstation which can be removed and strapped on to become a wearable PC. It includes a pair of on-board batteries that can be swapped out one at a time so people can stay inside VR for long periods.

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JULY 31, 2017

Gunheart , Drifter Entertainment’s co-op VR shooter, launches today in Early Access on Steam for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. In Gunheart, you step into the shoes of a robotic bounty hunter looking for cash, something you can grab throughout each level as you squash alien bugs. But the key isn’t just shooting everything that moves and hoping for the best though (well, that’s a big part of it), because working as a team gets you special abilities to go along with an array of futur

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When I tried the latest installation of The VOID earlier this year in Utah I encountered what I think is likely the pinnacle of immersion possible in 2017, with one major limit. The VOID’s system is wireless and its relatively lightweight backpack PC actually enhances immersion because it fits with a narrative they concocted of becoming a fully equipped Ghostbuster.

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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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JULY 31, 2017

Facebook thinks people will have a weird reaction if they look too realistic in virtual reality via @techinsider [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 31, 2017.

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People often ask when VR will get its own Halo or Super Mario 64. That’s not what Jesse Schell thinks the technology needs, though. Instead, he’s waiting for VR to get its own Space Invaders. Not literally, of course; Space Invaders is a little dated and there are actually several VR clones for it already. What Schell, known for his time at Walt Disney Imagineering and now heading up Schell Games, means is that VR needs the product that gets others to believe in the platform, much li

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JULY 31, 2017

Check out: UKRifter – Oculus Rift & HTC Vive VR Fun.

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Elite: Dangerous is one of the most complex, detailed, and engrossing space flight simulators out there right now. The first time I tried to fly a spacecraft in that game resulted in me crashing into the docking bay before I could even get out into the sea of stars. But with practice I got the hang of it and eventually was exploring the galaxy like a true commander.

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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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JULY 31, 2017

Following Delays, Meta Expects “Volume Shipping” of Meta 2 AR Headset in August via @RtoVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 1, 2017.

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It’s VR to the rescue yet again, as a new app built by a University of North Florida student could dramatically improve cancer treatment. VRvisu was created by Jason Smith, who also works as an assistant professor at the university. Using MRI scans, the app recreates a patient’s tumor inside VR at an accurate scale. The doctor is then able to pull on a headset and inspect the tumor in detail, with relevant information appearing in breakout boxes within the virtual space.

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JULY 31, 2017

New Technology Brings Skeletal Tracking to Multi-Player Virtual Reality Experiences via @Variety [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 31, 2017.

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AltspaceVR might be coming to a close , but new social VR app Sansar is pushing on with the launch of a creator beta today. While Sansar, developed by Second Life creator Linden Lab, is billed as a social experience just like AltspaceVR and others, it’s got a unique hook that it hopes will turn into the app into a platform for plenty of new VR content.

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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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JULY 31, 2017

A discovery this week in Apple software revealed a set of details about the iPhone 8 – or whatever it’ll be called. Coming from HomePod Firmware, this code shows how the next new iPhone will have a new feature that’ll allow biometric-based lock-opening. The scanner(s) required to make this happen may well threaten the surprisingly top-notch scanning abilities of Snapchat … Continue reading.

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At this point Apple’s interest in AR is well-documented; the company’s upcoming ARKit platform, due to arrive with iOS 11, is likely a precursor to something much bigger. A new patent from the company published this month shows you exactly what bigger could be. The patent discloses a method of displaying points of interest in the real world using AR.

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JULY 31, 2017

Mixed-reality recording, i.e., capturing a user inside of and interacting with a virtual 3D environment by embedding their real body into that virtual environment, has finally become the accepted method of demonstrating virtual reality applications through standard 2D video footage (see Figure 1 for a mixed-reality recording made in VR’s stone age).

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After spending so much time in VR over the past year and a half I’ve come to accept a lot of different things about this budding industry and one of the biggest learnings is that VR is always better with friends. No matter what the experience is if you throw in multiple people then it’s almost always a better time for everyone involved. Gunheart is a new VR game from industry veterans that have worked at Epic Games and the title takes the multiplayer concept truly to heart (pardon th

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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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JULY 31, 2017

Second Life creator launches beta of its virtual reality simulation via @TechCrunch [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 1, 2017.

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Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope provided a nice hit of nostalgia for PC gaming veterans when it appeared as an Early Access game on Steam last year. Allowing you to take on an onslaught of bad guys pulled straight from the first Sam games, The Last Hope at its core was a simple wave-based shooter- albeit one with creative weapons and no small amount of style.

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JULY 31, 2017

Back in May of last year we first saw the rise of the VR backpack with such manufacturers as Aorus, MSI, ZOTAC – and HP. Imagine our surprise when HP came here in July of 2017 again with another far more sleek and low-profile entry into this ecosystem. The HP Z VR Backpack may look similar to the HP-made Omen … Continue reading.

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Right now the only way to get hold of Sony’s Aim Controller for PlayStation VR (PSVR) is to buy it as part of a bundle with VR first-person shooter (FPS), Farpoint. We’re eager for a standalone edition to go on sale but it looks like it already has… at least in Taiwan. Members of r/PSVR have uncovered a standalone version of the device that’s already hitting stores in Taiwan.

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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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