VRScout
JUNE 9, 2017
Combining three discrete technologies, researchers at UC San Diego have created a glove that simulates real-life force in virtual worlds. Researchers at University of California-San Diego have designed a new lightweight glove that can replicate the feeling of touch, using it to play piano. (Just don’t expect the technology to transform you into an overnight Liberace).
Road to VR
JUNE 9, 2017
Apple’s broad embrace of VR this week shows that the company has had virtual reality support on its roadmap for quite some time. During a session at WWDC , Apple and Valve confirmed they’ve been working together for nearly a year to bring SteamVR and OpenVR to MacOS. Though you might think that porting SteamVR and OpenVR to MacOS would be relatively straightforward—given that Steam for regular desktop gaming has been on the OS since 2010.
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VRScout
JUNE 9, 2017
Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. Apple finally talks about VR while taking a (very solid) swing at AR, Walmart will use virtual reality to train employees, you can grow better weed with AR + AI, and Q1 VR headset sales…. APPLE ACTUALLY TALKS ABOUT VR. To many eager iOS users out there (myself included), Apple’s refusal to release or even discuss anything VR-related has been frustrating.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 9, 2017
While my first experience with VR was in the mid-’90s with the VFX-1, my introduction to the latest round of VR devices was at E3 2012 when John Carmack showed Doom 3 in VR at the Bethesda booth on a newly-announced but not-yet-released HMD called the Oculus Rift, which was little more than a motion-tracking display duct-taped to an elastic ski goggle strap.
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
JUNE 9, 2017
Augmented Reality has played a huge role at the developer conferences for Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Google, which is a great sign that the industry is moving towards spatially-aware computing. Microsoft is the only company to start with head-mounted AR with the HoloLens while the other three companies are starting with phone-based AR. They are using machine learning with the phone camera to do six degree-of-freedom tracking, but Google’s Project Tango is the only phone solution that&
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Road to VR
JUNE 9, 2017
There’s an invisible cyber war that’s happening between major nation states, and Zero Days VR takes you inside of it in a completely new way using virtual reality. You go on a journey into a hyper-stylized cyberspace world where you embody the Stuxnet computer virus as it navigates programmable logic controllers, changes code, and destroys Iranian nuclear centrifuges.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 9, 2017
Ever since its reveal earlier this year we’ve kept an eye on Cooperative Innovations’ Raiders of Erda , and the latest footage for the game shows you why. The team’s Simon Barratt recently posted the below footage of the multiplayer dungeon crawler on Twitter. It showcases the progress Coop Innovations has been making with avatars for the fantasy combat game, which is looking quite impressive.
Cats and VR
JUNE 9, 2017
Starbreeze Studio is currently offering their action packed four player co-op action game PAYDAY 2 for free on Steam for a limited time, up to a maximum of 5 million copies, in anticipation of the release of the upcoming PAYDAY 2 Ultimate Edition. The free download will additionally grant current and future compatible headset owners the base PAYDAY 2 VR game for free when it releases.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 9, 2017
E3 is finally upon us. One of the biggest events on the gaming calendar is back for another week of announcements, press conferences, demos, and interviews. The next seven days are going to be some of the busiest of the year for VR, and you won’t want to miss a beat. Fortunately, you won’t have to. UploadVR is your one stop shop for all things VR spinning out of the LA Convention Center this 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.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 9, 2017
An FUI designer, VR community leader and VR healthcare strategist walk into a bar… …a virtual bar that is. Actually, more of a meditation room. Just before tuning in to the Apple WWDC2017 Keynote on Monday, I had a meeting with Jayse Hansen , master of the Fictional User Interface (FUI), Hologram and HUD design for film franchises like Star Wars, Iron Man, and The Hunger Games, and Alex Colgan , Leap Motion ’s digital content and community lead.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 9, 2017
Augmented reality startup Meta is suing a competitor called Dreamworld for alleged intellectual property misappropriation in a case that mentions fake identities and this very publication. Stay with us. A few months ago, I took a trip to San Mateo to visit a new AR startup called Dreamworld. One of their founders, a man who identified himself as Kevin Zhong, invited me to come out and see the tech ahead of its official unveiling at CES Asia.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 9, 2017
Pots of Gold Along VR’s Long Road: Why you should be building for VR now and how to identify opportunities by examining “what won’t change”. Over the last couple months, both Facebook and Google held their respective developer conferences and VR featured prominently in both. It is clear that both companies continue to invest heavily in immersive tech and view it as one of the next big computing platforms.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 9, 2017
If you read our review of PlayStation VR (PSVR) first-person shooter (FPS) Farpoint last month, you’ll know that the rifle-shaped Aim Controller provides easily the best way to play. In fact, we called the standard DualShock 4 controls “terrible” in our review, but it looks like a lot of people have been using them. Sony just issued its monthly PlayStation Store charts, showing us what sold best on the digital store over May.
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.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 9, 2017
These 12 Amazing Projects Are the Pinnacle of U.S. Brand Innovation Today See the U.S. entries on the Lions Innovation shortlist at Cannes The Cannes Lions festival announced the Lions Innovation shortlist Wednesday, recognizing branded projects around the world that use data and technology in creative ways to bring game-changing products to life. There are 35 entries shortlisted.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 9, 2017
Truth be told VR fans have probably visited Mars by now; it’s the setting for a bunch of apps. Mars 2030 looks like one of the more polished experiences to feature the red planet, though, and it’s coming soon. Developer Fusion Media Group this week announced that Mars 2030 will be landing on the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR (PSVR) in July, with non-VR versions also available on both PC and PS4 too.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 9, 2017
Realtors Capitalising on the Virtual Reality Technology In the coming times, virtual reality will transform the reality sector, potentially upgrade the user experience and exponentially speed up the construction process with proper implementation of 3D immersion and VR technology. As the adoption of newer technologies gains pace, Virtual Reality (VR) is set to become far more important in sectors other than gaming.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 9, 2017
We’re looking for someone who’s equal parts fun and business to help us grow UploadVR’s digital presence. The ideal candidate is someone who knows how to grow a brand, can talk to anyone, has an analytical mind, is comfortable on camera and is passionate about VR/AR. This position can work out of the San Francisco or Marina del Rey, CA offices. What does UploadVR’s Social Media Manager do?
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.
Everything VR & AR
JUNE 9, 2017
Learn more about how MetaVRse continues to establish themselves as an industry force to be reckoned with from two of the companies founders, CEO Alan Smithson and President Dan Flatt. We also talk about what brought these two together along with what they see as challenges to the growth of the industry based on their conversations with current, and prospective partners.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 9, 2017
There might be plenty of new PlayStation VR (PSVR) games being announced at the moment, but there’s not much actually being released. There’s one new game for Sony’s headset this week and it isn’t that impressive. Sony’s E3 conference next week will hopefully provide a lot more to be excited for. If you missed last week’s list you can see those new releases here.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 9, 2017
This week’s collection of new releases isn’t as overwhelming as last week, but there are a couple gems to be found. First up you’ll be clean out a monster-infested ship in intense sci-fi shooter Dead Effect 2. On the other side of the scale, you can run your own rice bowl dish shop in Counter Fight: Samurai Edition as you cook and serve food as quickly as you can.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 9, 2017
We’ve got ourselves a cross-platform party this week. There’s only a few games out on Oculus Home for Rift, and they both appear on Gear VR too. Gear also has a number of other interesting releases this week that we’ve highlighted below. If you missed last week’s releases you can see those releases here. Don’t forget that UploadVR has a Steam community group complete with a curated list of recommendations so that you don’t have to waste any money finding out what’s good
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 9, 2017
According to official word on the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) website the show is from Tuesday, June 13th until Thursday, June 15th, but that’s not really the case. Electronic Arts (EA) has their press conference on Saturday, June 10th (which is actually tomorrow) and plenty of other press conferences and events happen the days before the show floor itself actually opens.
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