VRScout

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Catch the rapper, singer-songwriter live in VR October 17th on Oculus Quest and Go. Oculus Venues has been killing it as of late with its series of live musical performances. Over the past 6 months, the popular VR streaming platform has hosted live performances from a surprising amount of major acts. This past August Billie Eilish made her VR debut on the platform with an immersive live stream of her performance in Spain, followed by GRAMMY-winning singer and multi-instrumentalist H.E.R. , who p

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ARPost

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Last week at Oculus Connect 6 there were major AR and VR announcements made. The VR company revealed that some of their headsets are getting some pretty sweet upgrades in upcoming months. There’s also important AR-related news coming out of OC6 as well. AR and VR developers shared their thoughts with us on these important changes. Oculus Quest and Rift News.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Suit up and battle evil-doers alongside Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Rudd, and Evangeline Lilly. Marvel Studios and ILMxLAB today announced a new location-based VR experience set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe that will have users duking it out against a sinister force alongside a handful of legendary Avengers. Set after the events of Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Damage Control puts players in the shoes of an ordinary guest visiting a Wakandan Outreach Center when the facility is suddenly at

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 3, 2019

HTC’s latest headset, Vive Cosmos, officially launches today. While we were looking forward to bringing you one of our signature deep-dive reviews, we discovered a potentially significant issue late in our testing, and don’t feel comfortable offering a verdict until we can determine if the problem lies with our particular review unit or the headset in general.

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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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Next Reality AR

OCTOBER 3, 2019

If you need to know whether you are really a Hufflepuff or a Gryffindor, then it's time to get yourself an augmented reality sorting hat. The sorting hat game went live for Harry Potter fans this week within Wizarding World, a new mobile app and website launched by Harry Potters' publishing house and the studio behind its film franchise, Warner Brothers Entertainment.

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Next Reality AR

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Following in the steps of Snapchat, Instagram, and YouCam, another popular photo app has gotten into the virtual try-on augmented reality game. On Thursday, BoxyCharm, a cosmetics subscription service, unveiled a partnership with app developer Lightricks that will bring cosmetics AR filters to Facetune2, a "selfie editing" app that ranks in the top 10 of photo and video apps on the App Store and clocks in at more than 10 million installs via Google Play.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. It originally appeared in WIRED , including commentary from AR Insider’s research arm, ARtillery Intelligence. . Apple’s AR Glasses are Hiding in Plain Sight. by Peter Rubin, WIRED. PHOTOGRAPH: CARSTEN KOALL/GETTY IMAGES. With all the phone and watch and TV and game and chip and other chip news coming out of Apple’s big event, it was easy to forget the company’s longest-running background proc

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The newest experience heading to VR attraction The VOID is Avengers: Damage Control. Due to launch on October 18th, the experience will take players to iconic MCU locations and have them fight alongside the likes of Doctor Strange, Ant-Man, and the Wasp. The Void is a location-based VR attraction where players don headsets and haptics vests, and physically navigate through a stage filled with props and immersive tricks which bring the virtual world to life in a unique way.

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Everything VR & AR

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Tyler and Sophia are joined by Gabriel René from the VERSES Labs and the Spatial Web Foundation. Gabriel discusses the great work he is doing as it relates to the spatial web and pushing its adoption across every major industry. Connect with Gabriel @GReal1111 Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get involved with this worldwide organization to help gain exposure and share ideas and best practices with other experts in the industry.

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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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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Originally from Australia, Zero Latency has rapidly expanded its warehouse-scale virtual reality (VR) experience across the world, landing on UK shores in Nottingham last year. Now the location-based entertainment (LBE) provider has announced plans to open a second UK location, this time in London at the end of October. . Offering complete free-roaming multiplayer VR experiences, the upcoming location at Boxpark Wembley will be a 400sq meter arena for up to eight players at once.

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Boost VC

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Tribe 13: Request for Startups?—?Virtual Reality SOFTWARE EATS THE WORLD ??. SOFTWARE EATS COMMUNICATION ??. SOFTWARE EATS REALITY ??. Marc Andreessen’s famous statement of “Software is eating the the world” has only become more true as the war between “Atoms” and “Bits” rages on. The digital economy now makes up more value than the physical by market cap, and with the globalization of technology, we do not know where the top will be.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 3, 2019

It’s been a long time coming and hopefully it’ll have been worth the wait, as Highwire Games in collaboration with Perp Games has finally announced the launch date for PlayStation VR exclusive Golem. The pair announced back in August that the launch would be taking place this Fall, but this time there are concrete dates. Yeah, there are multiple release dates in fact – just to make things tricky – with a European retail launch as a physical copy taking place on 8th Novem

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WITHIN

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The popular YouTube channel’s founders, Sam Wickert and Eric Leigh, know that when it comes to creating experiences in virtual reality, success equals extreme attention to detail. Sam Wickert is obsessive when it comes to his craft. The 23-year-old co-founder of SOKRISPYMEDIA will not put anything online unless he feels it’s near perfect. That, he says, has been the secret of his YouTube channel’s immense success.

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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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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Location-based entertainment (LBE) attraction already has some big-name IP’s available for guests to immerse themselves in, including Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire and Ralph Breaks VR. Today, the company has announced its latest virtual reality (VR) experience in conjunction with Marvel Studios and ILMxLAB, Avengers: Damage Control. Rather than playing one of the famous characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) like you would in Marvel Powers United VR , in Avengers: D

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is an upcoming VR survival horror game that places you squarely in the show’s apocalyptic universe of zombies. While developing studios Skydance Interactive and Skybound Entertainment lifted the veil on the game’s trailer today ( see it here ), the studios also published a nine-minute video on the game’s site that shows off some pretty intriguing pre-alpha gameplay footage—and it’s definitely giving off Fallout vibes.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Location-based entertainment (LBE) attractions using virtual reality (VR) offer numerous ways to properly immerse guests, from VR rollercoasters to running around warehouse locations shooting zombies. Frontgrid is a British company specialising in innovative leisure experiences, most notably ParadropVR, a hand-gliding simulator. This month the firm announced its latest attraction ParadropVR: City Flyer, which can be bespoke to any location.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Today, HTC Vive has launched its latest virtual reality (VR) head-mounted display, the Vive Cosmos. Originally revealed during CES 2019 in January, the new PC-based device is on sale now for £699 GBP/£699 USD. The headset will be compatible with the Vive Wireless Adapter but not just yet, with HTC Vive revealing support will come by the end of October.

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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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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Arizona Sunshine has been a hugely popular franchise for Vertigo Games and Jaywalkers Interactive, with the pair continually supporting the title since its launch in 2016. Arizona Sunshine – The Damned DLC was announced back in April with a launch originally scheduled for August. That never happened with fans of the videogame having to wait until today to play the latest instalment.

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