VRScout

JULY 5, 2017

You’ll need help during “kiss the bride.”. Whether presenting a virtual engagement ring using Tilt Brush or just getting down on one knee before the headset comes off , we’ve already seen a mix of marriage proposals in VR. But when it comes to actually tying the knot—VR weddings are something entirely new. As part of a publicity stunt by adult game brand Hibiki Works, close to 100 men in Japan got to take part in a virtual wedding ceremony, “marrying” a character from the erotic game New Wife: L

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2017

Varjo Technologies , a Helsinki-based startup now out of stealth, recently demonstrated what it calls the world’s first human eye-resolution headmounted display. Intended for its own swath of Varjo-branded headsets, the new display configuration promises “unprecedented resolution of VR and AR content limited only by the perception of the human eye itself.” According to a hands-on by Tech Crunch , the headset packs a pair of high-resolution Sony MicroOLED displays measuring 0.7 inche

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We’ve written about how WebVR could be the future of virtual reality in the past, but it bears repeating. It’s kind of like magic. The technology functions much like the code that powers websites on the internet. Just like when you visit any website, like let’s say like UploadVR , you’re able to access it and view it regardless of device or browser.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2017

Gaming in VR is great, but there’s huge potential for the tech to be used for productivity too. One early stab at that is Noda , a mind mapping tool for the Vive and Rift. A mind map is a type of diagram which aims to show visual and spatial relationships between concepts. Mind maps can be useful as a form of note-taking, studying, project planning, brainstorming, and more.

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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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Windows Mixed Reality VR headsets are set to be on the market in a matter of months, and Microsoft recently gave us a sneak peek at how you set them up. The company’s Nadia Steer-Mobley revealed how these devices will be installed and readied at a mixed reality talk at WinHEC in Taipei last month. She gave a look at a process which seems somewhat similar to the set up programmes for both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive with a few key differences. “We’ve created a brand new persona

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JULY 5, 2017

Many of the great minds in the tech industry believe augmented reality could have an incredible impact on our lives, including Apple CEO Tim Cook who believes AR could develop an audience as large as mobile phones. You can add the minds behind the US military to that list now, as Next Reality News reports that the US Army is now outfitting their soldiers with a new augmented display called Tactical Augmented Reality or T.A.R.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2017

Truth is oftentimes stranger than fiction, but because wide-spread, photorealistic augmented reality is still in the realm of science fiction rather than science fact, we usually defer to the storytellers and visual effects gurus to explore the possibilities. In one such sci-fi short called Strange Beasts, augmented reality is capable of delivering a realistic Tamagotchi game superimposed onto the physical world.

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VRScout

JULY 5, 2017

BBC Taster, BBC’s experimental media arm, has launched the Taster VR app with all-new Planet Earth II and BBC Three content. Ever been watching Planet Earth and thought to yourself, “I want to be there”? With the BBC Taster VR app—out today for free on both Android and iOS—that’s never been easier. Our VR app is here! Great content from @bbcthree and @BBCEarth and there’s plenty more to come.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2017

WebVR is an in-development open standard that aims to define how browsers should communicate with VR hardware, allowing developers to create VR experiences that are served directly from the web. With Apple’s newly public interest in VR , developers from the company have join the W3C WebVR Community Group to have a say in the development of the WebVR standard.

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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 5, 2017

Coinciding with the growth of the augmented and virtual reality industries, there are tons of new job opportunities. New companies spawned by the tech will be welcoming new employees and established companies will be welcoming new faces as they tackle the new opportunities VR and AR afford their businesses. In New York, the current Mayor has laid out a plan to create 10,000 jobs for middle-class citizens.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2017

The Finnish and Chinese companies today signed a cross-licensing patent deal ‘focused around the data center’, according to a CNBC report. This will allow Nokia and Xiaomi to develop new products, as they look to collaborate further in areas such as the Internet of Things, augmented and virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. The deal represents a positive strategic move for both companies, with Finland’s Nokia gaining a significant Chinese partner, and China’s Xiaomi bolstering their pate

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JULY 5, 2017

One of the amazing things about Apple’s new ARKit developer platform is that there’s no extra hardware required. All of the amazing AR experiences we’ve seen running on iPhones are just using the kit’s camera, and that’s it. Clay is looking to do the same with gesture tracking. Developers may already be familiar with Clay, it’s an SDK that allows smartphone apps to track the user’s hand in 3D with just the phone’s camera.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2017

At this year’s E3, we got a chance to go hands-on with Augmented Empire, a narrative-driven tactical RPG coming exclusively to Gear VR on July 13th. Created by Coatsink , the studio known for the Esper series and Gang Beasts (2016) , the action plays out on a tiled game board displayed as an augmented reality diorama. Looking at the little dollhouse-sized diorama set before me on top of a virtual desk in my virtual hideout, it’s amazing just how much detail Coatsink was able to pa

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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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For the Chinese pioneers of virtual reality, business is booming. Goldman Sachs says that China accounted for a third of VR headset sales last year. Asia will likely be the largest market for VR headsets in revenue by 2021, with a 45% global stake. By some measures, VR has been better received in China than it has even in the West. It could be reasonable to believe that China is poised to dominate the nascent VR industry.

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VR Bites

JULY 5, 2017

Quick Message From RCVR! “Thanks for watching my video, really I mean it! I hope it had enough silliness to make you laugh, but not too much that I annoyed the crap out of you. Last thing I wanna do is scream in your ear and p**s you off… you’re my friend and I want you to come back and see more of my vidz)) I plan on releasing all types of different videos in a variety of formats, almost always related to technology or gaming, but sometimes it will be about real life and inter

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JULY 5, 2017

The BBC has been testing the waters of VR for a few years now, but today the organization takes a deeper dive. The BBC Taster VR app has just launched for free on iOS and Android for use with mobile-based headsets like Google Cardboard. While previous VR experiences like Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel and The Turning Forest have been completely standalone releases, the Taster app will act as a sort of hub for other types of content like 360 degree videos and animated VR experiences as well as e

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Slashgear

JULY 5, 2017

Two power teams of mobile device creators have joined forces this week: Xiaomi and Nokia. Nokia is a legendary mobile phone maker that’s gone through some unprecedented changes over the last few years. Xiaomi is still a relative up-and-comer in the business, based in China and set to expand across the whole earth with their high-quality low-cost devices.

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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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Arcades offer cheap, accessible ways to get people into VR for the first time, but they can also offer experiences not currently possible inside people’s homes too. VRstudios’ new VRcade Arena capitalizes on that. VRcade Arena is a new platform that supports warehouse-scale VR for up to eight players in a location-based environment. Using the company’s Attraction Management Platform (AMP), facilities will be able to set up either own VR installations offering full-motion VR exp

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AllThingsVR

JULY 5, 2017

Weekly Funding Roundup: Wonder Raises $14M, Mother Invests in Dream Reality Interactive (dRi), VR Festival Kaleidoscope Launches Platform to Make Money for Premium VR Content, Vaqso Raises $600K, Qualcomm Announces Three New Partnerships 1) Wonder , announced that it has closed a Series A round of funding led by Grishin Robotics and TCL Communication Holdings Ltd.; Wonder announced they had raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding in July of last year, but we now know that they have raised

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JULY 5, 2017

Project Cars 2 is gearing up for its September 22nd release date, promising to be one of the most fully featured racing simulations for VR headsets yet. Developer Slightly Mad Studios has sparred no detail in bringing a realistic driving experience to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and that includes an exhaustive list of drivable cars, revealed today.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 5, 2017

Samsung’s all-in-one VR headset is powered by Exynos processor, features eye tracking via @SamMobiles [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 5, 2017.

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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 5, 2017

Imagine if Superhot VR was a puzzle game, and not a first-person shooter. Instead of taking out waves of enemies, you see people charging into certain peril, and you have to use your mastery of time to save them before they end up stabbed, squished, shot or blown up. Maybe you throw a little Job Simulator-style humor in there for good effect. That’s pretty much Just In Time Incorporated in a nutshell.

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VRWorld

JULY 5, 2017

While I am an enthusiast for VR and all associated technologies, one major issue that’s really breaking my immersion into different VR environments is – resolution. More sharp eyed readers of this post can see the pixel grid on both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets, and this is where Varjo hopes to make the difference. Most companies we talk to continuously focus on cables as being the biggest major immersion-breaking problem, but we believe the real problem lies elsewhere – a

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JULY 5, 2017

Mobile is the path of least resistance when it comes to introducing the masses to virtual and augmented reality and many eyes are on this particular branch of technology as breakthroughs are made in pursuit of delivering a powerful experience. It pays to have some big names innovating with VR/AR and two huge tech entities are aiming to do just that with network specialist Nokia partnering with smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi for a cross-licensing patent deal.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 5, 2017

No headset, device or screen is required to view these sick video projection experiments [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 5, 2017.

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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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