VRScout

JULY 18, 2017

You can pre-order the Prism headset today. Fresh out of stealth-mode, Mira is looking to bring augmented reality (AR) to the masses. Dubbed Prism, this untethered AR headset is powered by an iPhone and comes in at an accessible price of $99. In comparison to other higher-end mixed reality headsets like Meta and Magic Leap that will likely require powerful PCs, Mira’s Prism lets you just snap in your iPhone and begin interacting with holographic content.

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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2017

Created by Helios Interactive , Echelon is a multi-player board game played in Hololens mixed-reality that, as an proof of concept, gives us a look into what sort of games we might be playing in the future when we’re not engaged in the many augmented reality productivity-based activities like navigating with turn-by-turn directions or skyping with a work colleague.

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VRScout

JULY 18, 2017

Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. Live stream your cartoon virtual avatar on Facebook, Slate launches new live show in Facebook Spaces, join your friend to play with art together, Facebook’s standalone headset is coming, the investment & funding wrapup, and more…. 1.

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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2017

If you’ve ever worked at a fast food or fast-casual restaurant, you know how the first day inevitably goes. The manager sits you down in some store room, wheels in a TV and makes you watch a training video that’s about as immersive as watching paint dry. Honeygrow , a Philadelphia-based chain of Asian-fusion fast-casual restaurants, is using a VR app that weaves together 360 video and interactive elements to teach new employees how to do their job.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 18, 2017

San Diego Comic-Con is this week and VR is poised to have its strongest presence ever. Some of the virtual worlds to visit at the enormous fan convention are likely still under wraps, but we know two major VR-related projects are likely to anchor the week. Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One will have a major presence with a panel on Saturday including Spielberg, book author Ernest Cline, co-screenwriter Zak Penn and the film’s stars.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 18, 2017

I sweat a lot. If I’m standing outside with the sun up and a little breeze, it’s only a matter of time before I start sweating. Going for a jog? I’ll be pouring with sweat before most people are even breathing heavily. In fact, I often sweat without even the need for my breathing or heart rate to increase. If I’m in VR for more than 10 minutes I’m probably sweating regardless of what the experience is.

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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2017

HTC continues to expand the app selection on its Viveport subscription service, adding 8 new games for July, detailed on the official Vive blog. The $7/month service allows unlimited access to any 5 titles each month from a selection of over 150 games and apps. Having recently doubled the Viveport app count , including some highly-rated titles such as Pierhead Arcade , Galaxy Golf , and Sairento VR , HTC has added a further 8 titles for July, including the innovative music tool LyraVR and well-r

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 18, 2017

Google Glass might be considered a sort of precursor to everything we write about on UploadVR today. Long before Cardboard, Daydream, and Tango, Google aimed to give the world a normal pair of glasses that presented simple AR overlays; far more primitive than what we see now with Microsoft’s HoloLens, but still very promising. The device seemed doomed, though, when Google stopped producing its prototype Explorers kit in 2015.

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Cats and VR

JULY 18, 2017

Skydance Interactive debuted its first virtual reality game, the award-winning first-person shooter Archangel – exclusively on PlayStation VR. Players will step into the cockpit to pilot a six-story high war machine and lead their squad mates in an incredible VR battle across the scarred landscapes of a post-apocalyptic America. Archangel is now available at the official PlayStation Store for $39.99.

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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 18, 2017

If room scale VR has taught me one thing, it’s that I love to dodge stuff. Last second ducks and near-miss steps really show the power of the presence that the best VR experiences provide and makes us feel a little like Indiana Jones. It looks like we’ll be doing plenty of evading when Gates Of Nowhere gets here. This new title from Symmetrical — which we got a look at back in May — is due for launch in Early Access on Vive this month.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 18, 2017

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Leap Motion Raises $50M, WaveOptics Raises £12M, Hutch Interiors Raises$10M, ObEN Raises $5M, nDreams Raises £2.7M, Mira Announces $99 AR Headset, Paramount Pictures Names Ted Schilowitz as Futurist in Residence 1) Leap Motion , a hand-tracking company, has raised $50M in Series C funding led by clients advised by J.P.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 18, 2017

In April we reported that Bandai Namco was bringing the largest VR arcade of its kind in Japan’s Kabukicho district in Tokyo. Called VR Zone: Project I Can, we didn’t have a lot of details on coming attractions at the time but content inspired by anime like a Gundam-esque fighting game looked to be a part of the plan. A new report from the Nikkei Asian Review reveals that something anime related was definitely produced, albeit with a different flavor: Visitors will be able to take pa

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AllThingsVR

JULY 18, 2017

Google Daydream app updated for better content discovery, better controller usage via @AndroidComunity [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 18, 2017.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 18, 2017

Another day, another stunningly intuitive use for Apple’s ARKit. While yesterday brought us an intriguing AR manual app , today we’ve got what could be a revolution for the construction industry. Solidhaus is already using VR to deliver realistic architecture visualization. You’ve heard the use case a thousand times by now; home owners might want to look at their new house before it’s built, or construction workers might want a better idea of how to put the piece together

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AllThingsVR

JULY 18, 2017

Mira’s Prism is a $99 headset vying to become the Google Daydream of augmented reality via @TechCrunch [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 18, 2017.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 18, 2017

Museums are homes to so many facets of the world’s history, but many don’t realize the efforts that go into recreating and/or acquiring the different items on display. If somehow a certain challenge to acquire a rare artifact is insurmountable, as was true when the Bovington Tank Museum was unable to obtain one of the three last surviving Sturmtigers, VR and AR provide an immersive alternative.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 18, 2017

Estée Lauder and ModiFace create chatbot that lets customers try on lipstick virtually via @TheDrum [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 19, 2017.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 18, 2017

Augmented reality doesn’t always need a headset to wow us; this new AR projector only needs to be plugged into an overhead light. Desktopography might need a slightly better name, but it looks like an incredibly intuitive way to use certain apps like calculators. The projector, hanging from the ceiling, responds to taps from the user’s hand, allowing you to navigate a series of menus and interact with certain apps.

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Slashgear

JULY 18, 2017

A new type of virtual reality experience doesn’t require users to wear a VR headset. The system was created by researchers in Japan who replaced the headset with a large semi-spherical display, one that is coupled with a mechanical chair that physically moves the viewer in sync with the imagery. The technology has been demonstrated with a new ‘8K:VR Ride’ … Continue reading.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 18, 2017

With VR developing as a premium and exciting new option for live events, various entities are working to secure partnerships with media companies for rights to their content. MelodyVR is largely dependant on those partnerships, giving them access to artists under different music labels, and they’ve locked in another major one that’s sure to benefit them in a big way.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 18, 2017

MelodyVR’s music app will have songs from the biggest labels via @engadget [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 18, 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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VR Bites

JULY 18, 2017

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AllThingsVR

JULY 18, 2017

In a fragmented VR market, one company wants to unite them all via @engadget [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 18, 2017.

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VR Playhouse

JULY 18, 2017

VR Playhouse’s slate of summer classes kicked off this past weekend with a 2-day 360 Boot Camp, held at our studio in beautiful Los Angeles, CA. The class covered a broad spectrum, looking at the history of VR and the industry and tackling the entire process behind making a 360 experience, from creative ideation, through production, post, and distribution.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 18, 2017

Virtual reality helps reinvent law enforcement training via @CBSNews [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 18, 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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