VRScout
MARCH 22, 2017
For the first time in Norway, students at a primary school have experienced one of the Microsoft HoloLens’ greatest applications — education. The science lesson, presented by Pointmedia , took kids at Åssiden Elementary School to outer space to learn about our Earth and Solar System. “It was a little strange,” student Casper Hansen said. “I could see asteroids.
Road to VR
MARCH 22, 2017
Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the big-box retail giant, is focusing on the future of VR and AR, along with other emergent technologies, with its newly unveiled tech startup incubator. According to a Bloomberg Technology report , Wal-Mart is creating the incubator to “identify changes that will reshape the retail experience, including virtual reality, autonomous vehicle and drone delivery and personalized shopping.” The incubator is simply called “Store No. 8,” a name that Bloomber
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VRScout
MARCH 22, 2017
The chance to pilot a giant robot is finally here. In an announcement made this Sunday, South Korean amusement park Everland revealed a brand new VR attraction that gives you the chance to control (and feel) the movements of an enormous robot in a dirty mech-on-mech brawl. Opening this Friday in the high-tech city of Seoul, Robot VR is a three minute 4-D experience that places six passengers on the arms of a massive robot as they follow its motion in-game, spinning in full 360-degree rotations 6
Road to VR
MARCH 22, 2017
Recently launched on Steam, Warpaint is a turn-based strategy game that lets you customize your troops by painting them to your taste. The game supports both Mac and PC, and features VR support via SteamVR (Vive, Rift, and OSVR). Taking inspiration from board and tabletop games like hexagonal chess and Warhammer, Warpaint’s gameplay is easy to pick up but hard to master.
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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MARCH 22, 2017
Cyan Studios , creator of legendary PC games Myst and Riven, is officially releasing an update today ot bring its first ever virtual reality (VR) title, Obduction, to more platforms. The Myst successor originally debuted as a timed exclusive for the Oculus Rift and will now be available for the HTC Vive as well with motion controller support. In addition, the Rift version is also being updated to include Oculus Touch support — both pieces of news we reported would be coming soon as of last
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MARCH 22, 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. What does UploadVR’s Social Media Growth Manager do? Responsible for growing Upload VR’s presence across all channels, including UploadVR.com, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube.
AllThingsVR
MARCH 22, 2017
Troubled GoPro Deepens Layoffs, Eliminating Positions In Media And Virtual Reality Divisions The leaders at embattled camera maker GoPro may have been hoping for a fresh start at the beginning of the year. The company’s 2017, however, has picked up right where its 2016 left off. On Wednesday, GoPro announced it would cut 270 more positions, in addition to the 200 it said it would eliminate in November.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MARCH 22, 2017
Knott’s Berry Farm in Orange County, California is said to be America’s oldest theme park. The Knott family started it as a literal farm but built it up into a restaurant and then opened up a ghost town in the 1940s for entertainment that served as the basis for a decades-long expansion into a 160-acre park in the heart of Southern California.
AllThingsVR
MARCH 22, 2017
Museums embrace virtual reality Between the megamouth shark, the bison diorama, and gangs of excited school kids, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has added a virtual reality exhibit called theBlu. For an extra $10, on top of the $12 general admission fee, visitors can strap on a headset and explore the virtual ocean. A blue whale swims overhead.
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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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MARCH 22, 2017
PlayStation VR (PSVR) is set to have a busy few months with big releases like Farpoint and Starblood Arena, but Sony is also looking ahead, today revealing a new slate of VR titles coming from Chinese developers. These games are all being created under Sony’s China Hero Project, which supports developers in the country. A total of nine new PlayStation 4 games have been announced, many of which will be supporting the VR headset.
AllThingsVR
MARCH 22, 2017
6 Ways to Invest in Augmented Reality Augmented reality is generating a lot of excitement, particularly with rumors that Apple will enter the market sometime soon, alongside others such as Microsoft and Google. Digi-Capital, a tech advisor, believes that the combined market for AR and virtual reality could be $108 billion by 2021. 2016 was a critical year for AR, with new device announcements, major acquisitions and massive adoption by consumers and enterprises alike.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MARCH 22, 2017
Fierce Kajiu was an early believer in VR, and one of the first to release a full game for Samsung and Oculus’ Gear VR in Viral. Since then it’s brought the original game to Oculus Rift with Touch support, but it isn’t forgetting its roots. UploadVR got an exclusive early look at Viral Quarantine, the upcoming sequel to the first game.
VRScout
MARCH 22, 2017
Sephora Virtual Artist adds virtual try on of thousands of eyeshadow shades, expert looks and an expanded library of virtual tutorials. If you break out in hives at the thought of navigating Sephora’s seemingly endless rows of beauty products, ranging from your run-of-the-mill lipstick to high-end luminizing products that you can’t even pronounce, you may be in luck.
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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MARCH 22, 2017
One of the biggest roadblocks to VR content creation right now is how complicated it can be, but there’s a small subsection of the industry developing platforms that make creating VR content a bit easier. Not every application demands the experience that more complex applications and games require to make and developers of these more accessible platforms understand that those not well versed in VR creation could benefit from a streamlined way to make their own content.
Road to VR
MARCH 22, 2017
The dream of watching live sports courtside from the comfort of your home through VR is steadily becoming a reality. Oculus and Intel have teamed up with Turner Sports and CBS to stream six March Madness games live in VR, with prices starting at just $2. The NCAA March Madness Live VR app returns for the 2017 basketball tournament which determines the national champion for the season.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MARCH 22, 2017
Last week we reported on a rather purffect application for Vive’s new Tracker. Indie developer Triangular Pixels is using the device to keep tabs on their pet cats, thus not bumping into them when wearing a headset. Today, we’ve got a first look at it in action. Triangular Pixels posted the below video today. It shows a runthrough of the team’s HTC Vive launch title, Unseen Diplomacy, with the tracker enabled.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MARCH 22, 2017
Update: This review was originally published on 11/2/2016 and specifically focused on the Gear VR version of the game. As of tomorrow, 3/23/2017, it will be releasing on the Oculus Rift as well with a large update that also improves and expands the game for Gear VR. This review has been updated by Games Editor David Jagneaux to now account for both versions of the game. — Any Halloween season wouldn’t be complete without creepy, gore-filled action games, so Gear VR users were thankful for
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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MARCH 22, 2017
Industry professionals and tech enthusiasts always keep their ears to the pavement for any potential ripples from one of the big companies and even the smallest drop from Apple can send waves across multiple markets and publications. Many wondered if Apple would officially step into the VR or AR markets with something exhibiting their usual simple yet luxurious design and, as Bloomberg reports , it looks like the Apple CEO Tim Cook believes the future of the company will be augmented.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MARCH 22, 2017
There are a few constants in the this world. For example: The Legend of Zelda is basically perfect always, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches never sound like a bad idea, the VR community will never not ask for more AAA games, and the folks at Cloudhead will never stop teasing us reveals. We had the pleasure of going hands-on with the game at GDC 2017 and while it’s hard to get a good feel for a slow-paced interactive adventure title like The Gallery during a convention setting, we came aw
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MARCH 22, 2017
I was apprehensive about the premise behind Rock Band VR. As someone that has played every entry in the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises — as well as lots of DLC — it felt strange to me when I learned Harmonix would shake up the fundamental formula that makes Rock Band tick. Ever since the genre rose to popularity we’ve been looking at streams of fret buttons cascading down note highways on screens telling us which buttons to press as we strum along to the music.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MARCH 22, 2017
At first glance, I thought Blade & Soul: Table Arena was doing everything it possibly could to repel me. NCSoft’s VR debut is based on an MMO that I’m told is hugely popular over in Korea. It’s also billed as a card battler with scores of units. In my head, I was picturing a stat-filled slog with matches that would last much longer than my interest could muster.
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
MARCH 22, 2017
There’s so much work going on in VR movie making right now it can be hard to single out what’s actually worth watching. Kaledioscope has curated some of the best work out there, though, and it’s putting it on tour across the globe. The second season of Kaledioscope’s 2017 Showcase kicks off in London on March 29th before heading to out to cities like Berlin, Sydney, Los Angeles, and Seoul.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MARCH 22, 2017
In recent months, a handful of speakers and leaders in the VR community have started positing that the medium can serve as a time capsule for future generations to interact with the current moment in a more interactive way, certainly besting those rotting boxes we buried in schoolyards in the eighties. If this does come to pass, and civilizations 50 years from now come across this year’s Tribeca Immersive pieces, they’ll think that 2017 was a very dark time, indeed.
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