VRScout
AUGUST 3, 2017
The Lord of the Rings auteur is using Apple’s ARkit to unlock new levels of storytelling immersion in augmented reality. In the world of modern cinema, there are few names as recognizable as Peter Jackson. The New Zealand native is responsible for some of the medium’s most technologically groundbreaking work, including the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit franchises.
Road to VR
AUGUST 3, 2017
Vivid Vision offers a virtual reality based treatment for lazy eye disorders. A new study published in the peer-reviewed BioMed Journal of Ophthalmology finds positive preliminary results which “indicate the potential for a new treatment for adulthood amblyopia.” Founded by James Blaha in 2013, Vivid Vision (formerly called Diplopia) is a virtual reality treatment for lazy eye disorders—characterized by both eyes not cooperating normally to achieve sharp, binocular vision.
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VRScout
AUGUST 3, 2017
This untethered multi-sensory VR experience will let you interact with friends and Star Wars characters. Lucasfilm, ILMxLAB and The VOID are opening Star Wars hyper-reality experience centers this holiday season. Announced today, the Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire immersive experience centers will be open to the public at Downtown Disney (Disneyland Resort) and Disney Springs (Walt Disney World Resort) beginning this holiday season.
Road to VR
AUGUST 3, 2017
Shown as part of the Emerging Technologies installations at SIGGRAPH 2017 this week, the GVS RIDE experience demonstrates the effects of four-pole galvanic vestibular stimulation combined with a VR headset. The technology is pitched as a potential alternative to a motion platform, with its ability to “induce tri-directional acceleration” and “enhance virtual acceleration”.
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.
VRScout
AUGUST 3, 2017
Getty Images and Jaunt partner up to create a cinematic Virtual Reality database of 360 degree images and video. VR content continues to make its way into new and exciting industries, and now, thanks to a recent partnership between Jaunt and Getty Images, content creators and media publishers can discover and license cinematic VR content via Getty Images VR. .
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
AUGUST 3, 2017
If you’ve ever attended a meetup, film festival or conference with a heavy focus on VR, you’ve probably encountered the lines; they can be awful. Attendees spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars to attend these events often to find themselves standing in line to visit some of the newest and most in-demand virtual worlds. Each headset can only show one person one world at a time and these visits can last five to 30 minutes or more each.
Road to VR
AUGUST 3, 2017
Inception’s ambitions to become the ‘Netflix of VR’ have just received a major boost, with the Tel Aviv-based company closing a $15 million Series A funding round led by media and broadcast giant RTL Group. Launched in October 2016, the Inception app is accessible on leading mobile VR platforms, as well as the Rift and Vive, while PSVR support is ‘coming soon’.
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AUGUST 3, 2017
Location-based VR specialist The Void is working on something big: a brand new Star Wars experience set to debut at two Disney resorts later this year. Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire will launch at Downtown Disney at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California and Disney Springs at Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida this holiday season. ILMxLAB, the developer of Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine and the upcoming VR experience starring Darth Vader , is building the software itself.
Road to VR
AUGUST 3, 2017
Dance is all about bodies moving through space, and it’s something that shows the strength of the VR medium since there’s something that’s lost when it’s translated onto a 2D screen. Lily Baldwin observed how audience members heard the music differently through her expressions as a dancer touring with David Byrne, and she wanted to experiment with using dance a form of embodied communication within virtual reality. .
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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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AUGUST 3, 2017
When it comes to storytelling in interactive VR, one thing is certain – no one has all the answers. On one hand, people criticize “Hollywood” for leaning on its cinema roots and on the other, they criticize game developers for focusing on repetitive game mechanics. The fact is, VR is neither cinema nor a game and realizing effective stories in VR will require both the storytelling skills of Hollywood and the technological ingenuity of Silicon Valley.
Cats and VR
AUGUST 3, 2017
One of my all time favorite video game companies High Voltage Software, ( Dragon Front, Damaged Core, CONDUIT 2: THE SECOND ONE ) released They Live to Destroy , a City Builder/Monster Battler, on an unsuspecting world today to Gear VR in association with Oculus Studios. Yes I woke up in shock and awe to this rad new game that truly speaks to my Misfit fan sensibilities.
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AUGUST 3, 2017
The best-selling PSVR games on the PlayStation Store for both the US and EU in July have been revealed, and it’s total and utter dominance from Superhot VR. The stylish first-person shooter, in which time moves only when the player does, topped both charts last month after releasing around mid-July. As always, we don’t know exactly how many units the game sold but it’s likely to be a healthy chunk.
Cats and VR
AUGUST 3, 2017
Lucasfilm, ILMxLAB and The VOID today announced the new Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire hyper-reality experience. This ground-breaking experience will open to the public at two new VOID Experience Centers at Downtown Disney at Disneyland Resort and Disney Springs at Walt Disney World Resort beginning this holiday season, giving Star Wars fans the opportunity to step beyond reality and into a galaxy far, far away.
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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AUGUST 3, 2017
Last year, Cambridge-based game developer Ninja Theory (DmC, Enslaved) released a 360-degree trailer for their upcoming action-adventure, Hellblade. The final game, due to release this month, features no VR support. However, in an interview with Wcftech , studio co-founder and Creative Director Tameem Antoniades said Ninja Theory experimented with VR during Hellblade’s development, and that virtual reality will dominate the industry in the future.
Slashgear
AUGUST 3, 2017
The next big thing from Apple won’t be a piece of hardware – it won’t be the fabled iPhone 8. The next big product to come from Apple will work on the next top-tier iPhone, but it wont work exclusively on that device. While it’s the hardware we continue to focus on, and the hardware that’s always easiest to discuss, … Continue reading.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
AUGUST 3, 2017
The VR community has been reeling ever since the news broke last week about the impending end of AltspaceVR , one of the very first online communities focused on virtual reality. Due to financial troubles, the company is shutting down the service at 7PM PT tonight, on August 3rd, 2017. As one last final goodbye for the fans the company has organized a “Farewell Party” that will last for the application’s final two hours from 5PM PT until 7PM PT tonight.
Cats and VR
AUGUST 3, 2017
Following a two-week exclusive debut on PlayStation®VR, Skydance Interactive has now made its award-winning first person shooter Archangel available for purchase across all premium VR platforms, including HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Starting today Archangel is available for the new price of $29.99, including on PlayStation®VR. “Now that Archangel is available on all major VR platforms, we invite gamers everywhere to fulfill their fantasies of piloting a giant mech and lead the charge for freedom o
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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AUGUST 3, 2017
The spin-off to Tripwire Interactive’s Killing Floor franchise, Killing Floor: Incursion, hits the Oculus Rift very soon. Oculus today announced the first-person shooter would be arriving in just under two weeks on August 16th. In the game, you and your friends can team up to fight back waves of enemy Zeds. Pre-orders for the game are now live with a 10% discount to $35.99.
Hypergrid Business
AUGUST 3, 2017
AvatarFest 2016. (Image courtesy Craft World.). AvatarFest , which will showcase and celebrate non-commercial builds from talented OpenSim creators, will take place on September 23 and 24. Many exhibitors have submitted their applications but those who have not and are still willing to exhibit are invited to submit the applications by filling a form on or by Tuesday, August 15, Eryn Galen told Hypergrid Business. “We are the customers, users, builders and dreamers who live out here, sharin
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
AUGUST 3, 2017
We are happy to present a chapter from Warcross, an upcoming book from Marie Lu, a New York Times’ bestselling author behind The Young Elites and Legend series. Before becoming a full-time author, Marie Lu spent time as an artist for video games, and this is her first book influenced by both games and virtual reailty. About Warcross: For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game — it’s a way of life.
AllThingsVR
AUGUST 3, 2017
Inception Raises $15 Million Series A Funding Led By EU Media Conglomerate RTL Group via @RtoVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 3, 2017.
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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AUGUST 3, 2017
Earlier this year Facebook announced that it was to close Oculus Story Studio , a division of its VR specialist dedicated to creating new VR movies both for the entertainment of Rift owners and to lay the foundations for other filmmakers. We were sad to see it go considering Story Studio had only lived for around two years and released just three projects in that time.
AllThingsVR
AUGUST 3, 2017
Asus reveals the ZenFone AR will cost $648, and you can preorder it now at Verizon via @verge [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 3, 2017.
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AUGUST 3, 2017
When Oculus Story Studio shut its doors earlier this year it meant the end of original animated storytelling from a first-party Oculus Studio. It also meant that the team’s brilliant creation app, Quill, wouldn’t get any more updates. At least, that’s what Oculus told us at the time. Imagine our surprise, then, to find that Quill just got a big new update, adding plenty of new features.
AllThingsVR
AUGUST 3, 2017
Asus reveals the ZenFone AR will cost $648, and you can preorder it now at Verizon via @verge [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 3, 2017.
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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