Tue.Jul 11, 2017

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Meet Bill Nye in VR & ‘TheWaveVR’ Concert, Two Virtual Events Worth Attending This Wednesday

Road to VR

This Wednesday, you can fill up your brain with knowledge in a unique opportunity to meet Bill Nye ‘the Science Guy’ in the digital flesh, and then melt your brain immediately afterwards at a VR concert, where crowds can interact with mind-expanding 3D objects while experiencing music from digital musician GRIMECRAFT like never before. Bill Nye in AltspaceVR. image courtesy AltspaceVR.

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Chinese University Surprises New Students With AR Acceptance Letters

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This fresh take on college acceptance letters is as interesting as it is unnecessary. You’re all familiar with those cliche college acceptance scenes from film and television, right? You know, when an overexcited high schooler rushes to their mailbox and tears open a letter from that huge University they applied to? It’s a classic experience that many college students can remember fondly as they finish paying off that art degree as a barista at a coffee shop (believe me I know).

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Video Gives Us a Peek Into the Future of How AR and VR Will Work Together

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We’re all waiting for the day when you can put on a singular, tether-free headset and experience all the ‘R’s that VR/AR/MR have to offer—and NormalVR , a “small but focused” group of passionate immersive media creators just gave us a peek into what’s possible when you mash it all together. Known recently for their whimsical open source keyboard (and magnificently weird blobby-guy), Normal is a group of remotely-located developers that are using their own tec

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The Void, Epic Games Join Disney’s Accelerator Initiative

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There are a lot of sides to Disney beyond the movies and merchandising. Every year, for example, it selects a handful of companies to join its Disney Accelerator program. This annual initiative sees Disney open its doors to other businesses working on innovative products and services. This year’s participants have just been announced, and they include two big names in the VR industry.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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‘Legion’ HoloLens Experience Coming to San Diego Comic-Con

Road to VR

FX TV series Legion (2017) is getting an immersive, mixed reality experience powered by Microsoft’s HoloLens, and it’s coming to this year’s San Diego Comic-Con on July 20-23. Sessions: The Legion Mixed Reality Experience will take fans into the headspace of show’s protagonist David Haller, which according to the press release will let you “interact with his world and test the boundaries of their own reality.” The experience is also said to let fans will go

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The Price Is Rift: $399 Is The Sweet Spot For Gamers

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You may have already noticed this, but we like VR. We like it a lot, in fact; enough to write about it day-in, day-out for years now. But, let’s be honest here, would we really recommend that your average everyday consumer run out to throw down $599 on an Oculus Rift with Touch or $799 on an HTC Vive in their current state? No, probably not. There is a market for VR, but it’s still very much in the enthusiast stage.

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The Lost Bear is an upcoming 2D VR adventure game for Playstation VR.

Cats and VR

The Lost Bear’ is a cinematic 2D VR platformer with a hand painted art style. Set in a strange and abandoned world, the story follows Walnut as she is pulled from the safety of her brother. Bravely venturing out on her own Walnut has to overcome her fears and save her beloved teddy from the clutches of the Toy Snatcher. “Creating our first game ‘The Lost Bear’ has been a big milestone for us, it’s been a tough road with many sleepless nights.

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Gorn Is One Of VR’s Most Violent And Viciously Fun Games Yet

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If you’re the type that believes VR and violence shouldn’t mix then best look away now; Gorn has no sympathy for you. This is the game you imagined when you wondered what Robo Recall would look like if you replaced its cold, disconnected robots with flesh and blood, and it’s every bit as brilliantly gruesome as you suspected it might be.

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Meet Bill Nye in VR & ‘TheWaveVR’ Concert, Two Virtual Events Worth Attending This.

AllThingsVR

Meet Bill Nye in VR & ‘TheWaveVR’ Concert, Two Virtual Events Worth Attending This Wednesday via @RtoVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 11, 2017.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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Amazon’s Prime Day Offers Discounts On PSVR and HTC Vive

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So many of us have barely recovered from the Steam Summer Sale and we’re already being hit with another wave of attacks on our wallet via Amazon’s Prime Day. If you haven’t pulled the trigger on the next level of entertainment, there’s no better time than now with PSVR and HTC Vive both available in high-value bundles. Prime Day is a celebration of Amazon’s Prime membership that seems to grow in value on a consistent basis.

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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: VR Companies The Void and.

AllThingsVR

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: VR Companies The Void and Epic Games Join Disney’s Accelerator Program, Callum Underwood Leaves Oculus for Indie Gaming Company, and Eva Hoerth Leaves VREAL to Explore Other Options 1) The Void , known in the VR industry for impressive location-based VR experiences, and Epic Games , the creators of the Unreal Engine platform that many developers use to build both VR and traditional games, have joined Disney’s Accelerator.

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Newly Launched RE:NEW Is Your Portal To Virtual Reality Wellness Apps

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VR’s software ecosystem is home to plenty of escapism experiences that transport you to serene environments for calming gameplay and interaction as a way to promote wellness. RE:NEW , a project from NewPathVR , is a portal that points users straight toward various wellness applications. VR has a large scattered mess of content that’s progressively getting larger.

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Best VR deals on Amazon Prime Day

Hypergrid Business

Amazon is going all out today with deals on virtual reality products, running the whole gamut of headset options, computers, and accessories. If you’ve been waiting to get into VR until you see a good deal, this is a good day for you. For extra bang for your buck, make your purchase through the Amazon Smile program for OSgrid , and half a percent will be donated to OpenSim’s biggest non-profit grid and testing ground.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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The Mk Player360 Turns Your Room Into A 360-Degree Media Screen

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Your bedroom is a place of peace and expression and there are a handful of ways to make it resemble the dreamscapes you occasionally wake from. Art on your walls and ceilings, 3D domes that project stars all over, and more. The Mk Player360 , from Broomx Technologies, is a powerful and compact device that takes this idea further turning your room into a screen not only for 360-degree media but interactive VR applications as well.

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VR Presence Researcher Finds Full Embodiment to be Key Component in Plausibility via @RtoVR.

AllThingsVR

VR Presence Researcher Finds Full Embodiment to be Key Component in Plausibility via @RtoVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 11, 2017.

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AR Dogs Play Poker In New Dogmented Reality Video

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Leave your priceless oil paintings at home and step outside for a change; you can now see dogs playing poker… in AR! Or at least you can in the below video, which takes another look at the new AR features coming to the Good Dogs! app, powered by Apple’s new ARKit platform. As we showed you earlier this month , the app will give you a trusty AR companion for day-to-day life, but you’ll also be able to collect scenes such as this one as well as props.

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Lost World opens freebie shops with iffy content

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(Image courtesy Lost World Grid.). Lost World grid is offering avatar make over freebies such as custom shapes, skins, hairs and clothes that have been collected from around OpenSim, all for free. However, the grid cannot confirm the origins or the license terms of some of this content. The items are available at Body Shop as well as the Dump and Stuff regions.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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Sublevel Zero Redux Review: Descent Meets Rogue Legacy In 6DOF Fun

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I first played Sublevel Zero all the way back in early 2015, so it’s a relief to see developer Sigtrap Games finally double down on its VR support. Sublevel Zero Redux is a free expansion for the six degrees of freedom (6DOF) shooter that adds in plenty of new features including polished, official support for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive (as opposed to the experimental integration featured in the previous release).

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Apple Patents Light Field Cameras That Could Add AR to FaceTime via @NextRealityNews.

AllThingsVR

Apple Patents Light Field Cameras That Could Add AR to FaceTime via @NextRealityNews [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 12, 2017.

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New Published Patent For Apple Could Bring Light Field AR To Facetime

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The patent process is a lot like throwing a ton of things at a wall to see what sticks. In June alone, Apple secured 68 of them and many most likely will never be implemented in any significant way. One particular one, as reported on VC Daily , could add some new flavor to an iOS mainstay. Facetime, Apple’s proprietary video chat application, could potentially see some enhancements by way of augmented reality.

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GoPro is testing its 360 VR camera with select broadcasters via @engadget [link]

AllThingsVR

GoPro is testing its 360 VR camera with select broadcasters via @engadget [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 11, 2017.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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Unity Rolls Out Major Update With NVIDIA VRWorks Support

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Unity rolled out a major update to its development platform bringing with it a number of improvements across the board. The 2017.1 update to the Unity toolset includes highly touted features like a timeline for producing cinematic content and trailers, while also adding NVIDIA VRWorks to render VR more efficiently on recent NVIDIA graphics cards (at least GeForce 9 series or higher).

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VR/AR headset sales to reach 100 million by 2021, says IDC via @RWW [link]

AllThingsVR

VR/AR headset sales to reach 100 million by 2021, says IDC via @RWW [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 11, 2017.

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Hypergrid Chamber of Commerce to hold first meeting next week

Hypergrid Business

A billboard advertising Gloebits as a currency option at the ZanGrid’s Welcome Center. (Image courtesy David Kariuki.). The first meeting of the Hypergrid Chamber of Commerce will be at 11 a.m. Pacific time on Friday, July 21 and several major players in the OpenSim economy have officially joined as members, including Gloebit , Podex, and Kitely.

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Volkswagen Using VR For Team Member Collaboration via @VRScout [link]

AllThingsVR

Volkswagen Using VR For Team Member Collaboration via @VRScout [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 11, 2017.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

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?