VRScout
APRIL 18, 2017
VR’s killer app just got a major update. It was six months ago when Google launched a VR version of Google Earth for the HTC Vive. And still to this day, Google Earth VR remains one of the best, if not the best, app experiences available in VR. An app with such a mass appeal like Google’s Tilt Brush, Earth VR lets you visit locations around the world in 3D.
Road to VR
APRIL 18, 2017
On stage at Facebook’s F8 conference this morning, CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that the company will today launch their first social VR application. Back in October, Facebook Social VR Product Manager Mike Booth said that the company intended to launch their social VR application “as soon as possible” and it seems he wasn’t joking.
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VRScout
APRIL 18, 2017
During Facebook’s annual F8 developer conference , Head of Social VR Rachel Franklin took the stage to show off the company’s latest efforts to make VR more social. Now Facebook friends can join you in VR in the Rift with Facebook Spaces. The new VR app takes some of the best social features of Facebook and brings them into your VR space, letting you spend time with friends and family like you’re really there.
Road to VR
APRIL 18, 2017
One of the first in a line of Windows Holographic powered immersive devices, Lenovo’s first mixed reality headset will be here in time for US “back to school”, according to Lenovo’s North America VP of Consumer Products Mike Abary. Windows Holographic, a set of APIs integrated into Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system, was first touted by the computing giant during the company’s surprise reveal of their augmented reality headset, the HoloLens.
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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APRIL 18, 2017
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
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APRIL 18, 2017
Road to VR
APRIL 18, 2017
F8, Facebook’s yearly developer conference, is here again for a two-day info blast from the world’s biggest social platform. Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage today during the keynote address to announce a new initiative that will bring about the beginnings of the company’s augmented reality (AR) platform, an “open platform” called Camera Effects that he says will form the basis of Facebook’s AR future.
Cats and VR
APRIL 18, 2017
Subdream Studios, launched its debut VR title, Mega Overload. Bringing the best of retro arcade action to Virtual Reality, Mega Overload enables players to blast their way through the Mega Bots in an endless wave shooter. Each player wields dual blasters and shoots a variety of mischievous MegaBots, each with unique attacks, defenses, and flight patterns, in their quest to the top of the leaderboard.
Road to VR
APRIL 18, 2017
Oculus says that Facebook’s newly released social VR app, Facebook Spaces , “takes some of the best features of Facebook and brings them into your VR space,” but it also lets you do new things that you could never do on Facebook before. These three videos show some of Facebook Spaces’ most interesting features. Facebook Spaces launched in beta today for the Oculus Rift and Touch.
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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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APRIL 18, 2017
Slashgear
APRIL 18, 2017
Facebook Spaces is launching today on Oculus VR, a virtual social network for avatars automatically created from your photos and galleries of your friends. The next step in the social site’s embrace of virtual reality, it’s effectively a live VR conference call – though clearly billed as something a lot more fun than that. Importantly, Facebook is making the barrier … Continue reading.
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APRIL 18, 2017
AllThingsVR
APRIL 18, 2017
Weekly Funding & People Roundup: TheWaveVR Raises $4M, Pluto VR raises $13.9M, Avegant Raises $13.7, Magic Leap acquires FuzzyCube Software 1) TheWaveVR has released the beta version of its social VR music platform on the Steam Early Access on the PC. The company has also raised $4 million in a new round of funding led by Upfront Ventures. The Austin, Texas-based startup has created a social VR music platform where performers can create music while wearing a HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headset and
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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APRIL 18, 2017
AllThingsVR
APRIL 18, 2017
New Approach to Virtual Reality Shocks You Into Believing Walls Are Real Haptic feedback remains one of virtual reality’s greatest challenges—the recent headsets do a decent job of tricking our eyes into believing we’re somewhere else, but that illusion usually shatters when you try to reach out and touch something. A team of researchers from Germany’s Hasso-Plattner Institute is trying to change that.
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APRIL 18, 2017
Road to VR
APRIL 18, 2017
Sometimes a good idea is a good idea, even if your competitor had it first. Well over two years since the first Gear VR headset was launched (but just a few months after Google’s Daydream VR headset launched) Samsung is launching a motion controller for Gear VR which adds a new layer of interactivity and brings the headset’s input scheme in line with Daydream.
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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APRIL 18, 2017
VRScout
APRIL 18, 2017
“We’re making the camera the first augmented reality platform.” Facebook’s annual F8 developer conference kicked off today with Mark Zuckerberg taking the stage and announcing the company’s latest efforts in augmented reality. “Augmented reality is going to help us mix the digital and physical together and that’s why it’s such an important trend,” said Zuckerberg.
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APRIL 18, 2017
VRWorld
APRIL 18, 2017
Intel Developer Forum i.e. IDF traditionally was an event that ends the summer break and opens new opportunities to do business. However, over the past couple of years we’ve heard numerous stories that the company is charging too much for the exhibit space, and does not know where the focus is. At the same time, its public arms – Public Relations (PR) and Investor Relations (IR) departments started to retreat into themselves, becoming more and more unavailable to the members of media
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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APRIL 18, 2017
VRWorld
APRIL 18, 2017
After a series of leaks, AMD finally launched a refresh – or a rebrand – or their Polaris GPU product family. Some minor tweaks enabled Polaris 10 became Polaris 20, and so on, and so forth. The products launching today are Radeon RX 550, 560, 570 and 580. As AMD states, the new line-up is designed to further reduce the barrier of entry to VR capable i.e. “VR Ready” hardware, enable performance at higher resolutions such as 2560×1440 or 3440×1440 etc.
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APRIL 18, 2017
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
APRIL 18, 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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