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Coachella Brings Augmented Reality To Festival-Goers

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The legendary festival adds AR features to its VR mobile app. The annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival is one of the most influential events on the planet. The double-weekend spectacle has been graced by some of the biggest names in music and set a certain standard of artistic creativity that all music and art festivals strive endlessly for.

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The First Intel Alloy-Powered VR Headset Is Releasing This Holiday Season

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Intel told UploadVR the first VR headset built on its Project Alloy reference design will be available to purchase this holiday season from a third party manufacturer. There will be a “ product in market based off of the alloy headset by holiday of this year,” according to Nicole Smith, the head of communications for VR at Intel. Smith declined to disclose which manufacturer will be creating this new product and bringing it to market, but did clarify that Intel is “working wi

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IKEA Canada Lets You Flip Pancakes in VR

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IKEA, world famous for its affordable furniture and somewhat… complicated instructions for setting up couches, desks, and the like is soon to be world famous for its… pancakes ? That’s right. This isn’t the Swedish furniture giant’s first go around in the world of VR—it launched a kitchen design experience last year on the HTC Vive—but this is the first time users will be able to virtually flip pancakes inside of a virtual IKEA kitchen.

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Be Our (Virtual) Guest: Disney Brings Beauty and The Beast to VR

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Today, Disney is announcing a new virtual reality experience for Oculus Rift with Touch and Gear VR. To coincide with the release of its latest live action remake, the legendary studio is giving you a front row seat to one of Beauty and the Beast’s most iconic scenes. Lumiere’s Dress Rehearsal puts you at the master’s table and invites you to witness the titular candelabra’s full culinary performance.

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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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Bobby Throne Saves The World may be the next killer disruptive VR app, eSport, and social networking platform people in highly populated tech sectors of America are looking for.

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"Games are about learning, you learn muscle memory, history, communication, stories, and so much more. If games are about learning then I’m here to teach. So what better place to share my ministry with than at the wonderful PAX East show where everyone is learning.

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Sleight of Hand: How VR Content Creators Trick Your Brain Like.

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Sleight of Hand: How VR Content Creators Trick Your Brain Like Expert Magicians It’s no surprise that the most prolific innovators in VR have a connection to magic. Magicians are storytellers that have mastered the ability to convince you that what you see, no matter how far fetched, is real. And, they have the knowledge of how to manipulate your attention to bring you along with their story.

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Epic’s Tim Sweeney Confirms Robo Recall’s Funding

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Robo Recall is a very important game. We labelled the robot-fighting title “ very good ” in our review, and with its modification system and pedigree coming from one of the industry’s most influential companies (Epic Games), the game is likely to influence others as they think about VR game design. That makes the amount it cost to make a game like this a key point of interest.

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Universities dive into VR researchInside Stanford’s virtual.

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Universities dive into VR research Inside Stanford’s virtual reality lab, Juan Parra of San Francisco suddenly found himself transformed into a African American woman engaged a racially motivated confrontation with a taller, agitated white man. Parra felt instant empathy for his virtual character, even though he knew she wasn’t real. “I felt that I needed to react,” he said.

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HTC Announces Vive Ecosystem Conference

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HTC might not have a big western developers conference like Oculus does with Connect, but it’s planning a big show for China in just over a weeks’ time. The Vive Ecosystem Conference 2017 is set to take place from March 27th – 28th in Shenzhen, China. HTC has told UploadVR that it’s planning some new announcements for the show, though we don’t have any specifics just yet.

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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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Google’s Next Phone Box Might Also Be A VR HeadsetMobile VR.

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Google’s Next Phone Box Might Also Be A VR Headset Mobile VR companies are practically giving headsets away in order to kick start their ecosystems. Gear VR is often bundled with new Samsung smartphones, and Google’s Daydream came free with anyone that pre-ordered a Pixel phone. But this new patent from the latter company reveals perhaps the most ingenious way to get VR into people’s hands yet.

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BioShock-esque VR Horror Game Narcosis Gets Release Date

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Narcosis is one of those VR games that I’ve been writing about pretty much as long as I’ve been writing about VR itself (just over three years). In fact, the survival horror game made its debut at the 2014 Game Developers Conference (GDC). A few weeks on from GDC 2017 wrapping up, we finally have a release date for the game. Developer Honor Code this week announced that Narcosis finally launches on March 28th with support for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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Reporting issues cause stats drop this month

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OpenSim grids reported a net fall in both regions and active users this month, but the regions drop was due to one grid with server issues, and the active users drop was due to a couple of grids that had problems with their stats. Overall, OpenSim lost 975 active users this month, with DreamNation , which had 559 actives last month, not reporting its active user numbers and Sinful moving to a new hosting provider.

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Former PSVR Game Eclipse Is Now A Daydream Exclusive

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If you’ve been following VR for a while then you might have already heard of Eclipse, a VR adventure game from indie developer White Elk Studios. This intriguing title originally started life as a PlayStation VR (PSVR) game , but it appears to have been reborn as a Google Daydream exclusive. That is according to a new trailer released this week, which carries the ‘Only On Daydream’ banner along with the full name Eclipse: Edge of Light.

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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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Privacy in VR Is Complicated and It’ll Take the Entire VR Community to Figure It Out

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When I was at the GDC VR Mixer, Jim Preston struck up a conversation about his concerns about privacy in VR. He works at FOVE which is making a VR headset with eye-tracking, but wanted to speak to me on his own behalf about some of the deeper philosophical questions and conceptual frameworks around the types of intimate data that will become available to VR headsets.

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New PSVR Releases For Week Of 12/03/17

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March needs to end fast. There’s a host of great PlayStation VR (PSVR) games in store for April, including Starblood Arena and Statik, as well as the months to follow, but the few weeks left we have of this month are looking completely barren. If you’re in the EU then there’s nothing for you this week, and US fans are being thrown a very slim bone.

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New Oculus Rift And Gear VR Releases For Week Of 03/12/17

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Oculus Rift is playing a bit of catch up this week, as one of the most celebrated titles on the HTC Vive finally officially arrives on the rival headset. Overall, though, it’s a pretty quiet week on both Rift and Gear VR but we wouldn’t worry; Rock Band VR is set to literally make some noise next week. If you missed last week, you can see those new releases here.

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Hands-On With StarBlood Arena, A Frenetic 6DOF Mech Shooter

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There’s a decent chance that when you read the title of this article you were confused about what exactly a 6DOF mech shooter is. To explain simply, imagine all of the directions you can move your hand in the air. You can go forward, backward, left, right, up, and down — a total of six directions, not counting diagonally and other movements, or six degrees of freedom (6DOF).

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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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New HTC Vive Releases For The Week Of 03/12/17

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Lots of new stuff released for HTC Vive on Steam this week, but not all of it is particularly noteworthy or earth-shattering. The biggest highlight is likely Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul , a made-for-VR horror title that’s based within the iconic film franchise’s expanded universe. If that’s not your cup of tea, there’s plenty else to pick from.

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