VRScout
JANUARY 24, 2018
Curious about what a Jedi moonlighting as a club DJ might look like? Well wonder no more. Most rhythm games tend to follow the same general formula: Trigger a particular note/sound at its designated point in the corresponding timeline in the hopes of building up combos for maximum points. We’ve seen plastic guitars, touch-sensitive dance mats, electronic bongos—the list of peripherals go on.
Road to VR
JANUARY 24, 2018
U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association, the national governing body for Olympic skiing and snowboarding, announced a partnership with Menlo Park-based STRIVR Labs to use VR to help prepare for and recover from World Cup and Olympic events. According to the association , both 360 video and VR are being used “in multiple ways in competition, from inspections of the race course, helping athletes learn the lines they will race through, to helping athletes rehabilitate from injuries.” Tro
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VRScout
JANUARY 24, 2018
This is a huge deal. Sundance has just seen its first massive VR film deal. VR financing and distribution venture, CityLights, has acquired Spheres , a three-part VR series that lets you explore the depths of space, even drop into a black hole in VR. The exact amount of the “seven-figure” acquisition was not revealed, but sources close to the deal told VRScout Spheres was bought for $1.4 million.
Road to VR
JANUARY 24, 2018
Vive Focus, HTC’s first standalone VR headset, has officially launched in China. Based on HTC’s new mobile VR platform, which includes a mobile version of the Viveport content store, the headset debuts with more than 40 apps. The Vive Focus is HTC’s first standalone VR headset; it has everything on board for VR—including inside-out positional tracking—which means it doesn’t rely on a smartphone or host computer.
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.
Cats and VR
JANUARY 24, 2018
Executive produced by Darren Aronofsky , Ari Handel , and Jessica Chastain , who also serves as the narrator and with an original score comes from Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon the minds behind the Stranger Things, Spheres just landed a massive seven-figure deal at Sundance. VR financing and distribution venture CityLights announced today that it is acquiring Spheres-a virtual reality journey that transports viewers into the deepest pockets of the Universe to bring to life interactive visions of
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Cats and VR
JANUARY 24, 2018
Independent games developer Dakko Dakko, the team behind acclaimed titles Scram Kitty And His Buddy On Rails , Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims , and The 2D Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character, has revealed its first foray into virtual-reality with Pop-Up Pilgrims , coming exclusively to PlayStation VR on Feb 13th. In Pop-Up Pilgrims , players guide a group of devoted followers across colourful pop-up islands - uniquely presented as 2D platforms in a wraparound 3D space.
Road to VR
JANUARY 24, 2018
Up until now, developers wishing to get their VR app on the Oculus Store had to submit to a manual review process by which their game or experience was washed through two stages; a tech review to see if the app passed minimum standards and a content review to determine it was a complete and polished experience. Now, Oculus has developed a tool called ‘VRC Validator’ that at least lets developers test to see if their app is technically up to snuff before sending it off for the full re
Cats and VR
JANUARY 24, 2018
The 2018 Game Developers Conference (GDC) has released the results of the sixth annual State of the Industry Survey, revealing trends in the games industry ahead of GDC 2018 this March. With responses from nearly 4,000 game developers, this year’s survey results reflect a growing level of developer interest in the Nintendo Switch, with 12% of respondents currently developing games for Nintendo’s unique hybrid console.
Slashgear
JANUARY 24, 2018
Plex has announced support for Google’s Daydream platform, enabling home media enthusiasts to access and play their personal movie collection in the privacy of a VR headset. The support follows the launch an unofficial solution for VR headset owners called “Plevr,” which Plex says was impressive enough that it decided to bring about official virtual reality support.
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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.
VRWorld
JANUARY 24, 2018
Nintendo Labo is the newest cool weird project from Nintendo. Labo is difficult to define, but perhaps the best way to describe it is an assortment of cardboard-based games and applications for the Nintendo Switch. Labo comes in kits, and there are two kits at the time of the announcement. The Variety Kit offers an RC Car, Fishing Rod, House, Motorbike and Piano.
Immersive Authority
JANUARY 24, 2018
Experiential marketing is a way for organisations to enable consumers to experience a brand in a fun, tangible and offline manner. But what is fun? [.]. The post Designing fun experiences: Learnings from Game Design appeared first on Immersive Authority.
VeeR VR
JANUARY 24, 2018
On December 28, 2017, MADV Technology crowdfunded MADV Mini on Mi.com, a tiny portable 360 camera that retails for 599 RMB (~90 USD), which quickly appeared on the public radar. Appearances & Design The MADV Mini camera is the size of a watch face and coated with PU paint, leaving a fine, polished finish. The camera also comes with a silicone casing to protect the camera from scratching.
VRScout
JANUARY 24, 2018
Google reveals new prototype that lets you share interactive augmented reality assets online. Reza Ali and Josh Carpenter work on Google’s Daydream WebXR team—a group working to integrate more virtual and augmented reality elements into everyday web browsing. Their latest breakthrough is called Article. According to a blog post published by Ali and Carpenter earlier this week: Article is a 3D model viewer that works for all browsers.
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.
Road to VR
JANUARY 24, 2018
Orange Bridge Studios today announced that End Space (2017), the single-player space dogfighter for Gear VR, is headed to Oculus Rift January 25th. The Steam version for HTC Vive and Rift is slated to arrive sometime next month. Orange Bridge says the Rift and Vive version will be an “expanded, remastered and enhanced version,” and will arrive with new content, better visuals, and new motion controller-based flight systems.
Road to VR
JANUARY 24, 2018
Last year marked HTC’s very first Vive Developer Awards (VDAs), which saw tens of thousands of dollars go to VR app developers across a number of categories. Now, submissions for this year’s VDAs are open, spanning more categories than last year, including Entertainment, Education, Arts & Culture, Enterprise, and Location-based Arcade games.
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