UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JANUARY 25, 2017
The HTC Vive Tracker presents a lot of new possibilities for VR software, and the company is making sure developers make the most of it. Vive today opened up applications for developers to get their hands on one of 1,000 Tracker units before they launch later in the year. Successful studios will get one of an “initial batch” of Trackers, according to an official blog post.
VRScout
JANUARY 25, 2017
FX promotes its new X-Men-related show with cool augmented reality art murals. One of the years most anticipated new shows, Legion , premieres this February 8th on FX and the network is advertising the interesting new show by launching five augmented reality murals spread across the United States. Not only that, but FX will also be hosting a three-day art exhibition in New York featuring renowned artists called Legion Where?
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UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JANUARY 25, 2017
Oculus appears to be listening to recent complaints about tracking stability for its Rift VR headset and Touch controllers, and is offering owners more help today. The VR specialist posted a new blog in which it details ideal set ups for the Oculus sensors that track the headset and controllers. Every Touch owner will have two sensors that should be ideally positioned to best track the user’s position, but they can also buy a third sensor to enable room-scale tracking.
Road to VR
JANUARY 25, 2017
HTC announced earlier in January that they’d be giving away 1,000 Vive Trackers to developers. Applications to get your hands on one of the Trackers are now open through February 7th. The new HTC Vive Tracker is a standalone tracking ‘puck’ which uses the same precise Lighthouse tracking system that presently tracks the Vive headset and controllers.
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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JANUARY 25, 2017
MIT is partnering up with Bayview Labs and early stage VC firm the Seraph Group to launch a new accelerator dedicated to “Playful Technologies” such as VR and AR. The program starts in the summer and will offer mentorship, facilities and funding to selected start-ups looking to enter that space. Applications are now open for this first Play Labs cohort, but only if you’re a MIT-affiliated start-up – meaning that at least one founder has to be an MIT alumni, student, or faculty member.
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UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JANUARY 25, 2017
It’s January which means, in the UK, it’s freezing. Every day I wake up, take a look outside the window and say: “This is the day I will go for a run.” Then I move one toe out from under the covers and realize that was a lie. I wouldn’t dare brave the frosty outdoors in this arctic weather in the name of fitness, but Aaron Puzey did.
VR Bites
JANUARY 25, 2017
Today I will be playing the Multiplayer of Cloudlands VR Minigolf together with RowdyGuy in Virtual Reality. Cloudlands is a mini golf game that let’s you play on crazy courses high above the clouds. You can play the singleplayer, online and local multiplayer. The best thing about this title is the fact you can download a custom golf course created by the community and play it with friends.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JANUARY 25, 2017
Today, we’re breaking some rules. Within the short period that filmmakers have been shooting footage with 360° cameras, people have started writing the Do’s and Don’ts of the new medium. Rules that constrict the camera from movement, rules that make the experience of watching these videos, honestly quite boring. At 3 PM PST today , UploadVR will be going live with the Director of VR of Twitter, Alessandro Sabatelli in 360° on Periscope.
Road to VR
JANUARY 25, 2017
Owlchemy Labs recently announced that Job Simulator has grossed over $3 million , making it one of the most successful indie VR titles to date, and so it’s worth reflecting on some of the design principles of agency and plausibility that have proven to be some of the key affordances of the virtual reality medium. I had a chance to talk to Owlchemy Labs’ Cy Wise at PAX West where she shared with me some guiding principles for Job Simulator as well as some of the more existential react
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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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JANUARY 25, 2017
Tonight Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Hugo Barra will become the new head of Facebook’s virtual reality efforts, which includes leading its Oculus team. According to a post published on the 32-year-old’s Facebook page: I’m excited that Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead all of our virtual reality efforts, including our Oculus team.
Slashgear
JANUARY 25, 2017
When former Google exec, and now former Xiaomi exec, Hugo Barra made public his departure from the Chinese company, he didn’t talk much about where he’s heading to next. Usually those are kept under wraps until the new employer has given the green light. Consider that green light lit, as said new employer itself made the matter public. Straight from … Continue reading.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JANUARY 25, 2017
A new entry in Google’s now Academy Award-nominated Spotlight Stories series of 360-degree films will boast some serious directing talent behind it. We somehow missed this when it was announced last month but Jorge Gutierrez, the director of animated hit, The Book of Life, will be heading up a forthcoming entry in the series. The piece will be named Son of Jaguar and, as the logo above implies, it will follow a lucha libre Mexican wrestler.
Slashgear
JANUARY 25, 2017
A couple of weeks back, in the midst of CES 2017, VIVE Trackers were revealed. VIVE Trackers are a new type of controller for HTC’s VIVE virtual reality headset. They’re anything but traditional, as they’re meant to bring real-world objects into virtual reality spaces, and now HTC wants to get these Trackers into the hands of developers.
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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JANUARY 25, 2017
Last week we reported that Magic Leap, Oculus, and Insomniac Games were set to talk at the 2017 edition of the D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas. We also took issue with the event’s annual awards ceremony. Namely, we lamented the lack of a category for VR and AR games at the 2017 iteration of the show, and the small number of these games listed in general.
Everything VR & AR
JANUARY 25, 2017
Learn why Leigh Garland and Shaun Dunne started Studio Zero along with why they feel that WebVR is looking to be one of the more desirable segments of the industry to get into. Leigh also shares his thoughts from his experience with the Hololens along with what it was like attending a recent VR/AR Association meetup in London. We finish this episode with Leigh explaining just what is behind the name Toy Chicken.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JANUARY 25, 2017
We’ve been updating you regularly on the status of MSI’s global VR jam for some time and now we’re happy to finally be able to tell you the winners! According to a release sent out by MSI, the votes have been counted and the winners are set. 1 st place – “Block Rocking Beats” this title creates an extraordinary interactive rhythm game application, the author is Sander Sneek from Netherlands. 2 nd place – “Mass Exodus” comes from a team that includes Dan Knight and Ben Barton fr
Road to VR
JANUARY 25, 2017
Pearl (2016), a 360 animated short film from director Patrick Osborne and Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP), has landed an Academy Award nomination for this year’s best animated short film, making it the first VR film in the running for an Oscar. Pearl is an emotionally-charged ‘coming of age’ tale of a single father raising his young daughter on the road.
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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JANUARY 25, 2017
This week on ResearchVR we dig deep into how augmented reality can be used to aid in repairing complex machines. Our guest is a specialist in the field, Rolf Behrens from BITNAMIC. Episode 31 in progress with our guest, Rolf Behrens from BITNAMIC. Episode Preview. Mistakes and errors in the maintenance of complex machines, such as planes, can be extremely costly.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JANUARY 25, 2017
The social VR race heats up next week as a new challenger looks to take on the likes of High Fidelity , AltSpaceVR and vTime. VRChat will be releasing on Steam in Early Access on February 1st 2017. The platform will support the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and OSVR and is free-to-play. Founders Graham Gaylor & Jesse Joudrey plan to keep it that way for the “foreseeable future” Like other social VR experiences before it, the app will allow friends to meet up online in virtual environme
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JANUARY 25, 2017
Uber Entertainment’s last game had charm. Wayward Sky [ Review: 6/10 ] was an endearing mini-adventure for PlayStation VR that told a touching story and suggested its developer had a lot more to offer this new medium. Cosmic Chef on the other hand is all about character. The developer’s new game, currently exclusive to Google Daydream, is one of the more colorful, charismatic examples of VR gaming you’ll find out there at the moment.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JANUARY 25, 2017
Wrestling, especially the WWE, is an incredible window into sports drama. Since inception, this American past time has maintained a degree of excitement built upon high-flying athletes, bloody rivalries, infectious personalities, and stylish violence. Business Insider sat down with Michelle Wilson, WWE’s Chief Revenue and Marketing Officer, about the growing amount of digital content they’ve created, and revealed fans may get the chance to leap from the top ropes with VR as the drivi
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?
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JANUARY 25, 2017
Adding limited VR support to a game that would appear to be a good fit for comprehensive support seems to be a trend lately in the games industry. Perhaps it’s a way for developers to experiment without sinking too many funds into VR development, or perhaps it’s symptomatic of a larger issue with adoption numbers. Either way, more and more developers are opting for small slices of their games in VR rather than the entire experiences.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JANUARY 25, 2017
Last week on Saturday, Jan. 20th millions of people around the United States marched in solidarity to advocate for the protection and promotion of women’s rights. Organizers estimated that over 500,000 people were in attendance at Washington D.C., the nation’s capital. Embedded above is a 360-degree video following that march in Washington.
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