Road to VR

JANUARY 28, 2017

Google has put out the welcome mat and unlocked the doors to all developers wishing to develop apps for their Daydream VR platform, but in order to keep the standards high have also issued a “Quality Requirements” guide. As we reported in September last year , just prior to the launch of Google’s Android integrated Daydream VR platform in October, the search and mobile giant was keeping a tight reign on applications available at launch.

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VRScout

JANUARY 28, 2017

Thanks to AR reading bedtime stories will never be the same. Remember that Around Town rug you used to have as a kid? You know, the one that had the a whole city sewn into it with buildings and streets for you to push your Hot Wheels around on? Imagine those buildings literally jumped from the surface in 3D and those streets were bustling with traffic.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 28, 2017

Deus Ex fans with VR hardware can rejoice as developer Eidos Montreal have launched a new, free VR experience based on their latest title in the series, Mankind Divided , and it’s quite the looker. Deus Ex has had its problems as a franchise over years. From its incredible, trailblazing debut in 2000, through a questionable sequel in 2003 the first person action RPG has more recently seen a return to form in the hands of developers Eidos Montreal and publishers Square Enix.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 28, 2017

Look, I get it, it’s been a rough start to the year of PlayStation VR. A few weeks of drought finally ended last Tuesday when Resident Evil 7 launched, and the lack of big releases in December have some feeling the headset is starting to get left behind a little. Add to that the closure of RIGS developer Guerrilla Cambridge and you can understand the trepidation.

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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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Road to VR

JANUARY 28, 2017

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has tapped Hugo Barra, Xiaomi’s current Global VP, for the position of CEO at Oculus VR. Barra will be tasked with not only leading Oculus, Facebook’s subsidiary, but all of Facebook’s VR projects. Barra will be replacing Brendan Iribe who stepped down from the position last month to head the company’s PC VR group.

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VR Bites

JANUARY 28, 2017

The Unbreakable VR Runner is a great cardio workout game for the HTC Vive. It’s basically a coin catcher game in which the player collects coins or candies and dodges obstacles at the same time. If the players Virtual Reality Headset hits an obstacle it’s game over. If you like to play Hole in the Wall just as they do in those funny Japenese game shows then this is the VR title for you.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 28, 2017

Hyperica is a a grid with an in-world hyperport as well as an online directory of destinations. OutWorldz founder Fred Beckhusen has purchased the Hyperica OpenSim directory from Hypergrid Business. He will continue to maintain the current website, add more content, and add more functionality, as well as the in-world hyperport, and the in-viewer destination guide.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 28, 2017

Elite Dangerous , the interstellar space trading, fighting, and exploration simulator, has been teasing support for co-piloted ships for some time, and now a new update slated for the end of February will bring that feature, allowing up to four friends to fly together in VR. Elite Dangerous is not a VR-only title, but with support for both the Vive and Rift, and its focus on simulator-like mechanics, it does an impressive job of making you feel like a lone pilot somewhere out in a vast and lonel

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 28, 2017

Grid owners, content creators, and other members of the OpenSim community are all working to solve a serious content theft problem that surfaced recently on the Alife Virtual grid. On Thursday, Genesis Metaverse Janet Smolko, also known as Candi Genesis in-world, met with the owner of the VirTec multi-grid vending system and learned that content from her grid was being illegally distributed on Alife Virtual, as she explained in a Google Plus post.

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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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