VRScout
JUNE 22, 2017
Takuji Narumi is using strong odors and digital VR overlays to prove your brain isn’t as clever as you think. Filmmaker and food enthusiast Simon Klose has seen some strange things in his travels. The Swedish-born director is a regular contributor to Vice’s food website subsidiary, MUNCHIES , and as a result has experienced some of the weirdest combinations of tech and cuisine.
Road to VR
JUNE 22, 2017
Korea-based TEGway is developing ThermoReal , a thermoelectric array which can generate heat and cold with impressively low latency. The flexible nature of ThermoReal could make it suitable for integration into VR controllers, gloves, and more. I’ve tried a few different thermal haptic devices throughout the course of my VR reporting, but nothing that really impressed me.
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VRScout
JUNE 22, 2017
So you don’t have to look behind you. During a keynote at Vidcon, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki took the stage to announce the rollout of a new video format called VR180. As the name implies, the YouTube video format focuses on the 180-degree field of view in front of you. This lets YouTube creators make immersive stereoscopic video without having to worry about what’s behind the camera.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 22, 2017
Valve keeps revealing more of its new Knuckles controllers for SteamVR in the most unexpected of ways. Earlier this week we saw a virtual prototype for the kit within SteamVR Home, and now a setup guide has revealed even more information. A quick start guide for these new controllers has just surfaced online, letting developers know how to (literally) get to grips with them.
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.
Road to VR
JUNE 22, 2017
Valve has lifted the veil somewhat on its Knuckles controllers, first revealed as a prototype last October at the company’s annual Steam Dev Days conference. In a blog post today, Valve showed off some specs of the Knuckles dev kit alongside a button-map of the device, revealing the controllers will have multiple capacitive sensors to allow for some basic 5-finger tracking.
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Road to VR
JUNE 22, 2017
IBM Watson, the artificial intelligence platform designed to understand natural language, today launched support for Star Trek: Bridge Crew (2017) across PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Before the service launched today, lone players could control the ship’s other posts—Engineering, Tactical, Helm—by clicking a few boxes to issue orders. Now a sole captain (also with a mixed crew of humans and non-humans) can complete whole missions by issuing commands directly to the non-human-controller
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 22, 2017
Last August the Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) published its first report on the state of the VR industry based off of a survey for developers. The results suggested that marginally more developers were working on the HTC Vive than the Oculus Rift. A little less than a year on and the second report has been published, and the gap between the two has slightly increased.
Road to VR
JUNE 22, 2017
Dungeon Chess , described as “the first official Dungeons & Dragons -themed Gear VR Game”, is now available on both Samsung’s mobile VR platform and the Oculus Rift. The title combines classic chess gameplay with iconic D&D creature designs and suitably atmospheric environments. Building on the strength of their first VR game, Magic Table Chess , which is available free on both Gear VR and Rift, New York and San Diego-based developer Experiment 7 have created a more compellin
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 22, 2017
One of the biggest stories of 2017 for the VR industry is also one of its longest. The year started out with ZeniMax Media taking Facebook-owned Oculus to court over an alleged theft of technology. A jury eventually ruled that Oculus must pay ZeniMax $500,000,000, but that wasn’t the end of things — ZeniMax wants more. Shortly after the trial, we learned that the company, which owns videogame publisher and developer Bethesda, filed an injuction for the Rift to be removed from sale.
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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.
Road to VR
JUNE 22, 2017
Spherical YouTube videos with over 1,000 views now include ‘360° Heatmaps’ within the Analytics section of the Creator Studio. The new feature provides a visual representation of low to high attention areas of the video, helping to inform content creators of what aspects of a 360-degree scene are engaging viewers the most. YouTube has supported the viewing of spherical videos in VR since 2015 , adding features such as stereoscopic 3D, live streaming, and spatial audio along the way.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 22, 2017
Valve confirmed to UploadVR the company has progressed to sending developers prototypes of its next generation VR hand controllers. This was to be expected but provides us with a rough sense of the advancements being pursued by the VR technology company. Recent updates from Valve, which partnered with HTC to create the Vive, . The controllers are being seeded to developers to gather their feedback, and only being built in a limited quantity in this version, according to Valve.
Slashgear
JUNE 22, 2017
Google has announced plans to make VR content easier to create, and it involves VR180. This new video format, according to the company, will bring about virtual reality videos that are high-resolution and that focus ‘on what’s in front of you.’ Joining the new format will be VR180 cameras that enable anyone to shoot their own VR videos in a … Continue reading.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 22, 2017
E3 might not have been the coming out party for VR on Microsoft’s Xbox One X that we were hoping for, but we know that the company’s newly refreshed console does indeed support the technology. What form that support will take is still a mystery, but last week he got the final specs necessary to measure the box up to Sony’s alternative, the PlayStation 4 Pro.
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.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 22, 2017
Jaguar Land Rover uses mixed reality to recruit new engineering talent Jaguar Land Rover and Gorillaz are working together to recruit the next generation of world-class electronics and software engineering talent with a code-breaking challenge found in the virtual band’s app. The Gorillaz App launches a new Jaguar Land Rover recruitment area in the form of a 360-environment situated in the garage of the band’s home which also features all the iconic vehicles from Gorillaz past.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 22, 2017
Gamers rejoice. Wallets retreat. The Steam Summer sale has arrived! Our list of some of the best deals goes live a bit later today and it’s been proven that Valve regularly attacks our savings accounts but HTC is getting in on the conflict this time around. Not only has the HTC Vive been dropped down to $749.99, new Vive customers will receive a $50 Steam card to help them dive into all of the discounted games for the sale.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 22, 2017
Malaysian startup gets funding to lure shoppers back into malls with virtual reality via @techinasia [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 22, 2017.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 22, 2017
It’s that time of the year again. Kids are frolicking at parks during the day, free from the restraints of school life, the sun is shining high in the sky, and everybody that dares to venture outdoors is slowly melting into a puddle of regret. It’s summertime! Luckily Steam is back at it again making a convincing case for why you should stay indoors and explore other fantastical worlds while in your air conditioned home.
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.
Slashgear
JUNE 22, 2017
The Steam Summer Sale is officially underway, but the deals don’t apply to just Steam games. HTC announced today that it’s discounting the VIVE for the duration of the sale as well, giving you the opportunity to save a bit of money on the admittedly expensive VR headset. HTC will also toss in a Steam gift card too, so you’ll … Continue reading.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 22, 2017
Making puzzles in VR better is, in itself, a conundrum. While coming under enemy fire might be all the more intense and caring for characters is easier, solving a rubik’s cube inside a headset isn’t exactly a more definitive gaming experience. Putting piece A into slot B isn’t quite the revelation in VR that you might hope; you need to make something that truly stands apart from the years of puzzlers that have lined the path to this new medium.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 22, 2017
Jaguar Land Rover uses mixed reality to recruit new engineering talent via @thehaptical [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 22, 2017.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 22, 2017
Oculus had just one announcement at E3 last week and that was that its anticipated Studios title, Lone Echo, would be releasing next month. A multiplayer spin-off titled Echo Arena is also hitting at the same time, but you’ll be able to get a first taste this weekend. Developer Ready At Dawn Studios is hosting an open beta for the game from June 23rd at 10:00am PT through to June 25th at 8:00pm PT.
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?
AllThingsVR
JUNE 22, 2017
This Flexible Thermoelectric Skin Made Me a Believer in Thermal Haptics via @RtoVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 22, 2017.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 22, 2017
With Facebook’s F8 developer conference featuring more VR by the year, we had wondered if there was still a place for Oculus Connect in the world. Fear not; Oculus Connect 4 is just a few months away. The company just revealed that the fourth iteration of its conference will take place from October 11th – 12th at the San Jose Ncenery Convnetion Center in San Jose.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 22, 2017
New 3-D display takes the eye fatigue out of virtual reality via @physorg_com [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 22, 2017.
Delight XR
JUNE 22, 2017
Complete List of VR Camera Systems 2019 Updated: 07/2019 With VR becoming more and more popular it’s increasingly important for all kinds of camera manufacturers to provide sophisticated optical devices. By Mid 2019 there are already 51 spherical camera systems to buy – ranging from low-end variants such as the Detu Twin for $119 to ultra high-end solutions such as the Lytro immerge light field camera solution for $250.000.
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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