Road to VR
OCTOBER 18, 2017
TPCAST , the company known for creating a wireless adapter for HTC Vive, announced that they’ll be delivering a device that supports the Oculus Rift by the end of the year. If you own a PC VR headset (aka ‘tethered’), you’ve probably already mastered the strange dance you have to do to untangle the cable during room-scale gameplay.
Cats and VR
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Felix & Paul Studios, the EMMY® award-winning creator of cinematic virtual reality experiences, and Just For Laughs, producer of the world’s largest comedy festival, today announced the launch of “The Confessional”, a seven-episode virtual reality comedy series available on Daydream, Google’s mobile VR platform, and YouTube. “The Confessional” features leading comedians and YouTube stars, including Lilly Singh, Trevor Noah, Judd Apatow, Howie Mandel, Jim Norton, Moshe Kasher, Natasha Leggero
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Road to VR
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Adobe’s VR editing interface for Premiere Pro is now available as part of this week’s Creative Cloud release. Project CloverVR is optimised for editing immersive media within Premiere while wearing a VR headset. Revealed at the annual creativity conference Adobe MAX in Las Vegas today, Project CloverVR is now integrated into the latest Creative Cloud release as part of the Immersive Environments feature set in Premiere Pro.
Hypergrid Business
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Each year, we ask our readers to rate their home grids. It’s a way to show off the best that OpenSim has to offer. Even though we only list the top 15 grids by traffic as default options, respondents can also write in the name of any other grid — in fact, each year there is usually at least one write-in grid that does extremely well in the results.
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
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Felix & Paul Studios, the Emmy award-winning VR film producers, and the Just For Laughs comedy festival have launched the first episode of a new VR video project called The Confessional , a seven-episode comedy series available on Daydream and YouTube. The 3D, 360-degree VR comedy series places you in a confessional booth with one or two comedians, who then confess “their most awkward, humorous and embarrassing stories to the viewer.” The first episode featuring YouTuber Lilly Si
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VRWorld
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Worldwide information and communications technology (ICT) spending is set to accelerate over the next five years, thanks to the growth of new technologies including the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), and cognitive computing and artificial intelligence (AI). The forecast is part of IDC’s latest Worldwide Black Book forecast.
VRScout
OCTOBER 18, 2017
The VR Awards brought VR leaders to celebrate work from the past year. 2017 has been quite a year for VR. Though sales of VR headsets may not have lived up to certain market expectations, innovation and exploration in VR technology brought about new ways to create, communicate, and collaborate. On October 9, VR Bound hosted its inaugural VR Awards, held at London’s 8 Northumberland Avenue.
VRWorld
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Veo Robotics, the company creating intelligent, human-aware systems for industrial robotics, announced $12M in Series A funding led by Lux Capital and GV (formerly Google Ventures). Previous investor Next47, a global venture firm created by Siemens, also participated. In addition, Bilal Zuberi of Lux Capital and Andy Wheeler of GV will join the company’s board of directors. “This is a revolutionary time for global manufacturing,” said Patrick Sobalvarro , Veo’s CEO and c
VRWorld
OCTOBER 18, 2017
FC Bayern has launched an Augmented Reality feature that enables fans to create a mixed reality experience with its star players. The experience, which is one of the very first in soccer, enables users to view players anywhere in the world whether it’s at home or in Times Square, New York. Fans will be able to use their mobile device camera on any flat surface to make team captain Manuel Neuer or forward Arjen Robben appear, giving them the option to jump in and take a screenshot photo with the
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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
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Google’s DeepMind says it has made another big advance in artificial intelligence by getting a machine to master the Chinese game of Go without help from human players. Named AlphaGo Zero, the AI program has been hailed as a major advance because it mastered the ancient Chinese board game from scratch, and with no human help beyond being told the rules.
VRWorld
OCTOBER 18, 2017
After unveiling a concept model for a new line of autonomous vehicles, Toyota expects to start testing these driverless cars in 2020. Toyota is supposedly combining their Concept-i cars with an AI called “Yui” — the product of spending billions on a venture capital arm meant for AI development. Yui isn’t your typical autonomous driving system. Toyota wants their AI to be able to chat with drivers and get to know them better by using their preferences, emotions, and habits, which Yui builds thr
VRWorld
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Intel and its subsidiary Mobileye have jointly developed a mathematical formula that can objectively figure out just how safely a self-driving car is operating. The model is called Responsibility Sensitive Safety, and revolves around what’s called a “Safe State.”. The world’s largest chipmaker calls this a set of standards, based on mathematical formulas, that will govern the behavior of robot cars and trucks.
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