Sun.Jan 22, 2017

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Preview: VR Music Video ‘Chocolate’ by Director Tyler Hurd is a Slice of Pure Psychedelic Joy

Road to VR

VR music videos seem to be digging out a sweet spot of quick and fun VR experiences that use the depth of virtual reality to immerse viewers in music with powerful and impossible visuals. Chocolate , a new VR music video directed by Tyler Hurd, furthers the case for VR music videos with electro-kittens, masked dancers, and champagne. Based on a song of the same name by electronic artist Giraffage , Chocolate turns the viewer into a metallic tri-legged robot with wobbly fingers that are oddly s

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Weekend Downloads: New on Gear VR, Rift and Touch

VRScout

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR , Oculus Rift , and Touch Controllers. Feel free to end your weekend with a number of new games, including the launch of a new faction on Dragon Front, the immersive collectible card-battler for Rift and Gear VR from High Voltage Software. In addition, Oculus Medium has a new sharing site that is now accessible and fully functional globally, and file limits for sculpts and recordings have be

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Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier Pushes Forward In 2017

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The Sundance Film Festival is this weekend and next in Utah, giving new mixed reality projects a moment in the spotlight. New VR productions at the festival show an enormous leap in quality from its first real appearance there in 2012. That’s when Sundance became the pioneering event to host Nonny de la Peña from USC showing her VR project Hunger In Los Angeles.

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VR SPORTS CHALLENGE – Mini Games – Ice Hokey Fight !

VR Bites

This is VR Sports Challenge, All the mini games have been Unlocked. oh and i get my ass kicked in Virtual reality. Still running the 4 sensor roomscale setup. Oculus Rift + Oculus Touch. Check out Game Hard 4.0 ‘s super awesome YouTube Channel!

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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YouTube VR Wants To Provide Tools To Make Things ‘We Never Even Thought About’

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YouTube is a media leader, providing a nearly endless supply of accessible content and standing as the 2nd ranked website in the world. With such a significant position, it’d be an absolute boon for 360-degree and VR content to gain any type of foothold on the platform. YouTube had the largest presence they’ve ever had at the Sundance Film festival this year and one of our editors had an opportunity to speak with them, revealing that the video-sharing website is making a pointed effo

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VR is a smart bet for the future of gambling

Hypergrid Business

Virtual casino. (Image courtesy Alea.). It has often been the so-called vice industries that have driven forward new technologies. This will also be the case with virtual reality, where we are already seeing it shaking up the gambling sector. Sectors such as gambling were among the first business use cases for the internet, and tend to display a greater appetite to pioneer the latest tech when compared with more traditional e-commerce.

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Viar.Live stitches 360-degree photos into virtual tours

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Viar.Live allows users to upload and share 360 degree photos, create virtual reality tours from the uploaded 360 degree photos, embed virtual reality content on websites, and distribute the content across desktops, iOS and Android mobile platforms. It supports Google Cardboard Camera and iPhone Pano so anyone whose phone supports these features can create and share virtual reality content directly from their phones.

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myVR now supports in-world marketing

Hypergrid Business

(Image courtesy myVR.). myVR , a social virtual reality platform from the folks at myWebRoom , has opened the platform to allow brands and marketers create and publish in-app branded experiences. For instance, companies can place branded videos and images on virtual televisions accessible by other users in the virtual rooms, game developers can avail their created games on a branded arcade game machine accessible to users in the network, music streaming services can place a branded record player