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The Australian Air Force and Saab Australia are trialing the Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality headset as the Australian military evolves into a “fifth-generation fighting force.” Saab and Australia’s Defense Science and Technology Group demonstrated the Microsoft HoloLens to 50 military personnel on October 2016, showcasing how the headset can offer augmented reality vision (ARV) to assist in strategy, threat management and training, according to a Royal Australian Air For

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A flurry of new job postings suggests Google is ramping up a team to create new consumer VR/AR hardware that goes beyond their Daydream View headset. Google announced the Daydream View headset in late 2016 amidst a new initiative that saw the company making a strong commitment to designing, building, and selling its own hardware products. Alongside the Daydream View was the announcement of the first of the company’s first-party phones, the Pixel, as well as Google Home, a hardware base sta

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British programmer travels 900 miles, all without leaving his living room. Aaron Puzey has become the first person ever to cycle from Land’s End to John o’ Groats, the entire length of Britain, in virtual reality. Using a Gear VR headset, a cheap bluetooth cadence monitor and his android smartphone, Aaron has built an affordable virtual reality cycling experience that should get even the laziest sack off the couch and on the road.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

Sitting in the audience of the Sony press conference at E3 2016 was a special moment in the VR industry for me. It was the last major event before the launch of the PlayStation VR headset and the stage featured footage and announcements for several VR games over the course of the evening. During that show is also where Sony revealed Capcom’s Resident Evil 7 for the very first time and announced that the entire game would be playable in VR.

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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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Over the past few years, Sundance’s New Frontier initiative has established itself as one of the leading showcases of innovative immersive content, and the 2017 edition of the Park City festival has carried on that tradition with gusto—including pioneers like Nonny de la Peña and Chris Milk alongside newcomers like Tyler Hurd and Rachel Rossin. We were lucky to get an inside look at the Palace and speak directly with the creators of these stellar pieces.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

There’s no denying Oculus Touch is a wonderful piece of kit , but over the past two months issues with tracking have reared their ugly heads. We’ve seen multiple reports from Rift users across different channels about struggles with occlusion and range over the past few weeks. That essentially means people are moving their controllers out of the tracked area, despite fine tuning their setups.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

Altair Digital have announced that they are to bring the wonder of the solar system as historically experienced via your local Planetarium to virtual reality with Fulldome Cinema. One of the earliest forms of immersive education and perhaps a pre-cursor to virtual reality, planetariums have engaged audiences with their panoramic representation of the night sky and, latterly, many other natural wonders besides.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

I had a funny case of deja vu last week. Firstly, I played and reviewed Henry The Hamster Handler , a game that caught me off guard with its quality seeing as I had never heard of developer Pocket Money Games before. Then I stumbled upon the trailer for Dimension Hunters ( demo here ), a new first-person shooter which again surprised me with just how good it looked.

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VR Bites

JANUARY 23, 2017

Today on Lunchtime with my Gear VR I take a look at the new RTS Strategy game Skylight. This one is done by E McNeill the developer who brought us other great titles such as Darknet and Tactera. Like his previous titles McNeill has opted for a holographic look to the gameplay which works so well in the Gear VR! I have never been a huge fan of RTS or strategy games in the past but Tactera and Skylight have made me a believer that this game style is a perfect fit for VR!

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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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It’s great to hear that any developer is getting into VR, but when the former President of Grand Theft Auto creator Rockstar North gets involved with the tech, we really pay attention. Leslie Benzies, producer on the influential gaming series, started up several new companies, and at least one of them is jumping into the VR game. As spotted by The Scotsman , Benzies is named as the co-Company Director on a 2016-filed Certificate of Incorporation document for VR-Chitect Limited.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

SynTouch has created a system that can quantify the sense of touch on fifteen different dimensions called the SynTouch Standard, and they’re one of the most impressive haptic start-ups that I’ve seen so far. SynTouch isn’t creating haptic displays per se, but they are capturing the data that will vital for other VR haptic companies to work towards creating a display that’s capable of simulating a wide variety of different textures.

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There’s Honey, I Shrunk The Kids but have you seen its obscure sequel, “Honey, I Used State Of The Art VR Technology To Turn Our Child’s Dollhouse Into a Virtual Dream Home”? Okay, that movie doesn’t really exist, thank god, but HTC Vive owner Toby Newman did recently use his headset to do just that. Thinking outside the toy box, Newman took 360 degree images of his daughter’s dollhouse with the dolls inside set up in different poses.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

HTC announced the Vive Tracker at CES this year, which will enable a range of VR peripherals that are targeted to from consumers to high-end virtual reality arcades. One of the higher-end peripherals that debuted was VRsenal’s VR-15, which has built-in haptics and the same weight distribution as a M-15 and AR-15. I had a chance to catch up with VRsenal CEO Ben Davenport who talked about targeting the digital out-of-home entertainment and VR arcade market with their integrated solutions of

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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.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

Resident Evil 7 might be out tomorrow but, hungry gamers that we are, we’re still looking forward to what’s next for PlayStation VR, and Ace Combat 7 is one of the better looking games on the horizon. The anticipated return of Bandai Namco’s flight action franchise was first announced all the way back at the 2015 PlayStation Experience, where we got a glimpse of the game in CG form.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 23, 2017

The welcome region on the formerly-recently-relaunched AviWorlds grid. It didn’t take long at all. It was less than three weeks ago that Alexsandro Pomposelli announced that AviWorlds was back up and running — from his garage. The much-troubled grid is now down again as a result of a power surge, he told Hypergrid Business. Alexsandro Pomposelli. “My anti-power surge did not work when my place had a power surge,” he said. “And it burned my power supply and that also

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Back in 2012, the world was introduced to the idea of augmented reality by the way a hologram of the long deceased Hip Hop artist Tupac. While the idea was not quite a “hologram” as we understand them to be, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg were certainly utilizing AR to perform alongside the CGI recreation. As reported by Hollywood Reporter , the Sundance Film Festival was home to what’s shaping up to be one of the first hologram performances there with actor Jon Hamm being transformed

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JANUARY 23, 2017

Play Oculus Rift and HTC Vive games with your smartphone. The most common complaint about virtual reality is the price of VR headsets. For this reason, more and more developers are looking for a cheaper alternative. The most logical choice seems to be the smartphone with its high resolution screen and same components that can be found in modern VR glasses like the Rift and Vive.

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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.

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Cinematic VR company JauntVR has established itself as one of the leading 360-degree production companies, with collaborations spanning from ESPN to ABC News, and they’ve put together a lengthy document to help others capture. JauntVR, which announced a slew of titles at the Sundance Film Festival this weekend including a VR re-imagining of the cult classic “Lawnmower Man” film , announced on their blog the availability of “The Cinematic VR Guide: A Guide To Best Practi

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JANUARY 23, 2017

By March 1st 2017, every title in the Oculus Store will be assigned through the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) rating process. IARC is a globally streamlined age classification process for digital games and mobile apps. In a recent entry on their Developer Blog , the Oculus Team announced that the Oculus Store has moved to the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) rating process, effective immediately for all new titles.

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Artist Adam Dylewski is the creator of a new short film that was created almost entirely inside virtual reality. The Future of Music is the name of the innovative new short. It follows a protagonist by the name of “Sara” — a working musician living through what it might be like to be a creative decades in the future. According to Dylewski, he wanted to create a project that uniquely took a look at the way technology, art, music and creativity are all intersecting in a world that continuously red

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I can no longer tell if the heavy breathing I hear is coming from my own mouth, or from the mouth of Ethan, the main protagonist I’m controlling in Resident Evil 7 on PS4 using a PS VR headset. Using my actual body, I lean forward on my couch, craning my neck around the in-game corner to my left, trying to see if Jack, the hulking mass of seemingly invincible mutated flesh, has passed by yet.

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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?

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“This is not a game, this is not a movie.”. The text floating in front of me before jumping into Life of Us made it abundantly clear that it knows what it is not from the get-go, but what is it? Part social experience, part evolution simulation, part wackadoo psychedelic freak-out joyride, Life of Us is charming, thought-provoking and just plain silly.

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