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MAY 22, 2017

Vive owners — rejoice! The teasing is over as one of the absolute best Oculus Rift with Touch games we’ve seen so far is finally releasing on the HTC Vive through Steam this Thursday, May 25th. The standard price of Superhot VR is $24.99 but it will only cost $19.99 during the first week of release. And to make the launch even sweeter, if you already own the original non-VR game, Superhot, then you get a discount on top of the launch week discount as well.

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MAY 22, 2017

Fidget spinners—little spinning hand toys—are one of the latest fads to see explosive growth, rising rapidly in popularity faster than the most hopeful startup. With a seemingly endless number of spinners available to purchase, developer Vladimir Storm decided to make a virtual reality fidget spinner because… you know… why not? Fidget spinners are exactly as simple as they sound: they’re just a little triangular toy that you grip in the middle and then spin.

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MAY 22, 2017

Those eerie looking VR motion chairs we took for a spin during Sundance are back again, this time for a Mummy Day celebration in Hollywood over the weekend. Inspired by the upcoming action-adventure movie, Universal Pictures hosted The Mummy Day event at Hollywood & Highland. Open to the general public and overlooking the main event, a line of Voyager full-motion cinematic VR chairs were setup to take guests on the zero gravity journey.

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MAY 22, 2017

Google has released a Daydream VR app called Audio Factory , a polished and even entertaining demonstrating their Spatial Audio Engine for VR. Described as “VR’s second sense”, spatial audio is a key aspect of maintaining a high level of immersion, and all major VR platform providers offer their own solutions as part of their SDKs, including Google. ‘Direction’ in VR—as in, how to effectively direct the user’s attention when they are allowed to look wherever they please—is stil

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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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MAY 22, 2017

Good Morning America had viewers swimming with the sharks in the Bahamas this morning along with Meteorologist Ginger Zee in a first-ever live 360 VR shark dive broadcast. At one point, the broadcast had well over 1/2 a million viewers participating live through GMA’s Facebook page. This is not the first time GMA has broadcasted live in 360° video.

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MAY 22, 2017

It looks like Sony’s big bet on the VR first-person shooter (FPS), Farpoint, had paid off, at least in the UK. The UK’s weekly games chart , compiled by GfK and shared via The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment (UKIE), reveals that Farpoint debuted at number two in the weekly charts for the last seven days. The only game to sell more copies in the UK that week was Injustice 2, the new fighting game starring DC characters that released on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.

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MAY 22, 2017

As a part of a broader push, YouTube is now working on making its virtual reality app a more social experience. During Google’s annual I/O developer conference, the video site announced that the VR users will be able to watch VR videos together while in its VR app. Not far away from a movie theater experience, the goal is that a viewer is put together with a small group of friends that can sync up videos to watch together simultaneously and talk to each other about what’s going on.

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MAY 22, 2017

Turning a blind eye to something is hard to do when it’s right in front of you. That’s why so many people see VR as such a powerful tool for raising awareness of the many issues that mankind faces in this day and age. Petra Chlpanova and Danny Ryan are two of those people; they’re creating a short film for headsets that puts viewers in the heart of the human trafficking crisis.

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MAY 22, 2017

Relative illumination in the context of optical design is the phenomena of image roll-off (e.g. reduction) towards the edge of an eyepiece. This manifests in an image that is brighter at the center of eyepiece relative to the edge of the eyepiece. Relative illumination is usually shown in a graph such as the one below This particular graph is from an eyepiece with 60-degree horizontal field of view designed by Sensics.

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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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MAY 22, 2017

Arktika.1 is one of the many virtual reality titles taking a swing at AAA adventure, coming exclusively to the Oculus Touch from the creators of the Metro series, 4A Games. It’s an assortment of guns, waves of vile bad guys, and a post-apocalyptic plot. It aims to be vast in all of the typical action ways, collecting a textbook set of parts whose sum, unfortunately, continues to feel like just one of the many.

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MAY 22, 2017

No one tell Blizzard about Vision Origin. Upon booting up this new HTC Vive game, I quickly had to remove my headset to check that I wasn’t actually playing a surprise VR spin-off of Overwatch, given that the character designs of the three classes on offer look almost exactly like some from last year’s multiplayer shooter hit. But though it may be asthetically identical, Vision Origin is quite different on the inside.

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MAY 22, 2017

Major television series and networks regularly utilize 360-degree and VR to promote franchises, but we haven’t quite reached a time where they’re comfortable with providing alternate viewing methods on a consistent basis. Companies have opened their arms to Netflix and Hulu to a point, but we may be on the verge of a new simultaneous broadcast format.

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