VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The Doctor returns to virtual reality with an original interactive short film. With the twelfth season of Doctor Who scheduled to arrive in 2020, fans of the long-running BBC series have at the very least a 10-month void to fill before they’re blessed with more time-skipping adventures from the thirteenth Doctor and her Companions. To help ease the pain brought on by this brutal drought of space-hopping content, BBC is releasing an interactive VR animation that follows the thirteenth Doctor on a

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Next Reality AR

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Snapchat made augmented reality selfie effects famous, with Facebook copying the feature across its mobile apps. Of course, others have followed, but their face tracking apps often pale in comparison to the original. Now, Google is giving Android developers the keys to adding face filters to their apps as well. On Friday, Google detailed the AR features coming to Android via ARCore 1.7.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The BBC today announced that Doctor Who is getting a VR interactive experience, slated to release on VR headsets sometime this year. Dubbed Doctor Who: The Runaway , fans will get a chance to step into the TARDIS and join the Thirteenth Doctor (played by Jodie Whittaker) in virtual reality. According to a press release , the experience is said to last 12 minutes, and will be available on “selected VR headsets in the coming months.” Just which headsets the experience will launch on

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

For sure most of you know Riftcat VRidge. It is a popular solution that lets you use your mobile or standalone VR headset as a tethered headset connected to your PC , so that you can use it to play games on Steam. Well, with version 2.3, it has added some amazing new features and I want you to discover them with me. What is VRidge? In case you don’t know what VRidge is and you are too lazy to read my first article about it , I will explain it briefly to you here.

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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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Next Reality AR

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Nike and Snapchat, having already reigned triumphant with its viral augmented reality ad featuring Lebron James, are teaming up with another basketball legend at NBA All-Star Weekend This year's site for the league's annual star-studded event, which takes place on Saturday and Sunday, is Charlotte, North Carolina, the current home of Charlotte Hornets owner and perhaps the greatest basketball player of all time, Michael Jordan.

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Next Reality AR

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Beloved toy maker Lego is returning to the realm of augmented reality, this time with an experience that explores supernatural fun. This week, the company unveiled its Hidden Side line of augmented reality playsets, which include an ordinary looking school, house, bus, and graveyard, which all become haunted with virtual ghosts and goblins through a companion mobile app.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Rift users looking for a change of scenery from the stock cabin model in Oculus Home are in for a surprise, as the company has just pushed an update that now brings user-created spaces to the platform. Last summer Oculus opened beta support for custom objects , letting users import.glb object files into the Oculus Home import directory. Users can also create virtual items in Medium , the company’s 3D creation app, and share them to Home directly.

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Voices of VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Tenderclaws debuted The Under experience at Sundance that features live immersive actors from the Piehole theater troupe. Actors embody different characters within a storyworld that.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Initially slated for release last year, Nuremberg, Germany-based indie studio Pixel Maniacs have announced that the first-person puzzle shooter ChromaGun VR is headed to PSVR next week. The original ChromaGun targeted a variety of platforms including PC, mobile, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch, launching on PC via Steam back in 2016 after about a year in the now defunct Steam Greenlight program.

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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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Voices of VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Interlooped allows you to record real-time, volumetric capture segments of yourself where you layer these loops while interacting with recorded and real-time interactions of other.

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Charlie Fink

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Lots to talk about this week as XR expansion continues.

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Voices of VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

One of the most visceral experiences I had at Sundance New Frontier this year was Marshmallow Laser Feast’s Sweet Dreams, which incorporated taste as part.

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Oculus

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

We’ve got another fresh batch of releases and updates across the Oculus Platform this week, including pre-orders for the highly anticipated PVP VR FPS Space.

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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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Voices of VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The Swiss-based company Imverse built a Voxel rendering engine that can do real-time volumetric capture. It powered the Elastic Time experience at New Frontier last.

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