VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Google Daydream will provide organizations with VR training and equipment rentals. When it comes to social change, awareness is the first step on a long journey to impact the causes and problems that we care about. Although there are a number of tools and strategies that can help drive awareness, there are few more effective than VR to help shine a light on important issues.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In Part 1 of this article we explored the current state of CGI, game, and contemporary VR systems. Here in Part 2 we look at the limits of human visual perception and show several of the methods we’re exploring to drive performance closer to them in VR systems of the future. Guest Article by Dr. Morgan McGuire. Dr. Morgan McGuire is a scientist on the new experiences in AR and VR research team at NVIDIA.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

This is a survey of OpenSim hosting companies — it is not a survey about OpenSim grids. ( That survey was conducted in October.). If you run your own grid and use a hosting company for technical support or hosting, this survey is for you. But also if you rent regions from an independent vendor, instead of directory from the grid owners. If you use more than one hosting company, you can fill the survey out more than once, just make sure to say that in the comments so that the additional res

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

At Slush 2017, Helsinki-based Varjo Technologies today announced an additional investment of $6.7 million from the Finnish business development group Tekes to continue development on their “human eye-resolution” display for VR headsets. The company also announced they’ll be shipping their first Alpha Prototype to a number of development partners before the end of year.

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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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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

(Image courtesy Google.). If you are a 360-degree photographer, or want to become one, then working with Google Street View and becoming one of their Trusted Photographers will definitely help establish credibility in the industry. In fact, Google actually helps their contributors get hired to create virtual tours. According to Google , market research conducted in July 2015 showed that listings with a virtual tour are twice as likely to generate interest.

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EON Reality

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Promoting authentic public safety engagement with young people is a huge challenge – for governments, for NGOs and for the emergency services. Virtual Reality (VR) is being explored as the ultimate medium for public communications – and EON Reality is paving the way in demonstrating how this can be perfectly achieved with immersive technology for the transport, infrastructure, and safety sectors.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Oculus Go, the upcoming standalone VR headset from the makers of Rift, is now arriving to developers looking to get a jump start on creating apps for what promises to be an affordable VR solution at just $200. First reported by VRScout , the developer who sent in the photos can’t share any hardware specifications as such, but has taken a number of photos. image courtesy VRScout.

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EON Reality

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Promoting authentic public safety engagement with young people is a huge challenge – for governments, for NGOs and for the emergency services. Virtual reality is being explored as the ultimate medium for public communications – and EON Reality is paving the way in demonstrating how this can be perfectly achieved with immersive technology for the transport, infrastructure, and safety sectors.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Google’s newly announced Daydream Impact program is a philanthropy project that provides organizations, nonprofits, and advocates for change with resources, tools, and training to create immersive VR content to support their cause. Instead of just creating advertisements, organizations using the program can now immerse users into a situation, with the hope of generating a greater empathetic response in viewers than traditional media.

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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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Everything VR & AR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Pleased to be joined by Jim Malcom, the General Manager of Humaneyes Technologies in North America. This is a fascinating discussion on the current and future state of VR and 360 video. We talk hardware, software, distribution, monetization opportunities and the recent Vuze VR Camera being on the International Space Station in partnership with National Geographic and much more.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Sunsoft, the Japanese publisher and developer, today announced their multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) for PlayStation VR Dark Eclipse will be launching Spring 2018. If you’re heading to Sony’s annual PlayStation Experience next week you’ll be able to get your hands on a demo. MOBAs are traditionally fast-paced affairs, as they rely on quick-twitch mouse clicks and a mind mindbogglingly fast ability to traverse the map.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Did you ever wanted to know what it feels like to live with fairy-tale creatures that no one else can see? Syfy just might have the right show for you, and an augmented reality app to boot. We’re just a week away from the premiere of Happy! , SYFY’s (Full disclosure: SYFY WIRE ‘s parent company) new series adapted from the comic book series by writer Grant Morrisson and artist Darick Robertson.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Facebook says it has successfully tested a computer program that can help keep users from taking their own lives. The social media network now says it will expand the use of the pattern recognition software to other countries. In a Facebook post this week, Mark Zuckerberg announced the company is deploying artificial intelligence software that will detect possible suicidal intent among users, which it says it built in consultation with suicide prevention groups.

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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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