VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2017

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to come back from the brink of death, then we have good news for you. It’s said that over 80% of those who go through a legitimate near death experience, or NDE, claim their lives were forever changed as a result of their incident. The recorded effects have ranged from both positive and negative, with many survivors reporting a loss of fear of death, abstract thinking, or more expansive concepts of love while simultaneously challenged to maintain healthy re

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Road to VR

AUGUST 17, 2017

House of Secrets , the Amsterdam-based studio behind acclaimed real-time VR music videos Surge (2015) and Apex (2017) is developing their first full VR game, a puzzle platformer titled KIN. The studio is only teasing the game so far, but calls it a “VR puzzle platformer game with combat elements.” The game is due to launch “later this year” on both the Oculus Rift and Gear VR (Galaxy S6 or higher only).

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2017

A HoloLens visualization tool enables surgeons to treat heart chronic heart conditions more effectively. At this year’s Imagine Cup , Microsoft hosted dozens of student teams from across the world. They showcased an incredibly broad range of products developed to solve practical problems that ranged from getting rescue workers to disaster zones quickly to helping farmers manage the health of their livestock, improving water quality, battling fake news, and holding politicians to account.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 17, 2017

Developer StressLevelZero is fulfilling their promise of adding a single player campaign to Hover Junkers —one of the Vive’s earliest titles—arriving in the free 1.3 ‘Junkroad’ update. The team recently posted a short gameplay teaser, showing a distinctly less frantic atmosphere compared to the game’s original multiplayer mode, with the full trailer and release coming in the next few weeks.

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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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VR Bites

AUGUST 17, 2017

I had a great time going back on the bridge of the USS Aegis once again with my good friend SadGamerDad and this time with my new friends Benny and Dennis from Neuvron VR. For being a couple of Starfleet Academy drop outs Benny and Dennis picked things up quickly and did a great job as Helm and Tactical while SadGamerdad kept the power flowing at the Engineering station.

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Everything VR & AR

AUGUST 17, 2017

Mike Boland, Founder and Chief Analyst at ARtillry discusses what Apple's ARKit means for all of us, and how developers, content creators, and brands should be looking to leverage it. We discuss the scale of ARKit being launched in iOS 11, the top industries that will be effected, monetization and potential new ad formats in AR, and the new AR ecosystem being created by Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Snap.

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VRWorld

AUGUST 17, 2017

Hollywood content factory is kicking into high gear when it comes to VR Experiences. After IMAX launched its VR arcades , and a $50 million content fund. The Void came to life promising spectacular multiplayer experiences, and their Ghostbusters VR experience is to dream off. However, there’s new field of VR entertainment coming… scaring the c**p out of you.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 17, 2017

Arizona Sunshine developer Vertigo Games announced today that Skyworld , a top-down strategy game built for VR is coming to the Vive, Rift, and Windows VR headsets. The game was shown way back in 2015 as one of the first demos made for the HTC Vive, and it’s now finally resurfacing this Fall. It was back at GDC 2015 when Valve revealed their (at the time) crazy new VR headset, the Vive.

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