Fri.Jan 27, 2017

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The Heart Pounding Vive VR Shooter: John Wick Chronicles

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Your dream of finally becoming John Wick, a hitman out for murderous vengeance over his beloved puppy Daisy, is about to come true — thanks to virtual reality. Lionsgate and video game publisher Starbreeze have partnered to launch a VR first-person shooter based on the movie John Wick. The VR game that will be released on Steam for the HTC Vive is expected to launch shortly after John Wick: Chapter 2 hits theaters on February 10th.

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Oculus Sensors Are Technically Hackable Webcams

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Oliver Kreylos is a researcher at UC Davis focusing primarily on virtual and augmented realities. He is known as something of a sleuth in the industry and was one of the first people to determine the actual field of view of the HoloLens before Microsoft released the official specs. More recently, Kreylos has been digging into the Oculus Rift Sensor and its ability to function as a basic webcam.

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Microsoft Reveals Hololens Sales Are In The Thousands

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The software company admits to selling only ‘thousands’ of their advanced AR headset, but claims that’s all they need. It’s no secret that the Microsoft Hololens wasn’t exactly this year’s hottest product. The highly advanced augmented reality headset has been making waves with it’s impressive positional tracking and accurate hand gesture recognition, but a relatively clunky design and expensive price-tag have kept the high-end hardware out of most people’s hands.

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Jury Decides ZeniMax v. Oculus On Monday

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Although Mark Zuckerberg already left the Earle Cabell Federal Court building last Monday, UploadVR continued to attend and take notes throughout the rest of the trial. Each side has now delivered its closing arguments, and a jury is likely to decide on Monday whether or not Oculus delivered a convincing defense from allegations the company misappropriated technology from ZeniMax. “Facebook knew,” ZeniMax lawyer Tony Sammi said in his closing argument. “Zuckerberg may have neve

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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EXOS Haptic VR Exoskeleton Glove Aims to Deliver Practical Touch Feedback

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EXOS is a new haptic enabled VR glove which uses force feedback to deliver the sensation of physicality when inside immersive applications. Tokyo based developer Exiii are working on a new VR glove which delivers so-called “reactive force” in response to your actions inside virtual reality – the practical upshot of which is that you’re able to ‘feel’ virtual objects.

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Regal Cinemas Brings VR Zombies to Theaters for ‘Resident Evil’ Premiere

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Stand back and blast your way through waves of zombies. Before you head to the concession stand and load up on drinks and buttered up popcorn, you might want to make one more stop — if you’re brave enough. One of the leading theater groups in the United States, Regal Entertainment Group, is giving Los Angeles movie-goers a new kind of scare before they even take their seat.

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One of VR’s Best Party Games Now Supports Rift & Vive Motion Controllers

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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is an undeniably fun VR party game that you can play together with a big group with only one VR headset. Now the game has added much requested support for both Vive and Rift’s VR controllers. In Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes , the player wearing the VR headset will find themselves sitting alone in a room with a ticking time bomb in front of them.

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Chocolate is The Most Fun You Can Have with Three Legs and Kitten-Cannon Hands

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Meow. If you’ve been jonesing for a reason to get your dance on to sci-fi Lisa Frank vibes, look no further: Chocolate just made its official debut at Sundance. Tyler Hurd, director of the immersive video, has emerged as one of the most idiosyncratic and compelling voices in VR, embracing the frontier spirit of the medium in a way few others have.

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More Than 62,000 People Are Playing Resident Evil 7 On PS VR

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Capcom’s Resident Evil 7 [ Review: 9/10 ] might be the biggest game to support VR yet, and a significant chunk of people are opting to play it this way. That is according to Capcom’s ResidentEvil.net (RE.net), a hub site that gathers player statistics not just for its latest release but the entire series. When you first boot up the game on PlayStation 4, you can opt-in to contributing your data to an online pool of statistics, keeping track of factors like total time spent playing an

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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Sony Reveals PlayStation VR’s Most Downloaded Games of 2016

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The Official PlayStation Blog has shared Sony’s most downloaded games of last year. This includes a dedicated list for PlayStation VR, representing almost three months of software sales since the hardware launched in October. PSVR now has more than 50 titles supporting the headset, check out the most downloaded in 2016 below: Job Simulator ($30). In a world where robots have replaced all human jobs, step into the ‘Job Simulator’ to learn what it was like ‘to job’.

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New HTC Vive Releases For The Week Of 01/23/17

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Lots of diversity this week for the HTC Vive on Steam and Viveport. Awaken, a VR puzzle game about getting balls of light into their goals while you shape the level and its music over time just hit Early Access with a level editor and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the latest cyberpunk action RPG from Square Enix and Eidos has a free tour-style VR Experience that’s totally free.

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Devs Behind ‘Max Payne’ and ‘Quantum Break’ Form New VR House, ‘3rd Eye Studios’

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3rd Eye Studios is a new VR developer team formed from Remedy Entertainment alum and they’re working on a new, original made-for-VR anthology inspired by 70’s sci-fi television shows. Here’s an exclusive first look at some of the first art for the game. As we’ve charted the growth of the VR industry over the years, one thing that was obvious from the beginning was that the creative opportunities offered by this new entertainment paradigm, seemed to have an almost bewitchi

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New Oculus Rift and Gear VR Releases For The Week Of 01/22/17

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Another plentiful week of VR gaming awaits Gear VR owners today, and the Oculus Rift doesn’t have it too bad either. We’ve got the launch of a promising new boxing game, great cross-platform multiplayer titles, and a large suite of new mobile experiences to check out. Have fun! If you missed last week, you can see those new releases here.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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GOING BACK TO THE FUTURE | HoloBall VR (Oculus Touch Gameplay)

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HoloBall puts players into an Virtual Reality arcade arena inspired by one of the most iconic game titles of all time. You will have to use powerful paddles to hit, smash and curve the HoloBall past your enemy to score. Learn and master skillshots to outmatch your increasingly difficult opponents. Did you like this video? Subscribe Nathie! [link].

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New PlayStation VR Releases For The Week Of 01/22/17

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The moment most PlayStation VR fans have been waiting for ever since E3 last year is finally here: Resident Evil VII is finally out. Not only does it live up to expectations, it may very well be one of the best horror games we’ve played in a very long time — VR or otherwise. If you have a PS VR and aren’t playing this game, then you need to remedy that problem immediately.

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My solution for the tracking issues

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I had a lot of contact with Oculus support, but they didn’t seem to find a solution for the tracking issues. I had to search for a solution on my own. One of the problems was caused by placing the sensors on different heights. If one of the three or four sensors is higher than the other sensors, and it has to pick up tracking, is causes a ‘tracking drop’, or in the worst case you will get taller or get smaller.

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TPCAST and Lattice Partner To Integrate WirelessHD Tech Into Vive Add-On Kit

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We’ve been hands-on with a lot of wireless upgrade kits for VR headsets now, but Vive X company TPCAST’s solution for the HTC Vive remains the most promising. If you read our impressions of the kit from last year, you might remember a mention of what the group called ‘Wireless HD’ transmissions, which use a 60 ghz wifi band to send 2160 x 1200 video data from a PC to your headset without the need for a wire connecting the two.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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The Oculus lawsuit just became a $4bn problem for Facebook

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Facebook faces a potential bill for $2bn in compensation and a further $2bn in damages, as its lawsuit with ZeniMax over Oculus goes to jury. The long-awaited lawsuit finally reached closing arguments today in Dallas, TX, with ZeniMax’s lawyer suggesting a $4bn payout from Facebook was in order. According to the company, Oculus relied heavily on – but refuses to … Continue reading.

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HTC CEO Cher Wang, Google Earth VR To Be Honored At 2017 Lumiere Awards

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Now this is a bit more like it. We’ve seen a lot of awards shows recognize work in VR over the past few months, but almost all of them have been concerned with gaming. While VR games are great, they don’t fully reflect the diverse ecosystem of content that headsets are already starting to facilitate. The 8th annual Lumiere Awards, set to take place on February 13th in Hollywood, are a little different.

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EON Reality’s Chairman delivers FETC 2017 Keynote on Virtual Reality Education and the EON AVR Platform

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Dan Lejerskar delivered a portion of the FETC 2017 Keynote where he covered such areas as the future of Augmented and Virtual Reality education, how education benefits from Virtual Reality, and how the EON Reality platform can benefit teachers and administrators. The Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC), the largest, national, independent education technology conference, annually attracts thousands of education and technology leaders from around the world.

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Hands On With VR Suite, Winner of The Gear VR Killer App Contest

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Last month Samsung declared a winner for its Gear VR Killer App Contest. After all the votes were counted, the winner was The Virtual Reality Suite — a comprehensive platform of enterprise level VR-powered communications solutions. We recently had the chance to go hands on with VR Suite at our offices in San Francisco and what we found was one of the most viable B2B VR products that we’ve seen yet.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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AviWorlds moves to DigiWorldz hosting

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AviWorldz has officially joined the big grid migration of 2017, becoming the latest in a string of grids to switch to DigiWorldz hosting. DigiWorldz is mostly known as a popular commercial OpenSim grid, but the company also provides hosting for other grids. This means that would-be grid owners can focus on building communities, and leave all the technical stuff to someone else.

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The Rift Is Back Down To Its Original Price In The UK Today

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Last August Oculus quietly raised the price of its Rift VR headset in the UK, likely thanks to the country’s decision to leave the European Union, dubbed Brexit. Today, though, you can pretend like that never happened. A number of UK retailers have dropped the price of the Rift from £549 to £499, which was the original cost of the device when it launched in March 2016 on Oculus’ own site.

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Researchers Demonstrate 100° Dynamic Focus AR Display With Membrane Mirrors

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Achieving a wide field of view in an AR headset is a challenge in itself, but so too is fixing the so-called vergence-accommodation conflict which presently plagues most VR and AR headsets, making them less comfortable and less in sync with the way our vision works in the real world. Researchers have set out to try to tackle both issues using varifocal membrane mirrors.

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Exclusive: VR Goes Noir With Private Eye: Escape, Watch The First Trailer

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Okay, before we begin, a bit of a history lesson. Private Eye was one of the first VR games I ever reported on all the way back in early 2014. I think I spotted it on the show floor of an indie developer event, back at a time when there might be only 5 or 6 Oculus Rifts at a show, and not the hundreds of various makes of VR headsets you’d find at them today.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?