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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The 8th Annual Lumiere Awards were held last night at Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood. Organized by the Advanced Imaging Society (AIS), the Lumiere Awards have been recognizing and enabling the creation of cutting edge entertainment and storytelling using emerging technologies since James Cameron first set the bar with Avatar. Last year, the AIS announced the VR Society, a division dedicated to virtual reality, at their VR on the Lot event at Paramount Studios.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg | Photo courtesy Facebook. Facebook’s 2017 F8 developer conference has seven scheduled sessions dedicated to VR. The company’s annual two-day event is dedicated to exploring the future of Facebook’s family of apps and services (including Oculus), and how businesses and developers can leverage them. With sessions covering topics such as research, analytics and artificial intelligence, as well as their major acquisitions Instagram and WhatsApp, Face

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

LA visitors will be able to journey down to coral reefs and interact with an 80-foot whale. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles is giving visitors a chance to explore the ruins of an underwater shipwreck, watch the largest creature on planet earth–the blue whale– swim by only inches away from where they stand, and admire the iridescent lifeforms that reside in the darkest depths of the ocean, all while staying totally dry.

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On May 25th, 2017, bride and groom Elisa Evans and Martin Shervington will get together with friends and family at one of their favorite hangout spots: a quirky florist that doubles up as a bar in the Welsh city of Cardiff. They will then don their HMDs, and join the remainder of their guests scattered all around the globe for the world’s first official VR wedding ceremony of its kind.

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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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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

HTC’s latest financial report for the three months ending on December 31st, 2016 show the company in flux. The first several financial highlights the company made in this call were of positive revenue but an operating loss and a net loss after tax. Revenue for this quarter sits at NT$22.2 billion with a gross margin of 10.5%, while HTC’s quarterly … Continue reading.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

It’s Valentine’s Day, which means it’s the perfect day for all things cute and heartwarming. If Hello Kitty falls in that particular category for you and you happen to own a HoloLens headset, then good news: beginning today, Hello Kitty holograms will begin appearing in Actiongram. Actiongram, as some of you will already know, is a HoloLens app that allows … Continue reading.

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Working out exactly where Nintendo stands on VR can be difficult, especially when one of its most prolific employees makes statements like this. Shigeru Miyamoto, the beloved videogame designer behind series like Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda, was recently asked for his updated thoughts on VR technology by Time. He told the publication that, in terms of playing VR online, “I think a lot of the problems have been solved or are starting to be solved.” He confirmed that the compan

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Mac users might be proud of their platform being the go-to for much creative work, but there is one party it hasn’t been officially invited to yet. The rush of virtual and augmented reality technologies have so far catered only to the Windows crowd, leaving macOS patiently waiting for better days. Some, however, have taken it up themselves to do … Continue reading.

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Robinson: The Journey [ Review: 7/10 ] released on Oculus Rift last week through the Oculus Home Store and Steam marketplace. In the game, you control a young boy named Robin on an adventure through a strange, foreign planet overrun with dinosaurs. After crash landing, you’re tasked with finding your way off the planet with help from a robotic companion.

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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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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

No romantic plans this year? Then why not get it on with an alien? Being single this time of year can suck. Seeing happy couples drown each other in flowers and affection can really put a dent in the mood of those with no significant other. Well like most of today’s real-life issues, virtual reality has once again provided a solution. So instead of spending the rest of Valentine’s Day all by your lonesome, why not get frisky with some intergalactic ‘hotties’ from another planet

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The Game Developer’s Conference is right around the corner. For video game creators, both old and new, this means a lot of sleepless nights excitedly reading over the session list and carefully planning your trip. For journalists like us it means the PR wheel has begun turning, trying its best to crush us with emails, meeting requests, and potential demos.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Via Viveport Dating Lessons developed by Cerevrum Inc. is the very first VR dating training course which will give a man the skillset to build a dating life he wishes for. Men are expected to be always strong, confident and charming. But it is not easy at all! How to approach a woman? What to say to interest her? With the help of Magic Leone (www.attractionmethods.com), every man gets a chance to overcome his low-esteem or shyness. 11 lessons and 7 practical interactive sessions will give men to

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The VR controllers of the HTC Vive easily translate to a lot of movements that come naturally to us, but there’s something special about throwing a punch. On the expo floor of PAX South 2017, we came across Digital Precept’s Kung Fu: Shadow Fist, a game that asks you to throw quite a few punches, and we had a chance to experience a short demo level.

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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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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

All my time spent in headsets and exploring virtual worlds doesn’t give me a lot of time to date these days. So I was delighted to find an invitation to a VR-powered Valentine’s Day party by “exclusive” dating app The League in my inbox last week. Launched in 2015 and modeled after private members only clubs like Soho House, The League is known for its selective admissions­ based mode that is geared towards “high-achieving” users.

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Just like Michael Wentworth-Bell, I’ve often wondered why we don’t see more VR stealth games. Poking your head around cover and quickly ducking and diving to keep out of sight seems ideally suited to headsets. The difference, however, is that Wentworth-Bell is actually doing something about that absence. Namely, he’s creating his own stealth game, Espire 1, for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, and you can see the first footage for the project below.

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VR headsets are the gateway to incredible experiences, but they can alienate you from your other forms of media. Previously, unless you were using apps like BigScreen , you’d have to remove the headset and return to the real world when accessing your browsers, music, or movies but creators are regularly creating applications that bring a lot of your PC content into virtual space.

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With precious few new PlayStation VR (PSVR) games so far in 2017, we’re keenly watching for any interesting releases on the horizon. Unearthing Mars is one of them. This promising game from China-based Winking Entertainment released in the Asian region earlier in the year, but the developer had nothing to say of a western release at the time. Today, it’s confirmed that the game will be arriving in western markets “soon” We’ve reached out to Winking to try and narrow

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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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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Spend this Valentine’s Day with the one you really love. Yes, that’s right, your virtual multi-mouthed alien girlfriend that you can smooch to your heart’s content. Oculus Rift DK2 owners may well remember Alien Makeout Simulator, a bizarre and hilarious little demo that released on the now-defunct Oculus Share platform back in 2014.

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Last week we reviewed First Impact: Rise of a Hero , a VR superhero sandbox from Canada-based Red Meat Games. While the game showed early promise, the final product was sadly lacking. While First Impact had a bright comic book world and some fun powers to experiment with, visual bugs, poor enemy AI and control issues kept us from giving the game more than a 4/10.

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The debate about whether or not 360 videos are considered “real VR” rages on across the internet, but the fact of the matter is that it’s the most accessible and easily digestible form of immersive content out there right now. Any Google Cardboard device, or even just a smartphone without a VR HMD, can view a 360 video. They can be embedded directly on Facebook and other websites and YouTube naively supports them now.

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