Fri.May 05, 2017

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Why the Closure of Oculus Story Studio is Good News for VR Filmmakers

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Oculus just officially announced that they’d be winding down Story Studio, the company’s internal VR film studio which produced first-party VR shorts like Lost , Henry , and Dear Angelica. Along with the closure, the company also says they’re earmarking $50 million to invest in non-gaming experiential VR content, and in doing so reveals a major reason why the company opted to shutter the studio.

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VR’s Excellent Animation Tool Tvori Gets Better With Major Update

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We were particularly taken with Tvori when we first saw it last year. This Vive app offers a comprehensive suite of animation features, essentially allowing you to record your own stories in VR. As promising as its beginnings were, though, Tvori was in need of a brush up. Today, it’s finally getting one. The creators of Tvori just published a long-promised update for the game.

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Make-A-Wish Grants Incredible Wish Using VR

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The first wish granted by Make-A-Wish using VR is an intergalactic trip on the ‘Zayden 7’ rocket ship. History was made this past monday as Make-A-Wish Georgia granted the first ever virtual reality wish to seven-year-old Zayden Wright in an attempt to fulfill his request of flying to the planet Saturn in a red rocket ship. It was a tear-jerking scene inside the Texas Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia Monday as Make-A-Wish, NASA and and over 30 active servicemen and women came togeth

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Zuckerberg: VR ‘Won’t Be A Big Part Of Our Business’ At Facebook For ‘A While’

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During an investor call earlier this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a small comment that reveals something big about the way his company is positioning its virtual reality departments. Early in Facebook’s quarterly earnings call Zuckerberg hopped on the phone to read a prepared statement. In that statement he provided a general, five-minute overview of Facebook as it stands today.

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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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Milwaukee Is Being Sued Over Mandatory Augmented Reality Permits

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Apparently developing an AR game in Wisconsin isn’t as simple as it seems. Friday was a historic day for virtual and augmented reality. Developers of Candy Lab AR took the entirety of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, to court over a bizarre permit requirement they claim impedes on their first amendment rights. Originally proposed back in December, the new ordinance requires AR & VR developers to go through a screening process to determine the “appropriateness of the application” and submit a &#

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HTC VIVE Evolves to a Subscription Model

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Since its launch, VR gear makers struggled to gain mainstream acceptance. It is normal to buy or lease a car for a few hundred dollars a month, to own a thousand dollar phone with a monthly pay-off plan, but such clever price-reducing strategies were not the part of HTC or Oculus strategies and we all know what happened afterwards. Both HTC and Oculus were grilled for being too expensive, instead of being an “iPhone” of the VR industry.

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Tooth And Claw Is A VR Game That Casts You As A Sabre-tooth Tiger

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Like a lot of VR enthusiasts, Fire-Point Interactive is bored of using guns, so it’s turning to something a little different for its new VR game, Tooth and Claw. Announced earlier this week, Tooth and Claw is a first-person online combat game in which you don’t wield pistols or machine guns but instead scurry around the wilderness as a sabre-tooth tiger.

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15 marketing ideas for a grid

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(Image courtesy marketing expert Rose Freeland.). Today, I got another submission for a free ad that was basically just the grid’s name. And I regularly talk to grid owners who try to tell me that their grid is special because of its community, and to attract residents they offer low-cost land and free user accounts. Having a name, low land costs, free user accounts and a “community” does not make a grid special.

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Hands-On With Bionik’s Rift-Style Mantis PSVR Headphones

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Since we’re still in the first generation of real consumer-grade VR headsets, no company was going to get it absolutely perfectly from the get-go. The HTC Vive has the most expansive, scaleable, open, and impressive tracking system with its lighthouses, the Oculus Touch controllers are our favorite tracked motion controllers on the market, and the PlayStation VR’s (PSVR) headset design is easily the most comfortable.

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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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New HTC Vive Releases For The Week Of 04/30/17

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A new week and a few new roles to immerse yourself within on this collection of new releases for HTC Vive. First up we have VRtender , an escapist experience of sorts where you learn to become a bartender with around 50 different real cocktail mixes to make for your patrons. Next up is Conductor , which we recently reviewed. It’s an adventure through a post-industrial apocalyptic world where you solve different puzzles as you maneuver down the tracks while driving a train.

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PC Gamer Show Returns To E3 2017 With ‘Increased VR’ Content Focus

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PC gaming hasn’t always had the strongest presence at E3 historically, which is disappointing considering the 1.2 billion strong worldwide audience the platform commands. Thankfully, for coming up on three consecutive years now, the PC Gamer Show has showcased some of what the powerful medium has to offer for the gaming industry. That’s likely to continue as PC content becomes more accessible and VR gaming becomes more prevalent.

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New PSVR Releases For Week Of 04/30/17

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It’s another quiet week on the PSVR front while we wait for Farpoint to bring the pain later in May. This week’s sole release is an obscure little gem that won’t appeal to everyone, so it might be worth keeping your money where it is and checking back in next week if it’s not your cup of tea. If you missed last week, you can see those new releases here.

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New Oculus Rift and Gear VR Releases For Week Of 04/30/17

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Publisher VRotein sweeps into releases this week with four new experiences for the Gear VR, some of which use its new controller. On the Rift side there is but one single Oculus Home release of a game that’s been on Steam for a while now, as well as a couple other Steam offerings. Slim pickings, then, but there should be something for you 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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Here’s How Smashbox Arena Will Work On PSVR

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One of PC VR’s best multiplayer games , Smashbox Arena from Big Box VR, is finally on its way to PlayStation VR (PSVR). Smashbox is a game that started life on the HTC Vive with roomscale support, though, which has us wondering how it will translate to Sony’s headset. We put that question to Big Box itself. As you may know PSVR features positional tracking with a single camera, but that doesn’t allow for roomscale, and it means you won’t be able to turn around away from t

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Oculus Finds New Head of Computer Vision in Amir Frenkel

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Oculus has had a few weeks of transition, losing some major staff and just yesterday saying goodbye to its Story Studio division, but the changes aren’t ending there. Dov Katz, the company’s previous Head of Computer Vision, has parted ways with Oculus. The company confirmed as much to UploadVR following an original report from TechCrunch.

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Tokyo’s Adult VR Show Features Simulated Women Walking On Your Chest (NSFW)

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NSFW Warning. On a sunny and warm Wednesday morning in Tokyo I was invited to attend the Adult Virtual Reality Show. The last time the show was held too many people wanted to attend. This time only people who bought one of the 500 tickets online received details about the location — an abandoned hospital in Tokyo’s Shibuya ward. Here are some of the most notable things spotted at the event.