VRScout
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
The HTC Vive is arguably the most popular high-end VR headset on the planet. Now, Vive is trying to do for VR software what it did for VR hardware through its software subscription service known as Viveport. – Viveport is Vive’s online game and experience store. With Viveport Subscription , users can select up to 5 titles every month (from a curated list) to download and use free of charge.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Though both products were announced back at CES, HTC showed off the Vive Pro and the Vive Wireless adapter used together for the first time today at MWC 2018. Back at CES, we went hands on with the Vive Wireless Adapter and the original Vive headset , but the company wasn’t showing the Adapter in use with the newer, higher resolution Vive Pro.
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Tech Trends VR
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Marvin is the BBC’s newest foreign correspondent, and you can get inside his head. This week the BBC released a new two-part virtual reality news documentary series called Damming the Nile, which was produced in partnership between BBC News and the newly launched BBC VR Hub headed up by Zillah Watson. “Viewers will have enjoyed 360 news pieces from the BBC before, but never like this.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
This year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona is underway, and while the event’s main focus is inevitably on the newest batch of smartphones to hit the market this year, VR’s presence can definitely be felt. Visiting HTC’s booth, we got a chance to see the newer Vive Tracker in action with Valve’s 2.0 SteamVR Tracking system.
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.
VRScout
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Denmark’s Universe Science Park will be the first to house the ambitious location-based experience Spring 2018. It’s hard to talk about cutting-edge VR without bringing up at least one of the rapidly-growing location-based VR experiences. By combining modern VR technology with unique gameplay mechanics reliant on custom hardware and a specialized playspace, you create a distinct, immersive experience that’s simply too intricate or expensive to replicate at home.
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VR Game Critic
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
March is here as a late freeze tightens its grip on the UK, though it won't be stopping us from preparing for some cozy VR evenings. We’ll be chillin' and takin’ it easy all day in 'Bravo Team' on the 6th to honour The Big Lebowski and The Day of The Dude day. we’ll be riding dinosaurs on the 22nd in 'ARK Park' and hopefully 'The American Dream' is more than a dream this month with its yet to be confirmed final date.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Rec Room , the social VR app, just updated to include the ability to create your own customized environments. To celebrate the new ‘custom rooms’ addition, developers Against Gravity are putting on a contest and offering up the grand prize of a Nintendo Switch, a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) and a few other necessary fixins to get the creative types out in force.
VRWorld
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
2017 has been a busy one for VR/AR teams at Google, with company’s continued push into the space with Google Cardboard, AR for Pixel phones and, most recently, ARCore framework. The latter was announced mid-2017, and after all of this time in development, ARCore is finally ready to start shipping to developers and manufacturers. The framework will allow developers to more easily develop augmented reality applications for supported Android phones.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Today’s VR headsets may have relatively high resolutions on paper, but when the pixels are stretched across a wide field of view, the effective angular resolution is far lower than what you might expect from a typical 1080p TV or monitor. Unfortunately, a suitable VR display capable of achieving both a wide field of view and retina resolution isn’t readily available yet.
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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.
VRWorld
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Despite HTC continuing the own the bragging rights to being one of the biggest names in VR and smartphone spaces, that still does not alleviate the financial hurdles the company has been struggling with since last year. This past week carried more changes, as Digital Trends reported HTC layoffs in their US offices, as well as a merging of their smartphone and VR divisions.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
At this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, HTC CEO Cher Wang took the stage to outline the company’s big picture approach to the future. The company is ostensibly putting increased focus on VR/AR with their newly coined ethos ‘Vive Reality’ In the wake of the resignation of Chailin Chang, HTC’s President of Smartphone and Connected Devices Business, and the resultant merging of the company’s VR and smartphone divisions , the Taiwan-based manufacturer s
VRWorld
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Remember Meltdown and Spectre? If you don’t, take a look at our article on those exploits , as they most likely make your device vulnerable. It’s been nearly two months since Meltdown and Spectre went public. In this time, manufacturers like Intel and providers like Microsoft have been rushing to provide quick, secure fixes to the exploits.
VR Spies
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Over the weekend I got the chance to check out a bit of gameplay from the upcoming VR Mech Sim Vox Machinae. I was so happy to have been chosen for the closed play test of this game and since Space Bullet Dynamics Corporation the developers of the game are awesome and didn’t tie the hands of early players with an NDA I can share me experience with you.
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.
VRWorld
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Is the world of virtual reality missing a Discord equivalent? The boys over at Pluto seem to think so. Discord is popular as a gaming-centric communication application, thanks to features like Rich Presence and in-game overlays. It’s also a free alternative to services like Mumble , while still being more feature-rich than Skype. Discord has quickly become the most prominent communication app for gamers, so how does Pluto hope to do this for VR?
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