VRScout

JANUARY 26, 2017

Writer/Executive Producer Mickey Fisher is bringing one of the hottest technologies of the year to television. TV is no stranger to virtual reality. The technology has appeared in countless films and television shows over the years from Family Guy and Star Trek , to South Park and most recently Black Mirror. However despite its constant appearance in mainstream entertainment the influential tech has yet to earn its own live-action series dedicated entirely to its possibilities.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 26, 2017

According to a report by The Verge , HTC’s VP of Design is leaving the company to join up with Google’s Daydream VR team. Having joined the company in 2008, in recent year’s HTC’s VP of Design, Claude Zellweger, played a key role in the design of the Vive headset, The Verge reports. Now he’s taking that experience with both mobile and VR design over to the Google Daydream VR team, according to a tweet by Zellweger.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

New gaming hardware launches always lead to a rabid fervor. Early adopters and brand loyalists will line up days in advance just to be one of the first consumers to get their hands on a particular device. I personally know people that have camped out for new phones, gaming consoles, and Black Friday shopping deals. It’s a real thing. PlayStation VR was no different when it released.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 26, 2017

Over the course of the last 50 years, capital markets have significantly codified a generational model approach consumer technology products. New “generations” of products are expected to come at a regular pace and provide increased features and reliability at the same prices. But depending upon the product type, the typical life cycle from one generation to the next can vary greatly.

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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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JANUARY 26, 2017

Claude Zellweger, HTC’s VP of Design, is making the switch from PC VR to mobile VR. The designer, who worked on both HTC’s smartphones and its Vive VR headset at its San Francisco office, yesterday confirmed that he was leaving the Taiwanese company to join Google, where he’ll work on the company’s new Daydream mobile VR ecosystem.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

I love a good game jam. Well, I love the results that come from them, anyway, not so much the sleepless weekends of coding, which I thankfully know nothing about. But there’s no better way to celebrate the innovation and ideas video games still have to offer than by getting a few devs together and encouraging them to let their creativity flow.

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VR Bites

JANUARY 26, 2017

Today we are going to play Pierhead Arcade for the Vive and Oculus Touch. It’s basically your own private virtual arcade with unlimited tokens. We will be playing a bunch of fun games like Shooting Gallery, Skee Ball, Honey Rush and Artic Shuffle. Check it out on Steam: [link]. Did you like this video? Subscribe Nathie! [link].

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Mervils: A VR Adventure is a charming little game. When we first previewed it on the HTC Vive , it reminded us of a slightly more open-ended, admittedly less polished, version of Lucky’s Tale [ Review: 9/10 ]. At its core, Mervils is a platformer with adventure, action, and RPG elements sprinkled on top. It’s already out for Vive and Rift, but now developer VitruviusVR has announced it’s coming to PlayStation VR as well on February 21st, 2017.

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AllThingsVR

JANUARY 26, 2017

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Two Bit Circus raises $15M, DigiLens raises $22M, Hugo Barra Leaves Xiaomi To Become Facebook’s VP of VR & HTC’s Top Vive Designer Leaves For Daydream Funding: 1) Two Bit Circus has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Jazz Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors, including Foundry Group, Techstars Ventures, Intel Capital, and a handful of new investors.

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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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JANUARY 26, 2017

Puzzle games are about as common in VR these days as wave shooters, which is to say you see them everywhere. Unlike most genres, which rely on intense action or engaging storytelling, puzzle games are enhanced by VR due to the simple prospect of 360-degree presence. Instead of inspecting a flat 2D screen you’re required to physically move around the world to figure out solutions which opens up whole new game design possibilities.

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Slashgear

JANUARY 26, 2017

It’s clearly the week for big moves in virtual reality, with HTC losing its VP of Design to Google, where he will work on Google Daydream. That might sound like an unusual shift, but with Claude Zellweger responsible for not only the HTC Vive headset but the entire brand strategy and execution, he’s perfectly placed to help Google take Daydream … Continue reading.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Sword Art Online is a virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game that isn’t really a virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game. But it might be soon. Okay, back up. What I mean to say is that this is a popular anime and manga series set in the year 2022 in which the titular MMORPG traps players inside its virtual worlds.

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Immersive Authority

JANUARY 26, 2017

According to the Future of Jobs report published by the World Economic Forum, we’re entering what they are terming as the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), [.]. The post Creativity – A top skill now required for the Digital Age appeared first on Immersive Authority.

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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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JANUARY 26, 2017

Given the likely low install base of most VR headsets right now, it’s rare to see a game get even close to 1 million players, let alone pass that milestone. Resolution Games, however, has. Last year this new studio, formed by ex-Candy Crush Saga developer Tommy Palm, put out its second VR game, Bait!, as a free-to-play title for Oculus and Samsung’s Gear VR.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Tyler Hurd is quickly becoming known as the “weird VR guy.” The young virtual reality filmmaker first broke onto the scene with Butts — which is a hilarious and whimsical musical romp about exactly what you think it is. His followup to that was Old Friend — another musical that combined hilariously animated characters, over the top colors (heck, over the top everything ), and music that won’t leave your head no matter how hard you try.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 26, 2017

The Gallery: Episode 1 – Call of the Starseed [ Review: 9/10 ] was one of our favorite VR games in 2016. In fact, it even took home the honors of being named the Best Narrative of the year. We know that Episode 2 will be called Heart of the Emberstone and the currently running series of developer diary videos are poised to divulge additional information over time.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 26, 2017

We really, really like Balloon Chair Death Match here at UploadVR, and we think you would too. Pay attention, then, because you can get your hands on a free copy today. Starting 10am PST (that’s now) and running through until 6pm, the first 1,000 people that post on this subreddit , Facebook channel , Steam page or Discord will get a free copy of the game.

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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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JANUARY 26, 2017

I craned my neck back while wearing the PS VR headset to look above into the sky. At this angle, I could see an enemy fighter jet attempting to loop around behind me. Recognizing what was happening, I pulled the L2 trigger on my DualShock 4 to brake, pushed down on the left joystick to dive forward, flip around, and head off their loop before they got behind me.

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