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Rockstar to Bring ‘L.A. Noire’ to HTC Vive With Cases “rebuilt specifically for virtual reality”

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L.A. Noire (2011), the hit neo-noire adventure game for PC and console, is coming to VR in a series of cases taken from the original game that Rockstar says are being “rebuilt specifically for virtual reality.” Called L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files, the game will deliver seven of the original, self-contained cases from L.A. Noire. Rockstar maintains its new VR game is “rebuilt specifically for a virtual reality experience on the HTC VIVE™ system.” Thanks to the Revive

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VR Art Highlights to Expect at Kaleidoscope’s ‘First Look’

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First Look will unveil upcoming projects from premium VR artists worth watching. Launched in 2015 as a premier VR showcase, Kaleidoscope has now shifted from VR festivals to becoming a funding platform to connect artists and studios with influencers and brands. Co-founder René Pinnell said Kaleidoscope was created because in 2015 there wasn’t a place that showcased VR films and experiences—but now that major film festivals like Sundance and SXSW have embraced the medium, the need had been addres

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Google & Song Exploder Create ‘Inside Music’ VR App to Help You Better Appreciate Songs

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Song Exploder, the popular music podcast that lets musicians explain every part of their songs, has gotten some help from Google to create a new app that throws you in the middle of song so you can experience it like never before. Called Inside Music, the WebVR app lets you turn individual pieces of a song on and off, giving you a little more insight into just how it’s made.

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Rockstar’s LA Noire Comes To HTC Vive This November

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The blockbuster detective thriller gets its own VR rendition for the Vive in one of four new versions coming this November. Remember that amazing neo-noir detective action-adventure game from the creators of GTA released back in 2011? If you do then you no doubt have fond memories of cruising through gorgeous post-war LA as you studied subtle facial tics of potential suspects.

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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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ManoMotion Brings Hand Gesture Input to Apple’s ARKit

Road to VR

ManoMotion, a computer-vision and machine learning company, today announced they’re integrated their company’s smartphone-based gesture control with Apple’s augmented reality developer tool ARKit , making it possible to bring basic hand-tracking into AR with only the use of the smartphone’s onboard processors and camera. With Google and Apple gearing up for the augmented reality revolution with their respective software developer kits, ARCore and ARKit , developers are ferve

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The Easiest Way to Set Up Oculus Rift Room-scale Tracking (without drilling any holes)

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While it’s true that the Oculus Rift didn’t initially support room-scale tracking, Oculus has embraced large-scale tracking, allowing for 360 degree tracking and room-scale gameplay at similar sizes as the HTC Vive. This guide will show you the easiest way to get up and running with rooms-scale tracking starting with just two Sensors (cameras) and no drilling holes.

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Second Life’s cloud move could lower land prices, hurt OpenSim

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London City region in Second Life. (Image courtesy David Kariuki.). Second Life is moving its architecture to the cloud, Linden Lab announced last week, and that might help them offer lower land prices. The reason? On-demand cloud-based regions would only be up and running if people are currently visiting them, similar to how the commercial Kitely grid works on the OpenSim platform, an open-source alternative.

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Why is Cryptocurrency under Scrutiny? Hawala Explained

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After the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) imposed a temporary rule that initial coin offerings (ICO) are illegal and that startups must refund all ICO investments to contributors, The Central Bank of Russia also said that it “monitors” the cryptocurrency market and is continuing to develop a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies. There is a question though – what are central banks over the world exactly scared of?

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How VR, AR, & AI Can Change Education Forever – Part 2, Tomorrow’s Solutions

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Today’s educational system is static, generalized and puts less focus on individual self-development than it perhaps should. To make matters worse, students often don’t understand why they are learning the things that they’re learning, which makes certain classes feel arbitrary and purposeless in the face of their personal ambitions. Lucas Rizzotto.

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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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Microsoft Prepares VR Partnerships for Windows 10 Holographic Edition

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Last winter Microsoft announced that the company started working together with its PC hardware partners to develop headsets that support a mixed mode, between virtual and augmented reality. These headsets run a new version of Microsoft’s software called Windows Mixed Reality, a version of Windows that natively supports both augmented (AR) and virtual reality (VR) experiences.

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Caspar Thykier of Zappar

Everything VR & AR

Caspar Thykier , Co-Founder and CEO of Zappar explores Zappar’s mission of democratizing AR, VR and MR, creating tools for thousands of developers to create content and deploy quickly and easily. Caspar discusses the impact of Apple’s ARKit, Google’s ARCore, QRCodes, ZapCodes, ZapWorks and more. Have a listen and let us know what you think about this episode by sending us an email to podcast@thevrara.com.

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