VRScout

JUNE 24, 2017

Moscow artist Ekaterina Nenasheva claims she was arrested and taken to a psychiatric clinic. The crime? Refusing to take off her VR headset according to reports. Over the past four years, VR has caused us to re-evaluate many of our social norms and collective ideas— particularly as it relates to how we engage with each other —but Ekaterina Nenasheva might have just cracked open the biggest issue yet: can wearing VR in a public space constitute cause for arrest?

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Road to VR

JUNE 24, 2017

Entering the Wasteland, sneaking up on a group of raiders and shooting them down with guns in your own two hands, tossing back a Nuka-Cola, hanging out with Dogmeat; these are some the things that get fans excited about playing Fallout 4 VR. And in case you’ve been cryogenically frozen in a nuclear bunker this past year, you should know Fallout 4 (2015) is coming to HTC Vive―that and Bethesda demoed an updated build at this year’s E3, showing off an improved UI that should address

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JUNE 24, 2017

Explorations in VR Design is a journey through the bleeding edge of VR design – from architecting a space and designing groundbreaking interactions to making users feel powerful. Sound is essential for truly immersive VR. It conveys depth and emotion, builds and reinforces interactions, and guides users through alien landscapes. Combined with hand tracking and visual feedback, sound even has the power to create the illusion of tactile sensation.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 24, 2017

MLB wants you to sit through an entire baseball game in VR via @mashable [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 24, 2017.

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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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JUNE 24, 2017

Following VR in the early days of Oculus and the Rift was a lot like being a kid. You had all these hopes and dreams for the future, but then the adults would come along and crush them. Any talk by developers or executives you listened to would spend a lot of time addressing the dangers of VR. It was all rules and warnings; VR makes people sick, you can’t take camera control away, you simply have to build VR games from the ground up.

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JUNE 24, 2017

Play Labs , a summer accelerator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), announced its first batch of 13 startups that are developing augmented reality and virtual reality technology. The focus of the startups will be to develop “playful tech” in a variety of industries. The initial companies are focused on AR and VR, as well as online gaming and esports.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 24, 2017

26 VR startups debut at HTC’s Vive demo day via @VentureBeat [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 24, 2017.

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Road to VR

JUNE 24, 2017

Knuckles, Valve’s unique VR motion controller, is already in the hands of select developers who are no doubt designing ways to use the controller’s 5-finger tracking. In the video published by Zulubo Productions , we get a better look at just what Knuckles can do. The demo, first seen in a Knuckles developer guide , is designed to let devs understand the controllers’ tracking capabilities, and what sorts of fine manipulation Knuckles provides users in a virtual setting.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 24, 2017

Bizarre VR Headset Can Change The Taste Of Food via @VRScout [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 24, 2017.

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