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MARCH 5, 2017

Augmented reality brings this seemingly empty Manhattan gallery to life. Thanks to a collaboration between online art platform Artsy and Pace Galleries Amsterdam design firm Studio Drift, the long-running Armory Show will be home to an completely digital museum only viewable in augmented reality. Running now until March 5th, the Concrete Storm uses the Microsoft HoloLens headsets to digitally project a catalog of virtual art via an immersive mixed reality experience.

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MARCH 5, 2017

CapitolaVR , as described on their website, is a digital agency all about action. They “don’t talk, buy prototype” and have built relationships through this ideal with clients such as Samsung and Ford. Via email, CapitolaVR’s Head of Digital David Robustelli shared a new development that was the result of the team charging forward with a fresh idea for augmented reality. “At CapitolaVR our interns always have a window of time working on their own ideas as long as it

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Road to VR

MARCH 5, 2017

The latest project from VR film specialists Oculus Story Studio. Talking with Ghosts , is a collection of four animated stories, each illustrated and brought to live in virtual reality, designed to bring you into an immersive comic book world. Oculus Story Studio’s continue their exploration of illustrative VR film when their latest collaborative project debuts at this years Tribeca Film Festival on April 21st.

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MARCH 5, 2017

Unity Technologies and Epic Games are in a grudge match for the hearts and minds of game developers. And so when you ask which one of them has a bigger or a better business, you get some very different answers. I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based Epic Games, this week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

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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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VRScout

MARCH 5, 2017

Oculus has officially announced their slate of games for 2017. At GDC 17 in San Francisco, we were able to try each one. Alongside the many announcements and demos at last week’s GDC, Oculus had a few major ones to share. $100 price cuts to the Rift and Touch ( bringing the total “all-in” price to $600 ), the launch of Robo Recall for free to Touch users, and an official showing of games scheduled to be released in 2017.

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Cats and VR

MARCH 5, 2017

So last week was a pretty busy week for me with GDC17, Stanford Sports Innovation Expo, Starters VR In Sports, and general work week things. That all being said I decided to make one more trek into the world of VR networking to check out the VR Gaming Summit put on by SF Beta. As much as I like VR networking it was not what I wanted to do with both Resident Evil VR and Breath Of The Wild at home.

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MARCH 5, 2017

Pokémon Go didn’t hatch out of a Poké-egg looking exactly like how we know it. Dennis Wang, director of interaction and visual design at Pokémon Go developer Niantic Labs, talked Tuesday at the Game Developers Conference about designing the hit location-based game. Pokémon Go became a smash success after it launched last year for iOS and Android, achieving over 650 million downloads.

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Cats and VR

MARCH 5, 2017

So due to work obligations I had yet to set foot on the GDC floor when I arrived at the SVVR GDC party. I want to thank Karl and the SVVR team for the invite cause it helped me to put things in perspective and keep my sanity. That being said, Android Jones's Microdose VR is dope and is a must try experience for those into "dance" culture. How have I not tried this yet.

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MARCH 5, 2017

Moving around in VR isn’t a solved problem. In 5 years, the best games and experiences won’t be using point-and-click teleportation. At GDC 2017 last week, I saw two promising new types of experimental locomotion in VR. First was Sprint Vector , which greatly surprised me at its comfort, speed, and fun. And then there was VELOCIBEASTS. The teleporting movement we see in many of today’s VR games is a crutch.

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