Road to VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Industrial Training International is readying their VR Mobile Crane Simulator for the March ConExpo Event in Las Vegas. The simulator uses an Oculus Rift headset in combination with a modular rig, in order to significantly reduce the costs of training, compared to both real-world and older VR solutions. Last September, Industrial Training International (ITI) announced the development of a ‘VR Mobile Crane Simulator’ (in this case, the term ‘mobile’ refers to the type of crane, rather than VR opt

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

The unofficial RC simulator is the Star Wars VR game you never knew you needed. The Star War series has already made it’s virtual reality debut with Trials on Tatooine in 2016 and Lucasfilm has no intention on slowing down its high-end content anytime soon. So it’s surprising that the Star Wars VR experience I’m most excited for is actually a small, unofficial experience that’s more of a tech demo than an actual game.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2017

I think it’s time to get things in order a little. To my mind, there are now five major companies publicly involved in the development of the VR ecosystem. Not just headsets, but the development, sale and distribution of content, and how they believe those processes will most benefit both themselves and the industry. Understanding what each is doing for VR is getting increasingly more complicated by the day.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Steam Direct, a new sign-up system for launching games on the store, is due to replace Greenlight in Spring 2017. Currently, any developer or publisher new to Steam is required to submit their game for approval through Greenlight, which involves a small fee and community voting; the new system may have different implications for VR developers. In an announcement on the Steam Blog, Valve UI designer Alden Kroll explained that Greenlight, the current submission system for developers and publishers

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Update: Magic Leap’s CEO took to Twitter today to explain this photo more clearly. Hi everyone – the photo you are all excited about is NOT what you think it is. — Rony Abovitz (@rabovitz) February 12, 2017. The photo shows an @magicleap R&D test rig where we collect room/space data for our machine vision/machine learning work. — Rony Abovitz (@rabovitz) February 12, 2017.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

No trip to Japan is complete without a visit to an arcade. Inside one of Tokyo’s multi-story shrines to gaming you’ll find fighting games that won’t release elsewhere for years, music rhythm games that take hundreds of hours to master, and, uh, train simulators. You might scoff, but I’ve always been fascinated by the simulation scene (the genuine one, not the one about goats), especially with these giant cabinets, riddled with buttons and switches that I’ll never be

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

The annual No Borders Festival , which was previously known as ROBstock Festival, will take place on Saturday, February 11 and Sunday, February 12 from 8 a.m to 8 p.m Pacific time on 3rd Rock Grid to raise money in support of the Doctors Without Borders medical charity. The name was changed to place the focus more firmly on the fundraising goal. Many more grids and artists are supporting the cause this year than last year, program director Zinnia Frenzy told Hypergrid Business. “We have

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