VRScout
JULY 19, 2017
If you own a mobile VR or AR headset, the laptop ban might not be as bad as you think. The US and UK large electronics ban stops thousands of fliers from using their laptops or tablets every week. But the rules — which impact six Mideast countries for the UK and 10 for the US — don’t mean you can’t use augmented or virtual reality headsets to browse the web, play games or get work done.
Road to VR
JULY 19, 2017
Adding to the cast of Marvel heroes in the recently announced VR co-op adventure game Marvel Powers United VR , Oculus today announced that the wise-cracking “merc with a mouth” Deadpool will be added to the list, which has now been confirmed to offer 12 payable heroes in total. With a pair of katanas, hand cannon pistols and accelerated healing, Deadpool joins Captain Marvel, Hulk, and Rocket Raccoon in the lineup—one that promises to offer 12 playable heroes in total, Oculus told
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JULY 19, 2017
Seven months on from its initial release and Superhot VR remains one of the industries greatest triumphs. So rare is it to see a game’s already-excellent concepts and mechanics so perfectly distilled into such a wildly untamed platform, but here was something that made it all look easy. Rarer still is the fact that the game transitions so well from PC VR down to PlayStation VR (PSVR), though it hasn’t survived the porting process unscathed.
Road to VR
JULY 19, 2017
Oculus has teamed up with developer Sanzaru Games (behind titles like VR Sports Challenge and Ripcoil ) to bring the world of MARVEL to VR. Marvel Powers United VR is a four-player co-op focused experience that will let you step into the capes, claws, swords, and more, of 12 of the universe’s heroes. Here’s our first look at gameplay and hands-on impressions.
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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JULY 19, 2017
VR currently does a lot of different things well across a variety of devices. The Gear VR is a great mobile headset but it’s underpowered and lacks positional tracking. The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift have good content and roomscale capabilities, but they’re tethered and the resolution isn’t great. PSVR is affordable given its relative quality but it still has bad screen door and lackluster motion controllers.
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JULY 19, 2017
Myst and Riven by Cyan Studios are games that etched out permanent spaces in video game history. The VR gaming ecosystem sees a lot of new faces springing up to take advantage of the potential of virtual gaming, but the industry greatly benefits from a development team with an established gaming lineage. That’s exactly what happened with the well-received Obduction from Cyan Studios and now the spiritual successor to Myst and Riven is coming to PS VR on August 29th.
Cats and VR
JULY 19, 2017
Blade Runner 2049: Replicant Pursuit will be making its premiere near Comic Con at the no pass necessary Blade Runner VR installation. If you cant make it to Comic Con no worries it will be available on Gear VR on July 21st, and is developed by Turtle Rock Studios, the team behind Face Your Fears. Oculus partnered with Alcon Interactive Group to bring Blade Runner into VR with a trio of experiences from three different developers.
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JULY 19, 2017
Earlier this month we reported that Blade Runner 2049 was getting a VR experience that would debut at San Diego Comic Con this week. As it turns out, there are actually going to be three tie-in experiences to the movie, and the first of these has just surfaced. Blade Runner 2049: Replicant Pursuit is on its way to Gear VR on July 21st, and is developed by Turtle Rock Studios, the team behind Face Your Fears (and, for the wider gaming crowd, Evolve).
VRWorld
JULY 19, 2017
A year ago, small Japanese company Xenoma launched its concept dubbed e-skin, clothing fit with wires that enable positional and gesture tracking without the use of external cameras. The vision of the company is to create stretchable clothing with built-in electronics that detect user’s movement, all while being a piece of clothing which can be worn comfortably with machine washability just as regular shirt could do.
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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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JULY 19, 2017
It’s been nearly a year since we’ve heard from uSens. Back then, we wrote about the company’s new mobile SDK , offering positional tracking for smartphone-based headsets as well as hand-tracked input. Today, the company is announcing a new technology that offers better inside-out mobile positional tracking using simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technology.
AllThingsVR
JULY 19, 2017
Heathrow adopts augmented reality as hunt for the Mr Men ignites airport adventure via @TheDrum [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 19, 2017.
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JULY 19, 2017
Prepare your best superhero landing; Deadpool is coming to Marvel Powers United VR. Oculus Studios and Sanzaru Games’ four player co-op superhero sim was announced at D23 last weekend but with just three confirmed characters: Hulk, Captain Marvel, and Rocket Raccoon. To celebrate San Diego Comic-Con, though, Oculus today announced that everybody’s favorite Merc with a Mouth is joining the fray.
AllThingsVR
JULY 19, 2017
Virtual reality exhibit in Montreal blurs line between man and machine via @mgazette_works [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 19, 2017.
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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JULY 19, 2017
Over the last several years the long-running SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference served as an important marker of immersive computing’s march toward mainstream. Just a few years ago I found the Oculus meeting room hidden in a corner of the show floor where they were showing the HD prototype of the Rift featuring improved resolution. As increasingly impressive developer kits and then consumer units arrived, VR spread out from that corner to overtake so many of the other floor presentation
AllThingsVR
JULY 19, 2017
Blippar introduces ‘Halos’ facial recognition feature on its mobile app via @TechCrunch [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 19, 2017.
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JULY 19, 2017
Oculus and Steam might have had their summer sales come and go, but the sunshine’s only just starting in Sony camp. Or it is in Europe, at least. The EU Summer Sale on the PlayStation Store is now on and it’s got some frankly unmissable deals for PlayStation VR (PSVR). A total of 30 games have had their prices slashed, and it’s not all just the usual launch titles that you’ll have played to death by now.
AllThingsVR
JULY 19, 2017
Deadpool Joins Roster of 12 Heroes in ‘MARVEL Powers United VR’ via @RtoVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 19, 2017.
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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JULY 19, 2017
Do you ever find yourself wanting to scream like a little girl at a Japanese idol concert, but find yourself living in the west? If you answered ‘yes’ to that question, then boy does Bandai Namco have the game for you. Idolm@aster Cinderalla Girls Viewing Revolution (yes, that’s its actual name) is available on PlayStation VR (PSVR) today.
AllThingsVR
JULY 19, 2017
Why This Restaurant Chain Has Started Using VR to Train Employees via @Entrepreneur [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 20, 2017.
VR Bites
JULY 19, 2017
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AllThingsVR
JULY 19, 2017
Augmented Reality: Marketing’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity via @adage [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 19, 2017.
Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning
Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?
VRWorld
JULY 19, 2017
China is spearheading the research on health, and one such study caught our attention as estimates show that over a million VR headsets are being shipped each month (in China alone). Beijing-based research organization recently released a study named “Experiment Report on the Impact of Long-Term Use of Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Displays on the Vision of Pre-teen Users” (PDF download).
AllThingsVR
JULY 19, 2017
With HoloLens, Microsoft plots a prosaic path toward success via @ZDNet [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 19, 2017.
Everything VR & AR
JULY 19, 2017
This week Kevin talks with Steven Bambury who is the Head of Digital Learning and Innovation across the JESS Dubai schools in Dubai. Steven shares all sorts of experiences as he has helped to introduce students to a variety of forms of virtual and augmented reality devices and software including Google Tilt Brush and the HTC Vive.
AllThingsVR
JULY 19, 2017
VR can improve your kid’s eyesight: study via @FastCompany [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 19, 2017.
Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute
The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?
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