VRScout

JANUARY 3, 2018

HoloLens takes doctors to you. What if a doctor miles away could save your life? That’s the idea behind Nomadeec — a HoloLens telemedicine app French medtech company Exelus has been developing for three years. Telemedicine virtually connects you with a doctor miles away who diagnoses a patient and oversees treatment in real-time. Nomadeec makes telemedicine possible for paramedics through the standalone, portable computing power of Microsoft’s HoloLens headset.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2018

A mysterious handheld device showed up in an FCC test report recently that may just be the 3DoF controller coming alongside Oculus Go, the company’s upcoming $200 standalone VR headset. While the report doesn’t explicitly state any relationship with Go, instead masked behind the vague term “Virtual Reality System,” a closer look reveals it to be a handheld, battery-operated, Bluetooth 4.1 controller.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 3, 2018

In 2017 I was able to be part of the awesome Oculus LaunchPad program. That was one of my favorite accomplishments that year. catsandvr.com/blog/oculusblog1 One of my biggest disappointments was not finishing the game to a point I liked. Well to make up for that I have decided to make a New Years resolution to finish the game. To my surprise, there is actually a game jam dedicated to this.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2018

It’s that time of year again, when you gather all the cash you should have spent buying other people gifts and blow it all on discount games on Steam. This year’s haul is pretty great too, with up to 80% off on gaming bundles and the top names in VR gaming. Update (01/03/2018): Check out the recently published Best Selling VR Games on Steam to see what everyone else is buying.

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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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Cats and VR

JANUARY 3, 2018

Sumo Digital , part of the Sumo Group plc (AIM: SUMO) a leading independent game developer, today announced that it has taken on CCP Games’ Newcastle studio, responsible for EVE Valkyrie 34 staff have transferred to Sumo Digital, with Owen O’Brien as Studio Director, and remain in Newcastle. As the fourth studio for the developer – the third in the UK alongside Sheffield and Nottingham – this addition further extends Sumo’s capacity and breadth of experience.

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Slashgear

JANUARY 3, 2018

Amazon has patented a smart mirror that uses virtual clothing and mirrors to help consumers decide what to buy. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen the idea of a smart mirror for modern shopping; it is, however, a bit unique from the others. The mirror doesn’t just show virtual clothing overlaid onto the potential buyer’s body — it also … Continue reading.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 3, 2018

US$20 for a 20,000-prim region on the hypergrid-enabled Panthera Grid. Larger sizes also available. • 25,000-prim region: $9 per month. • 45,000-prim region: $13 per month. • Additional 5,000 prims: $5 add-on per month. Variable sized regions: • 2×2 var with 60,000 prims: $17 per month. • 3×3 var with 80,000 prims: $27 per month. • 4×4 var with 100,000 prims: $38 per month.

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EnterpriseWear

JANUARY 3, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of Internet-connected objects that have been made “smart” with embedded sensors. These devices collect data about the physical world around us, about processes and the health and behavior of people and machinery—data which is then interpreted and shared with other machines and people via cloud-based software platforms. […].

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 3, 2018

Merchants on the closed, commercial InWorldz grid are concerned about perceived drop in users and commercial activity, and worry that the grid owners are no longer committed to the success of the grid. “I am in InWorldz where I have a shop and we have seen a drastic decline in sales and residents,” one merchant told Hypergrid Business. The merchant requested anonymity. “If Elenia [grid owner Beth Reischl] doesn’t like what any of us report, then she could ban us from the

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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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VRWorld

JANUARY 3, 2018

Just before the turn of the New Year, VICE News visited the Fremont Correctional Facility in Colorado to interview six inmates. These inmates are a part of an early-release program for people who were sentenced as juveniles and have served twenty or more years of their sentence. The length of these sentences, alongside the age of the convicted, means that these inmates may not be prepared to deal with the modern world.

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VR Spies

JANUARY 3, 2018

Over the years I have done a lot of VR experiences that have had me a bit anxious but Blindfold has taken that anxiety to a whole new level! iNK Stories has brought a very chilling experience to the Rift that has the player locked in an Iranian prisons interrogation room. Needless to say it is a very uncomfortable feeling. The graphics and sound come together nicely to create the tense atmosphere and the character models and voice acting are good as well making the experience feel believable.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 3, 2018

It looks like nothing is immune to the spread of virtual reality. Education certainly isn’t, and as part of Google’s push for VR in education , the company is bringing its “VR Expeditions” to students in the Middle East. VR Expeditions allow virtual tours of locations all around the world, which provides a more interactive learning experience for students.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2018

Partnering with DJ Kyroman and music school Pyramind, Tribe VR’s DJ School aims to teach the art of live mixing with real DJ equipment modelled in VR, with the goal of allowing your virtually acquired skills and knowledge to transfer to real life mixing equipment. The app launched in Early Access on the Oculus Store in December. San Francisco-based VR development startup Tribe VR is concentrating on immersive learning applications for virtual and augmented reality to enable users to learn real-w

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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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VRWorld

JANUARY 3, 2018

For the uninitiated, Bigscreen is a virtual desktop application for VR headsets. It originally launched for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift as a desktop environment for those headsets, and as of the turn of the New Year, Bigscreen is now available on Windows Mixed Reality headsets. Bigscreen coming to Windows MR headsets is good news for the platform. While Windows Mixed Reality does have SteamVR support , the platform still has a way to go to become a true competitor to the HTC Vive or the Oculus

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VRScout

JANUARY 3, 2018

Smaller, sleeker lenses that don’t degrade image quality? Oh Harvard, what will you come up with next? When it comes to the lenses of optical devices such as video cameras, DSLRs and binoculars there aren’t too many variations in terms of design. In order to accurately and comfortably capture the entire visible spectrum of light, current optical devices utilize several different lenses of varying thickness and materials stacked atop one another.

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