VRScout
JANUARY 23, 2018
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a massive, and desperately needed, hit for Sony Pictures. Its tie-in virtual reality experience is…not. In less than a month, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle has already raked in over $650 million at the worldwide box-office — proving there is no franchise that can’t be improved by casting Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (get ready for Ladybird 2: Shaking up The Nest).
Road to VR
JANUARY 23, 2018
Facebook announced this week the open-sourcing of Detectron , the company’s platform for computer vision object detection algorithm based on a deep learning framework. The company says that its motive for opening up the project is to accelerate computer vision research, and that teams within Facebook are using the platform for a variety of applications, including augmented reality.
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VRScout
JANUARY 23, 2018
‘Oil In Our Creeks’ blends 180° art and landscapes for a 360° experience unlike anything else. Contrast VR , Al Jazeera Media Network’s immersive studio, is at it again with yet another VR documentary ready to dump some knowledge on lucky audiences. You may remember Contrast VR as the studio behind I Am Rohingya , another full-fledged Al Jazeera VR doc that highlighted the struggles of a woman living within a Bangladesh refugee camp.
Road to VR
JANUARY 23, 2018
Eric Romo, co-founder and CEO of AltspaceVR , is joining Facebook’s Social VR team. Following financial difficulties , which almost saw the complete shut down of the social VR app, AltspaceVR found new life when it was acquired by Microsoft back in October. Romo, who founded AltspaceVR in January 2013, will be moving to the role of Director of Product at Facebooks’s Social VR team, the group behind Facebook Spaces.
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.
Cats and VR
JANUARY 23, 2018
Eric Romo, who founded AltspaceVR in January 2013, will be moving to the role of Director of Product at Facebooks’s Social VR team, the group behind Facebook Spaces. Romo is joining Facebook as a product director, according to a post by Facebook’s social VR team leader Rachel Rubin Franklin. "Today the Facebook Social VR team is getting one avatar bigger!
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Slashgear
JANUARY 23, 2018
The Olympic organization U.S. Ski & Snowboard is working with California-based STRIVR to leverage virtual reality for training athletes. The technology is a key component in helping athletes training for events, giving them “mental access” to courses they will run so that they can learn the terrain, gate positions, turns, and more. According to the U.S.
Road to VR
JANUARY 23, 2018
Cubism is an upcoming VR puzzle game from indie developer Thomas Van Bouwel that challenges you to think in 3 dimensions. Inspired by puzzles like the Soma cube, or a cube composed of smaller Tetris- like geometric pieces, Cubism tasks players with assembling increasingly complex shapes in what results in a real brain teaser. First announced a month ago, Van Bouwel has now published a working demo of Cubism , which gives you a quick slice of the sort of difficulty ahead.
Slashgear
JANUARY 23, 2018
If you expected virtual, augmented, and mixed reality to be the centerpiece of CES 2018 a few weeks ago, you might have been sorely disappointed. Is the honeymoon finally over? Perhaps not. But there is a growing trend of making the technology more accessible to more people, in terms of design and, more importantly, price. As if to counter the … Continue reading.
Headjack
JANUARY 23, 2018
As a software as a service company, Headjack generates revenue from monthly subscription payments. However, people obviously want to try before they buy. There are several options in this case, for example: 30-day trial period of the full product, like Adobe Free until certain usage limits, like Amazon AWS and MailChimp Free until a certain […].
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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.
VRWorld
JANUARY 23, 2018
Although 2017 has come and gone, its impact on the augmented/virtual reality industry will undoubtedly be felt for decades to come. While it remains to be seen if 2017 will be recognized as the year AR/VR finally made its first real push into the mainstream, there were a veritable plethora of events that occurred last year that will continue to influence the industry.
VeeR VR
JANUARY 23, 2018
To accommodate different viewing preferences and further enhance the overall experience, VeeR has launched the 360 VR video resolution options. With this new option, users are now able to change the resolution of any 360 VR video they are watching on VeeR by clicking the display resolution on the lower right corner and selecting a resolution they prefer.
VRWorld
JANUARY 23, 2018
Virtual reality has taken the world by storm in the last couple of years – except it has not. Although the excitement about its potential to become nothing short of awesome has been discussed in great detail in the press, this hasn’t translated into sales. While people will gladly pay amounts close to $1,000 for smartphones that allow them to “ play real money online video casino games on all jackpots ” and others as fluidly as possible, they seem to be reluctant to inve
VeeR VR
JANUARY 23, 2018
Hi guys, today I'm doing a tutorial on how to create spherical video-HUDs from multiple 2D videos (see example above). I borrowed the idea of HUD from video gaming and invented this new way of presenting 360 videos. By following this tutorial, you will be able to create an equirectagular 360 video with a spherical photo as background and 3 (or more as you see fit) different 2D videos all around.
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.
Road to VR
JANUARY 23, 2018
Gallopin’ Gorgons! An updated version of the Harry Potter Universe game for Daydream, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them VR Experience, is arriving today. Not only that, but owners of Vive, Rift and Gear VR will finally be able to get in on the magic-casting fun too, as the game lands on their respective app stores. Finding yourself in Newt Scamander’s magical suitcase (it’s bigger on the inside), you encounter beasts taken straight from the 2016 film.
VeeR VR
JANUARY 23, 2018
Ready Player One is a film adaptation of 2011 bestseller of the same title by Ernest Cline. The film rights are purchased by Warner Bros. and it is now under production by director Steven Spielberg. Ready Player One is set to release in theaters on March 30th, 2018. Here are the top 5 things to expect from the film! (If you came here for Ready Player One trailer, scroll to the bottom). #1: It Will NOT Be 100% Faithful to the Book.
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