VRScout

MAY 24, 2017

Hot dogs are so hot right now. Just last month, Tilt Brush launched its own 3D art gallery. Dubbed Tilt Brush Sketches, the platform allows you to upload sketches and let anyone view your work in 3D from within a browser. Community members can even like and download your creations to view in a VR headset later. Tilt Brush Sketches opened up an entirely new place for artists to share their work with the world and make it even easier for fans to engage with sketches.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2017

At this month’s GPU Technology Conference 2017, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang opened with a live demonstration of ‘Project Holodeck’, a VR collaboration tool with rich visuals, partnering with Swedish car manufacturer Koenigsegg to show off a detailed CAD model of one of their vehicles. Early access to the tool will be available this September.

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VRScout

MAY 24, 2017

Air New Zealand is exploring how the Microsoft HoloLens can enhance its in-flight service, becoming the first airline to openly consider equipping its cabin crew with the augmented reality headset. In a newly published concept video , a flight attendant is provided with information ranging from a passenger’s allergies to the last time they had a drink just by looking at them.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2017

Haptic feedback is one of the toughest challenges for general-purpose VR input, but for the driving simulation genre, dedicated controllers have been addressing the problem for over two decades. Now that ‘cockpit view’ makes so much sense for VR racing, many newcomers feel the pull to ditch their gamepads and invest in more realistic input devices for driving.

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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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MAY 24, 2017

A startup named Antilatency with a positional tracking solution that recently impressed us has raised $2.1 million and is opening an office in the United States next month. According to the company, the seed investment comes from the Europe-based IIDF venture capital fund and will be used to accelerate the release of its “anti-latency tracker” which goes by the name ALT.

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MAY 24, 2017

After becoming basically the most successful game of all time ever and making its creators a mountain of cash, it doesn’t look like there’s anywhere else for Rocket League to go, apart from HoloLens. Sadly this isn’t an official take on Psyonix’s smash hit vehicular soccer game. It’s a fan creation but an absolutely brilliant one.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2017

Valve’s The Lab is home to a number of fun mini-games, all of which feel like great blueprints for a full VR game. Developer Clear Ink Studios has stepped up to the plate to flesh out Valve’s unique VR ‘bullet-hell’ mini-game, Xortex, into a standalone experience dubbed Galaxis Wars. Set to launch on Steam on May 30th, Galaxis Wars builds upon the same ‘bullet-hell’ gameplay from Xortex, but now with a more substantial experience featuring 100 waves and 20

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MAY 24, 2017

Unity Technologies’ Unity Engine is playing an increasingly important role in the VR industry, and new funds announced today should help it grow further still. Unity Technologies is getting $400 million from private equity firm Silver Lake. That is if regulators approve the deal, taking its valuation to $2.6 billion. Company CEO Riccitello explained to Bloomberg that a “big chunk” of the money would allow employees and some shareholders to cash out. “In terms of primary c

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Hypergrid Business

MAY 24, 2017

$11 a month for a 20,000-prim region on the Sinful Grid. Hypergrid-enabled, Vivox voice, and choice of Podex or Gloebit currency. Other region sizes also available, including $5 per month for a 3,000-prim region. Discounts available for bulk purchases. Land pricing details here.

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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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MAY 24, 2017

HBO’s Silicon Valley is a consistently hilarious and enlightening look into the California high-tech hub. The show is told through the eyes of six men founding their own startup and their trials as they navigate the tech realm. The 4th season debuted in April this year and, on their 2nd episode, the show finally addresses virtual reality. A statement from character Erlich Bachman, played by TJ Miller, about his desire to get involved with a VR app in the 2nd episode of this season served a

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Hypergrid Business

MAY 24, 2017

US $23.72 for a 20,000-prim region on the ReezWorld grid. No hypergrid. Other region sizes are also available, including 10,000-prim regions and variable-sized regions. Land rental details here.

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MAY 24, 2017

Chris Dycus, a hardware engineer at Facebook’s Oculus, has left the company he helped establish. Why is that important? Because Dycus (pictured above wearing an early version of the Rift) was Oculus’ first employee outside of founders like Brendan Iribe, Nate Mitchell, and the now-departed Palmer Luckey. He joined the company in the start up days of 2012, long before Facebook would got on to buy it up in 2014.

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Hypergrid Business

MAY 24, 2017

US $11.45 (CAD $15) with no setup fee for a 15,000-prim region on the hypergrid-enabled Great Canadian Grid. Includes Vivox voice, local currency and Gloebit, mesh, daily region backups and monthly asset backups. Other region sizes also available, inclusing low-prim regions and variable-sized regions. Full land rental page here. (Image courtesy Great Canadian Grid.).

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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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Unimersiv

MAY 24, 2017

Are you wondering about the potential benefits of bringing virtual reality (VR) to your school? Like many educators, you’ve probably become intrigued by the ideal of implementing VR into your classroom lessons. In fact, there have already been a number of studies published about the benefits of VR in the classroom , as well as, success stories from school pilot programs.

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Hypergrid Business

MAY 24, 2017

US $11 (10 Euro) per month for a 15,000-prim region on the hypergrid-enabled ZetaWorlds grid. Other region sizes also available, including 20 Euros for a 50,000-prim two-by-two varregion and 35 Euros for a 100,000-prim three-by-three varregion. Full pricing details here.

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MAY 24, 2017

One day, mankind will colonize another planet. Some time after that, the inhabitants of this planet will have kids, and then they will send those kids to summer camp. And at that space summer camp, these kids will probably play ultimate frisbee in zero gravity. I got to live the extravagant life of these hypothetical space camp kids, or maybe just a nicer version of Ender’s Game, thanks to the multiplayer of Lone Echo on Oculus Touch.

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Hypergrid Business

MAY 24, 2017

US $28 (25 Euros) on the Rev World grid. No hypergrid. Other region sizes also available, including 5 Euro for 5,000-prim residential region and 12 Euro for a 7,500-prim residential region. Full price list here.

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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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MAY 24, 2017

Samsung released the pricing of its new Gear 360 camera, selling it starting this week at $229. A notable deal going live on May 25, though, might make the Galaxy S8 and S8+ one of the best ways to get into VR for the first time. Customers purchasing one of the phones between May 25 and June 19 can get the new Gear 360 camera for just $49. Slashing $180 off the price of the camera makes this a very tempting deal for getting a 360-degree camera and a single VR device that will work with both Face

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Hypergrid Business

MAY 24, 2017

US $34 (30 Euros) for a 30,000-prim region on the German-language Neuland grid. No set up fee, hypergrid-enabled. Full details here.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2017

Mozilla’s mission statement is to ensure that the Internet remains a global public resource, open and accessible to all, and they’ve been helping to bring VR to the web for the past three years. A-Frame is an open source framework for creating WebVR content that has gained a lot of momentum over the last year with more participants on the A-Frame Slack channel than the official WebVR Slack.

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Hypergrid Business

MAY 24, 2017

(Image courtesy Island Oasis.). Last September , I looked at the land prices on all the public OpenSim grids, and the average price was $20.39 per standard region. Today, I reviewed the prices of all 55 grids that I know of that post their prices , and the average has fallen slightly to $19.22. Nine grids had prices under $10 — Naras Nook at $5, Neverworld at $5, My Virtual Community at $5.60, Virtual Life Brasil at $6.14, Genesis MetaVerse at $7.95, Dynamic Worldz at $8, Genesis Global Jo

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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?

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