Tue.Jun 11, 2019

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Virtual Reality Experiences Empower LGBTQ Youth to Take Pride in Themselves

ARPost

All around the globe, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students continue to be bullied and discriminated against. They deal with rejection, fear, and harassment on a daily basis. The stress of these traumatic experiences put LGBTQ youth at higher risk for depression, substance misuse, and suicide. Needless to say, promoting empowerment among LGBTQ youth is important.

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E3 2019: Insomniac’s Stormland Looks, Feels, And Sounds Fantastic

VRScout

Exotic locales, unique RPG elements, and a whole lot of robots. Initially revealed during last years E3, Stormland , an upcoming open world VR game from veteran game developer Insomniac Games, has since gained a sizable following, attracting prospective users with an attractive combination of high-end visuals and unique locomotion mechanics; not to mention the promise of an emotional and engrossing narrative.

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‘LOW-FI’ is a Moody Cyberpunk Game That Presents a Dark but Plausible Future

Road to VR

LOW-FI is an upcoming VR game from the veteran indie VR developer behind TECHNOLUST (2016). The game presents a dark but plausible future where most of the population lives in a VR simulation, while at the same time the city’s poor inhabitants live unseen on the streets of the real-world. They are the ‘low-fi’ It’s not entirely clear what’s so strangely alluring about the gritty cyberpunk aesthetic, but Blair Renaud, the developer behind the early VR title Techno

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Is Training VR’s Killer App? Ask Forklift Drivers

Charlie Fink

Using a forklift efficiently in a busy warehouse takes a skilled worker with steady hands, no fear of heights, and spatial awareness. These are not skills we have in abundance. They are won through practice. It’s not easy, nor is it safe, to take rolling stock into a live environment for training. Lifts are heavy and dangerous and can do a lot of damage if not operated with care.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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Oculus Sold $5M in Quest Content in Two Weeks After Launch

Road to VR

You may have noticed Oculus Quest is sold out practically everywhere, and while it’s not certain whether the company’s standalone 6DOF headset is selling famously, or is simply the result of artificially limited quantities to generate hype à la Nintendo, one thing is clear: Oculus has sold $5 million worth of Quest content in the first two weeks since its May 21st launch.

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Rebellion Unveils ‘Sniper Elite VR’ Gameplay Footage, Confirms PS Aim

Road to VR

At E3 today, Rebellion unveiled some fresh gameplay footage and revealed more details behind Sniper Elite VR , the critically acclaimed shooter’s first VR game. The studio also confirmed that PS Aim support is definitely coming to the PSVR version of the game. Created in partnership with UK-based studio Just Add Water , Sniper Elite VR takes place in World War II Italy, set prior to the events of Rebellion’s latest entry in the series, Sniper Elite 4 (2017).

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Welcome to E3: ‘Arizona Sunshine’ and ‘Echo Arena’ Coming to Quest, ‘Budget Cuts 2,’ and More

Oculus

It’s Day 1 of E3 2019, and there’s already been a lot of VR news. Yesterday, we announced After the Fall, a brand-new post-apocalyptic shooter.

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‘Lone Echo II’ Roughly 50% Larger Than Its Predecessor, E3 Demo Reveals New Gameplay

Road to VR

This week at E3 2019, Oculus is showing their first ever demo of Lone Echo II , the anticipated followup to 2017’s Lone Echo. While the first game was an achievement in VR locomotion, interaction, and storytelling, Lone Echo II aims to up the ante with more dynamic gameplay, which starts with a new enemy that’s a more dynamic threat than anything seen in the original game.

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Checks Out HaptX And Their VR Gloves

VRScout

HaptX debuts bimanual VR gloves at inaugural re:MARS Conference. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos literally went “hands-on” with the future of robotics this past week during Amazon’s inaugural re:MARS conference in Las Vegas, NV. During a quick pop-in at the HaptX booth, the billionaire tech entrepreneur tried out the company’s new two-handed robotic system that uses a combination of VR gloves , haptics, and sensors to give you the ability to feel objects in VR anywhere in the world.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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‘The Curious Tale of the Stolen Pets’ is a Charming Story-based Puzzler Coming to VR Headsets in 2019

Road to VR

Fast Travel Games, the studio behind VR bow-shooting adventure Apex Construct (2018), announced a new narrative-based puzzle game at E3 this week called The Curious Tale of the Stolen Pets. The game, which aims to transport players back to simpler times, sounds like a pretty casual affair; it’s said to include light puzzles that require you to trigger clues and reveal hidden pets in the environment by manipulating the game’s doodads in various ways.

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Hands-on: ‘Phantom: Covert Ops’ Boasts Smart VR Design and Big Potential

Road to VR

At E3 2019 this week, I got a chance to go hands-on with Phantom: Covert Ops, an Oculus Studios exclusive in development by nDreams. The game plays out over the course of a single night, and follows a special operative as they infiltrate a facility in a tactical kayak. While the kayak part sounds just a little ridiculous, it’s actually a genius bit of VR design which affords the game an immersive locomotion and interaction system that has huge potential.

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