The Ghost Howls
MARCH 18, 2020
In these hard times , we are all collecting events that we should have attended and instead got canceled. Regarding me, for instance, we’re talking about MWC, GDC, XR Europe, Svilupparty, just to name a few. Some of these events have been definitely canceled, while others have reverted to the use of VR and will be held completely in virtual reality.
VRScout
MARCH 18, 2020
Register now before space inevitably runs out. After sitting in Oculus Quest’s “Coming Soon” section for what feels like an eternity, Ready at Dawn’s 2017 multiplayer VR sport games Echo VR will finally be available to play on Oculus Quest, sort of. (Image Credit: Oculus, Facebook). Facebook today announced via its Facebook: Game Developer Showcase that it will kicking off a closed alpha of Echo VR for select Oculus Quest and Rift/Rift S players March 26th.
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Next Reality AR
MARCH 18, 2020
Just as predicted (but perhaps with less fanfare than usual), Apple has made the move of adding a depth sensor to the rear camera of its latest edition of the iPad Pro. What is surprising is the type of sensor it is, and that plot twist raises the level of intrigue for Apple's development of augmented reality smartglasses. Don't Miss: Apple Brings People Occlusion & Motion Capture to ARKit 3 Alongside RealityKit & RealityComposer for AR Development On Wednesday, Apple unveiled the 2020 i
VRScout
MARCH 18, 2020
The Full Throttle update introduces new customizations, additional modifiers, and it’s hardest level yet. Facebook continued on with its Game Developer Showcase this morning with a slew of exciting announcements for both the Oculus Quest and Rift/Rift S, including a new update for Pistol Whip that introduces a chaotic, Mad Max-inspired level to the mix.
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.
Road to VR
MARCH 18, 2020
Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve, sat down with IGN for a chat about the company, the promise of VR, and Newell’s most bleeding edge project as of late, brain-computer interfaces (BCI). “Personally, the area I’m spending a lot of time on has been growing out of a bunch of research that occurred a while ago in brain-computer interfaces,” Newell tells IGN. “And I think that’s kind of long-lead stuff.
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Road to VR
MARCH 18, 2020
A SteamVR beta update today improved tracking when used with Oculus Quest via Oculus Link. Oculus Link allows Quest to be used just like a PC VR headset. While this makes it easy to play Oculus PC games, it also allows Quest to be used seamlessly with SteamVR. Released in beta today, version 1.10.31 of SteamVR makes adjustments to tracking prediction when Quest is used with SteamVR.
Charlie Fink
MARCH 18, 2020
Complimentary access to Onsight remote assistance platform offered to companies whose travel has been impacted by COVID-19.
Road to VR
MARCH 18, 2020
With an initial release date set for 2019, Oculus told us last year that the highly anticipated Lone Echo II had been delayed to Q1 2020. With no news coming on the game this week, and less than two weeks until the end of the quarter, the game’s release has slipped further still. Though GDC 2020 (which would have been held this week) was cancelled, Oculus has still been sharing a smattering of VR news this week.
EON Reality
MARCH 18, 2020
In the wake of recent COVID-19 developments, universities and classrooms around the world have been shut down and moved online in a bid to mitigate the effects of the outbreak. As classrooms become the latest casualty of the virus, are today’s institutions adequately prepared for virtual learning? . While colleges and universities are likely to be more prepared — with many already offering elements of online learning to complement existing courses — how can we provide further support to minimize
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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.
Road to VR
MARCH 18, 2020
Echo VR has been available on the Rift platform for some time now, and it appears Quest users will be able to get their first taste of its zero-G team sport, ‘Echo Arena’, in a closed alpha soon. Kicking off into closed alpha on March 26th, Echo VR for Quest is said to bring at least one half of the experience, namely the high-flying team sport Echo Arena.
EON Reality
MARCH 18, 2020
In the wake of recent COVID-19 developments, universities and classrooms around the world have been shut down and moved online in a bid to mitigate the effects of the outbreak. As classrooms become the latest casualty of the virus, are today’s institutions adequately prepared for virtual learning? While colleges and universities are likely to be more prepared — with many already offering elements of online learning to complement existing courses — how can we provide further support to minimize d
Road to VR
MARCH 18, 2020
HTC’s Vive Cosmos Elite ships out today, and if all you were expecting in the box was the hardware itself and maybe a few free months of Viveport, you’d be wrong. Everyone who buys a Cosmos Elite is getting Half-Life: Alyx for free. Vive Cosmos owners will still need to wait to get Cosmos Elite in their hands, as the d igital code is included in the box itself, which is a bit of a downer if you’re just now thinking of making an upgrade from an older headset but still want the g
Peter Graham
MARCH 18, 2020
Later today Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) will be lifting the lid on its next-generation console , the PlayStation 5 (PS5). Even with the current world climate that has created plenty of excitement with fans eager to see what the new design looks like. While the launch isn’t taking place until the end of 2020, locations around the world are already making preparations, like the Bonami Game Museum which is building a PlayStation 5 Experience Zone.
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.
Oculus
MARCH 18, 2020
Welcome back to the Facebook: Game Developers Showcase! Earlier this week, Director of Content Ecosystem Chris Pruett and Facebook Global Director, Games Partnerships Leo Olebe.
Peter Graham
MARCH 18, 2020
Resolution Games has quite the virtual reality (VR) catalogue under its belt, such as Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs and Acron: Attack of the Squirrels. Today, the company has announced that to help steer its next-generation of gaming experiences videogame veteran Mike Booth will be joining the studios’ board of directors. While you may not have heard of Booth you’ll have likely played one of his titles.
ARPost
MARCH 18, 2020
5G internet will change everything users do on smartphones, including the way they play AR games. To prove this, Dark Slope partnered with AT&T to create Trick Shot Kings , a multiplayer basketball augmented reality game that showcases the capabilities of 5G internet. The game release comes along with the official launch of Samsung Galaxy S20 devices.
Peter Graham
MARCH 18, 2020
Oculus Quest owners will probably want to take a day off on 26th March as there’s going to be an influx of content arriving. Currently, The Room VR: A Dark Matter , Down The Rabbit Hole and B-Team are all scheduled to launch, plus Ready at Dawn is holding a little closed alpha for a multiplayer you may have heard of, Echo VR. Echo VR is a team-based competitive experience split into two modes, Echo Arena and Echo Combat.
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.
Road to VR
MARCH 18, 2020
Want to make the most out of your time indoors next week? Well, Valve wants to help by letting you pre-load Half-Life: Alyx before that long, seemingly never-ending weekend even begins. Valve today announced that Half-Life: Alyx , its rapidly approaching flagship VR title, will release precisely at 10 AM PT on March 23rd ( local time here ). Starting Friday, you’ll also be able to preemptively hit that download button to make the most of your time.
Peter Graham
MARCH 18, 2020
One of the most energetic first-person shooters (FPS) of 2019 was most certainly Cloudhead Games’ Pistol Whip , which arrived for multiple platforms in November. Offering the chance to take down bad guys like you’re John Wick since launching the studio has released the ‘High Priestess’ and ‘Akuma’ updates and today rolls out a third, ‘Full Throttle’ Making the announcement as part of Facebook’s Game Developers Showcase which has been crea
AR Insider
MARCH 18, 2020
“Trendline” is AR Insider’s series that examines trends and events in spatial computing, and their strategic implications. For an indexed library of spatial computing insights, data, reports and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. As AR struggles to get off the ground and find a path to mass-market scale, there are a few confidence signals for the sector’s long term health.
Peter Graham
MARCH 18, 2020
Twisted Pixel Games and Oculus Studios have worked on a number of videogames over the years such as Wilson’s Heart and Defector. In 2018 the studio released an on-rails shooter for Oculus Go and Gear VR called B-Team which has now been confirmed to be coming to Oculus Quest next week. Offering over the top action and cheesy acting reminiscent of80s b-movies, Twisted Pixel Games’ B-Team puts you in the midst of an alien invasion where the world’s elite forces have been
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?
Peter Graham
MARCH 18, 2020
There’s only five days to go until Valve launches Half-Life: Alyx on the world and if you’ve not already got a compatible virtual reality (VR) headset a new choice has now arrived, the Vive Cosmos Elite. Released today, the HTC Vive is offering a bundle which includes Half-Life: Alyx for free. The launch comes at a unique time where it’s almost impossible to buy the Valve Index and supplies of Oculus Rift S are thin on the ground.
Peter Graham
MARCH 18, 2020
Part of VRFocus’ Most Anticipated VR Games Coming In 2020 nDreams’ stealth title Phantom: Covert Ops was originally slated for a late 2019 launch. Today, as part of Facebook’s Games Developers Showcase this week nDreams has announced that Phantom: Covert Ops is now slated for a June launch for Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift. The videogame is set to offer one of the more unique virtual reality (VR) experiences of 2020 as it takes place entirely on water, with players having to manoe
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