VRScout

APRIL 15, 2017

Get ready to create and share your own animated movies in VR. As I put on the headset and watched the tutorial at Mindshow’s VRLA demo booth, I had absolutely no idea what to expect. Perhaps some dancing, some singing— something mildly entertaining that I’d enjoy but soon forget. Running around a desert planet in the body of a lime-green extraterrestrial, speaking and gesturing to a human visitor (who I feared would either kill me or drop dead of a heart attack at the sight of my face), I realiz

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 15, 2017

Free land on Island Oasis. On the back of a new free land offer marketing campaign, Island Oasis gained 603 new registered users this past month, nearly twice as many as in March. This was the highest number of new registrations since the grid first launched in 2011. The grid offers free parcels of 4,896 square meters each with a building allowance of 280 primitives, one parcel per resident.

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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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Road to VR

APRIL 15, 2017

Criterion Games, the EA studio that developed the PSVR-exclusive Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One: VR Mission , could be working on new VR experiences for the upcoming Battlefront II. EA today announced Star Wars Battlefront II , a followup to 2015’s Star Wars Battlefront reboot. The game’s reveal trailer suggests a full single-player campaign this time around, as well as the large scale multiplayer action that the franchise is known for, this time spanning many Star Wars eras: In Dec

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 15, 2017

DigiWorldz has bought VirTec this week and will resume normal business in two weeks when the vending machines will be running on DigiWorldz servers and be deployed to other grids. This comes after VirTec’s previous owner Virtouse Lilienthal announced last week that he would stop selling new products to new grids and that he was talking to someone willing to take the business forward.

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