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JANUARY 24, 2017

When I sat down with Maureen Fan and Eric Darnell, CEO and CCO of Baobab Studios, at Sundance this past weekend, the snowy vista outside their cottage window looked like it was pulled straight from their 2016 breakout hit, INVASION!, the story of a little white bunny who dupes a pair of invading aliens. ASTEROIDS!, the second part of a five-episode series, follows those same two aliens, Mac and Cheez (voiced by Darnell and actress Elizabeth Banks), as they complete their daily tasks in their shi

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For its first few months of availability, Google only worked with a select group of developers on Daydream-compatible apps. While the approach allowed Google to work closely with partners and carefully curate content for the new Daydream platform in its opening months, it also severely limited the number of apps one could download for the new headset ecosystem through the Google Play store.

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VRScout

JANUARY 24, 2017

Using a collection of 360 photos, a little girl is able to explore her favorite toy in a brand new way. In a solid attempt to win the coveted Dad Of The Year award for 2017, Toby Newman has gone above-and-beyond as a father by creating a custom 360 degree tour of his daughters favorite dollhouse, viewable in virtual reality. The ‘awe’ worthy project is simple, yet intuitive, serving as a shining example of what virtual reality is capable of when put in the right creative hands.

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Months after its release, Google’s short film Pearl remains the best of its Spotlight Stories series of 360-degree films. The Oscars seem to agree. The nominations for the 2017 edition of Hollywood’s prestigious awards ceremony were announced today. While movies like La La Land are stealing the usual headlines for leading the pack, there’s a small victory for the VR industry in the Animated Short Film category: Pearl has been listed.

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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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JANUARY 24, 2017

The Google Spotlight Story is in the running for best animated short. One of 2016’s favorite animated VR shorts is getting a big time nod Tuesday, receiving an Oscar nomination in the animated short category. The Google Spotlight Story film from Patrick Osborne, the director of Disney’s Oscar-nominated short film “Feast,” is a coming of age story about a girl growing up with her musician dad set to the song “No Wrong Way Home.”.

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Today is the day that Resident Evil 7: Biohazard finally releases to the world. If you haven’t read or watched our review [ we gave it a 9 out of 10 ] then you should definitely do that for more information on the game as a whole. Make no mistake though, Resident Evil 7 is an extremely scary game. It features a richly detailed world full of dangerous creatures that always put you in a constant state of fear no matter where you go.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2017

Superhot VR is one of our favorite Oculus Touch launch titles. Like many of the best VR games so far, the thing we craved the most was more. A new update will extend the replayability of the game with several new modes that amp up the challenge. In Superhot VR , time only moves when you do. Which means if a bullet is flying at your face and you freeze in place, it will freeze to.

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HTC’s new Tracker peripherals for the Vive VR headset are expected to launch soon, and they may have just passed a big milestone. It appears that, just a few days ago, the Tracker. This could mean a whole host of Vive-compatible add-ons are one step closer to their Q2 2017 release window. These peripherals are designed to enhance your VR experience by attaching the Tracker to real world items that you can then bring into the virtual world.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

Dear Angelica has been a VR favorite at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. We sat down at Sundance with the creators, Saschka Unseld and Wesley Allsbrook, to talk a little bit about how they created one of the best VR stories to date. A VR Story. Storytelling gets thrown around a lot in VR. It sounds good in theory. Every new medium provides new ways to tell stories.

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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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Last week we reported on the news that Resident Evil 7: Biohazard [ Review: 9/10 ] would be receiving paid DLC packs and a Season Pass. Today, Sony revealed the details on those DLC packs known as Banned Footage Vol. 1 and Banned Footage Vol. 2. Later on this Spring, a narrative-based DLC will also release for free by the name of Not a Hero, but that isn’t detailed at this time.

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VR Bites

JANUARY 24, 2017

Today i take a look at Ripcoil, and what a fun and great game it really is. Oculus Rift & Touch at its best. Check out Game Hard 4.0 ‘s super awesome YouTube Channel!

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Arizona Sunshine [ Review: 8.5/10 ] is getting an update that supports full locomotion. That part we knew , but what we didn’t know was how much money the game made so far. Developers Vertigo Games and Jaywalkers Interactive today said their VR zombie shooter made $1.4 million in sales during its first month of release on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, from Dec. 6 to Jan. 5.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 24, 2017

The Pokémon Company International announced today that Pokémon Duel is now available for download at no charge on the App Store and on Google Play. With much less fanfare than the Augmented Reality hit Pokemon Go we get a new Pokemon mobile game. Pokémon Duel is an exciting mobile strategy game in which fans deploy digital Pokémon figures and battle based on strategic moves to reach a goal in the opponent’s territory.

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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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In 2016, Nintendo and Niantic proved two things to the world. One: adults are more than willing to risk physical harm or robbery if it means they can digitally possess adorable Japanese creatures. Two: augmented reality can thrive as an entertainment platform. Following Pokemon Go’s success, pop culture fans began to discuss other franchises that would benefit from the AR treatment.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 24, 2017

Resident Evil® 7 biohazard is now available both digitally and at retail across North America and Europe. This latest entry in the renowned Resident Evil® series, which has sold over 71 million units worldwide to date, is available on PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system (the full game is also available to play via the included optional PlayStation®VR Mode), Xbox One and Windows PC (Steam and Windows Store).

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Today’s the big day for virtual reality horror fans, as Resident Evil 7 [ Review: 9/10 ] finally goes on sale around the world, but before you catch it on PlayStation VR, you can experience the scares in augmented reality too. The UK version of the ever-popular Snapchat app was recently updated to include a new filter taking inspiration from Capcom’s new title of terror.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 24, 2017

During the 2017 edition of CES in Las Vegas, we’re starting to see an appearance of new Virtual Reality applications, as businesses see VR as a new medium. While the push for VR started in retail model, we’re now seeing that business-to-consumer model is the path forward. Many technologies are vying to be the next big thing, and Virtual Reality is one of the new mediums that can deliver that message.

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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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Of all the game franchises that are currently active, few take place in worlds that feel as appropriate for VR experiences as Deus Ex. The latest entry, Mankind Divided, released in 2016 for PC, Xbox One, and PS4 platforms without VR support and takes place in a dystopian cyberpunk version of the year 2029. Players take on the role of Adam Jensen, an augmented human with cybernetic powers.

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VRScout

JANUARY 24, 2017

Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. Oculus on trial, HTC Vive building the ecosystem with tech and purpose, now you can smell your VR porn, augmented reality helping improve spinal surgeries, the first IMAX VR center lands in LA, investment and funding wrapup, and lots more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: OCULUS ON TRIAL.

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While current VR headsets mainly thrive on gaming, Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Holographic devices certainly look like they’ll have a big emphasis on production, much like its HoloLens developer kit already does. VertoStudio VR is another app that supports that theory. It’s a just-released 3D modelling app that allows you to either create or import 3D files, present them in mixed reality on HoloLens, and then manipulate them using the headset’s gesture controls.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 24, 2017

FX Networks announced today an AR campaign for the long-awaited February 8th premiere of Legion. Comic lovers around the country can access the headspace of one of the world’s most powerful mutants and embrace the fractured reality of this new original series through one-of-a-kind experiences presented by FX Networks. For full details, visit insidelegion.com/experience.

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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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Update: Since posting this story, Oculus has issued a blog post detailing the updates you can expect for SUPERHOT VR. The Forever Update will include challenge modes that test players in different ways, like only allowing headshots, completing the game without using guns, and fighting harder enemies. There’s even one mode in which you’ll have to complete the game in less than 10 minutes.

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