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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Let there be no mistake, I’ve always known first hand just how (delightfully) distracting video games can be. But what I didn’t realize was that if you couple that effect with a focused design, you can turn a potentially traumatic medical procedure into something fun that a kid might actually look forward to. At the time of writing this, clinical trials are in progress at Nationwide Children’s Hospital to test the benefits and feasibility of Voxel Bay, a VR game specifically designed and produce

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Back at CES we met a small creative studio with some big technical plans for the HTC Vive’s upcoming Tracker peripheral. The team’s name was Master of Shapes , and they were one of the groups that HTC had gathered to showcase some of the many applications for the new device. Specifically, they made a technical demonstration for makeshift local multiplayer VR, called Cover Me.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Your favorite childhood game jumps on the virtual reality bandwagon. It looks like Hasbro is attempting to get in on the VR craze with their own head-mounted entertainment device. The only difference is that where VR headsets such as the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift are designed to transport you to different virtual worlds to explore, this headset is designed to purely play the game Simon.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

HTC promised to give away 1,000 Vive Tracker dev kits in an effort to kick start an ecosystem of accessories and VR game implementations for the motion-tracked accessory. Now the company says the first shipments are on their way to developers. After receiving 2,300 applications for the Vive Tracker dev kit, HTC says the first units have been shipped.

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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Now you can experience the NBA in a whole new way with the launch of the NBA VR app, available exclusively on Google’s Daydream. For the launch for the new app, the NBA is also debuting its first-ever episodic series, House of Legends , where NBA legends like James Worth, Robert Horry, Baron Davis, John Starks and Bruce Bowen discuss everything from pop culture to the greatest moments of their career.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

NextVR and NBA to will deliver free highlights of NBA All-Star Weekend. Thanks to a partnership with NBA Digital, Turner Sports and NextVR, basketball fans in the United States will have free access to a VR experience during the State Farm All-Star Saturday Night and the NBA All-Star Game, which all happens during the NBA All-Star Weekend on February 18th and February 19th.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

At Unity’s Unite keynote in November, Otoy’s Jules Urbach announced that their Octane Renderer was going to be built into Unity to bake light field scenes. But this is also setting up the potential for real-time ray tracing of light fields using application-specific integrated circuits from PowerVR, which Urbach says that with 120W could render out up to 6 billion rays per second.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Let’s face it, February is a rough month as far as the weather is concerned. The snow, clouds and rain are still sticking around even though there are no more holidays for them to brighten with their presence. A nice flurry of snow is romantic and magical on December 24, but on December 26 you find yourself muttering angrily as you scrape that magic off of your car at 6am.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Seems like everyday my tech news feeds are hit with a new Rothenberg Ventures has f'ed up posts. It's almost like tech journalism has always been looking for someone to make a tabloid martyr out of and Mike Rothenberg fits the bill with almost Kanye West like precision. Young, brash, Cinderella story. It almost comes across as a hip hop lyric about loving you on top but hating you when they can.

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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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Welcome to a new addition of the HTC Vive new releases! This week you’ve got some horror, some virtual tabletop strategy, treehouse basketball, and much more. Our first highlight is VR Home , an Early Access sandbox that is shaping up to be an incredible experience. In it, you build virtual your room or a large home to your liking and watch movies or YouTube videos on one of your televisions or interact in many other ways.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Codemasters has today launched the PlayStation®VR update for DiRT Rally®, the highest rated racing game on the PlayStation®4*. The update makes the entire game playable in VR and introduces a brand new Co-Driver Mode where a second player can give the all important calls using a controller and the social screen. Available for existing players as a standalone DLC Add-on via the PlayStation®Store for £9.99 and as a ‘DiRT Rally PLUS VR Upgrade’ retail version from Argos and new digital bundle from

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How do you make an already great game even better? Simple: You add Oculus Touch motion controller support, expand the ending with more possibilities, add a dense mini game, and incorporate brand new gameplay and storytelling elements. Instead of just packing in more content for the sake of it, this Technolust [ Review: 8/10 ] update feels more like a free content expansion than a minor patch — and it’s a very good one at that.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

There are currently two competing implementations of virtual reality available in the market. One makes use of a powerful but relatively immobile computer, be it a PC, laptop, or even gaming console. The other uses a smartphone to trade power for portability. ASUS already has the latter, with the just announced ZenFone AR. According to leaked internal documents, however, the … Continue reading.

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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Oculus has spent a lot of time in the headlines over the past few months. A high profile lawsuit , a steadily changing corporate structure that prioritizes its parent company (Facebook) and tracking issues that still need to be completely fixed make it clear that one of the world’s most important VR companies is in something of a transition. What started out with a Kickstarter video and a few dedicated entrepreneurs is now trying to grow into its new status as a billion dollar company.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Roman Kulikov from Moscow Russia joins the show to discuss such topics as human motion tracking for full immersion VR experiences. We also discuss his experience first attending and now teaching at the National Research University MPEI (Moscow Power Engineering Institute) in Moscow. Other topics include learning more about the VR/AR technology scene in Moscow along with the accelerator his company is a part of and what the Pokemon Go experience is like in his area.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

PlayStation VR fans rejoice! After a few weeks of waiting this week finally has some big new releases for you to get sucked into. We’ve got one of gaming’s biggest racing franchises sliding into the headset, as well as more terror from the world of Resident Evil, and a game to get fit with. That’s more like it. If you missed last week, you can see those new releases here.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

A survey of game developers attending the annual GDC conference suggests major growth in the number of developers building games for AR and VR headsets. The 2017 GDC State of the Game Industry report, which gathered data from 4,500 attendees of the annual GDC conference, has been published. Among the insights from the report is that a healthy 39% of respondents are developing titles for AR and VR headsets.

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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

With major 360-degree media companies like Blend Media garnering interest from executives involved with media platforms like TheLADBible and Maker Studios, it’ll be no surprise when the format takes a stranglehold on a large chunk of video sharing networks. Slowly but surely, YouTube tastemakers are utilizing 360-degree video and VR on their creative platforms and taking their creativity to the next level.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

It’s a healthy week of new releases across both Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear, with a combination of free and premium experiences you shouldn’t pass up. It goes beyond gaming with new comic books, travel experiences and, of course, more horror. Who could live without VR horror? If you missed last week, you can see those new releases here.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Keeping up with everything new happening in VR is getting more challenging with each passing week. We track new releases on Oculus , Steam/Viveport , and PlayStation , but there is also a constant flow of new 360-degree video projects as well as live events and short demo experiences being broadcast in VR with increasing frequency, not to mention incredible hand-made worlds being shared more rapidly as well as meetups being planned in social VR experiences.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

After a small delay, Oculus’ much anticipated Rift update hit earlier this month, though for some it brought more issues than fixes. The company is looking to change that very soon, and this time without any other unforeseen problems. Nate Mitchell of Oculus’ PC VR team recently took to the Oculus forums to give a brief update on the status of the next release, 1.12.

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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

HTC’s anticipated Tracker peripheral for the HTC Vive is unsurprisingly proving popular with the VR developer community. A few weeks back HTC opened up applications for developer kits for its new device, which is expected to launch fully sometime in Q2 2017. Companies working on VR content can sign up to request free units. HTC was offering 1,000 dev kits to help kick start the ecosystem, but it’s seen more than double that number of applications. 2,300 of them, to be precise.

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