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MARCH 24, 2017

Today’s most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. But everyone agrees a dangling cable is not only annoying, it’s an immersion detractor. The demand for a solution to this issue has spurred the creation of no less than seven solutions (and counting) hoping to make a wireless link between the high-end host PC and the headset.

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MARCH 24, 2017

VR music videos aren’t anything new, but when an artist known for prolific, stylish animated clips like Gorillaz releases one, we pay attention. Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s experimental band of strangers is finally back after a long hiatus, and it’s got a new album coming out on April 28th. One of the first tracks off of the new record, Saturnz Barz (Spirit House), has been released with a 360 degree video on YouTube, which you can see below.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Education is widely expected to be an area where AR and VR will see major play, but we can’t start at zero and immediately arrive at a world of immersive, transformed education. It takes stepping stones. MyLab is one such stepping stone, which, using Microsoft’s HoloLens headset’ offers up a touchless, interactive periodic table for chemistry students.

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VRScout

MARCH 24, 2017

April Fools comes early as ridiculous VR peripheral pops up in store catalog. I’d like to start off by admitting that it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that this was not in fact a real product available for purchase. Even after seeing the mechanically extending cat arm device attachment showcased in the promotion above I still thought, “Huh, seems somewhat plausible.

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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

MARCH 24, 2017

Fitting for Gorillaz, who are ‘virtual band’ consisting of four fictional characters, the group’s highly anticipated fifth studio album (and first since 2011), ‘Humanz’, saw the release of its first track (Saturnz Barz (Spirit House)) as part of an impressive 360 music video. While the Humanz album doesn’t launch until the 28th, you can be immersed in the track Saturnz Barz (Spirit House) in a new six-minute animated 360 music video (heading this article) whic

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Starfighter Inc. , said to be the spiritual successor to X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (1997) , is one of the most interesting space combat simulation projects currently in development. Recently relaunched on Kickstarter , developers Impeller Studios’ new crowdfunding campaign has a smaller goal but much more to show. Impeller Studios formed in 2013, launching their initial Kickstarter campaign for Starfighter Inc. in 2015, looking to raise $250,000 to assist the development process.

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MARCH 24, 2017

This week we’ve got quite a few new experiences to check out, including quite a few that are free to play. For the creative types, ShapeLab is a tool for you to create virtual sculptures and you have the option to collaborate with a friend online. Kira , on the other hand, is an immersive experience that shows off just what you can accomplish with a fantasy-themed space.

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AllThingsVR

MARCH 24, 2017

Strange Beasts is yet another cautionary tale about augmented reality Tech giants are already touting virtual reality and augmented reality as the next huge frontiers for digital entertainment, and it’s provided plenty of fodder for science fiction creators — look no further than Black Mirror’s “Men Against Fire.” A new short film from London filmmaker Magali Barbé looks at how lonely this future can be.

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MARCH 24, 2017

The industry is finding new uses for VR every day, but the potential for architecture and design apps has always been obvious. TrueScale shows you why. This new experience from Immersion, set to launch soon on both Viveport and Steam with HTC Vive support, is a compelling mix of interior design and just a little bit of EA’s The Sims. Rather than simply letting you walk around a pre-designed space, TrueScale allows you to design a room from within VR, picking from a long list of pre-determi

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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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AllThingsVR

MARCH 24, 2017

How Lowe’s is using AR and Google Tango to help customers find products faster Lowe’s is introducing in-store navigation that uses augmented reality (AR) to help customers search for products in its retail stores. In April, shoppers in two Lowe’s stores will be able to use Google’s Tango AR app on Tango-enabled smartphones to access indoor mapping when the technology is piloted in Sunnyvale, CA and Lynwood, WA.

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MARCH 24, 2017

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the PlayStation 3’s release in Europe. Sony’s third home console was easily its most controversial, launching with a ridiculous $599 price tag and using proprietary hardware that became notoriously difficult to develop with. It was a rare stumble for the brand. By the end of its life, though, it had raked back PlayStation’s reputation with a line-up of fantastic exclusive games.

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Wired VR

MARCH 24, 2017

A decade after the genre's peak, virtual reality turns out to be the perfect medium for indulging the rock-god fantasy. The post Rock Band VR Shreds the Rhythm-Game Paradigm appeared first on WIRED.

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MARCH 24, 2017

If there’s one problem we’re most desperate for VR to solve right now it’s locomotion. Finding a means of movement that keeps players comfortable but retains immersion is one of the biggest challenges the industry faces. In fact, Oculus thinks an “end all, be all” solution is still “years away” Executive Producer David Yee said as much to me in a recent interview at the company’s Media Days event in the UK.

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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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MARCH 24, 2017

It’s the morning of March 26, 2016 in Anchorage, Alaska, and it’s likely very cold. Palmer Luckey, however, is still in his trademark Hawaiian shirt, shorts, and flip flops as he sits in a car on a city street. He shows a smartphone camera the first ever Oculus Rift to reach the hands of a consumer, and then he opens the door and steps out into the Alaskan chill to deliver it by hand. “This is incredible,” Luckey says as he passes the signed package over to one Ross Marti

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MARCH 24, 2017

Strap yourself in; it’s Rock Band VR week on the Oculus Store. Harmonix’s long-anticipated rock sim is finally ready for you. There’s also another pretty good zombie shooter and a whole heap of stuff to look forward to on Gear VR this week. If you missed last week, you can see those new releases here. And don’t forget that UploadVR has a Steam community group complete with a curated list of recommendations so that you don’t have to waste any money finding out what’s good in t

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MARCH 24, 2017

As VR becomes more commonplace, the need for reliable benchmarking and analysis tools will also increase. NVIDIA released an update to their frame capture analysis tool, or FCAT , to now work with VR headsets. This robust tool provides manufacturers, developers, and consumers a deeper analysis of a system’s VR performance that represents a more complete solution than currently available tools like FRAPS.

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MARCH 24, 2017

Just hold out one more week; we promise the good times are coming. It’s yet another meager week for Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) in terms of releases, but things are about to kick up a notch with a suite of high profile launches from the end of March following through to May. It’s in that knowledge that we advise you to hold onto your pennies for one more week and wait for pasture’s new.

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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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