VRScout
APRIL 4, 2017
A creative set-up turns a standard living room into intense hot air balloon archery. Ever since the release of the HTC Vive Tracker we’ve seen some truly creative projects that have utilized the device’s tracking to transform everyday objects into immersive VR tools. Whether it be guns, baseball bats or even a house cat , the game-changing peripheral has already seen an extensive amount of use by the development community.
Road to VR
APRIL 4, 2017
Batman: Arkham VR (2016) is one of PlayStation VR’s top games, and an exclusive too. Now, developer Rocksteady has announced that it will soon launch the game on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Batman: Arkham VR has placed consistently in the top 10 most downloaded PSVR titles since the headset’s October 2016 launch. Built on Unreal Engine 4 and well optimized for PSVR, it’s also one of the system’s best looking games.
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VRScout
APRIL 4, 2017
You can now watch a 2D video version of Björk’s latest VR music experience. This isn’t Björk’s first VR rodeo, and it likely won’t be the last. The Icelandic art-pop singer released the full version of the VR music video for Notget, off of her 2015 LP, Vulnicara , after releasing a teaser for the video last November. Slightly over the six-minute mark, the video features an animated, armored avatar of Björk that moves and dances underwater in an exotic oceanic world.
Road to VR
APRIL 4, 2017
We all saw this one coming, and yet it still looks like a blast. Robo Recall now has an unofficial Star Wars mod that dresses up the game with a fresh coat of paint and new weapons. With official modding support , Robo Recall is ripe for community adaptation. The other week we saw a mod that added full locomotion support to the game , and now the same modder, tonsta31, is building out a Star Wars mod for Robo Recall.
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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APRIL 4, 2017
Few video game industry icons are as well-known as Peter Molyneux. He’s the mind behind the entire “God game” genre for the most part, having released the very first Populous all the way back in 1989 for the Amiga. Since then he has gone on to work on other God game titles such as Black & White , as well as the popular roleplaying game (RPG) series, Fable.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
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APRIL 4, 2017
When PC VR headsets first launched a year ago now, we worried that there wouldn’t be enough support from developers, and Oculus Rift and HTC Vive owners would be facing a content drought. In the end, the opposite turned out to be true. In the past year well over 1,000 pieces of VR content have released for Vive and Rift on Steam. We’ve seen loads of great games like Fantastic Contraption and Arizona Sunshine hit the platform over that time but there have been a lot of lackluster titl
Cats and VR
APRIL 4, 2017
Batman: Arkham VR will be coming to both the Oculus Rift and HTC VIVE with not only Touch and Vive controller support but also full gamepad support on PC, including the PS4™ Dual Shock 4 Controller, Xbox One Controller and the Steam™ Controller. The game will be available on April 25th. Batman ™ : Arkham VR is the first virtual reality experience to immerse players into the Dark Knight’s universe, putting them inside the Batman’s™ cowl like never before.
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APRIL 4, 2017
Robo Recall is extremely fun in its own right with some of the best visuals we’ve seen on any headset and super-tight robot shooting gameplay. You’ll unload countless bullets into the chests of thousands of evil metallic husks in your quests to rack up the most points in your rampage. But one of the best features the game has, without a doubt, isn’t even really a feature — it’s the massive modding community.
VRWorld
APRIL 4, 2017
With the conference being over a month away, NVIDIA sent out a press release announcing the conference. The conference starts on Monday, May 8th, and lasts until Thursday, May 11th. This year, NVIDIA reshuffled the conference format in a bid to ensure continuous coverage of the conference. What used to be opening keynote with Jensen Huang, co-founder and the CEO is now being shifted to the penultimate day.
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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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APRIL 4, 2017
Samsung revealed its long-awaited Galaxy S8 smartphone last week but, while it supports the company’s Gear VR headset, there was no mention of another major player in the mobile VR market: Google Daydream. When Daydream was announced last year Google revealed Samsung as one of a number of partners working on the platform. Many of those other companies have since revealed Daydream-ready smartphones or even their own take on a Daydream VR headset, but we still haven’t seen what Samsung
VRScout
APRIL 4, 2017
Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. New Gear VR comes w/ a magic wand, Gear 360 camera gets cuter + more compatible, you can now live stream in 360 on Facebook, Palmer Luckey leaves Oculus, HoloBuilder gets $2.25M investment, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: NEW SAMSUNG GEAR COMES WITH A MAGIC WAND.
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APRIL 4, 2017
I’d be willing to bet that in some sort of all-encompassing list of ‘Things Most Looked At In VR,” a starry night’s sky ranks highly. There’s no more obvious and immediate source of beauty on the entire planet, after all, and some of us see it every time we boot up our HTC Vives. But, after over a year of star gazing in VR, how do you maintain that same sense of wonder you first felt when you tilted your head upwards?
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APRIL 4, 2017
Founded in 1999, the ODG (Osterhout Design Group) has thrived as a tech incubator specializing in high-performance electronics in a small form factor. Today they build mobile wearable tech and products for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality. ODG previously brought their augmented R-7 smart glasses to market featuring 64gb of storage, Bluetooth functionality, and even an HD camera all running on a custom operating system built on Android Kit-Kat.
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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APRIL 4, 2017
Whether by haptic claws or well-designed VR controllers like the Oculus Touch, there’s a mission to bring an intricate level of control to VR involving natural interaction with our hands. Since kids, we’ve emulated different devices with our hands like making a gun for cops and robber with index finger and thumb extended from a fist. The CaptoGlove, a wearable piece of tech fully funded on Kickstarter , is taking that idea and bringing gesture-based gaming and computing to life.
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APRIL 4, 2017
Welcome to the Daily Sketch! We’ve teamed up with Sketchfab and expert VR artist Elizabeth Edwards to produce one new piece of 3D art per weekday throughout April you can view with your VR kit. So grab your headset and take a look. Persona 5 fans are a patient bunch. Announced for release in Japan all the way back in 2013, the hugely anticipated JRPG has taken its sweet time making its way over to the west but, today, it’s finally launched on PS4 and PS3.
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APRIL 4, 2017
Before setting out to work on a VR project it’s important to hone in and focus on something specific as a core mission. Do you want to create something that’s simple and fun? Do you want to make people think, or feel something? Or maybe your goal is to recreate something specific with an authentic representation. That last point — authenticity — is the goal behind Star Trek: Bridge Crew from Ubisoft and Red Storm and from everything I’ve seen thus far, they’ve
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APRIL 4, 2017
Bolverk Games needs to learn some lessons about the internet. Sure, it can be a harsh place, but if there’s one thing that social feeds love, it’s animals. How the studio arrived at the conclusion that blowing up adorable kittens would be a laugh remains a mystery to me, but last year’s Kittypocalypse was still a mechanically enjoyable if unremarkable VR game.
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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