VRScout

JULY 10, 2017

This is the best deal we’ve seen yet. Oculus is bringing us a season of special events, deals, and game launches with what they their Summer of Rift event. Not only are they celebrating the VR community with discounted content, but Oculus also wants to entice newcomers to VR. So what better way to do that then a big fat discount. Starting today for a limited time (the next six weeks), the Oculus Rift and Touch controller bundle is on sale for $399.

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Road to VR

JULY 10, 2017

Oculus is giving the Rift & Touch their biggest discount yet for a six week-long sale. $400 will get you both the Rift headset and the Touch controllers, and a slew of bundled content. At the start of 2017, the Oculus Rift + Touch controllers cost $800, the same as the HTC Vive. Starting today, as part of the ‘Summer of Rift’ sale, the headset and controller bundle is going on sale for just $400 , a huge 50% price drop from what you would have paid just six months ago.

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VRScout

JULY 10, 2017

Apple’s ARKit combined HTC Vive shows us the future of mixed reality. Apple’s recently released ARKit platform is absolutely killing it right now. The augmented reality developer application has been breaking down walls for both amateurs and professionals providing an experience that’s as impressive as it is accessible. We recently covered some of the cooler creations made using the intuitive software in a previous post.

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Road to VR

JULY 10, 2017

With content for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive maturing since their respective launches last year, there’s more reason than ever to finally jump into VR—especially now that the Rift + Touch is on sale for $400. For the gamers out there who are beginning to consider purchasing a headset, one major question marks the starting point on their journey to a decision: can my PC handle it?

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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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VRScout

JULY 10, 2017

The German automobile manufacturer dives deeper into VR with a new collaborative app. Multinational auto giant Volkswagen Group is no stranger to virtual reality. The corporation has experimented with the technology on multiple occasions, using VR headsets to let consumers to peek through Audi car hoods with x-ray vision and experience what it would be like to drive them on the moon.

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JULY 10, 2017

Starting today and running for the next six weeks, Oculus has announced that an Oculus Rift + Touch bundle will cost only $399. This is a huge (temporary) price cut from the previously established $598 tag, which was an approximately $100 price cut from the previous ~$700 cost that both ran most people. After the six-week long $399 sale the bundle price will return to $598.

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Road to VR

JULY 10, 2017

Looking to get into virtual reality but need to beef up your gaming PC to handle it? Here’s a quick cheat sheet on our current top picks for NVIDIA and AMD Radeon graphics cards suited for virtual reality. Among the myriad aspects of virtual reality which have evolved almost beyond recognition since the Oculus Rift Kickstarter ended in 2012, it’s the technical trickery used in modern VR rendering which has not only helped lower the barrier of entry for ‘VR Ready’ PC GPU h

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JULY 10, 2017

Oculus and Alexandre Aja, the director of films such as The Hills Have Eyes and the Daniel Radcliffe-led dark fantasy Horns, are teaming up with Future Lighthouse for a few VR horror tales. They’ll be working together on a horror anthology that will take advantage of VR’s immersive storytelling potential to dive into your childhood fears.

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Road to VR

JULY 10, 2017

Mel Slater’s Theory of Presence includes two major components including the Place Illusion (the degree to which you’re transported to another world), and the Plausibility Illusion (the degree to which you believe what’s happening in that world is believable). Presence researcher Richard Skarbez thinks of these two components as “immersion” and “coherence,” and we previously discussed his presence research where he found that both illusions are vital for

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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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JULY 10, 2017

Oculus Home and the new SteamVR Home offer cosy spaces to launch into your VR experiences, so why should we expect Microsoft to offer anything less? The company’s upcoming mixed reality headsets will offer their very own home space, and we recently got a better look at it. The company’s Nadia Steer-Mobley introduced the home area to an audience at the WinHEC event in Taipei last month. “Windows Mixed Reality begins with a home,” she explained. “This home is beyond a

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Road to VR

JULY 10, 2017

Lone Echo , the upcoming zero-G, sci-fi adventure from Ready at Dawn , has a brand new trailer proceeding its July 20th launch date. In the game’s initial announcement trailer, we got a look at its unique locomotion scheme as well as some of the drama that plays out around a certain anomaly that wreaks havoc nearby your home space station. You, as a service robot, have to repair important systems and navigate puzzles alongside a human companion.

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JULY 10, 2017

The Mage’s Tale is a great game that recently released for the Oculus Rift with Touch. Taking one of gaming’s most beloved genres — the dungeon crawler RPG — and adapting it for a modern audience with the power of VR is nothing short of magical. And what better developer to do it than inXile Entertainment, the studio with the creative minds behind the likes of The Bard’s Tale and Wasteland franchises?

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Cats and VR

JULY 10, 2017

While users of the Vive and Rift have have access to Oculus Quill, Medium, Google Tilt Brush and now Google Blocks, PSVR users are lacking in content creation software. Enter CoolPaintrVR from Wildbit Studios. According to Wildbit, CoolPaintr VR uses Real Time Skeleton Extraction (RTSE) technology to provide users with many advanced functions that might be useful for professionals.

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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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JULY 10, 2017

It’s not long now until Ready At Dawn’s anticipated sci-fi VR game, Lone Echo, is finally released to Oculus Rift owners everywhere. Get ready for this month’s launch with the launch trailer below. The footage gives us a small glimpse of what to expect when Lone Echo releases on Rift on July 20th. Using a unique locomotion system, the game casts you as a robot in a distant future, assisting the crew of a space craft.

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Cats and VR

JULY 10, 2017

Oculus Rift and Touch is dropping the price like its hot Today Oculus announced that Rift + Touch are now available at $399 for a limited time. Keep in mind you still need a pretty decent PC rig to run it but all in all this is a GREAT price and just in time for some really exciting new and exclusive VR titles including the upcoming game from Metro developers 4A games.

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JULY 10, 2017

At E3 last month Sony showed off a heap of new game trailers whilst decorating the stage around them to fit the tone. Zombies hung from the ceiling during a Days Gone demo, for example. It was a cool way to spruce up the showcase, but The Lost Bear is taking the concept and running with it in VR. Announced today for PlayStation VR (PSVR), The Lost Bear is the debut game from Odd Bug Studio, a UK-based indie developer getting publishing support from Fabrik.

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Cats and VR

JULY 10, 2017

“While many have had their doubts about the future viability of VR and its potential contributions to society it is worth noting that in GORN you can rip off an opponent’s arm and then beat them with said arm until their head caves in,” said Devolver Digital CFO Fork Parker. I feel like if Oderus Urungus was still alive he would really enjoy this game.

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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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JULY 10, 2017

Truth be told, I had nothing but the utmost confidence that Fantastic Contraption’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) port would set a high bar. Northway and Radial Games’ gem of a puzzler might be best suited to room-scale gameplay, but the developers’ combined knack for intuitive controls and the game’s at-your-own-pace approach assured me that they’d figure something out for Sony’s headset.

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VR Bites

JULY 10, 2017

Haven’t played a VR Horror game in a while. Let’s test our luck with Wilson’s Heart for the Oculus Rift! Check out jacksepticeye’s YouTube Channel!

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JULY 10, 2017

Oculus is parting ways with another long-standing employee today. Senior Developer Developer Strategy Callum Underwood is leaving the company over three years since he joined. Underwood wrote about the decision to leave Oculus on a blog today , revealing that he was leaving to join indie videogame publisher, Raw Fury. “I’ve always been slightly estranged at Oculus and Facebook, being one of the only people to work from home remotely, and the only member of my team not based in the office i

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Slashgear

JULY 10, 2017

It’s proving to be a pretty excellent summer for VR. Not only did we see a rather tempting discount on the HTC VIVE for the Steam Summer Sale, but it wasn’t long before Best Buy was offering a deal of its own on the Oculus Rift. Now Oculus is getting in on the action directly, delivering the best deal we’ve … Continue reading.

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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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AllThingsVR

JULY 10, 2017

Microsoft expands HoloLens partner program designed to develop better mixed reality experiences via @geekwire [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 11, 2017.

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Slashgear

JULY 10, 2017

On July 21, Christopher Nolan’s latest movie, Dunkirk, will arrive in theaters for everyone to enjoy. Ahead of that, though, is a new special experience for anyone who has a virtual reality headset: Save Every Breath: The Dunkirk VR Experience. The VR video is only four-and-a-half minutes long, but it is intense, putting viewers under the water while muffled gunshots … Continue reading.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 10, 2017

Intel made a VR tie-in for Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’ via @engadget [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 10, 2017.

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Delight XR

JULY 10, 2017

<dl8-hub> The Hub is a fully customizable and data-driven Delight XR element that connects multiple VR contents through a navigation hub that is explorable in VR. The interface presented in the hub is composed of widgets like content grids and menus. These widgets (like the content itself) are created through markup as child elements of the <dl8-hub> A powerful action system based on filter and sorter actions ensures a flexible approach to what is shown in content views and in wh

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Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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