VRScout

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Alien Zoo lets you walk, soar, and escape alien creatures with friends. Location-based VR is the culmination of everything we’ve grown to love and expect from immersive technology. These attractions can let you interact with physical objects, walk never-ending mazes, and feel sensations of heat and water—all while in VR. You can even join your friends in cooperative gameplay, making virtual high-fives with other avatars very convincing.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In a patent filed in 2017 and issued today by the United States Patent Office, Apple describes a VR headset designed to be compact and comfortable. Spotted by Patently Apple , Apple’s patent titled Optical System for Head-mounted Display makes it clear up front that this particular design is aimed at creating a VR headset that’s more compact, specifically by redesigning the optical system. “If care is not taken, a head-mounted display may be cumbersome and tiring to wear.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The VR multiplayer adventure ARK Park – based on Studio Wildcard’s survival game ARK: Survival Evolved – will be released Thursday, March 22 during the Game Developers Conference. ARK Park allows HTC Vive, PSVR, and Oculus Rift users to interact with the majestic creatures last seen in the popular action-adventure survival game ARK: Survival Evolved – fulfilling the dream of meeting living, breathing dinosaurs “face-to-face” through a series of exquisite VR-powered theme-park attractions.

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HTC Conference Virtual Reality Simulation 101

Road to VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Quill , Facebook’s VR painting tool, has been a great way to sketch in VR since its launch back at the end of 2016, but today a new update transforms it into something entirely new. Now, with tools for animating Quill artwork directly in the app, users have a new dimension for artistic expression: time. If you’ve ever made a stick figure flip book using the corner of a notebook or a stack of sticky notes, you already understand the fundamentals of key frame animation: arrange a sequ

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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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Everything VR & AR

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

We are joined by Ray Kallmeyer, CEO of CreateAR. CreateAR is a leading Augmented Reality design and development firm and is a part of the Microsoft Mixed Reality Partner Program. We talk about CreateAR’s work with Mercedes Benz in Japan and their strategy for refining mixed reality user interface design. We also talk about the current landscape for recruiting talent to build, design and develop new AR, VR, and MR applications and how app developers and game developers are converging more than ev

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VeeR VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Every minute, millions and millions of photos, videos, articles are being created and shared online. We live in the age of commoditized widespread information. This new-age superpower is mostly good but so much information has made it hard to prioritize and understand valuable sources of news and info. VeeR has rounded up the best podcasts […].

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Time’s arrow never stops marching forward, and neither does technological advancements. Verizon has pushed the envelope at the Super Bowl, mixing “5G” mobile network alongside VR to do some pretty incredible things, even by 2018 standards. What is 5G and what is it capable of? Image by 3GPP. 5G, as its name implies, is the 5th generation of mobile network technologies.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Sprint Vector (2018) is a VR racing game of a different stripe. Dubbed an “adrenaline platformer” by production studio Survios, the developers behind Raw Data (2017) , it actually sticks to some pretty well-established arcade racing tropes pioneered by the Mario Kart franchise. Still, it’s something entirely different; it’s not only a fast-paced, technical sort of game that depends on the user’s ability to memorize every map’s twists and hazards, and ultima

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