The Ghost Howls
JUNE 10, 2019
I’m writing my review on the Oculus Quest (it will be out tomorrow!) and I am so analyzing this headset from all the points of view. As one of the first developers for the Vive Focus Plus (since the 6 DOF devkit times), I am also able to evaluate all the pros and the cons of this headset with regard to its main competitor (as I did in this post ).
VRScout
JUNE 10, 2019
Take on the role of a thieving squirrel in this cross-platform multiplayer experience. Resolution Games ( Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs, Bait!, Narrows ) has revealed a brand new VR multiplayer couch party game that uses smartphone devices to offer a unique, asymmetrical gameplay experience that’s as intuitive as it is silly. Available this summer on major VR platforms, iOS, and Android, ACRON: Attack of the Squirrels!
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Next Reality AR
JUNE 10, 2019
Snapchat isn't the only tech company transforming landmarks with augmented reality for Pride Month. About four miles southwest of New York's iconic Flatiron Building, which is getting its own Pride makeover via Snapchat's Landmarker AR, Stonewall National Monument is also receiving some augmented reality treatment by way of the Stonewall Forever mobile app published by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center (better known as The Center) in partnership with Google.
VRScout
JUNE 10, 2019
Dodge bullets and shoot down waves of bad guys to a killer beat. UploadVR saved the best for last during today’s E3 VR Showcase, capping off their coverage with the announcement of Pistol Whip , a new VR shoot-em-up that’s equal parts bullet hell and endless runner. Brought to us by Cloudhead Games , the same team responsible for the episodic fantasy-inspired interactive VR series The Gallery , Pistol Whip is a fast-paced rhythm-based shooter in which players dodge, shoot, and “pisto
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.
Road to VR
JUNE 10, 2019
Ready at Dawn’s Echo Games today announced at UploadVR’s E3 VR showcase that Echo Arena (2017) , the zero-G sports game exclusive to Rift, is coming to Oculus Quest. Echo Arena is sports game that initially launched on Rift back two years ago, and later went free-to-play for all Rift users. If you haven’t played it before, it’s a bit of a futuristic team-based game of ultimate frisbee meets ice hockey, albeit with more flying and punching.
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Road to VR
JUNE 10, 2019
Following mostly silence about the headset from the company after the reveal in January, HTC has confirmed that Vive Cosmos is due to launch in Q3. Vive Cosmos dev kits are now on their way to developers. HTC revealed Vive Cosmos back at CES 2019 , but wasn’t ready to say much about it, let alone let anyone actually try it. Now the company says the headset is due to launch in Q3 and has begun sending dev kits to developers.
VRScout
JUNE 10, 2019
Vertigo Games showcases The Damned DLC gameplay, reveals August release date. This year’s annual Electronic Entertainment Expo officially kick-off tomorrow and already we have an enormous list of new games and exciting updates on the way for major VR headsets. Top among these announcements was the reveal of Vertigo Games’ stellar zombie survival FPS, Arizona Sunshine , for the Oculus Quest.
Road to VR
JUNE 10, 2019
Arizona Sunshine , one of VR’s early acclaimed titles, will debut on Oculus Quest later this year, developer Vertigo Games announced. The studio is touting its upcoming ‘The Damned’ DLC as being the game’s largest mission to date, and has confirmed an August release date. Arizona Sunshine is a co-op VR zombie shooter which launched at the end of 2016, not long after the first wave of consumer VR headsets hit the market.
EON Reality
JUNE 10, 2019
Mondial De L’Auto Paris / Paris Motor Show is an essential date in any motor buff’s diary. Every October, the latest and greatest from across some of the world’s biggest brands gather to share their knowledge, innovations, research and developments – such as Augmented Virtual Reality (AVR). And of course, the world’s motor giants are only too keen to utilise the global show as the ultimate premiere for the latest cars that can be expected on the market in the near future, following the wee
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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.
Road to VR
JUNE 10, 2019
Schell Games today announced their hit VR spy puzzle game I Expect You To Die (2017) is getting a new level for free next month. Called ‘Seat of Power’, Schell Games says in a press statement that the new level begins with the player placed at the head of the table in Dr. Zor’s boardroom, where you’re challenged to retrieve information and solve a series of puzzles to escape safely and avoid death.
Voices of VR
JUNE 10, 2019
Beat Saber was launched on May 1, 2018, and has since sold over 1 million copies making it the most successful VR game ever. My.
Road to VR
JUNE 10, 2019
Vertigo Games, the studio behind Arizona Sunshine (2016) , today announced a new co-op VR shooter that promises to bring up to four co-op players into what the studio calls “a vast, hostile world.” Called After the Fall, Vertigo says the upcoming VR action shooter features a “cinematic and atmospheric” campaign, both solo and multiplayer gameplay, and endgame content built for VR.
Oculus
JUNE 10, 2019
Last week, we teased a larger-than-life announcement from Vertigo Games, and if you’ve been keeping tabs on fwdtothepast.com, you might have decoded a clue or.
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.
Road to VR
JUNE 10, 2019
One of the most anticipated Oculus exclusives, Lone Echo II , has been delayed from 2019 to Q1 2020. Released in 2017, Ready at Dawn’s Oculus exclusive Lone Echo set an impressive bar for VR interaction, locomotion, and storytelling, and remains one of VR’s most critically and popularly acclaimed games. Lone Echo II is set to be a direct continuation of the original game.
Oculus
JUNE 10, 2019
Multi-platinum Grammy Award winning band IMAGINE DRAGONS has joined forces with Beat Games to drop a 10-track Imagine Dragons Music Pack, which you can get.
Road to VR
JUNE 10, 2019
Neat Corporation today announced at UploadVR’s E3 VR showcase that they’ve partnered with Fast Travel Games to create a sequel to their VR stealth game Budget Cuts (2018). Called Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency, the game is said to arrive on SteamVR headsets sometime in 2019. Here’s how Fast Travel Games describes Budget Cuts 2 on the game’s website : TransCorp is about to optimize humanity out of existence, and you must find a way into the belly of the beast to stop t
ARPost
JUNE 10, 2019
Dance Central VR is a move and groove it single and multiplayer dance game. It’s also a mega blast from the past with Kinect roots. Harmonix pulled it out of their vault and brought it into the VR age. It has 32 songs by popular artists past and present and is as close to clubbing as this thirty-something will attempt. Getting a Workout Up In The Club.
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.
Road to VR
JUNE 10, 2019
First Contact Entertainment, the studio behind Firewall Zero Hour (2018) and Rom Extraction (2016), teased a new multiplayer shooter today called Solaris Offworld Combat. The title was quickly mentioned during UploadVR’s E3 VR showcase, although there currently isn’t much to go on outside of what First Contact game director Damoun Shabs calls in the showcase clip a “fast-paced multiplayer shooter in VR,” so we’re still waiting on a trailer and screenshots of the ga
XR for Business Podcast
JUNE 10, 2019
Training employees can be like pulling teeth – both for the employees and management. But thanks to XR technologies, Jonathan Moss has had success in finding new, innovative ways to get the team engaged in training at Sprint. Moss chats with Alan, discussing how XR can be used to invigorate a corporate team, save a company millions, and how it can all be done in-house with a moderate investment.
Road to VR
JUNE 10, 2019
Cloudhead Games , the studio behind The Gallery and Aperture Hand Labs , has revealed Pistol Whip. In what appears to be a significant (and quite intriguing) departure from their previous works, Pistol Whip is described as “part first-person shooter, part rhythm game […,] an action-hero sensory trip.” While Pistol Whip isn’t the first attempt at a VR rhythm shooter, though compared to Audica , it looks to have a greater focus on action.
XR for Business Podcast
JUNE 10, 2019
Training employees can be like pulling teeth – both for the employees and management. But thanks to XR technologies, Jonathan Moss has had success in finding new, innovative ways to get the team engaged in training at Sprint. Moss chats with Alan, discussing how XR can be used to invigorate a corporate team, save a company millions, and how it can all be done in-house with a moderate investment.
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?
Road to VR
JUNE 10, 2019
Beat Games today announced that Beat Saber (2018) just dropped a ten-song DLC music pack featuring the music of Grammy Award-winning rock band Imagine Dragons. The studio is also showing off a new ‘360’ level mode at E3 this week, which promises to change up the game by throwing blocks at you from different directions. Sensibly dubbed ‘Imagine Dragons DLC Music Pack’, the block-slashing rhythm game’s next paid DLC is said to arrive on all supported platforms today,
Road to VR
JUNE 10, 2019
Survios today revealed the first public gameplay footage of their upcoming shooter The Walking Dead Onslaught, showing off some of the mechanics in action that aim to immerse players in the show’s zombie-infested world. Unveiled at UploadVR’s E3 VR showcase today, the gameplay trailer shows a few of the studio’s new mechanics that we initially got a taste of in an early prototype of the game shown at GDC earlier this year , including some pretty gruesome zombie-grabbing, skul
Road to VR
JUNE 10, 2019
After years in development, VR stealth action game Espire 1 has a release date set for August. Developer Digital Lode confirmed that the game will be available on Rift, Vive, Index, PSVR, Windows VR, and Quest. Announced during today’s E3VR showcase from UploadVR , developer Digital Lode announced that Espire 1 will have an August release date, though the specific day hasn’t been confirmed.
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