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Exclusive: Meta 2 AR Demos Revealed in Full

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Outside of a few demonstrations at tradeshows, Meta has only give glimpses of the content on its impressive AR headset dev kit in short clips. During a recent visit to the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters to catch the latest improvements to the headset, I got to see a selection of demo content which Meta has allowed Road to VR to capture and share in full for the first time.

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Trek Tuesdays – An In-Depth Look At The Tactical Role In Star Trek: Bridge Crew

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In this weekly series we will look at a different specific aspect of Star Trek: Bridge Crew with each entry, such as the individual roles and game modes, to provide a bit more clarity than a standard preview can provide. This week, we focus on the Tactical role. . Star Trek: Bridge Crew from Ubisoft and Red Storm Entertainment is just about a month away from its debut, set to release on May 30th, 2017, for the PlayStation VR (PSVR), Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive.

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Live Comedy Show ‘Comedy Living Room’ Coming to Altspace Thursday

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Comedy Living Room, the stand-up comedy show created by Matt Lottman and Frank Chad Muniz (and literally held in a living room), is hosting its first show in VR on Thursday, April 27th at 5pm PT. The collaboration between Comedy Living Room, comedy group JASH , and social VR app AltspaceVR will feature six comedians and a “house party complete with pool, BBQ and endless Frisbee” Starting in Lottman and Muniz’ living room in 2012 as an open mic with friends, the show became a recognis

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Community Download: Will Augmented Reality Replace Our Smartphones?

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Virtual reality is all about immersing a person inside a digital world. VR headsets are designed to block out light and envelop our field of view as completely as possible with high quality, low latency visuals. A VR experience replaces the real world and transports you into another. It allows for some truly amazing experiences, but by its nature it has to be appointment-only entertainment.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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Go Super Saiyan With New Dragon Ball Z VR/AR Experience

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A new app, custom headset, and hand sensors let you channel your inner Goku and unleash the Kamehameha. There are few moves more iconic than Goku’s infamous technique, the ki blast aka the Kamehameha. The powerful energy attack has delighted Dragon Ball fans for years quickly becoming one of the most easily-recognizable fighting moves in all of entertainment.

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Wilson’s Heart Review: The Oculus Rift’s Stylish New Thriller Delivers

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WARNING: This is a review for Wilson’s Heart. We’ve done our best to keep things spoiler-free but some very light story elements and a few gameplay surprises will be revealed. . Do you know that feeling you get when you’re standing at the end of a long, dark hallway by yourself? That constant buzz that tickles the primal parts of your brain and makes you wonder if anything is waiting at the other end?

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Twisted Pixel's dark and very well casted Oculus Touch game Wilson's Heart now available.

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Twisted Pixel has always been a favorite for me with really vibrant fun games with great mechanincs like The Gunstringer and LocoCycle. The team now has a very dark VR game out exclusively for Oculus Touch. Wilson's Heart is an immersive first-person psychological thriller set in a 1940's hospital that has undergone a haunting transformation. In this original VR adventure, you become Robert Wilson, a patient who awakens to the shocking discovery that his heart has been replaced with a mysterious

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Watch Original 360-Degree Content On Digital Domain’s New App

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Yesterday Digital Domain unveiled a 360-degree camera and production toolset that will better equip creators for VR broadcasting and publishing. Today they’re putting the content itself at the forefront, announcing a new application that will collect both Digital Domain’s original creations and their live-broadcasted events. Their growing collection of in-house produced content and experiences from partners warrants the new application, available today.

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Zen VR Puzzler Symphony of the Machine Available Now on PlayStation VR, HTC Vive

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Symphony of the Machine , a VR puzzle game where players revitalize a post-apocalyptic world by influencing the weather with a mysterious tower, is now available for PlayStation VR and HTC Vive in North America. It will launch across Europe and Oceania on April 26 and in Asia on April 27. Set in a desolate landscape ravaged by an unknown catastrophe, Symphony of the Machine is centered around the scattered remnants of a lost civilization and an enigmatic tower.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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Twisted Pixel Stirs Up Your Emotions In The Psychological VR Thriller Wilson’s Heart

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Take a look at Twisted Pixel Games’ past releases such as Splosion Man and Comic Jumper , and you’ll notice common themes like interesting characters, vibrant settings, and unique gameplay mechanics. The company’s experience creating such memorable elements has culminated in their latest effort, Wilson’s Heart , a visceral first-person experience built from the ground up for VR on Oculus Rift.

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GCG to host annual Art Fest this weekend

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RR Estates region on the Great Canadian Grid will be home to the Art Fest later on this month. (Image by Maria Korolov.). The Great Canadian Grid will host its first annual Art Fest at 10:00 a.m. Pacific on Saturday, April 29 and Sunday, April 30 at the RR Estates regions. It will feature display of art, photography, poetry and stories from talented artists around OpenSim, and the grid hopes to have the show every year in order to promote talent around OpenSim, Marianna Monentes told Hypergrid

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NVIDIA Offers Three Free VR Games With Select New Hardware

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In the grand scheme of things, we’re still in the early stages of virtual reality adoption. While the price of admission may still be a bit on the higher end for some, the software ecosystem is inspiring people to invest and get hardware that can support these immersive experiences. Yesterday we reported on an Oculus bundle that nets you a VR-ready PC, Rift, Touch controllers, and four games for $1300.

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Oculus VR games bundle with NVIDIA taps GTX 1080 Ti

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This week the folks at NVIDIA have high-fived a set of VR games that, combined, make a radical VR collection for the GTX 1080 Ti and Oculus Rift. Bundles exist that begin with the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti/GTX 1080/1070/1060 graphics card, system, or laptop and roll with an Oculus Rift + Oculus Touch. For those looking for the most insane … Continue reading.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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Watch Justin Roiland’s Hilarious VRLA Keynote

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An estimated 10,000 people attended VRLA on April 14 and 15 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, likely yet again establishing it as the largest VR-focused conference on the planet. On the second day of the conference Rick and Morty co-creator and Squanchtendo co-founder Justin Roiland delivered a hilarious keynote address skewering the emerging industry.

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Google Embraces WebVR With VR Film ‘Tabel’

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Back in January we covered Virtualeap’s international hackathon competition , which was designed to help bring much needed attention to the potential of WebVR. After all, WebVR seems to be the most practical and accessible way many of us might experience VR on a day to day basis. Google, who was one of the partners of the hackathon is now pushing the idea of WebVR with the immersive film titled “Tabel: A Tasty Allegory for Global Inaction in the Face of Climate Control” The

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Daily VR Sketch: Alien

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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 headset. So grab your headset and take a look. This week a VR project is releasing focusing on the birth of a “neomorph” to promote the upcoming Ridley Scott Alien: Covenant film releasing next month.

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Resident Evil 7’s Free Story DLC Has Been Delayed

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Three months on from the release of Resident Evil 7 and it remains one of the best games on PlayStation VR (PSVR). That’s why we’re looking forward to the game’s upcoming free story DLC, ‘Not A Hero’ Sadly that content has now been delayed. The DLC, which adds a new campaign in which players would take on the role of series regular Chris Redfield, was original due to launch this spring.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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Hands-On With Theseus, A Dark And Twisted Third-Person VR RPG

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When we first heard about Theseus from Forge Reply we likened it to God of War, which seems like an apt comparison. In God of War you take control of Kratos in his crusade against the Greek pantheon of Gods, fighting the likes of Poseidon, Zeus, and more. Theseus has much more reserved ambitions, instead choosing to focus on a single Greek myth, rather than attacking the entire roster.

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Vision VR/AR Summit Is Next Week: Here Are The Keynotes And Key Sessions

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Starting off the month of May in a big way, the Vision VR/AR Summit will have a schedule filled to the brim with great content and networking opportunities for all creatives and enthusiasts with their eyes on virtual and augmented technology. Artists, engineers, programmers, designers, musicians, directors, producers, hardware manufacturers and researchers alike will all find something of interest.

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