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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The VR gloves that will let you type and shoot spider webs from your hands. Oculus wants your AR/VR experience to not only be a 360 immersive visual experience that includes real time head tracking and full immersive audio during your VR experience, but would also include real time hand tracking as part of the virtual and augmented experience. During his recent visit to the company research lab in Redmond, WA today; Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg recently posted photos of himself using a prototyp

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Valve has confirmed that the company is in development of not one, but three “full” VR titles being built in conjunction with their ongoing VR development. The company behind some of the greatest games ever made— Half-Life , Portal , Counter Strike , Team Fortress , to name a few—is far from done with VR. Having designed the SteamVR Tracking system, and co-created the HTC Vive, there’s now the matter of VR’s missing killer app, which the company seems poised to take a sta

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Mark Zuckerberg just posted to his personal account on Facebook a first-ever peek inside Oculus Research, a lab based in Redmond, Washington dedicated to VR and AR advancements. The lab is headed up by Michael Abrash, who left Valve Software in 2014 to join Facebook/Oculus and lead this team exploring what’s needed to improve on the state of mixed reality technology.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Oculus Rooms, Avatars and more come to Hulu on the Gear VR and Rift. In an announcement made yesterday by Facebook’s Oculus, the virtual reality company revealed updates to both their Oculus Rift and Gear VR Hulu experiences that add a plethora of new social features to the already popular application. These new upgrades will not only allow friends to watch the latest episodes of their favorite shows together, but also allow them to communicate and interact while they do too.

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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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Late last month Google opened the doors to its Daydream mobile VR ecosystem up to developers, and now it’s doing the same for the web. The tech giant today is releasing a stable build of WebVR support in the Chrome browser for Daydream compatible phones and headsets. That means when reaching a WebVR compatible page, you can slot your phone into a Daydream View — or Huawei’s upcoming headset — and view that content in VR, be it a 360-degree video or a full virtual experien

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

360-degree media is a new exciting wave, breaking out of the frame of traditional photography and video by capturing everything around a source and giving a dynamic viewing experience. Early on, not many 360-degree cameras were easily accessible and would cost thousands of dollars but now there are more and more 360-degree mobile attachments with a growing amount of smart devices ready to record in the format out of the box.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Launching originally for PlayStation VR, Robinson: The Journey was carefully optimized and tweaked to ensure consistent performance across all PS4 systems. The recently released Rift version— despite lacking Touch support —fortunately puts control into PC players hands, allowing you to max out the visuals, if your computer can handle it. No one knows how to better eek out gorgeous graphics from CryEngine than Crytek themselves, the company who built the engine and developed Robinson: The Journey

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The Oculus Rift comes with a lot of extra accessories and, nearly a year on from launch, we could forgive you if you’d broken or lost one or two of them. But, don’t worry, you can now replace them without buying a new Rift. Oculus has added a suite of new accessories available to purchase on its web page, which already featured the company’s branded earphones and extra sensors for room scale VR.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

So I am going to start off that it has been a goal of mine to be able to get to the Super Bowl for free because its a place where a weirdo punk rock dude who is trying his best to make it in the Bay Area and who loves Cats And VR is not necessarily supposed to make it into. Second, I will say making it into the Super Bowl has to be one of the most ridiculous fake it till you make moments of my life.

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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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One of the most frustrating things about introducing people to virtual reality (VR), especially on a Samsung Gear VR, is that they can’t see what you see while you’re wearing the headset. Sony smartly included a mirror feature on the TV screen when using the PlayStation VR (PSVR) headset with a PS4 and most Oculus Rift and HTC Vive applications do something similar.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Dave Ranyard his former Sony London teammates Richard Bates, Artemis Tsouflidou, Albert Bentall and John Foster, who were all integral to the development of ‘VR Worlds’ for Sony’s PSVR headset. announced the formation of his new, independent studio Dream Reality Interactive, to focus on development of virtual reality games and experiences. With an impressive background in creating innovative titles including ‘Singstar’, ‘Wonderbook: Book of Spells’ and ‘VR Worlds’ featuring ‘London Heist’ Dave’s

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Virtual reality continues to be an incredible platform for creators to innovate when telling stories and there are plenty of groups taking advantage of this, large and small. Hulu has taken to the medium for news and comedy shows along with the Life brand’s shift into documentary-like VR content , but Within is an entity that was named entirely with VR storytelling in mind.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

AltspaceVR and Cyberia are teaming up to present a new kind of film festival – one taking place entirely in virtual reality VR. Styled after conventional film festivals, audience members can choose from a curated schedule of 38 short films of assorted genres from all over the world. AltspaceVR is a leading social VR platform and Cyberia has over a decade of experience planning film festivals.

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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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When it comes to consumer electronics, content is king. This is true for virtual reality as well and this year is shaping up to be the biggest year ever for amazing VR experiences. Last year, however, was the year of VR hardware. The working estimate is that 6.3 million VR headsets in total shipped in 2016. But our question for this week’s VR cast is whether or not that’s enough.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Starbreeze have opened the doors of the notorious Continental Hotel with the launch of John Wick Chronicles. Developed in collaboration with Grab Games, Big Red Button and GamecoStudios, this electrifying first-person VR shooter is available today on the HTC Vive virtual reality headset for $19.99. John Wick Chronicles puts players in the role of the legendary assassin himself, out for vengeance against the criminal underworld in a land of hired guns.

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Miss out on last week’s open beta for Oculus Studios and Force Field VR’s Landfall? Worry not; there’s another chance to play it this weekend. Force Field has put the game back up on the Oculus Store for download after taking in feedback from last week’s testing. Over on Reddit the developer noted that the biggest issues it found with the first beta were in the matchmaking, which “still caused problems for some players.” After a few days spent tweaking its onl

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Ex Double Fine Art Director Tyler Hurd made an amazing Cat VR experience and apparently I am not cool enough to try it. You get to shoot metallic kittens from your mechanical kitten hands and the world is soooo cruel they wont let me play. The experience is called Chocolate, named after the Giraffage song that it is actually a VR music video for. Chocolate is being called the definitive Cats And VR experience.

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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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John Wick: Chapter 2 releases in theaters around the world starting today. The reviews are in and it looks like a certifiably fantastic follow-up to the engrossing original action film. There aren’t many traditional, straight-laced, and pure action franchises these days, but John Wick sits near the top of the pile in regards to the best of the best.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The VOID, the critically acclaimed immersive entertainment company, today announced it has appointed Cliff Plumer as chief executive officer. With more than 30 years of experience spanning production, creative and technology, Plumer will lead the company effective today. He succeeds co-founder Ken Bretschneider who has transitioned to the role of committee chair of THE VOID Visions team and will continue to sit on the board of directors.

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You might think you’ve seen all there is to EVE: Valkyrie [ Review: 9/10 ] by now, but CCP Games’ next update will ensure that there’s always something new to explore. Releasing on February 15th is the Wormholes Update , adding a new mode to the multiplayer space combat game. Wormholes isn’t exactly a new game type like the matches that have been added in the past, however.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

This week the folks at Google have launched the latest version of Chrome for Android devices, this one ready to roll with Daydream VR. Users of Daydream-ready devices will be able to visit and experience a number of Daydream-formatted webpages that allow a virtual reality experience to be viewed directly through the Chrome web browser. In the past, there were … 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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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

While it will be interesting to see can high-resolution Virtual Reality headsets such as the PIMAX 8K or Acer-IMAX-Starbreeze high-resolution StarVR re-enact the plot of TRON; but Virtual Reality is most certainly here and is set to revolutionize gaming faster than anything we’ve ever seen before. As youngsters, the N64 Rumble Pak was enough to blow our minds but we need something a bit more impressive nowadays to take out breath away – VR might just be what we’ve been looking for.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

It looks like Facebook is paring back its retail push for the Oculus VR. With demo stations currently set up in 500 Best Buy stores, Facebook was in a pretty good position to get customers sampling the VR headset for themselves. Now we’re hearing that Facebook will be shutting down around 200 of those booths because they’re underperforming.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

OK. I’m going to let you in on a little secret that will either have you picking up the phone and calling for a brainstorming session if you’re the CEO of an OTT platform that’s under threat from Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime… or if you’re a savvy investor, you’ll see why the big three (Nflix, Hulu, Ama) are so invested in VR.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Experimental builds of Chrome for Android have seen ongoing development of WebVR functionality, but today is a major milestone as WebVR comes to the stable branch of Chrome on Android—that’s the same version that everyone on Android sees in Google’s Play Store and the same version that’s been installed between 1 and 5 billion times.

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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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