VRScout

AUGUST 9, 2017

The latest update to Dead and Buried brings in-game 360° image and video capture among other new features. VR is an experience that’s hard to explain to those who haven’t been lucky enough to try it themselves. How exactly does one put the incredible sensation of being immersed into a brand new world into mere words? It’s a difficult task, one that Facebook recognizes as essential in the long-term acceptance of virtual and augmented reality technology.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

Speaking on an Entertainment Weekly radio show to be aired on August 15th, actor Jeff Bridges, star of Tron (1982) and sequel Tron: Legacy (2010) , suggested that a third Tron feature should be “the first virtual reality movie.” Posted in a short entry on the Entertainment Weekly website , writer Clark Collis explained that he was prompted to ask about Tron rumours by Bridges’ new collaboration with Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski in upcoming movie Only the Brave.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

If Tron 3 were to ever happen, its star would want to see it as a virtual reality movie. When talking about the media that’s influenced the current VR landscape, there are a handful of names that can’t go unmentioned. Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One is one such source, but it’s impossible not to acknowledge Tron, the iconic 1982 sci-fi movie in which people entered a game world to compete in virtual sports.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

Google’s team at Daydream Labs have been prototyping ways of animating objects and characters in Blocks , the company’s recently released VR modelling tool. In a recent entry on the Google Blog , senior UX engineer Logan Olson describes how it could give users the power to “create expressive animations without needing to learn complex animation software.”.

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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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You might not have heard of Here Be Dragons before, but you’ve probably heard of some of the projects they’ve worked on. Today, this VR and AR production studio is announcing the closure of a $10 million series A round of funding. The investment was led by Discovery Communications. Here Be Dragons has been creating both original and promotional VR experiences for clients and content creators for the past few years now.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

Surprise! Rez Infinite, which remains one of the best games on the PlayStation VR (PSVR) 10 months after launch, is now available on the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. Infinite is a VR (and non-VR) port of the beloved rhythm action shooter in which players fly along a set path, shooting down approaching enemies. On PC, the game has better texture quality than its console counterpart and new control options.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

Ever wanted to go to a Coldplay concert? If you own a Gear VR headset, you’ve got a free ticket for the VR livestream of the band’s ‘A Head Full of Dreams’ performance next week. Samsung and Live Nation are teaming up to bring Coldplay’s performance on August 17th from Chicago’s Soldier Field straight to your headset, starting at 8:30 pm CT ( your timezone here ).

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AUGUST 9, 2017

Failed to get tickets to Coldplay’s most recent headlining tour? Then you might want to pick up a Gear VR soon. Samsung today announced a partnership with Live Nation to live stream the band’s upcoming show at Chicago’s Soldier Field venue inside VR. Gear VR owners in more than 50 countries will be able to head into the Samsung VR app, and tune in at 8:30 pm CT on August 17th.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 9, 2017

Custom avatars in social VR add a lot of fidelity of identity expression and creative flair in applications like VRChat or High Fidelity. Morph3D is a custom avatar solution that offers a number of free avatars within VRChat, but they also have a custom tool where you can customize your own virtual avatar. I had a chance to catch up with Chris “ DeepRifer ” Madsen, Morph3D’s head of VR/AR at GDC where we talked about some of the reactive avatars that they’re working on. .

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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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AUGUST 9, 2017

I’ve wanted a great stealth game in VR ever since consumer-grade headsets started hitting the market. When you’re wearing a headset you at first have a tendency to either sit or stand in one place without moving too much. But then you take a step, and you lean around, and you reach out with motion controllers. Then when a game asks you to crouch down or get on the ground the immersion is ramped up to whole new levels.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

Vindicta is a great VR FPS that is able to stand out from a very crowded marketplace with its innovative control scheme, smooth gun combat, and art style that seems like a mix of Portal and Half-Life. Vindicta was the winner of the recent Pocket Gamer VR Indie Pitch in San Francisco that included some amazing games including the upcoming game from CatsAndVR.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

It’s been some time since we’ve heard from Megaton Rainfall, the VR superhero simulation from Pentadimensional Games. Today, though, the game has returned to the spotlight with a release date in tow. Megaton Rainfall hits PlayStation VR (PSVR) on September 26th. That’s just over a month and a half away. In the game, you play as a hero with the ability to fly, and must travel around the planet (and beyond) fighting back against an ongoing alien invasion.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

If you’re using a default avatar that comes with some versions of OpenSim, your name might wind up on copybotted content without you knowing about it. That’s just what happened to a user known as “Gemini Fullmoon,” a resident of the Great Canadian Grid. Fullmoon is also the owner of the Full Moon Designs store on the Kitely Market.

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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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AUGUST 9, 2017

We already reported that Cyan’s popular adventure game, Obduction, would be launching on PS4 this month , but there’s been a slight stumble on the game’s VR support. When Obduction hits the console on August 29th (just under three weeks from now), it won’t support PlayStation VR. Studio founder Rand Miller recently revealed as much on the PlayStation Blog , though he didn’t offer a specific reason as to why it wasn’t going to be ready in time. “But we we

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 9, 2017

Sign up for #AR Open Pitch Hours w/ @Shasta , @Betaworks , & @CandelaParamount, & @Lightspeed [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 9, 2017.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

The first series of StartUp may not have been warmly received, but its creators are hoping to kick the second season off with a bang with a new experience for Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR). StartUp is an online show airing on Crackle, Sony’s free to use streaming service. It stars Martin Freeman and Ron Pearlman (who debuts this season) and focuses on a group of criminals running an empire.

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 9, 2017

Coral Is A Mind-Bending Fractal Multiverse On The Way From Framestore via @UploadVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 9, 2017.

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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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AUGUST 9, 2017

The organizers of VR’s biggest awards ceremony, The Proto Awards, say they won’t be hosting an event in 2017. In 2014, 2015 and 2016 The Proto Awards were held to recognize some of the groundbreaking efforts pushing forward the emerging medium of VR content. The event is organized by The Virtual Reality Foundation, which is composed of many of the same people behind the Virtual Reality Los Angeles conference and startup Mindshow.

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 9, 2017

Inaugural VR Awards This October Announces Partners And Nominees via @UploadVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 9, 2017.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

You find yourself underground, trapped in a small room. You hear the President’s voice over the intercom. In a comical Austrian accent, he informs you that you’re actually in a broken space elevator destined for a lunar base, and it’s your job to fix it. This is the premise behind ROCCAT Games’ aptly-titled Elevator to the Moon.

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 9, 2017

New VR Wearality Fresnel Lens Is Thinner Than a Quarter via @GeekyGadgets [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 9, 2017.

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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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AUGUST 9, 2017

Last week The Void announced that it was partnering with ILMxLAB and Disney to debut a Star Wars-themed VR arcade-style experience at locations near both Disneyland and Disney World. Titled Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire, the experience is a large-scale multiplayer adventure that takes place in the Star Wars universe. Its exact timing and placement in the timeline isn’t strictly defined yet but based on the single piece of concept art (included below) we can make a few guesses.

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 9, 2017

This Is the First 360 App to Combine Graphic Design and VR via @VRScout [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 10, 2017.

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 9, 2017

VR Testing Firm Fishbowl Expands into Augmented Reality via @UploadVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 9, 2017.

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