VRScout
AUGUST 28, 2019
Scan any NFL 100 logo to unlock Bears vs. Packers highlights. Next Thursday the Chicago Bears take on the Green Bay Packers in the first match-up of the NFL’s historic 100th season. In commemoration of the event, the National Football League has partnered with Snap Inc. on a new AR lense honoring the two teams who will be kicking off the 2019-2020 season.
AR Insider
AUGUST 28, 2019
ARtillery Briefs is a video series that outlines the top trends we’re tracking, including takeaways from recent reports and market forecasts. See the most recent episode below, including narrative takeaways and embedded video. AR continues to show early-stage characteristics, including schizophrenic interest and investment. But how big is it, and how big will it get?
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Next Reality AR
AUGUST 28, 2019
If the name Leroy Jenkins elicits a reaction from you, then you are old enough to remember the iconic title World of Warcraft from its heydey (whether or not you actually played the massively multiplayer online role-playing game). To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the game and its re-release as World of Warcraft Classic, the game's publisher Blizzard has enlisted Snapchat to mix old tech with new via some interactive AR Lenses.
Road to VR
AUGUST 28, 2019
Harmonix, the veteran music game studio behind the Guitar Hero series, released their latest VR game Audica on PC VR in Early Access back in March. The studio today announced that the unique shooter-meets-rhythm game is heading for PSVR soon too. Harmonix released the news on a PS blogpost , saying that Audica will arrive on the PSVR platform sometime this Fall.
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.
XR for Business Podcast
AUGUST 28, 2019
A plain room with a table, a few chairs, and a whiteboard has never sounded so…futuristic! But that’s one way to describe the technology behind meetingRoom, a VR space, where colleagues from around the world can gather and discuss business as if they were all in the same, plain ol’ multi-purpose room! meetingRoom CEO Jonny Cosgrove does a better job of describing it, so take a listen!
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
XR for Business Podcast
AUGUST 28, 2019
A plain room with a table, a few chairs, and a whiteboard has never sounded so…futuristic! But that’s one way to describe the technology behind meetingRoom, a VR space, where colleagues from around the world can gather and discuss business as if they were all in the same, plain ol’ multi-purpose room! meetingRoom CEO Jonny Cosgrove does a better job of describing it, so take a listen!
Road to VR
AUGUST 28, 2019
Arizona Sunshine (2016) was supposed to get its biggest DLC mission to date yesterday, ‘The Damned DLC’, however Vertigo Games says fans will have to wait a little bit longer than they initially expected. It’s unclear exactly when The Damned DLC will be released, as the studio has only said it’s “coming a little later this year.” It was scheduled to release on August 27th, a date that was announced at E3 2019 back in June.
XR for Business Podcast
AUGUST 28, 2019
Welcome to the second episode of the XR for Business News podcast, the show where our host, Alan, provides a quick rundown of the week’s top XR news stories! This week’s XR use cases range from educating children and training police officers, to turning Snoop Dogg into an AR character in Snapchat filters, with many others in between. A new study shows that VR significantly reduces pain versus an active control condition in hospitalized patients.
Road to VR
AUGUST 28, 2019
Bristol, UK-based designer Joe Ryan launched his first Kickstarter back in 2015, the VRGO chair locomotion device, which saw a modest £22,100 (~$27,000) in crowdfunds. Now, Ryan is delving back into the world of VR locomotion again to bring a smaller form factor version of the VRGO chair to market, the so called VRGO Mini. The Kickstarter is searching for £20,000 (~$24,400) in funds.
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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.
InstaVR
AUGUST 28, 2019
Making a first virtual reality app is a huge accomplishment. We’ve written about the value of creating a compelling Proof of Concept VR app before. Then comes the next step — improving your subsequent VR applications. Just like with 360-degree cameras, there is a bit of a learning curve with VR app creation. Though InstaVR provides an easy-to-use, drag-and-drop interface, there still is an art to making great VR.
Road to VR
AUGUST 28, 2019
Social VR activity hub Rec Room today introduced a new mini-game called ‘Stunt Runner’ Looking a bit like Sprint Vector , the game will have players speeding through a virtual obstacle course. Set for launch in September, ‘Stunt Runner’ will pit four players in a virtual race with wall running, climbing, vaulting, bouncing, and more. ‘Stunt Runner’ will come as a free update, joining a host of other mini-game activities in Rec Room , a widely cross-platform
TechCrunch VR
AUGUST 28, 2019
Hackers will soon be able to stress-test the Facebook Portal at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest, following the introduction of the social media giant’s debut hardware device last year. Pwn2Own is one of the largest hacking contests in the world, where security researchers descend to find and demonstrate their exploits for vulnerabilities in a range of consumer electronics and technologies, including appliances and automobiles.
XR for Business Podcast
AUGUST 28, 2019
Welcome to the second episode of the XR for Business News podcast, the show where our host, Alan, provides a quick rundown of the week’s top XR news stories! This week’s XR use cases range from educating children and training police officers, to turning Snoop Dogg into an AR character in Snapchat filters, with many others in between. A new study shows that VR significantly reduces pain versus an active control condition in hospitalized patients.
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.
EON Reality
AUGUST 28, 2019
The collection features over 20 years of applications developed for education and industry in areas such as medical, aerospace, energy, and engineering. IRVINE, CA, August 28, 2019 – EON Reality Inc., the world leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, announces the launch of its revolutionary marketplace for Augmented and Virtual Reality (AVR) applications and assets known as “The Vault.”.
XR for Business Podcast
AUGUST 28, 2019
Welcome to the second episode of the XR for Business News podcast, the show where our host, Alan, provides a quick rundown of the week’s top XR news stories! This week’s XR use cases range from educating children and training police officers, to turning Snoop Dogg into an AR character in Snapchat filters, with many others in between. A new study shows that VR significantly reduces pain versus an active control condition in hospitalized patients.
Peter Graham
AUGUST 28, 2019
Melee combat can be brutal and very satisfying in virtual reality (VR), actually feeling like you’re swinging a sword or blocking a blow with a shield. Currently, Spanish studio Dark Curry is in the process of developing its next virtual reality (VR) title Undead Citadel which is all about cleaving monsters with any dangerous object to hand.
XR for Business Podcast
AUGUST 28, 2019
Welcome to the second episode of the XR for Business News podcast, the show where our host, Alan, provides a quick rundown of the week's top XR news stories! This week's XR use cases range from educating children and training police officers, to turning Snoop Dogg into an AR character in Snapchat filters, with many others in between. A new study shows that VR significantly reduces pain versus an active control condition in hospitalized patients.
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.
Peter Graham
AUGUST 28, 2019
Having launched a crowd-funding funding campaign in July, real-time, performance platform VRJAM has now entered a new partnership with interactive streaming platform Agora. . The pair aim to launch a futuristic virtual reality (VR) event technology platform, specifically to create real-time XR simulations of business conferences, training sessions and other enterprise events.
XR for Business Podcast
AUGUST 28, 2019
A plain room with a table, a few chairs, and a whiteboard has never sounded so…futuristic! But that's one way to describe the technology behind meetingRoom, a VR space, where colleagues from around the world can gather and discuss business as if they were all in the same, plain ol' multi-purpose room! meetingRoom CEO Jonny Cosgrove does a better job of describing it, so take a listen!
Peter Graham
AUGUST 28, 2019
NetEase Games’ Nostos could potentially be one of the biggest virtual reality (VR) titles to launch in 2019 , a vast post-apocalyptic survival MMO offering hundreds of hours of gameplay. If you’ve been following news of the videogame diligently then you’ll certainly want to have a go at signing up for the closed beta test which is scheduled to take place next week.
Boost VC
AUGUST 28, 2019
Summary Accelerators don’t invest enough money. New Boost VC accelerator deal: $500k for 15%. Limited to 7–10 Companies per Tribe. Gravity.co (Boost VC company) Boost VC turns 7 years old this month! We have 200+ active investments from over 35 countries, and we have carved out a great brand in the Sci-Fi tech world. We have invested in leading Sci-Fi companies: crypto ( Coinbase & Etherscan ), virtual reality ( Wave & FitXR ), exoskeletons & jetpacks ( Roam & Jetpack Aviation ),
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?
Peter Graham
AUGUST 28, 2019
Lewis Carroll’s famous book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland never fails to inspire, offering developers a rich tapestry to work with. There have already been several virtual reality (VR) titles inspired by the book such as Alice VR and House of Alice. Cortopia Studios ( Wands) is now trying its hand, creating a puzzle adventure called Down the Rabbit Hole.
VRScout
AUGUST 28, 2019
Catch the first-of-its-kind show in-person, on national TV, or in VR. This Friday, masked-EDM act Marshmello and country sensation Kane Brown will hold a live performance of their new single “One Thing Right” at Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield in NYC as part of Good Morning America’s Summer Concert Series. This show will also be the first live performance watchable in-person, on national TV, and in VR in real-time.
Road to VR
AUGUST 28, 2019
The previously delayed espionage sim Espire 1: VR Operative is now scheduled for release on September 24. After earning several ‘Best of Show’ nominations at E3 and a ‘Best of Show’ award from UploadVR , Espire 1 is available for pre-order on Steam (Index, Vive, Rift, and WMR) and soon available for pre-order on PlayStation (PSVR). The game will also launch on Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift.
Peter Graham
AUGUST 28, 2019
This may be plainly obvious but rhythm action videogames in virtual reality (VR) are quite popular, very popular in fact. Back in the day, Harmonix was a leader in the genre thanks to Rock Band and then entered the VR arena with Audica for PC headsets. Today, Harmonix has confirmed a Playstation VR version is in the works and due out by the end of the year. .
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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