Thu.Apr 16, 2020

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Competitive VR Dueling Game Blaston Arrives On Headsets Later This Year

VRScout

Wanna-be gunslingers rejoice! Resolution Games , developer of popular VR titles such as Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs, Bait!, and Acron: Attack of the Squirrels!, today revealed its twelfth title, Blaston , a competitive PvP shooter revolving around intense one-on-one duels. Shifting gears away from its usual offerings of family-friendly cooperative experiences, Blaston represents the studios first venture into competitive multiplayer gaming.

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Oxford VR White Paper Shows the Effectiveness of Gamified VR Therapy in Mental Health Treatment

ARPost

Mental health treatments will become more effective and available to a larger number of patients thanks to VR technology. This is one of the key takeaways of the white paper published by Oxford University spin-off, Oxford VR (OVR). In the white paper, the pioneer gamified VR therapy developer shares the results of their own clinical trials. These data are put in context against various statistics of traditional mental health therapy.

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Pistol Whip’s Latest Free Update Has You Fighting Aboard A Dieselpunk Airship

VRScout

Pistol Whip’s Dark Skies update paves the way for the future of the franchise. Ask anyone to name their favorite VR games of 2019 and there’s a good chance you’ll find Pistol Whip on that list. Since it’s release developer Cloudhead Games has released a handful of free monthly updates to the action movie simulator, adding new scenes, weaponry, and tracks.

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Oculus Connect 7 to be Held as a Digital Event Later This Year, Facebook Says

Road to VR

Oculus Connect 7, the annual Oculus developer conference held by Facebook, will be hosted as a digital event later this year due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Facebook announced today that Coulus Connect 7 will, for the first time, be held as a digital event “later this year.” Every year, Oculus Connect brings together developers, content creators, marketers, and more to celebrate the VR industry’s momentum and growth.

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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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Building the Future: The VictoryXR and IVRE partnership

VirtualiTeach

It’s almost three years since I started hosting the #CPDinVR events inside Engage. I initially chose Engage for my events inside VR because no other multi-user VR app at the time was fully dedicated to the education space. Also, even though the app was still in its alpha form back then, I loved the look of the app and how professional the settings and avatars looked, the fact that you could import and manipulate so many 3D assets.

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An Update on Oculus Connect 7

Oculus

Every year, Oculus Connect brings together developers, content creators, marketers, and more to celebrate the VR industry’s momentum and growth. In light of the evolving.

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‘Pistol Whip’ Gets Dieselpunk-inspired Level in New ‘Dark Skies’ Update

Road to VR

Pistol Whip (2019) , the VR rhythm-shooter from Cloudhead Games, just got a new dielselpunk-inspired update, available now on Oculus Quest and SteamVR-compatible headsets. Called ‘Dark Skies’, the update includes a new level set on Zeppelin, replete with hanger bay and plenty of cinematic flair. Like many of the game’s other levels, ‘Dark Skies’ takes inspiration from a few works of fiction, namely the airship scene in Ninja Gaiden, The Rocketeer (1991), Sky Captain

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Exploring Tactile Controllers with TG0

Everything VR & AR

Tyler and Sophia talk with the CEO and VP of Business Development at TG0 about the many evolving use cases of tactile control products. The etee, their new VR controller, launched earlier this month on Kickstarter and they have received an astounding response. [link] From TG0: "The etee campaign is now officially funded, but we are not letting up. We've released our stretch goals and announced a new sensing surface to have the controller be even more feature-ful.

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‘Angry Birds VR’ Studio Announces Next VR Game, ‘Blaston’, a PVP Dueling Shooter

Road to VR

Resolution Games, the studio behind well-received VR titles like Angry Birds VR (2019) , Acron: Attack of the Squirrels! (2019) , and more, has announced its next VR title. Due out later this year, Blaston is a departure from the studio’s catalog of casual VR games, this time aiming for PVP shooter action. Blaston is said to “pit players against each other in intense player vs. player duels that challenge them to stay in constant motion and blast their opponents with incredible p

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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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A Question About VR Headset Resolution

Doc-Ok

I received a question via reddit a few moments ago, and I think the answer might be of general interest, so I decided to answer it here: “Would you happen to know the effective or perceived resolution of the [Valve Index headset] when viewing a 50″ virtual screen from say. 5 feet away? Do you think its equivalent to a 50″ 1080p tv from 5 ft away yet?

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Bethesda Has “no update” on ‘Elder: Scrolls Blades VR’ Nearly Two Years After Announcement

Road to VR

Bethesda announced The Elder Scrolls: Blades back at E3 2018 , promising that the free-to-play title would support VR headsets all the way from standalone to high-end PC. It’s been nearly two years since that announcement, but Bethesda has “no update” on the VR version of the game. Relative to other major gaming studios, Bethesda has actually embraced VR quite substantially.

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Unlock a Mysterious Journey with ‘The Key’ on Oculus Quest and the Rift Platform

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Winner of the Storyscapes Award at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival and the prestigious Grand Jury Award for Best VR Immersive Experience at the Venice.

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Road to VR Readership Survey 2020

Road to VR

Road to VR is running a survey with our partner Gamer Network to better understand our audience. Your participation is entirely optional and anonymous, but we’d be thrilled if you’d share your responses with us. You may recall that Road to VR partnered with Eurogamer parent company Gamer Network in 2017. In an era where many publications are allowing paid and sponsored content to increasingly bleed into editorial, this partnership allows us to create an important firewall between editorial

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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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Join LiveXLive’s Music Lives Global Music Festival Featuring Swae Lee, Anitta, and More in Oculus Venues

Oculus

Get ready to experience a global music festival from home. Streaming platform LiveXLive is hosting and producing Music Lives—a multi-day event benefiting MusiCares and other.

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XR Swim is a Much Needed Centralized Portal for Discovering WebXR Experiences

Road to VR

While we’ve talked plenty about the power of WebXR —a standard which makes it possible to deliver VR experiences directly from web browsers—there hasn’t been a centralized destination to discover WebXR apps as users would expect from other content platforms. XR Swim is a new portal that aims to deliver just that. Though one major point of WebXR is expressly to offer a way for developers to distribute VR apps easily without being stuck inside a walled platform, such platform storefr

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ARtillery Briefs: Tracking AR Success Traits

AR Insider

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. During consumer AR’s early stages, success stories are relatively rare. But once identified, a lot can be learned from early leaders.

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Gianluigi Perrone: “To make a VR film you need to know the DNA of VR”

The Ghost Howls

Thanks to the WeChat group XR Story I got to know Gianluigi Perrone, a very talented movie director that works a lot with virtual reality , and that also teaches cinema at the Beijing Film Academy. He is Italian like me, but he is living in Beijing, China for 7 years. I met him in China two times, and I still remember the great times we had together in Beijing.

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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.