Sun.Aug 13, 2017

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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

VRScout

An evening dedicated to celebrating the past years VR accomplishments. Back in March, VR Bound along with their partners AMD , Foundry and HP asked VR enthusiast from all around the globe to nominate VR experiences, hardware, startups and innovations in 12 different categories for the inaugural 2017 VR Awards ; an elegant black-tie event which will be held at the legendary Central London venue 8 Northumberland Avenue on October 9th.

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EVE: Valkyrie Now Supports Oculus Touch as a Gamepad Alternative

Road to VR

CCP Games have rolled out a small ‘2017_R3.1’ update this week, enabling work-in-progress support for Oculus Touch. As described on the EVE: Valkyrie website , this attempts to map the gamepad controls to the buttons, triggers and sticks of the Touch controllers, rather than using motion. As a bundled launch game for the Oculus Rift (which originally shipped with an Xbox One gamepad and no motion controllers), EVE: Valkyrie was specifically designed as a seated VR experience with gamepad control

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The Team Behind Goat Simulator to publish VR Puppet Charades Hybrid game Puppet Fever

Cats and VR

Puppet Fever is Coffee Stain’s (Goat Simulator) first VR project and marks Coffee Stain’s first contribution to making VR the future of gaming. It is developed by Swedish indie studio Coastalbyte. Coastalbyte was early to pick up VR development and found a match made in heaven during Dreamhack Winter 2016. Coffee Stain Publishing hosted a VR game jam in order to scout new teams and projects.

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Sports Illustrated’s college football preview magazine makes the jump to augmented reality via.

AllThingsVR

Sports Illustrated’s college football preview magazine makes the jump to augmented reality via @awfulannouncing [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 14, 2017.

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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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Oculus Details ‘Buffered Haptics’ for Advanced Haptics on Touch Controllers

Road to VR

Oculus has added new documentation to their developer knowledge base detailing the ‘buffered haptics’ feature of the Oculus SDK, a method for programming more advanced haptic feedback from the company’s Touch controllers. Oculus Touch uses linear actuators to provide feedback, a haptic technology which has been increasingly replacing the simple ‘rumble’ feedback common console gamepads.

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Oculus Connect 4 reveals first sessions and workshops, Lone Echo postmortem via @UploadVR.

AllThingsVR

Oculus Connect 4 reveals first sessions and workshops, Lone Echo postmortem via @UploadVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 13, 2017.

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HTC is Giving Away a Vive to Celebrate The International Dota 2 Championships via @RtoVR.

AllThingsVR

HTC is Giving Away a Vive to Celebrate The International Dota 2 Championships via @RtoVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 13, 2017.

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NextVR’s night camera brings ghost hunting into virtual reality via @VentureBeat.

AllThingsVR

NextVR’s night camera brings ghost hunting into virtual reality via @VentureBeat [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 13, 2017.

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VR robots could help teleport juries to crime scenes via @TheNextWeb [link]

AllThingsVR

VR robots could help teleport juries to crime scenes via @TheNextWeb [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 13, 2017.

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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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Viacom Next + NYC Media Lab Present New VR Projects via @VRScout [link]

AllThingsVR

Viacom Next + NYC Media Lab Present New VR Projects via @VRScout [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 13, 2017.