VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It’s that time of the year again. While companies like Walmart are preparing for the busiest shopping day of the year with Black Friday VR training simulators , i’m sure all you really care about is how to save some major dough this holiday weekend. Whether you’re finally ready to pull the trigger and get a VR headset of your own, or you’re looking to bump up immersion with sweet new accessories, there are some serious Black Friday discounts to be had this week.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Toyota recently revealed T-HR3, the company’s third-generation humanoid robot. Designed primarily as an experiment to explore new technologies to make robots more physically capable, T-HR3 demonstrates a new “remote maneuvering system” that not only mirrors a user’s movements to the robot, but lets them see and interact with the world through the ‘eyes’ and arms of the robot using a robotic exoskeleton, an HTC Vive headset, and a pair of Vive Trackers.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The densely populated city looks to VR & AR to honor the dead while saving time, money and precious space. Hong Kong was home to over 7.34 million residents in 2016, with that number expected to rise greatly by the end of this year. As a result, the city has been diced up into residential cubicles ensnared within winding tunnels and flyovers, leaving very little room for anything deemed nonessential.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Taeyong Kim, VP of Samsung Electronics and Head of Graphics R&D, took the stage last month at the company’s annual developer conference to talk a little bit about the future of VR for the company. While no big reveals were expected for the talk, Kim actually mentioned to the crowd that the company is actively working on a standalone VR headset with inside-out tracking and 6 DoF controllers as their ‘next mobile VR product’ “The question is, how do we combine the benef

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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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VR Game Critic

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Since the day tabletop RPGs first were brought into our digital era, role-playing games have enthralled and entertained through epic quests for gold, slaying of dragons and monsters, and for letting us take on the role of the hero. Fantasy RPGs exist in many forms and virtual reality gaming wouldn’t be complete without bounteous options to materialize in magical lands.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

First, I’d like to apologize. I first noticed that Zetamex had posted its OpenSim hosting prices over the summer, and meant to do a story then, even contacting the company and some of its customers for quotes. But then a family medical emergency happened, and I’ve spent much of the last couple of months in the hospital. (Things are better now, but we’re not out of the woods yet.).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Facebook Spaces , the company’s social VR platform available on Oculus Rift, has updated to include a new mini-game that aims to pave the way for more yet to come. Called Bait! Arctic Open, the game lets you ice fish while you shoot the breeze with your VR buddies. Announced during the Oculus Connect developer conference this year alongside the news that Home will soon get a full social overhaul , Facebook has finally released their first game for Spaces, a Rift-native iteration of Resol

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