VRScout

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

HoloLens enters spotlight with new updates from Microsoft and a new ad featuring actor/rapper Common. Despite having released a developer edition all the way back in 2016, the Microsoft HoloLens has remained a relatively niche device. However, this hasn’t stopped the immersive mixed reality headset from capturing the hearts and minds of a growing group of dedicated developers — both amateur and professional alike.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

When it comes to VR headsets, one of today’s most noticeable bottlenecks is visual fidelity. When we talk about and compare the visual fidelity of VR headsets we often touch on three key elements: Screen Door Effect, Mura, and Aliasing. Often times we see people mixing these three up, so here’s a quick guide explaining each element and what they actually look like.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

IBM and Unity partner to bring the IBM Watson Unity SDK to the Unity Asset Store to make AI integration easier than ever. Through this partnership developers can easily integrate Watson cloud services into their Unity applications such as visual recognition, speech to text, and language classification. One recent example of the power of IBM Watson in gaming is the recent VR game, Star Trek: Bridge Crew.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Facebook’s annual developer conference, F8, won’t be here until May, but with registration opening today, Oculus head Hugo Barra is teasing some exciting AR and VR news to come. Hugo Barra took over as head of Facebook-owned Oculus back in early 2017 after CEO Brendan Iribe stepped down to lead the company’s PC VR division. Barra’s background in the mobile space—as former VP at Android and Xiaomi—shone brightly earlier this year when Oculus announced a major partnership w

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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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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Tomb Raider VR: Lara's Escape is now available in the Oculus Gear VR Store. Tomb Raider VR: Lara's Escape is an interactive cinematic VR experience based on the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot, starring Academy-Award winner Alicia Vikander (Jason Bourne, The Danish Girl), coming to theaters March 2018. Pursued by soldiers, Lara Croft must into an ancient tomb as only she can.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

US $20 per month for a 20,000-prim region on the hypergrid-enabled UKTurk Grid. OAR exports and imports and other region sizes also available. Primary languages are English and Turkish. There are also free plots available that residents can keep as long as they visit their areas at least once a month. Starter 8,000-prim region is $5 a month, there are also variable sized regions and discounts for payment in advance.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

That $60 yearly membership to PS Plus is definitely paying off for US-based PSVR owners this time around, as this next batch of discounts is putting over 100 PSVR items on sale including games and DLC. The sale lasts until February 27th. Notable titles coming in hot with at least 70% off are DiRT Rally Plus, Eagle Flight, Werewolves Within, I Expect You to Die, Windlands, Thumper, and Until Dawn: Rush of Blood. .

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

US $7 per month for a 15,000 prim region on the hypergrid-enabled Eros Resort grid. There is a sale starting on February 12 where you can get a second region for free. All regions include voice. There is also a four-by-four variable-sized region for $20 a month. Private servers are also available: $25 per month for a private server that can hold one region. $35 per month for a private server that can hold up to three regions. $75 per month for a private server than can hold ten regions or more.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Charm Games, the developers behind the fantastic (albeit fairly short) otherworldly puzzle game FORM (2017) , today unveiled their next upcoming VR title. Called Twilight Path , the puzzle game will take you on what Charm calls a fantasy adventure “to meet wandering spirits, enchanted sentries, and mischievous gods.” Slated to arrive summer 2018, we don’t have a good idea yet what headsets will be supported.

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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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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Mobile virtual reality before Qualcomm’s newest line of VR hardware made for a fairly decent experience. Samsung had their VR headset that worked with Galaxy S and Note devices, and Google brought the first wave in with Cardboard, Daydream, and so on. But now it’s time to get serious about processor action. Now it’s time for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 … Continue reading.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

US $8.50 for a 20,000-prim region on the hypergrid-enabled GeVolution grid, with a 14-day free trial. Grid offers Vivox voice and the local GV$ currency, and supports variable-sized regions. A residential starter region with 7,500 prims is $5 per month. Variable sized regions: 4-region varregion with 50,000 prims: $18.50 per month. 16-region varregion with 100,000 prims: $38.50 per month. 32-region varregion with 150,000 prims: $58.50 per month. 64-region varregion with 200,000 prims: $78.50 per

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The long-awaited (especially with men population), next Swimsuit Edition of Sports Illustrated is going to be its most immersive experience, as the spread is set to become available in VR, including on Windows Mixed Reality. Courtesy of the LIFE VR app in the Microsoft Store, Swimsuit Editor MJ Day will offer viewers a behind-the-scenes look at how the issue was created.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

US $11 per month for 16,000-prim region on the hypergrid-enabled Tranquility Virtual Grid. The grid is an English-language commercial grid with Vivox voice and the local T$ virtual currency via Podex. New residents can get a free home for 28 days. There is also a quarter-region residential plot for $3 per month. Other region sizes also available: 10,000-prim region is $6 per month.

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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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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Nowadays, we’re being witnesses of robots integrating to our society in the most, we could dare to say, beautiful manner. There are robot cooks, robot vacuum cleaners, autonomous drones or even robot pets that help disabled people doing their everyday chores. Kepler Technologies is developing the world’s first decentralized ecosystem for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics development.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Qualcomm today revealed a new ‘VRDK’ standalone reference headset based on their Snapdragon 845 chip. The reference design—which serves as a blueprint for Qualcomm customers who may want to build their own VR headsets based on the design—boasts an impressive set of specifications. Qualcomm’s prior 835 VDRK is the seed from which most of today’s major standalone VR headsets were born , including the Vive Focus, Mirage Solo, and Pico Neo.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Ahead of the 2018 Mobile World Congress, Qualcomm is pulling out the big guns with the announcement of their Snapdragon 845 chipset and its VR-centric features. They’re pushing these features under the wider “Xtended Reality (XR)” umbrella, which includes AR as well. With the Snapdragon 845 reference design, Qualcomm is bringing a number of features to the table.

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VeeR VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Sex Like Real is the biggest VR porn site available through major VR platforms, and now VeeR just became a fresh addition to that collection. You can check out and follow their VeeR channel for free, fresh erotic content updates! Visit Sex Like Real's VeeR Channel. To give you a taste of their content, we've included two video clips from their channel here: NSFW Warning The following content includes NSFW scenes.

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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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