VRScout

MARCH 29, 2017

The VR segment returns to The Tonight Show with new A-list competitors. . Jimmy Fallon made waves back in December when he first introduced the latest Tonight Show segment dedicated to pitting celebrities against each other in bizarre ways, VR Pictionary. Audiences were treated to a hysterical contest as Michael Che of SNL’s Weekend Update and Andrew Rannells of HBO’s Girls used the popular VR art tool Tiltbrush to battle each other in a round of three-dimensional Pictionary.

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MARCH 29, 2017

On the list of things I thought I would be seeing when I showed up to a meeting with Oculus last week to demo the new Gear VR, doubled resolution was not one of them. Increasing the resolution of virtual reality headsets is at the very top of many people’s “Problems to Solve” list including my own. I assumed it would take a significant jump in hardware to get to that next level of image fidelity, but apparently Oculus CTO John Carmack had other ideas.

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VRScout

MARCH 29, 2017

The mobile giant is doubling down on VR with new hardware and content. One of Samsung’s biggest annual events, Samsung Unpacked , took place earlier today in NYC where live attendees and online spectators saw the debut of Samsung’s latest mobile effort, the Galaxy S8 and S8+. With a brand new voice-activated AI, 5.8-inch and 6.2-inch Quad HD+ displays and an accessory that converts the phone into a desktop PC, this is shaping up to be the company’s biggest device yet.

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MARCH 29, 2017

Back in October Microsoft unveiled a bold new vision for its Windows 10 operating system named the Creator’s Update, and mixed reality technology played a big part in it. Today, that revamp has finally been dated. Microsoft will begin rolling out the latest iteration of its operating system April 11, and the company confirmed to UploadVR that mixed reality (MR) support will be included.

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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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MARCH 29, 2017

Held from May 8-11th in Silicon Valley at the San Jose Convention Center, NVIDIA’s GTC 2017 session schedule is chock full of deep tech talks that we’re looking forward to. Among them, Senior NVIDIA Research Scientist Anjul Patney will overview the company’s latest learnings from their study of the ‘perceptually-based’ approach to foveated rendering.

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Road to VR

MARCH 29, 2017

Nate Mitchell, Head of Rift at Oculus. I had a chance to catch up with Oculus’ Nate Mitchell at GDC where I asked him about privacy in VR. Oculus has delegated the design and maintenance of their privacy policy to their parent company of Facebook so that Oculus can focus on providing the best VR experiences and growing the VR ecosystem. Mitchell acknowledges that there are “a lot of potential pitfalls over the future of VR and AR around user privacy” because VR has a “dou

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MARCH 29, 2017

The trailer for the fourth season of HBO’s Silicon Valley is out and it looks like Pied Piper’s technology might be used to improve virtual reality. The show has referenced VR multiple times in its first three seasons, but it looks like it may play a major role in the next season with the trailer referencing the technology multiple times. “It worked, I mean the VR is rad now,” Gilfoyle tells Pied Piper founder Richard Hendricks, who is shown wearing a prototype head-mount

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Cats and VR

MARCH 29, 2017

The Invisible Hours is a complex, murder mystery set in VR, which allows players to freely explore an intricate web of interwoven stories within a sprawling old mansion, in order to untangle a dark truth. Developed by Madrid-based Tequila Works in partnership with GameTrust, The Invisible Hours sets the stage for a deeply immersive theater VR experience.

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MARCH 29, 2017

Oculus and Samsung have announced that the latest edition of the Gear VR mobile VR headset will be releasing on April 21. The standard $99 price will be raised to $129 to accommodate the cost of the new motion controller that is being bundled with the headset. The controller by itself will be available for purchase at $40. Earlier this month, Oculus and Samsung revealed a new Gear VR that would include a wireless motion controller similar to the Google Daydream View.

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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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MARCH 29, 2017

Samsung announced that the new Gear VR will be available on April 21st for $129 during its Galaxy S8 event today. It comes with the new Gear VR controller but current owners of older Gear VR models can also nab it separately for $39. Google Daydream hit the market with its own controller with a trackpad and a few buttons but Samsung has come out swinging.

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MARCH 29, 2017

This week sees the launch of the long-anticipated live action remake of beloved anime movie, Ghost in the Shell, starring Scarlett Johansson. As you probably guessed, there’ll be a VR experience tying into the movie too. This isn’t just any old 360 video, though; this is a new Oculus Studios project, created as a collaboration between production studios Rewind, Here Be Dragons, and Paramount and Dreamworks.

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MARCH 29, 2017

Samsung wasn’t the first to the 360-degree camera market, but its original Gear 360 was one of the easiest to use. Now, there’s a new version for 2017 and the Galaxy S8 and S8+, with true 4K capture and higher-resolution livestreaming. It’s also come in for a redesign, with Samsung refining the original aesthetic to make it easier to carry … Continue reading.

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MARCH 29, 2017

There are many experiments by creators utilizing the VR platform as they try to find unique content that’s either fully interactive or more of a hands-off narrative experience. Gary The Gull is an attempt that floats in between the two styles as a short film with reactive AI. Gary’s interactive elements were made possible by the Limitless VR Creative Environment and, courtesy of a partnership between Limitless Ltd and High Fidelity, everyone will now be able to us their toolset to cr

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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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MARCH 29, 2017

Along with the new Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ there’s a new Gear VR with Controller to turn the Android smartphones into a virtual reality experience. Though the headset itself is much the same as the existing Gear VR, though now with a dock inside that accommodates the new flagship phones, what’s new is the Oculus-powered Gear VR Controller.

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MARCH 29, 2017

Back in January IMAX opened the doors to its first pilot center for its location-based VR initiative. When we tried it for ourselves , we were curious as to what kind of a reaction the center would get from the general public. Now we know. The center has seen 15,000 admissions since it opened on January 6th, IMAX confirmed to UploadVR. On average that works out to around 1,363 people a week visiting the center.

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Wired VR

MARCH 29, 2017

Gear VR games should get a lot easier to navigate, thanks to a new controller and an overhauled Oculus app. The post Gear VR Just Took a Huge Leap Forward (Thanks to Oculus) appeared first on WIRED.

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MARCH 29, 2017

The Insta360 cameras attach to the charging port your Android or iPhone for filming in 360 degrees, and with a new update to the company’s app today owners will be able to livestream that view to Facebook. The Insta360 Nano ($200 for iPhone) and Insta360 Air ($130 for Android) get the capability through an update to their dedicated apps. The company is also planning the Insta360 Pro, a “professional-level” 8K camera, for release in Q2 that is said to also be integrated with Fac

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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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MARCH 29, 2017

Valve’s SteamVR Tracking system is great for VR but certainly not limited to it. For developers, hackers, researchers, and more who might have use for an inexpensive high accuracy, low latency, 6 DOF positional tracking system, it’s possible to use the new Vive Trackers or controllers (even with a single base station) without needing to shell out for the full $800 Vive system.

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MARCH 29, 2017

The virtual reality gaming scene in its first year went through a predictable obsession with outer space. The deep space isolation game ADR1FT was there for Rift buyers on day one, along with dog fighting flight combat game EVE: Valkyrie , and countless others ever since. Space represents the final frontier, the great unknown, and a technological destination for countless people.

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MARCH 29, 2017

On stage today at Samsung’s Unpacked Event in New York, the new Gear VR with motion controller finally got a launch date and price. The new 2017 Gear VR and Controller combo, announced alongside the Galaxy S8, will be available starting April 21st for $129. The motion controller, which can be purchased separately for people that already own an older Gear VR headset, will set you back $39.

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MARCH 29, 2017

Samsung and Oculus are announcing some big changes to their Gear VR mobile VR headset. A new controller, new experiences and a brand new Oculus Home are either arriving today or on the way for fans of this powerful little system. Oculus Home, the main content and navigation hub, is getting a top to bottom redesign. According to Oculus: Today, we’re also rolling out our biggest mobile platform update yet.

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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?

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MARCH 29, 2017

Announced today at Samsung Unpacked was a new version of the Gear 360, the company’s 360 camera. The event, which saw official announcement of the Galaxy S8/S8 plus and pricing info of the new Gear VR , revealed that the new Gear 360 is capable of capturing 360 video in 4K (4096 x 2160) at 24 fps, and livestreaming 2K to Facebook and YouTube.

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MARCH 29, 2017

Despite their corporate fraternity, the Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR don’t cross over with each other very often when it comes to content. Certain applications will often be available on the one and not the other (looking at you March Madness). Game ports do happen but they typically flow from the less powerful Gear on up to its beefy older brother.

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AllThingsVR

MARCH 29, 2017

Weekly Funding Roundup: Lightform gets $26 million, Vive X is investing in 30 startups, Facebook hiring former Apple engineer, & Sliver VR raised $16 million in VC funding. 1. Lightform, a company that aims to take immersive projection mapping research projects and transform them into easy-to-use real world cases, just received $26 million in funding.

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MARCH 29, 2017

The VR ecosystem is jam-packed full of shooters, zombie games, escape the room puzzles, and dense horror fests, but it’s severely lacking in one of gaming’s greatest and most iconic genres: the hack and slash roleplaying game. Popularized by the likes of Diablo, Devil May Cry, God of War and other franchises with similar elements, these games are all about flashy combat, addictive combos, and tons of enemies.

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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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