VRScout
JULY 25, 2017
In March 2014 Facebook bought Oculus and the current wave of interest in VR and AR was reborn. While the public largely scoffed at the awkward goggles, industry pundits proclaimed VR/AR would one day replace our 2D screens, and highlighted education as one of the top applications in the years to come. Some analysts projected that education would be the 4th largest sector for VR/AR investment.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 25, 2017
Earlier this year Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased a new form of input being developed over at Oculus: hand tracking gloves. We only saw them through a picture at first, but now a video has surfaced online showing them in action. An unlisted Oculus video posted last week, unearthed by Reddit , shows the gloves in action. Though there’s no text to accompany the clip it looks like the back of the hand is lined with markers.
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VRScout
JULY 25, 2017
Also watch in your Gear VR, plus much more. Facebook announced a slew of new updates to its 360 live platform today, stepping up the features available to both creators and viewers. Since bringing live 360 video to pages and profiles back in March , we’ve seen a few VR videos pop up in our feed, but were always unsatisfied with the resolution. 4K Support and Watch in VR.
Road to VR
JULY 25, 2017
Facebook today announced new updates coming to their 360 streaming service including live 4k streaming support to VR headsets, image stabilization and a number of features that puts VR-ready 360 video more in line with the company’s standard streaming video service. Facebook also released a list of vetted 360 cameras and software suites so prospective content creators can jump straight into the 360 deep end with full knowledge that what they’re doing conforms to the company’s 3
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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 25, 2017
Much of Project Cars 2’s joy comes from the minute details and exhaustive options developer Slightly Mad Studios gives you. There’s an element of simulation meeting sandbox here. Yes, the game delivers realistic driving that requires a considered approach instead of simple arcade thrills, but where and what you drive is really up to you, as are finer factors like weather and course layout.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 25, 2017
A creepy bus at Comic-Con greeted visitors with the promise of a “Float Cinematic VR Experience” for the upcoming September release of Stephen King’s clown nightmare IT. Games Editor David Jagneaux and I boarded the bus last weekend and found ourselves in a holding room that resembled a large drainage pipe, with only a dim light and Pennywise’s maniacal laughter to keep us company.
Road to VR
JULY 25, 2017
In a few years’ time Google expects to operate Daydream on “Android scale,” one day opening the VR door to “hundreds of millions of users.” But in order to get there, the company needs a much wider selection of Daydream ready Android smartphones. This week Google said they expect 11 Daydream ready phones on the market by the end of 2017.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 25, 2017
A VR headset is available at USC’s Fertility program pre-loaded with adult content and available to men to aid them in collecting their sperm. The facility was given the headset a few weeks ago according to adult entertainment company VR Bangers, and we confirmed with the facility the system has been used. “We are very sensitive to all of our patients’ needs and the stress of collecting a sperm specimen in a doctor’s office is a major source of stress for our male patients,” said Dr.
Road to VR
JULY 25, 2017
Motorola today unveiled their latest phone, the Moto Z2 Force Edition, and alongside it will come a 360-degree camera that the company says snaps onto any phone in the Moto Z lineup. Launching with the Moto Z2 Force on August 10, the little Moto 360 Camera is a part of Motorola’s ‘mods’, or magnetically attached hardware add-ons which include speakers, a better camera, wireless charging shell, battery case, and projector.
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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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 25, 2017
The first version of Microsoft’s HoloLens Mixed Reality headset has plenty of room for improvement, but the company is working on a new version that will sport a new processing unit to enable the device to use deep learning. Marc Pollefeys, Director of Science on the HoloLens project, recently said as much in a new Microsoft blog post. He revealed that the company is upgrading the Holographic Processing Unit (HPU), which handles all of the information from the kits onboard cameras, sensors
Road to VR
JULY 25, 2017
Tiny Trax (2017) , the tiny slot car racing game, is now out for PlayStation VR. Created by Brighton-based studio FuturLab , Tiny Trax gives you the tiny HotWheels-sized cars from your childhood and lets you tear around and the room, do incredible jumps and drift around bends on a slot track otherwise impossible outside of VR. Scaled to mimic a child’s giant toy racing track, you can play 12 track across three environments; Tropical, Fire and Ice and Outer Space.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 25, 2017
When I first heard that Baptiste & Bottle would be serving a new cocktail in a Gear VR I thought that sounded like a waste of an expensive headset with no water proof components. Then I realized how stupid I was being and how cool an idea this really is. This Chicago-based bar and restaurant is known for its ambitious and unusual menu in which nothing is too elaborate.That’s certainly true of its latest invention, The Macallan Rare Journey, revealed by Forbes.
Road to VR
JULY 25, 2017
Smashbox Arena , one of SteamVR’s best rated titles , today launches on Playstation VR. The game plays like a mashup of a first person shooter and a game of dodgeball. Smashbox Arena originally launched for the HTC Vive in late 2016. On SteamVR the game has been well received, holding an impressive 97% positive rating among user reviews and has seen regular updates since launch (including official Rift & Touch support on SteamVR).
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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 25, 2017
We’re only a few days removed from Comic-Con and the news machine is already chugging ahead once again without missing a beat. Even thought we only cover VR, AR, and other mixed reality technologies at this publication it’s still very difficult to keep up with everything that happens in our industry. If you aren’t aware already, we post a lot of trailers, gameplay videos, and more over on the official UploadVR YouTube channel and a lot of those videos don’t end up getting
Slashgear
JULY 25, 2017
Generally speaking, earnings calls are a pretty boring affair, and Alphabet’s own Q2 earnings call yesterday was no different. However, there were a few good morsels of information to be found by sitting through the call, one of them concerning Google’s VR efforts with Daydream. During the call, Google CEO Sundar Pichai gave us an estimate of where Daydream should … Continue reading.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 25, 2017
It’s been a few months now since Facebook rolled out 360 live streaming to pretty much anyone with a camera capable of supporting it. Today, the company is revealing some enhancements to the program. Firstly, the social networking giant is announcing its Live 360 Ready Program which, as the name suggests, is similar to the Oculus Ready PC Program.
AllThingsVR
JULY 25, 2017
Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Urbanbase Raises $1.8M to Turn Apartment Floor Plans Into VR 1) Urbanbase , a Seoul-based startup that makes VR tools for interior planning and design, raises $1.8M in Series A funding. Its investors are CKD Venture Capital, Magellan Technology, and Capstone Partners. Read more here.
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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 25, 2017
In celebration of National Dance Day 2017, Upload LA is hosting an immersive exploration of the intersection between dance and virtual reality. Dance is the ultimate expression of bodily movement while VR is the pinnacle of visual experience. Combine the two together for a powerful, full-body immersive experience. Join us for an evening of dance showcases , 360 films, VR music demos, a sound bath, live immersive visuals, and – of course – dance.
VR Bites
JULY 25, 2017
Check out: UKRifter – Oculus Rift & HTC Vive VR Fun.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 25, 2017
San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) 2017 is one of the largest and most anticipated entertainment industry events on the planet. Actors, directors, writers, artists, developers, and everything in between from all over the world descend on San Diego for a week of pure geek bliss. At one end of the convention center you’ll find people camped out for days waiting to watch a panel and breathe the same air as their favorite actors, while on the other side of it all inside the convention center people li
Slashgear
JULY 25, 2017
We’ve known since this past E3 event that Bethesda has a Fallout 4 VR edition in the works, though it was only revealed for the HTC Vive headset. That arrival is set to take place this upcoming October, but a recent leak reveals apparent support for PlayStation VR as well. The information comes via an alleged GameStop catalog that also … Continue reading.
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?
AllThingsVR
JULY 25, 2017
Facebook Is Adding 4K And Certified Cameras To Its 360 Live Streaming via @UploadVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 25, 2017.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 25, 2017
Tiny Trax is made by FuturLab, the developers behind excellent arcade shoot ’em ups, Velocity and its sequel. Compared through trailers, you might think their latest creation was something of a breather; a vivid tribute to the Scalextric toys from your childhood that wouldn’t require the obsessive skill, patience, concentration and dexterity needed to master its previous two titles.
AllThingsVR
JULY 25, 2017
Google promises 11 Daydream VR phones by the end of the year via @TheVerge [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 25, 2017.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 25, 2017
When we first wrote about Bigscreen over a year ago it represented something we hadn’t seen before. Users were able to invite friends into private virtual rooms where they could stream content together in real-time. Not only that, but it allowed users to stream content from their desktop directly, not just from things available online. That meant you could play a game installed on your hard drive, watch videos saved on your computer, view images, work together on projects, and anything els
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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