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Rift Update Straightens Carpet, Improves Multi-Sensor Setups

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Rift leader Nate Mitchell confirmed an update is rolling out to owners of the Facebook VR headset that smooths out the carpet on the floor seen in Oculus Home while also improving the way larger tracking setups work. “A big focus this month on making sure 3+ sensor setups are working optimally,” Mitchell wrote on Twitter. The rumpled carpet seen on the floor of Oculus Home (where Rift owners select apps to visit) has been a minor annoyance to some who would prefer a tidier living roo

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Experience All Of Sunday’s Super Bowl And Puppy Bowl Excitement In VR

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Fox Sports and Animal Planet are embracing VR with game day experiences for Google Cardboard & Gear VR. The United States most watched television event returns this Sunday as Super Bowl LI makes its way to NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. While most football buffs will no doubt be planted firmly in front of of their monstrous 60-inch TV’s, several leading providers are still experimenting with alternative types of immersive Super Bowl content to go alongside the main event.

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New PlayStation VR Releases For Week Of 01/29/17

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We hope you’re still enjoying Resident Evil 7 [ Review: 9/10 ], because it’s another quiet week here on the PlayStation VR front. Just one fully new game graces this week’s release list and one DLC pack. They’re both good, but it’s still overall light on content. If you get into the PS4’s 4.50 system software beta update, though, you can check out 3D Blu-rays in stereoscopic 3D.

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‘Rick and Morty’ Co-creator to Keynote VRLA Expo 2017 – Save 15% on Tickets

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After announcing the launch of a VR studio last year, Justin Roiland, the co-creator of the hit animated show Rick and Morty , is set to deliver the keynote address at VRLA Expo 2017. VRLA Expo is one of the industry’s largest and longest running events. Hosted once again this year at the Los Angeles Convention Center, April 14th & 15th, VRLA promises that the 2017 Expo will be the biggest yet, gathering together leading names in the VR industry for two days of demos, educational sess

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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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The 2017 Virtual Reality Conference and Expo Schedule

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2016 could be considered the official introduction of virtual reality to the world and many industries have either embraced the technology at varying levels or simply started paying attention to movements within the industry. 2017 is going to be a pivotal year for the technology’s growth and there will be many events welcoming VR as an auxiliary experience or fully focusing on the potential of the immersive tech.

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New LCD Tech Could Give Us Sharper VR Displays

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VR fans are eagerly awaiting the introduction of 4K displays into major headsets, but new LCD technology could help get them there and even go beyond in the near future. The Optical Society this week published a research report carried out by an international team looking into ‘blue-phase liquid crystal for field-sequential-color displays’ That might mean very little to you at first glance, but research team leader, Shin-Tson Wu of the University of Central Florida’s College of Optic

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Oculus, ZeniMax, NDA's, & a bunch of money.

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Oculus left 2016 with troubles and has entered 2017 with even more. A Texas jury awarded half a billion dollars to ZeniMax. ZeniMax accused Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey to failing to comply with a non-disclosure agreement he signed. Of the $500 million, Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe have to pay $50 million for false designation and Iribe has to pay an additional $150 million.

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Sony: Future PlayStation Consoles Could Be A ‘Peripheral’ For PSVR

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Right now, Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) headset is seen as a peripheral for its PlayStation 4 console. In the future, that perception might switch. That is according to Warwick Light, the head of PlayStation UK. Speaking in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz , Light spoke about how VR represented the innovation coming from the company. “VR has huge potential,” he said. “That should help us address that lifecycle.

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Knockout League Is VR Boxing At Its Ridiculous Best

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Thanks to VR, I’ve stood toe-to-toe with zombies, killer robots, giant spiders, and psychopathic killers, but none of them were as intimidating as Tri-Tip. Knockout League’s first fight is with this Brazilian boxer. The match is a bewildering mix of both belittlement and empowerment. At first I cower at the site of this brute, sturdy as an oak tree with a glare that could send men running.

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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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PS4’s New Software Update Turns PSVR Into Your Personal 3D Blu-ray Player

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As much as Sony would have liked them to, 3D TVs never quite panned out. But the company has found a use for all those old 3D Blu-rays you’ve stored up over the past few years, and it involves PlayStation VR (PSVR). Sony today announced the launch of beta testing for the latest system software update to the PlayStation 4, 4.50. Testers will get advanced access to features like external HDD support and custom wallpapers, but there is one significant update for PSVR owners, too. 4.50 will le

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Neverout, Gear VR’s Best Puzzle Game, Is Coming To Rift And Vive Soon

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Plenty of great VR games fly under the radar, but Neverout is one you definitely shouldn’t miss. This was one of the best Gear VR games of 2016, and soon it will be available on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. I know so, because I’ve played the Rift version of SETAPP’s first-person puzzler this week. It’s the same game as it was on mobile VR, with a core mechanic that lets players walk on any surface in a square room, with that surface then becoming the floor and gravity shifti

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GameSir G3s Controller Review: Comfortable and Versatile for VR Gaming

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Something like a gamepad is often overlooked when it comes to the most essential, necessary items for a gamer to have in their arsenal. If you play on PC, then your keyboard and mouse are likely your bread and butter. Console gamers have their dedicated PS4 and Xbox One controllers — both of which are excellent and extremely high-quality. But with the advent of VR headsets, the need for a capable and comfortable gamepad is more important than ever.

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New Oculus Rift And Gear VR Releases For Week Of 01/29/17

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It’s a rare week here in Oculus camp; there are actually quite a few more Rift releases than there are Gear VR ones. In fact, that might be the first time ever that’s happened, as there aren’t actually any new Gear games at all this week. Rift is picking up the slack, though, with a decent selection of new titles for both Touch controllers and the gamepad.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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Mass Exodus is A Fascinating Evolution of Asymmetrical VR Multiplayer

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VR devices are home to some of the best asymmetrical multiplayer experiences out there. These are the sorts of games that pit players against one another in completely different roles. For example, Evolve from Turtle Rock Studios is a relatively popular (although with a mixed reception) recent asymmetrical game in which one player is a giant monster and a team of soldier players are tasked with taking them down.

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New HTC Vive Releases For The Week Of 01/29/17

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We’re starting to dig into the second month of 2017 and have a solid handful of new experiences this week spanning from social platforms to virtual escapist villas. Our first highlight is VRChat , a deeply customizable and free social VR application that could potentially see plenty people burning hours at a time in virtual reality. Hollywood Hills Mansion is a minor highlight and it provides a visually appealing, photo-realistic luxury villa for players to explore or just relax and throw

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