VRScout
MARCH 13, 2017
Pollutants become monsters in this HTC Vive clean water educational game. It seems like there’s been a surge in environmental awareness VR Content recently, but it’s never been done quite like this. Non-profit organization Water is Life, known for creative campaigns including Hashtag Killer and Kenya Bucket List, has taken activism VR to new heights with brand new game, Hidden Dangers.
Road to VR
MARCH 13, 2017
A recently published Google’s patent application describes an ‘ Integrated mobile device packaging and virtual reality headset ’. The concept is to provide a ‘relatively low cost’ VR headset solution by shipping the smartphone in packaging that doubles as a VR viewer. Google introduced Cardboard, their inexpensive VR solution to the world in 2014, producing a VR viewer enclosure for smartphones made from Cardboard.
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MARCH 13, 2017
This guest post is contributed by the creators behind a new augmented reality toolkit that brings AR to the Web on mobile phones. The possibilities of augmented reality are countless and we haven’t even scratched the surface yet. We’ve been passionate about developing web-based AR for a long time. We would like AR to be useful for the world, to stop being a promise and become a reality.
Road to VR
MARCH 13, 2017
The Guru 360° is the first 3-axis gimbal designed specifically for 360-degree cameras. Adding to the flexibility of the MOZA interchangeable gimbal system, the unit works with all lightweight 360-degree cameras with minimal obstruction to the field of view. 360-degree or spherical video has played a significant role in the growth of modern VR, introducing the concept of ‘free-look’ to the mainstream consumer through social media, thanks to 360 video support on platforms like YouTube and Facebook
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 13, 2017
Police dog’s trained noses means that no smells slip past them. Now, with the help of VR, they can be the force’s all-seeing eyes too. Beijing police have started fitting their dogs with 360 degree cameras, China News is reporting. Attached to a special harness and sitting on the dog’s back, these cameras capture a panoramic view of everything happening around them.
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MARCH 13, 2017
Vive-maker HTC has been adamant that it’s against exclusive content in the VR ecosystem thus far. In fact, it would go as far as to say rival Oculus’ exclusive games are “problematic” for the industry. Speaking to Gamespot , Vice President of Global VR Content Joel Breton said that Oculus’ own approach to exclusivity with its Oculus Studios games was “hampering developers’ ability to create large communities by blocking them out from other platforms.R
AllThingsVR
MARCH 13, 2017
The Big Secret About (Virtual) Reality Every mode of communication that was ever invented–from the alphabet to the printing press, to the telegraph, the telephone, the Internet, and now to virtual reality–stems from one unifying human craving: the need to feel less alone. Read more here.
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MARCH 13, 2017
Mixed reality is set to dominate the working world in the years to come, arguably even more so than virtual reality. But a lot of companies that want to use the tech lack to expertise to actually develop for it. That’s where Microsoft’s HoloLens Agency Readiness Partner Program comes in. Just as its long-winded title suggests, this scheme is designed to recognize studios that have a broad knowledge of and lots of experience with Microsoft’s MR headset.
AllThingsVR
MARCH 13, 2017
From Within: Why VR And Empathy Go Hand In Hand TV shows and books can elicit emotions, but you always realize you’re watching TV or reading a book. In VR, you are so immersed in the technology that lizard part of your brain doesn’t recognize you’re in VR and just accepts this is where you are now.” Journalist and author David M. Ewalt talks about the mind of every VR enthusiast and critic – how the innovation can transport us into worlds in a way unlike any other medium to date, and thus can be
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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 13, 2017
Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) looks set to kick things up a notch next month, as anticipated new games finally arrive for the platform. One such title is Statik. This promising new puzzle game from Sweden-based developer Tarsier Studios was announced just ahead of E3 2016 last June, and we’ve kept an eye on it ever since. Today, the game’s release date has slipped out via the EU PlayStation Store.
AllThingsVR
MARCH 13, 2017
Psychologists Use VR to Test Whether You’ll Save Someone’s Life In a study published on Wednesday in the journal Neuropsychologia, Patil and his fellow researchers found that test subjects who helped the struggling colleague also possessed a larger right anterior insula. This part of the brain, according to the authors, is associated with emotional processing in social situations.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MARCH 13, 2017
Valve dropped some interesting VR user data onto its community pages during GDC, providing an easily missed but important update about how people are using the Steam platform for virtual reality in the wake of Oculus Touch. Most interestingly, Valve’s Jeep Barnett wrote “the number of Rifts playing VR games through Steam doubled in December with the addition of optional motion controls.” This is pretty significant, as it highlights how important it is to buyers of the Oculus To
AllThingsVR
MARCH 13, 2017
Bringing Typography Insight from HoloLens (AR) to Vive (VR) Type is beautiful in 3D space. Typography Insight encourages you to experience, layout and to play with type in 3D virtual reality space. It will help you understand the characteristics of type in VR. The app is composed of three feature areas. Read more here.
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 13, 2017
Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) has embraced 360 video with surprising readiness since launch last October with a suite of free apps and, more recently, support for YouTube 360 content. This month, though, the platform gets its first premium 360 app. That app is Virry VR, a nature documentary set in the Kenyan Savannas that gives viewers several close encounters with African wildlife.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MARCH 13, 2017
The cost of virtual reality headsets created using Intel’s Project Alloy reference design is going to be “closer to $1000” according to Achin Bhowmik, the head of the company’s perceptual computing group. During an interview with UploadVR, Bhowmik explained that the price of Project Alloy-powered VR headsets would be “comparable to a typical laptop” and estimated that the likely all-in cost for one of these will be anywhere from $599-$899.
Road to VR
MARCH 13, 2017
Everyone in the VR industry can envision a world in the next 10 years that’s radically changed by virtual reality. From healthcare, education, social, training, cinema, gaming, and more, VR has a lot of Killer Use-cases. But it seems most of the industry is in agreement that the Killer App—a single, platform-defining piece of software that compels buyers—has not yet arrived.
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
MARCH 13, 2017
I’ve never had as pleasantly a distracted interview as when I spoke to Ru Weerasuriya last week. As I spoke with the Ready At Dawn founder at an Oculus event in London, he kept pausing to glance over at someone playing the studio’s debut VR game, Lone Echo, either of his own choosing or when a fellow developer would excitedly beckon his attention.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MARCH 13, 2017
The biggest problem with a lot of fantasy roleplaying games (RPGs) is that they seem to struggle to stand out. Most of them all have bow and arrow-wielding archers, sword and shield carrying warriors, magic channeling wizards, and clerics, but few of them find interesting ways to make those classes and archetypes fun again. That’s where Karnage Chronicles comes in, an upcoming cooperative multiplayer RPG from Nordic Trolls that we had the chance to go hands-on with at the 2017 Game Develop
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