VRScout
MAY 15, 2017
The virtual reality industry has a huge opportunity. While the VR/AR space is forming, we have a chance to do things differently. It is a sad state of affairs in the technology industry at large. Women make up less than 20% of the tech space, and only 3% of female students say they would consider a career in tech. In the venture capital space, it is even worse.
Road to VR
MAY 15, 2017
Oculus Research, the VR and AR R&D division of the company, today announced a new display technology that they’re calling the “Focal Surface Display.” The display aims to improve the vergence-accommodation conflict that plagues today’s VR headsets. The company calls the work “groundbreaking.” Oculus Research’s Focal Surface Display prototype | Photo courtesy Oculus.
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VRScout
MAY 15, 2017
Nike is stepping feet first into the future. With the help of Dell and Meta, the global athletic wear company just released an “aggressive” video showing the potential for VR, mixed reality, and more in the future of design. Using Dell’s Canvas tablet computer, the video highlights Nike’s innovative vision for the future of design, including voice control, mixed reality, and haptic technology to streamline the footwear design process.
Road to VR
MAY 15, 2017
Half-Life 2: VR , a revamped version of an older mod which will adapt the beloved Half-Life 2 for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, has been green-lit, signifying Valve’s official acceptance of the mod for distribution on Steam. Although Steam Greenlight’s days are numbered , the Half-Life 2: VR mod which we reported on last week has managed to squeeze through the program in just four days.
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.
VRScout
MAY 15, 2017
Ambition and confusion come together in this outrageous virtual reality experience. Like any emerging technology still in its infancy, virtual reality developers and manufacturers are still experimenting will all different types of concepts and designs for their headsets. All of them searching for that winning formula that could make their particular model the gold standard within the industry.
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Cats and VR
MAY 15, 2017
Baskhead Training is pretty interesting take on VR Basketball. In this game you will be able to to play basketball like never before: this time you’re not the player but the hoop! Your goal is to become the best hoop on earth! It sounds pretty ridiculous but it is actually quite fun. The game has two modes, a Story mode where you will have to face 20 entertaining levels with the help of hoopmaster, your coach.
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MAY 15, 2017
I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve played through Super Mario Bros, but never quite like this. I just became Mario himself; I hopped over Goombas, travelled down pipes, and grew bigger after eating mushrooms. No, I’m not on drugs; I just played 3DNes with my HTC Vive. You’ve probably heard of 3DNes before. When it was released over a year ago now, it transformed many of the classic 2D games available on Nintendo’s beloved first home console into 3D experiences.
Cats and VR
MAY 15, 2017
Award-winning game developer and publisher EnsenaSoft has announced the worldwide release of VR Chair Games for HTC-Vive and Oculus Rift, a fantastic collection of seven challenging VR games suitable to VR enthusiasts of all experience levels. Each game within collection has a duration of four minutes with the ultimate goal of achieving the highest possible score for each gameplay session.
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MAY 15, 2017
The VR ecosystem is far from settling into a rhythm, with developers still experimenting to learn what does and does not work. Nevertheless, players and companies are keeping their eyes open for competitive experiences that could leave a lasting impact on the industry and possibly gain ground in eSports. Companies are also embracing VR and 360-degree video as a spectator platform, such as with SLIVER.tv’s efforts to create a universal spectator platform.
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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.
Slashgear
MAY 15, 2017
Steam has added a new section on its website for VR videos, giving its customers a new way to buy and consume virtual reality content. This new section is being launched in partnership with Pixvana, a Seattle-based company, which is lending technology that will be used for the Steam 360 Video Player, a new beta offering available as of today. … Continue reading.
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MAY 15, 2017
So you’ve just bought your PC and VR headset. You’re raring to jump into virtual worlds but, let’s face it, you’re probably about $1,000 lighter than you were yesterday and gaming is not a cheap hobby. Surely there’s a way to test the waters of VR without having to throw down yet more cash? As it turns out, you have plenty of options.
Road to VR
MAY 15, 2017
Sony’s new VR peripheral, the PSVR Aim , launches today alongside Farpoint , a sci-fi VR FPS that was specially made with the controller in mind. Those who have been PlayStation fans for many years will remember that this isn’t the first time the company has made a gun peripheral, and those prior attempts didn’t see much success. Can Farpoint and PSVR Aim avoid repeating history?
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MAY 15, 2017
Fans of first-person shooter (FPS) specialist Gearbox Software have been very vocal about what they want to see next from the studio: the next installment in the popular Borderlands franchise. VR enthusiasts, however, will be happy to learn the team as a project for headsets in the works too. The SMU Guildhall, a Texas-based university specializing in videogame development, this month announced that 16 of its students had been hired by Gearbox to work on an unannounced VR videogame.
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.
Road to VR
MAY 15, 2017
Straight out of Early Access on May 18th, Detached (2017) promises to deliver that free-flying experience, complete with smooth-turning that only a section of the most hard-core first-person VR junkies crave. Offering a single-player mission based on navigation puzzles and an online capture-the-flag multiplayer, space pioneers hoping for a long-term solution to their need for exciting and comfortable zero-G fun may have to look elsewhere.
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MAY 15, 2017
A few weeks back we wrote about Seeking Dawn , a new VR role-playing game (RPG) from developer Multiverse that looked to bring a lengthy, ambitious adventure to headsets. Today, we’ve got a fresh look at the game in action. Multiverse gave us this sneak peek of Seeking Dawn, with over six minutes of gameplay. After a brief glimpse at the tutorial, we we’re treated to several scenes from the game’s alien world in which you’ll do battle with monsters and soldiers with first
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MAY 15, 2017
Following the $500 million verdict that ZeniMax Media achieved in its case against Facebook-owned VR company, Oculus, ZeniMax (plaintiff) has officially filed a new complaint with a demand for a jury trial against Samsung (defendant). This new complaint filed on Friday, May 12th, 2017 is based off of the verdict from the Oculus trial, alleging that since Samsung’s Gear VR is powered by Oculus, it is “based upon ZeniMax’s intellectual property and includes information obtained by Sam
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MAY 15, 2017
Given that VR headsets are so expensive, we’re always on the lookout for deals that might entice more people to dive in, and UK retailer Game might just have the best offer yet for PlayStation VR (PSVR). The company is currently offering Sony’s headset along with a copy of the rather excellent PSVR compatible survival horror revival, Resident Evil 7 , and the just-launched blockbuster first-person shooter (FPS), Farpoint for £349.99.
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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MAY 15, 2017
Farpoint is a rare game. It’s rare in the sense that it’s one of the first truly made-for-VR titles that is 100% based on full analog stick movement without teleporting around. But most importantly, Farpoint is rare in the sense that it really feels like it has the polish and breadth of a AAA game. Unlike in the case of PlayStation’s Move or Xbox’s Kinect, it seems like Sony is actually getting serious about VR.
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MAY 15, 2017
I’ve never really cared for peripheral devices. As much as I loved playing Guitar Hero and Rock Band (and I really loved it, ask any of my past neighbors) I still hated having to plug extra stuff into my system. Plus, it takes up so much extra room and it never, ever, works as well as advertised. After VR headsets started coming out though I had to get used to having a clunky add-on around really quickly.
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MAY 15, 2017
Remember Perplexus? That brilliantly addictive game in which you’d twist a sphere around, guiding a marble inside around a hugely complicated maze? Well it’s coming to VR, ableit in an unofficial way. Developed by indie studio Braincells, Super Amazeballs uses the accuracy of the Oculus Touch and HTC Vive wands to replicate that experience inside VR.
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