Road to VR
JUNE 23, 2017
On August 7th 2017, YouTube Space LA hosts the beginning of the VR Creator Lab, a 3-month program to assist content creators in producing “original and experimental” 360-degree videos. Along with regular mentoring and advanced education from leading VR instructors, participants will receive $30K–$40K in funding toward the VR video production projects.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 23, 2017
Five months on from launch and Capcom’s Resident Evil 7 is still the biggest game to come to Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) thus far. Using an optional stat-tracking service, we know that quite a few people have tried the game with this VR support. In fact the sheer number of people playing in VR has been a surprise even to Sony itself. Head of Sales and Marketing Jim Ryan revealed as much in an E3 interview with GamesIndustry.biz.
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Road to VR
JUNE 23, 2017
In February, ZeniMax filed an injunction to request the worldwide blocking of sales of products that use Oculus software, which includes both Rift and Gear VR hardware, following a recent high-profile court case against Facebook/Oculus. According to a Bloomberg report , the hearing was held on Tuesday, where Oculus’ lawyers fought the ban, which has so far not seen a ruling.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 23, 2017
Vindicta caught my eye a few months back for making the kinds of promises we all want to hear: a full VR FPS campaign with natural locomotion and no wave shooting. Naturally, I followed up with developer Game Cooks as soon as possible, but my heart sank a little when I learned it had only been in development since the beginning of the year. Still, the team made the right decision to delay the game’s Early Access release by a few more months to flesh it out a little, and now it’s fina
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.
Road to VR
JUNE 23, 2017
As part of the Steam Summer Sale, HTC is offering a rare $50 discount on the Vive headset, along with a $50 Steam gift card to capitalize on VR deals during the sale. The bundle also includes the recently released Star Trek: Bridge Crew , and two older VR games. If you’re looking to buy a Vive, this is likely the best official deal you’re going to find before the holiday season.
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Road to VR
JUNE 23, 2017
At E3 this month we learned that the intriguing multiplayer mode of Lone Echo will be spun out into its own game called Echo Arena. While both Lone Echo and Echo Arena launch on July 20th, the latter is in open beta for this weekend only, available now. The Echo Arena open beta runs until June 25th at 8:00PM PT and is available to download now on the Oculus store , Touch controllers are required.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 23, 2017
Gran Turismo Sport is coming out later this year, but the promised PlayStation VR (PSVR) support is sounding increasingly underwhelming. From the sounds of it, the game’s developer isn’t too impressed either. Speaking to VentureBeat , Gran Turismo creator and director Kazunori Yamauchi noted that he had hoped current VR technology like PSVR would be better than it currently is. “The first head-mounted display was created before I was born, around 1962,” Yamauchi explained
Road to VR
JUNE 23, 2017
Since our preview with the graphically impressive VR RPG The SoulKeeper VR back in April, we’ve been looking forward to the launch of the game. Developer HELM Systems has finally announced that the game will launch in Early Access on August 15th, and have a new trailer to accompany the announcement (heading this article). SEE ALSO Preview: Visually Dazzling VR RPG ‘The SoulKeeper VR’ Plans For a Full Story With Deep Lore.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 23, 2017
8i continues to blaze a trail through the immersive industry with its capture technology, cultivating partnerships with companies such as L’Oreal and even enabling legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin to give us an in-person explanation on how we’ll colonize Mars. VidCon is a celebration of online videos from the viewers to the creators and 8i took to the annual conference to share that it is making the technology available to consumers by way of a new app called Holo, which allows them t
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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
JUNE 23, 2017
One of the remaining problems with VR, AR, and MR platforms is input. All of them use one form of stick or another, and none of them currently emulate the feel of a hand moving and grasping in the real world. Valve, however, might be coming close to a solution without having to resort to gloves or exoskeletons. The “Knuckles”, … Continue reading.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 23, 2017
Welcome to another week chronicling the latest releases for HTC Vive. We’ve got a couple highlights for you that are of incredibly different flavors. Chess Ultra is a visually impressive experience that pits you either against online players or a collection of AI modeled after chess grandmasters. VINDICTA channels expertise of a different kind, giving you a shooting experience that’s enhanced by insight given to the dev team from a military expert.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 23, 2017
University Of Michigan Deploys Augmented Reality System To Aid Testing Of Automated Vehicles via @Forbes [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 23, 2017.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 23, 2017
There’s not a whole load of new on either of the Oculus stores this week but there’s a very good reason for that; the Summer Sale is now on and you can get a heck of a lot of games at great prices. Still, if you are in the market for something new we have just a few interesting pieces to highlight. If you missed last week’s releases you can see those releases 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.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 23, 2017
Emmys: Doug Liman Urges Industry to “Stop Making Excuses” and Consider VR via @THR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 24, 2017.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 23, 2017
E3 might have held plenty of surprises for PlayStation VR (PSVR) fans, but there’s not much to exactly play on the headset at the moment. There are no new games on PSVR this week, but there is one short film that we fully recommend you check out. If you missed the previous entry of this list you can see those new releases here. UploadVR has launched the ‘UploadVR PS VR Community’ on PlayStation 4!
AllThingsVR
JUNE 23, 2017
Microsoft HoloLens can help level the playing field in schools, says Pearson via @MSFTnews [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 23, 2017.
VRScout
JUNE 23, 2017
The popular multiplayer FPS is leading the way in competitive VR with a new pro league. When virtual reality began making its reemergence a couple of years ago with the introduction of pioneering tech such as the Oculus Rift, only one thought was running through my head: Is this is? Are we FINALLY about to enter the age of competitive virtual reality eSports?
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.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 23, 2017
Adobe acquires Mettle’s SkyBox tools to expand its VR video portfolio via @TechCrunch [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 23, 2017.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 23, 2017
HTC’s Vive Tracker presents an elegant solution to the VR peripheral problem. Instead of releasing hundreds upon hundreds of different controllers that replicate real world items, why not just stick a single tracked object onto the real thing to bring it into the virtual world? When it was announced at CES back in January, we found ourselves asking why we hadn’t already thought of it.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 23, 2017
Valve Reveals More Detail on ‘Knuckles’ Motion Controllers via @RtoVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 23, 2017.
Road to VR
JUNE 23, 2017
To fit alongside the company’ Daydream mobile VR platform, Google is partnering with Lenovo, LG, and YI Technology to create a new class of 180 cameras. Called VR180, the point-and-shoot video cameras create stereoscopic 180 video that can be uploaded or livestreamed to YouTube, and viewed on VR headsets. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki took the stage at Vidcon 2017 to announce that the Google-owned company would immediately support 180 video, or what YouTube calls VR180, and is bringing an epo
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
JUNE 23, 2017
VR Tools Helping to Build the Real World via @alicebonasio [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) June 24, 2017.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 23, 2017
At E3 last week in Los Angeles Sony’s media showcase included a demo of ROM: Extraction paired with the PSVR’s Aim Controller — adding a cool new element to the shooter. The arcade-style shooter from First Contact Entertainment released late last year for both Rift and Vive, allowing players to throw orbs and slow down time then shoot the orbs when they are close to enemies for highly satisfying kills.
RealVision VR
JUNE 23, 2017
#180VR – The Good: According to a recent article on TechCrunch, Youtube is popularizing 180 degree VR. Now, this is not exactly something new – 180 degrees video “VR” is the same as wide-angle Stereoscopic movies. The quick and dirty of 180 VR – take two RED Cameras, put fish-eye lenses on them and you’re shooting wideangle stereoscopic 3d footage which is being called 180VR because it’s meant to be viewed in a headset.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 23, 2017
This week we went to an HTC-hosted Demo Day for the second batch of ViveX funded VR and AR companies. With 26 different companies on display in San Francisco ranging from game developers, hardware manufacturers, utility creators, and everything in between there were a lot of different projects to try. Most of the companies were still in research and development phases as they sought additional capital for growth.
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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