VRScout

DECEMBER 8, 2017

A glowing example of how VR is changing narrative—and social interaction—as we know it. There’s not really a quick way to sum up what Where Thoughts Go is; though we find aspects of narrative and social network in it, neither is ultimately an apt label for the experience. Maybe the best way to describe what it is is to describe what it does : it allows us to engage with each other in an entirely new way via immersive technologies.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

There’s an intuitive appeal to using controller-free hand-tracking input like Leap Motion’s ; there’s nothing quite like seeing your virtual hands and fingers move just like your own hands and fingers without the need to pick up and learn how to use a controller. But reaching out to touch and interact in this way can be jarring because there’s no physical feedback from the virtual world.

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Accounting+ is the all-new NIGHTMARE ADVENTURE COMEDY form Crows Crows Crows and Squanch Games for PlayStation®VR. In actuality, it is the PSVR version of the critically acclaimed game collaboration between The Stanley Parable designer William Pugh and Rick And Morty co-creator Justin Roiland but this time with even more Accounting. The game promises great classic reality experiences such as: clean up your office, take the battery out of the cooling machine, play the skeleton xylophone, and/or s

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

In preparation for Fallout 4 VR’s upcoming December 12th launch on HTC Vive, Bethesda takes us through our paces with an intro to the game’s control scheme, base building mechanic, and V.A.T.S. focused combat, giving us a quick preview of what to expect next week. Presented by Bethesda Community Manager Jessica Finster and Fallout 4 VR Lead Producer Andrew Scharf, the video shows the two main locomotion options: teleportation (which uses action points), and what Bethesda calls ̵

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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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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Kitely Welcome Center’s Merchant Hall area. (Snapshot by Maria Korolov.). What happens if you’re resident on a grid, buy a bunch of products from the Kitely Market for your avatar on that grid, and the grid gets shut down and your avatar inventory is lost? For instance, when ZanGrid closed down this October , many residents lost access to their inventories.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Immersive media is a collective term that incorporates 360-degree video, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and volumetric capture (includes both CGI and 3-D scanning). These techniques allow journalists to catapult audiences right into the middle of the action, breaking physical and economic barriers by enabling participants to travel to new environments, explore new realities and gain a new perspective of the world around us.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The Last Guardian (2016) is getting a standalone PSVR experience to let players interact with the majestic Trico face to face. Announced way back in 2009, The Last Guardian had an instant, if indescribable, appeal; the game promised to offer a glimpse into the adventures of a young boy who befriends a mythical (and giant) beast named Trico. After years in development hell, the long awaited game finally launched on PS4 in 2016.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Virtual reality has been making waves in the animation and comic realms. For animators, traditional 2D visual media tend to appear linear and involve locked off shots or camera angles, VR experiences feature multiple vantage points are similar to real-world experiences. This requires animators to think of VR animation from new perspectives, especially when they're creating large-scale VR experiences.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

PlayStation’s legendary anti-grav arcade racer is set to get PSVR support thanks to a free update to WipEout: Omega Collection coming in early 2018. WipEout is the long running anti-grav racing franchise from Sony Studio Liverpool. With 10 games since 1995, the legendary franchise is known for its high speed, adrenaline pumping gameplay, and for its curated selection of cult electronica.

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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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Qualcomm introduced it’s new Snapdragon 845 mobile processor at the company’s tech summit in Hawaii this week, which Qualcomm says improves mobile AR/VR headset (branded to as ‘XR’, or ‘eXtended reality’) performance up to 30 percent in comparison to its predecessor, Snapdragon 835. According to a company press release , Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 system-on-chip (SoC) will house the equally new Adreno 630 mobile GPU that aims to make entertainment, educa

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality (2017) from developer Owlchemy Labs is headed to PlayStation VR next year. If you enjoyed Job Simulator (2016) —which remains one of PSVR’s most popular titles more than a year after launch—then you’re in for a treat with Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality coming to PSVR next year. Created by developer Owlchemy Labs in collaboration with Adult Swim, Rick and Morty VR is an unapologetic fusion of Job Simulator and the hit animated show.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The yearly fanfare of the Game Awards has come and gone, leaving Capcom with the award for Best VR/AR Game for their massively successful horror-adventure Resident Evil 7 : Biohazard (2017), a game that equally supports both PSVR and traditional monitors. As a testament to its popularity, after its launch in January some metrics showed that almost 10 percent of registered PSVR players were playing it concurrently.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Front Defense: Heroes (2017) , Fantahorn’s next installment of its WWII-themed shooter, is available in Early Access today for HTC Vive, now serving up multiplayer action in classic 5v5 shooter fashion. We don’t score reviews in Early Access, which is probably a good thing, because several game-breaking bugs are simply too prominent to make this anything other than a quick diversion at the moment.

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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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Archangel (2017), the single-player mech shooter from Skydance Interactive , is hosting a free-access weekend starting today, going until Monday at 3:00 AM ET ( local time here ). Letting you step into the cockpit of a six-story mech as the main force behind the United States Free Forces’ war against the tyrannical corporation HUMNX, you command an arsenal of weapons to shoot down the enemy and protect a post-apocalyptic America.

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