Road to VR

DECEMBER 9, 2017

The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Mozilla Firefox web browser, just made their experimental WebXR Viewer app available for download on iOS devices , letting developers quickly experiment with web-based AR built with web technologies and ARKit. According to a blogpost announcing the app, the WebXR Viewer lets you view web pages created using Mozilla’s own JavaScript library that features sample code for a proposed API for building AR and VR applications in web brows

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Firesprite is proud to announce it's upcoming procedurally generated sci-fi horror, ‘The Persistence’ PSVR will be playable this weekend at the PlayStation Experience event in Anaheim, California between 9th & 10th December 2017 A new enemy-type will be shown for the first time. The ‘Skulls’ – a stealth-killer that hides in the procedurally generated corridors & rooms of ‘The Persistence’ just waiting for the unsuspecting Player to walk-by.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Firewall Zero Hour is an upcoming team-based, tactical multiplayer FPS for PlayStation VR from First Contact Entertainment, the makers of Rom: Extraction (2016). The game, which pits two teams of mercenaries against each other in objective-based attack/defend missions, is coming exclusively to PlayStation VR in 2018. Revealed on stage at PlayStation Experience 2017, the multiplayer shooter features 4v4 matches using either the DualShock 4 controller or PS Aim.

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 9, 2017

PSVR fans can finally get riggity riggity wrecked when Virtual Rick-Ality finally gets a Playstation VR release sometime in 2018 The game is a great fan service and I consider it a real work of heart. Developers Owlchemy Labs originally began in the mobile and PC game space back in 2010. The team created the highly entertaining and successful VR game Job Simulator, which launched as a day-one launch title on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and PSVR with motion controllers.

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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 9, 2017

OSCC Expo area. (Image by Maria Korolov.). The OpenSimulator Community Conference opened this morning. This is the fifth year that AvaCon is running the conference, celebrating ten years of OpenSim. It is being live streamed on YouTube. From 7 to 8 a.m., Pacific time, the developers will discuss the latest 0.9 release of OpenSim. Panel members include developers Robert Adams, Melanie Milland and Ubit Umarov with AvaCon founder Joyce Bettencourt moderating the panel.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 9, 2017

OpenSim hosting company Dreamland Metaverse received the highest scores for performance, support, stability and its user interface in this year’s hosting providers survey for the fourth year in a row, followed by Zetamex Network , DigiWorldz and 3DLES. There were 36 responses total to this year’s hosting survey, which asks grid owners about their hosting providers.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Moderator Joyce Bettencourt and OpenSim core developers Robert Adams, Melanie Milland and Ubit Umarov. (Image by Maria Korolov.). OpenSimulator’s core developers said that they’ve gone pretty much as far as they can with the server code, and what the project needs is new people — and a new viewer. “My own kids say that it looks ancient,” core developer Melanie Thielker said at the developer panel that kicked off this year’s OpenSimulator Community Conference.

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