Road to VR
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
HTC could be showing off its standalone VR headset at the company’s November 14th Vive Developer Conference (VDC) in Beijing. As reported by YiVian , the conference has recently published promotional material featuring a veiled image of the company’s upcoming headset. To wit, HTC says it will have ‘some important announcements’ to make.
VRScout
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Masters of the Sun – The Zombie Chronicles comes to VR with one hell of an impressive voice cast. Many people weren’t sure what to expect when it was announced that iconic hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas would be teaming up with Marvel for a post-apocalyptic comic book centered around an evil alien race turning gangsters, drug dealers and other violent members of society into flesh-hungry zombies.
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Road to VR
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
According to the just-released October figures from Steam’s Hardware & Software Survey, the Oculus Rift has picked up an additional 0.71%, totalling 47.61% of the market share of VR headsets on Steam. With the price of the Rift dropping permanently to $400 last month, the headset has set its new record high for the fourth month in a row. The HTC Vive maintains a razor thin lead with 48.76% share of headsets in use on Steam.
VRScout
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Sony renews our faith in PSVR with a slew of new experiences coming soon. Sony’s PlayStation Media Showcase at Paris Games Week has officially come and gone leaving audiences thirsty for a bounty of newly-revealed games. Aside from a slew of PlayStation reveals including new and final add-ons for Final Fantasy XV , an original title from Sucker Punch , and a sequel to Spelunky , the most surprising part of the entire media showcase however wasn’t the 4K Spider-Man footage (although t
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
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Face Your Fears (2016) is a collection of horrifying experiences ripped straight from your nightmares; creepy clowns, monsters in the closet, dangerous heights, and now the world of Netflix’s hit show Stranger Things. In a new update, the Gear VR app promises a peek into the show’s sleepy town of Hawkins, Indiana, the idyllic small town that plays host to a rip in reality, opening up a passageway to what the show’s protagonists dub ‘The Upside Down’ – “
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AllThingsVR
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
‘Stranger Things’ Comes to Gear VR in Latest 'Face Your Fears’ Update, Face the Demogorgan via @RtoVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) November 1, 2017.
Slashgear
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
The folks at ILMxLAB revealed a new VR experience today with Lucasfilm and Nissan in tow. The application is Star Wars: DROID REPAIR BAY : Astro-Mechanic for The Resistance, and it includes a few odd droid models we’ve never seen before. As this is the post-Return of the Jedi era of Star Wars, this means we’re seeing lots of BB-unit … Continue reading.
AllThingsVR
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
HTC to Unveil Standalone VR Headset at Vive Developer Conference in November via @RtoVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) November 1, 2017.
Slashgear
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
It’s been a long time coming, but Microsoft is finally ready to launch HoloLens across Europe. Ever since the headset was first released back in 2016, it’s been available in only a few European regions, namely the UK, Ireland, Germany, and France. Those regions were four of only 10 to get the device, meaning that HoloLens was hard to find … Continue reading.
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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.
VRWorld
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Google is opening a new platform called Poly where people can find and distribute virtual and augmented reality objects. Built for development kits like Google’s own ARCore, or Apple’s ARKit, Poly allows anyone to upload or view 3D objects in a mobile or desktop browser. Google has been offering a number of tools to make it easier to create those 3D assets for several months now, including the development of the free Tilt Brush and Blocks solutions and their associated websites.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Paris Games Week is here and Sony has revealed a slew of new trailers showing off their lineup of PSVR games coming in 2017 and 2018. Grab some popcorn, because here’s 21 minutes of fresh footage. Eden Tomorrow. Developer: Soulpix. Release Date: Spring 2018. Eden-Tomorrow catapults the player right into the heart of a strange cosmos: frightening creatures, cryptic riddles, abandoned places and the ever-present question: “what happened here?”.
VRWorld
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
As we previously anticipated, Sony announced a number of new titles on Monday for their now one-year-old Playstation VR platform. The announcements push the number of games available for the platform ever closer to the three hundred mark. Following is a brief overview of the titles unveiled Monday: Megalith. Produced by Destructive Games, this is billed as “an action-packed hero shooter that transforms you into a titan, letting you use your massive size and firepower to compete with others in a
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Google has just launched Poly , a new platform for browsing and downloading 3D objects and scenes. Fully integrated with Google’s popular VR creative tools Tilt Brush and Blocks , the new site also supports direct OBJ upload, and viewing of objects using a VR headset, or via a desktop or mobile browser. Until today, Tilt Brush and Blocks creations have been shared in separate galleries, via ‘ Sketches ’ and ‘ Objects ’ respectively.
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.
VRWorld
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
European researchers today announced a display technique that may help many virtual reality users avoid nausea, one of the most common symptoms of “virtual reality sickness.”. Virtual reality sickness, which often causes symptoms similar to motion sickness, can result from latency between eye movement and displayed changes in the VR environment. Often, there is a trade-off when using higher resolution images in VR: although they improve realism, they also increase computational processing demand
VRWorld
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
New findings announced today by Swiss neuroscientists working at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) appear to be a breakthrough in treating phantom body pain in those suffering from paraplegia. This research is especially significant because such pain is completely resistant to conventional drug therapy. In their study, now published in the journal Neurology, researchers created a bodily illusion for their subjects, using a VR setup including a pair of dummy legs, a camera, and virt
VRWorld
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
VR/AR entertainment tech company WITHIN today announced plans to collaborate on virtual reality music experiences with Universal Music Group (UMG). This move builds on two projects already created by WITHIN, in collaboration with UMG artists OneRepublic and The Chemical Brothers. This development is the latest in an apparent trend for UMG to be involved in more expansive projects.
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