VRScout

MARCH 28, 2018

Kim Jong Un experiences new realities outside North Korea. Overnight, North Korean and Chinese media confirmed a meeting took place between the countries’ leaders, Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping at the Chinese Beijing capital. The surprise two-day visit is the North Korean leader’s first known overseas trip since taking power. While discussions around denuclearization of the Korean peninsula was top of mind leading into key summits with South Korea and the U.S. in the coming weeks, Kim Jong Un was a

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Next Reality AR

MARCH 28, 2018

After more than a year and a half of silence, the rumors have morphed into reality: Microsoft has finally released an update for the HoloLens. And with that update comes a collection of new features that hint at big plans for the HoloLens this year. For most HoloLens-focused developers, Microsoft's silence throughout 2017, in terms of updates, was deafening.

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VRScout

MARCH 28, 2018

AssembleAR uses AR to help you through the steps of assembling IKEA furniture. Toronto based designer, Adam Pickard took one look at the IKEA Place app and was immediately impressed with how AR has the potential to play a larger role furniture shopping. But at the same time, Pickard also had a vision of something a little more. What if AR could make the dreaded task of building furniture easier?

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Researches from Stony Brook University, NVIDIA, and Adobe have devised a system which hides so-called ‘redirected walking’ techniques using saccades, natural eye movements which act like a momentary blindspot. Redirected walking changes the direction that a user is walking to create the illusion of moving through a larger virtual space than the physical space would allow.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2018

Do you remember my post on Medium about the typical day of an augmented reality developer ? It was a satirical piece in which I described all the hurdles I found while developing with a new device like HoloLens : I loved and I still love Hololens, but developing with it means encountering bugs and limitations of the device (like battery life) that make your developer life complicated.

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Cats and VR

MARCH 28, 2018

During GDC 2018 week I got a chance to demo I sland Time VR , a humorous and challenging game in which you are shipwrecked on a deserted island and try to survive as long as possible. Crafting tools and cooking food will help you to keep your health bar up and in turn survive your time on the island. Going in I really was like what ridiculous nonsense VR game is this.

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Lytro, the company that pivoted to enterprise-focused applications of its light-field technology after leaving its commercial business, is shutting down amidst a reported acquisition by Google. The company says in a recent blog post that it will “not be taking on new productions or providing professional services as [they] prepare to wind down the company.” As reported by The Verge , Lytro’s supposed acquisition by Google was intended primarily for the purposes of hiring a &#

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Cats and VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Just in time for the WipEout Omega Collection VR update, The PlayStation VR headset bundles is getting a big price decrease to their MSRP. According to the Sony Playstation blog here are the PS VR bundles included in the MSRP reduction. PlayStation VR Doom VFR Bundle $299.99 USD/379.99 CAD (MSRP) Originally $399.99 USD/499.99 CAD (MSRP) Includes a PS VR headset, PlayStation Camera, PS VR Demo Disc 2.0 and the Doom VFR Blu-ray Disc.

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2018

In a torrent of news surrounding the two-year anniversary of Rift’s commercial launch , Oculus today revealed a little more about one of upcoming Oculus-funded titles previously teased by VP of Content Jason Rubin. Nothing so far is known about the game outside of its name, Defector , and the studio producing it, Twisted Pixel Games. Twisted Pixel is known for their recent VR title Wilson’s Heart (2017), which was published by Oculus Studios.

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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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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 28, 2018

Gateway area of this years’s VWBPE. (Image courtesy David Kariuki.). This year’s Virtual World Best Practices in Education 2018 conference, which ended last week in Second Life, was shorter than last year — three days, instead of four — and attracted about 1,100 attendees, down from a high of around 4,500 in previous years. Attendance was up slightly over last year, however, when only about 800 attendees showed up.

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Oculus’ PC SDK version 1.19 now supports NVIDIA’s VRWorks Lens Matched Shading (LMS) technique, offering “a performance boost and a slight quality improvement” on supported GPUs. Lens Matched Shading is part of NVIDIA’s VRWorks toolset , and takes advantage of the architecture of the company’s Pascal-based GPUs to better match the pre-warped VR image to the final output image, thereby reducing the rendering of pixels that would otherwise not be visible after t

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VeeR VR

MARCH 28, 2018

On March 8th, we set out a call for 360 photos and videos of women and by women to celebrate International Women's Day. In merely 18 days, over 90 creators shared with us 319 photos and 140 videos that told the story of women from all walks of life, all around the world. Out of these 94 creators, an unprecedented number of 39% involved female creators.

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Two years ago today, Oculus launched the consumer version of Rift. To celebrate the occasion, the company has announced new content/updates, some pretty big sales, prizes, and even the chance to win a ‘Golden Account’ that gives you 100 of your favorite Rift games for free. The Rift Gold Rush. Oculus is hosting a massive raffle that will see $28,000 in prizes given away to lucky Rifters over the course of a few weeks.

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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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NVidia VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Virtual worlds are infinite, but your living room is not. Today, the size of physical space limits VR users’ ability to move in boundless virtual space. And VR isn’t particularly immersive if you trip over the couch. The NVIDIA Research team is collaborating with Adobe and Stony Brook University to solve the problem, and they’re looking to your eyes for the answer.

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Felix & Paul Studios had two experiences at Sundance this year: one featured the training of NASA astronauts in Space Explorers , and the other was a time-lapse VR story featuring characters from Wes Anderson’s new Ilse of Dogs film with a behind-the-scenes look at the production. Felix & Paul use their own custom camera technology, which means that they’re in a constant feedback loop of creating content, making innovations in cinematic VR camera technologies, which then ope

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VeeR VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Forbes announced the 30 under 30 list of 2018, featuring industry leaders and innovators in various fields. The three co-founders of VeeR VR, Ayden Ye, Jingshu Chen, and Richard Chen have been selected as honourees for the consumer technology sector, become the only founders of virtual reality technology company to make the list this year. (From left to right: Jingshu Chen, Ayden Ye, Richard Chen) Founded in 2016, VeeR VR is the global virtual reality content platform.

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Island Time VR, a room-scale survival game from Flight School Studio , is launching April 3rd on PSVR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and other Steam VR-compatible headsets for $15. In preparation for your inevitable death ahead, Flight School also released a launch trailer showing the top 5 ways you can inadvertently kill yourself. With Carl the Crab at your side, you’ll craft tools, fend off threatening creatures, and catch and collect food you’ll cook up yourself—all in the effort of sur

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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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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 28, 2018

Child avatars are a sensitive topic in virtual worlds. For some users, the presence of child avatars opens the possibility of inappropriate sexual roleplay, which is at best extremely creepy and, at worst, illegal. For other users, child avatars are a necessity for grids with an educational focus. And for some, child avatars offer an opportunity for family roleplay or for exploring personal psychological issues.

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Brass Tactics (2018) , the VR real-time strategy game for Rift from Hidden Path Entertainment , is getting an open access weekend starting tomorrow, March 29th. Kicking off Oculus’ two-year celebration of the Rift headset, Oculus is also throwing out the chance to win special prizes. While there is a free version of Brass Tactics, called Brass Tactics Arena (2018) , which includes a few maps and a single AI to battle, the entire game is opening up to Rift owners this weekend starting Mar

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