VRScout
AUGUST 7, 2017
An experimental project is taking the world of 2D graphic design into a previously unexplored universe — 3D virtual reality. Will VR breathe new life into graphic design? Singularity , a VR experience for the Oculus Rift and Gear VR by Madrid-based design studio Relajaelcoco , envisions how a “superhuman intelligence” would envision a 360-degree setting with graphic design.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
AUGUST 7, 2017
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast is widely considered to be one of the best videogames in the franchise’s long history. That’s largely thanks to the game’s excellent lightsaber combat, which is still one of the few systems to ever really capture the feel of wielding the weapon. Now you can play it in VR. Before we go much further we should point out that that’s with a gamepad, and not Oculus Touch controllers.
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VRScout
AUGUST 7, 2017
Last month, Google launched their Blocks VR creation tool , enabling anyone to 3D model low polygon objects with no prior modeling experience required. Although it seemed like a simple app on the surface, after diving in, it became immediately apparent the massive potential Blocks can have as a professional VR creation tool. Aside from being able to use the objects or characters that you create for other applications, like bringing them into Unity and using them for VR games, we’ve been wonderin
Road to VR
AUGUST 7, 2017
Beginning today through the 12th of August is one of the biggest E-sports events of the year, the 2017 International Dota 2 Championships. With a prize pool of more than $23 million, there’s a lot on the line. You can get an inside-the-game front row seat through the Dota 2 VR Hub. The Dota 2 VR Hub allows players to step inside the game via the HTC Vive headset, which allows you to watch live in-game matches, replays, and get together with up to 15 others to watch streams in the VR Theate
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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
AUGUST 7, 2017
Good news, it looks like TPCast’s wireless upgrade kit for the HTC Vive won’t kill you. Or at least parts of it won’t. The PC transmitter for the device has been given FCC approval as of last week. The transmitter (pictured above) is the piece of technology that you place somewhere in your play space, ideally high up, similar to how you would place a Vive base station.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
AUGUST 7, 2017
Global creative studio Framestore is usually known for taking client projects and executing them with world-class attention to detail despite tight deadlines and high expectations. Its visual effects department works on some of the world’s biggest movies, like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Doctor Strange, while other parts of the company build immersive and groundbreaking experiences, including Ascend The Wall for HBO’s Game of Thrones and a magic school bus that takes kids on a
AllThingsVR
AUGUST 7, 2017
Microsoft HoloLens and Insider chiefs suggest smartglasses will replace smartphones via @windowscentral [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 7, 2017.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
AUGUST 7, 2017
Moss was a surprise hit for PlayStation VR (PSVR) at E3 back in June, standing tall next to games like Skyrim VR thanks to an incredible demo. We hadn’t heard much from developer Polyarc since until the game’s protagonist captured the hearts and minds of thousands of people last week. In Moss, you control Quill, a small mouse undergoing a heroic adventure.
AllThingsVR
AUGUST 7, 2017
Vive Studios releases MakeVR Pro 3D modeling software for serious creatives via @TechCrunch [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 8, 2017.
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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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
AUGUST 7, 2017
BadFly Interactive has quickly become a popular name within the VR scene thanks to its surprisingly impressive port of Dead Effect 2 to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. That project remains in Early Access, but BadFly also has a new game in the works that’s also headed to PC VR platforms. Tauceti Unknown Origin, as the game’s called, was announced earlier this month, and is on its way to consoles, PC and mobile devices as well as VR headsets.
Slashgear
AUGUST 7, 2017
Virtual reality as we know it is still a pretty young technology, but already there are companies looking to push VR to its limit. This week at the SIGGRAPH conference, a company named Neurable is showing off a new type of VR game that has some very exciting implications for the future of the platform. Instead of playing this game … Continue reading.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
AUGUST 7, 2017
Since the VR industry is still so new it doesn’t really have its own dedicated awards show just yet. In fact, until very recently, the decades-old game industry hasn’t even really had its own awards show either, but The Game Awards has a done a good job over the last several years representing the most notable releases and accomplishments.
AllThingsVR
AUGUST 7, 2017
Taste With Your Face: Japanese Food Industry Wants to Sell More With VR via @UploadVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 7, 2017.
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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
AUGUST 7, 2017
On July 29th, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s virtual reality-enhanced video game Space Odyssey reached its crowd-funding targets on both Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Announced during this year’s E3 and promoted by Dr. Tyson at Comic-Con, Space Odyssey will feature “real science” and physics “accurate to what we know.” It also promises to let players create their own solar system, and explore systems made by their friends and featured world-builders, including George R.R.
AllThingsVR
AUGUST 7, 2017
Firefox’s new VR support makes it easier to lose yourself on the web via @cnet [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 7, 2017.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
AUGUST 7, 2017
Today, Valve officially announced that the DOTA 2 International tournament’s Main Event will be livestreamed from the KeyArena in Seattle, WA. It started at 10AM PT today and can be watched live online, on TV, at local pubs, and once again this year, also in VR. More details on viewing options can be found here. Almost a full year ago exactly, during last year’s DOTA 2 International, Valve added the VR Spectator Mode to its popular MOBA.
VRWorld
AUGUST 7, 2017
Technologies are increasingly advancing and as such, all manners of technological innovations are sharing mutual beneficial relationships and Virtual Reality and Voice Over Internet Protocol, or rather VR and VoIP are no different. In simple terms, VoIP is a technology that allows you to make telephone calls over a broadband internet connection. It relates to the terms IP telephony and internet telephony, both set to be huge business in the foreseeable future.
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.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
AUGUST 7, 2017
There are plenty of VR games left to enjoy this year, but Marvel Powers United VR has to be the game we’re looking forward to playing most in 2018. The chance to become some of our favorite Marvel heroes inside the Oculus Rift is just too promising. Interestingly, though, it took publisher Oculus Studios a while to convince Marvel of that. Speaking to Fast Company , Oculus VP of Content Jason Rubin explained that Marvel was initially “somewhat unconvinced” by the idea of a VR g
Slashgear
AUGUST 7, 2017
One nice feature about the Oculus Rift is the ability to play virtual reality games from a variety of different store fronts. It doesn’t matter if you purchased your game from a place like Steam or GOG instead of the Oculus Store – the game will still run on the Rift. There’s just one small problem with that functionality, as … Continue reading.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
AUGUST 7, 2017
Released in early July , Google’s Blocks was designed to usher in a new era of VR content creation, making it easy for anyone to jump in and start building 3D models. One day, though, apps like Blocks might find better use as asset-creation tools for people with little to no development experience. Right now you could make any inanimate object and drop it into a game you were making, but what if you wanted to introduce living, breathing characters that, you know, actually move?
AllThingsVR
AUGUST 7, 2017
Watch NYT’s immersive stories on Samsung Gear VR via @engadget [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 7, 2017.
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?
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
AUGUST 7, 2017
Final Fantasy XV may no longer be getting its own PlayStation VR (PSVR) mode, but it is getting a full spin-off fishing game, as revealed at E3 this year. Monster of the Deep: Final Fantasy XV is a VR fishing game set in the expansive world of last year’s Japanese role-playing game. Today, we learned a bit more about it. Square Enix showcased more of the game during a presentation at the PlayStation Experience in South East Asia this past weekend.
Cats and VR
AUGUST 7, 2017
Moss is a single player action-adventure puzzle game for all ages. Built for virtual reality from the ground up, Moss reimagines classic action-adventure gameplay in a first-of-its-kind fully immersive environment. When I first watched the E3 trailer for Moss I was filled with awes. Now after a recent tweet from the Animation Director of the project I am filled with lots of joy.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
AUGUST 7, 2017
Apple’s most recent iPhones are currently preparing to make the jump into augmented reality with the launch of iOS 11 and the ARKit platform. But, this being Apple, we can’t help but wonder what the company has in store for the next iteration of its iconic device. A supposed recent leak may have just revealed what’s on the way. You probably heard about last week’s apparently accidental leak of an internal software update for the HomePod, an upcoming smart speaker.
Road to VR
AUGUST 7, 2017
Virtual reality (VR) has been a hot topic in the media and the tech sector for the last couple of years, but it is about to hit a new level of buzz thanks to, an internationally best-selling book Ready Player One (2011) by author, Ernest Cline. This book is often cited by industry experts as one of the top recommendations for VR-related book lists. The story’s primary backdrop is a world where VR is intertwined into every aspect of our daily lives, what I call a “VR-First future”.
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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