Road to VR
JULY 23, 2017
Ready Player One, the upcoming film directed by Steven Spielberg based on the VR-centric novel by Ernest Cline, just saw its first teaser trailer, released at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. As written by Cline, Ready Player One follows Wade Watts on his journey through the OASIS, a pervasive virtual reality program that nearly everyone on the planet visits using their VR headsets.
VRScout
JULY 23, 2017
Racing a wooden wagon down a dirt road has never been so futuristic. If i’ve said it once, i’ve said it a thousand times: The world needs a virtual reality chuckwagon racing experience. It’s an incredibly captivating genre of virtual reality entertainment that absolutely deserves more attention than it currently receives. So you can imagine my shock when Alberta, Canada’s annual Calgary Stampede festival announced that this years attractions will include a multi-player VR chuckwagon racing exper
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Road to VR
JULY 23, 2017
Racket: Nx is an impressively polished and physical VR arcade sport which plays like a mashup of futuristic racquetball and pinball. Currently in Early Access (and rated 99% positive), the game is due to get a major ‘Early Access 2’ update on July 27th that brings with it a host of improvements from physics to gameplay to music. Racket: Nx puts players in the middle of a 360 degree dome with panels that light up in all directions.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 23, 2017
The Sacramento Kings NBA basketball team has launched an augmented reality app in partnership with Nike. The fan app is the beginning of an eight-year global marketing and merchandise agreement between Nike and the National Basketball Association (NBA). The app lets fans personalize Sacramento Kings uniforms and virtually photograph themselves with star players.
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.
AllThingsVR
JULY 23, 2017
Augmented reality lets you step through Museum of Flight’s portal and onto NASA’s historic 737 jet via @geekwire [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 24, 2017.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
AllThingsVR
JULY 23, 2017
ARKit Project Shows Turn-by-Turn Directions in AR, Giving a Glimpse into Future of AR-enabled Maps via @RtoVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 23, 2017.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 23, 2017
Presence Capital — one of the earliest venture capital firms to focus on virtual reality and augmented reality startups — is today announcing that it has made 33 investments. That’s a lot of investments for a fund that was announced in December 2015. Presence Capital has invested in Baobab Studios, Bigscreen, Harmonix, Nomadic, Meta, Resolution Games, Scope AR, Strivr, TheWaveVR, and Visbit.
AllThingsVR
JULY 23, 2017
New mobile app Qlone turns your smartphone or tablet into a high-resolution 3D scanner via @3dersorg [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 23, 2017.
VR Bites
JULY 23, 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.
AllThingsVR
JULY 23, 2017
Virtual reality headsets for patients at St James Hospital via @irishexaminer [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 23, 2017.
Immersive Authority
JULY 23, 2017
The Tech Open Air Festival was WiCKeD (that’s awesome)! I attended the conference and exhibition, met some cool companies, attended interesting sessions & have been [.]. The post Tech Open Air 2017 – Impressions appeared first on Immersive Authority.
AllThingsVR
JULY 23, 2017
How VR training prepares surgeons to save infants’ lives via @VentureBeat [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 23, 2017.
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