VRScout
MARCH 1, 2017
Bundles have been slashed by $200. Approaching the one-year anniversary since shipping the Rift, Oculus has made a surprising move to cut prices for both the Rift and Touch controllers. Announced today at GDC, the Oculus Rift plus Touch bundle price has been slashed from $798 to $598. And if you’re looking to buy the Touch controllers separately, also effective immediately, Touch is now priced at $99 (down from $199).
Road to VR
MARCH 1, 2017
The Acer Windows Mixed Reality Development Edition headset is shipping this month, the first HMD to include the inside-out tracking technology pioneered on the HoloLens. This marks the beginning of the rollout of Microsoft-endorsed VR headsets that support ‘world scale’ tracking and ‘mixed reality’ apps. Originally announced at Microsoft’s keynote in October 2016, VR headsets with inside-out tracking from HP, Dell, Lenovo, ASUS, and Acer (with another from 3Glasses revealed in Decemb
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MARCH 1, 2017
Facebook is announcing a $100 price drop for both its Oculus Rift headset and Oculus Touch controllers, bringing the “all-in” price for the system to around $600. The $200 price drop represents the strongest attempt yet by Facebook’s Oculus to push high end VR firmly into mainstream. The price of the Rift is being brought down to $500 from $600, while Touch now costs $100 (a pair of the controllers previously cost $200).
Road to VR
MARCH 1, 2017
The demo, presented at NVIDIA’s event yesterday where they announced the new GTX 1080 Ti , covers a large area brimming with opportunity for physics-based interactions, a field of seemingly infinite boulders and a bulldozer created to show off the sort of scale that GPUs can drive interactions for rigid body simulation. The new GPU rigid body physics comes as part of a new version of the company’s PhysX system, 3.4, which is part of the GameWorks package of rendering and simulation 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.
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MARCH 1, 2017
Many companies are making waves across the gaming industry at GDC this week and Unity has certainly contributed to a few headlines. Their 5.6 update , releasing at the end of this month, is welcoming compatibility for Google Daydream and Cardboard and they’re charging forward with their EditorVR platform as well. A new announcement related to the game engine isn’t directly pointed at VR, but it certainly will affect VR streamers as a new plugin has been announced that will increase t
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MARCH 1, 2017
In an official statement, HTC is addressing today’s news that Oculus is dropping the price of its Rift VR headset and Touch VR controllers. In an email to UploadVR, a representative for the company explained that: We don’t feel the need to cut the price of Vive, as we’ve had incredible success, and continue to see great momentum in market. We’ve built a strong ecosystem made up of Viveport, Vive X, Vive Tracker and Vive Studios, and remain laser focused and are not changing our strategy o
Road to VR
MARCH 1, 2017
Speaking at GDC 2017, Jason Rubin described VR wireless technology as “compressed, not perfect, and expensive” and “the wrong direction for right now”. Rubin’s task at Oculus is to deliver compelling VR content, and believes that hardware features such as wireless, while desirable, simply add to the cost of a product that is already considered too expensive.
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MARCH 1, 2017
I tried a Microsoft prototype VR headset at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and got the first public look at the company’s vision for mixed reality beyond Hololens. I’ll get straight to the point. Inside the headset, I saw considerable motion blur while moving my head. I was among a handful of journalists invited to see the internal Microsoft prototype, though I was told photos or videos for my demo would not be allowed.
Road to VR
MARCH 1, 2017
Eye tracking experts SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) have collaborated with Valve to bring their technology to OpenVR. Eye tracking-enabled HTC Vive units are being shown at GDC 2017, as part of an R&D effort to integrate eye-tracking support into Valve’s OpenVR API. At this week’s Game Developers Conference, along with LG’s ‘next generation’ VR headset prototype , Valve are also showing some upgraded HTC Vive headsets at their booth, fitted with eye tracking technology by SensoMotoric Instru
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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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MARCH 1, 2017
This week at GDC 2017 the head of Vive Studios, Joel Brennon, announced a brand new title for the HTC Vive headset developed by Free Range Games. It’s called VR Sports and if that sounds familiar it’s because it should. Last year Oculus Studios released a game called VR Sports Challenge (8.5/10) — shown below. This was a launch title for the Oculus Touch controller platform and it featured a variety of different sporting mini-games that showed off the capabilities of the new d
Road to VR
MARCH 1, 2017
Sparc (ex- Project Arena ) is somewhat of an oddity in the VR space. While some developers are focusing on recreating certain real-world sports like minigolf or tennis, Eve Online studio CCP has gone a different direction by creating an entirely new sport, one that you could call a true “VR native.” After popping into the game, which mostly retains the core gameplay we first saw at last year’s Eve Fanfest , I sat down with Morgan Godat, executive producer of the company’
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MARCH 1, 2017
LG’s upcoming VR headset powered by Valve’s SteamVR Tracking represents an important milestone in the development of the industry, and we just got the first hands-on. The prototype revealed at the Game Developers Conference uses the same tracking technology from Valve that’s used in the HTC Vive which shipped last year. It also runs at 90 frames per second and flips up away from the face like the Microsoft headset we tried earlier this week.
VRScout
MARCH 1, 2017
There have been over 160 million downloads of Cardboard apps worldwide. Google is celebrating some new milestones this week with an announcement at Mobile World Congress that more than 10 million Cardboard viewers have shipped worldwide. First launched in 2014, the mobile VR viewer has been a simple and affordable way for everyone to dip their toes into the world of VR.
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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MARCH 1, 2017
Designing adventure-puzzle games must be an adventurous puzzle in its own right. You start with a core hook that you think players will find engaging, but how do you utilize, expand and evolve those mechanics over the course of several hours? How do you find new ways to use abilities that delight your audience? How do you create something that constantly feels fresh and exciting, and doesn’t grow stale?
VRScout
MARCH 1, 2017
Unity Technologies presented their Special Keynote at GDC 2017 in San Francisco on February 28, announcing the release date of Unity 5.6 alongside a bulletin of other updates, including a glimpse of Unity 2017. But before we dive into those, take a moment to watch Jason David Frank (the original Green Ranger in the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers ) knock out Ludi Lin, who plays the Black Ranger in the upcoming Power Rangers movie, in Power Rangers: Legacy Wars , a mobile game produced in the
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MARCH 1, 2017
2016 was the year of VR hardware and it’s looking like 2017 is the year of software and accessories, but there are still many skeptics about the potential of the industry. Because of those, supporters and detractors clamor for whatever data is made available, from sales to time spent playing on VR platforms and more. As development charges forward, creators are interested in statistics deeper embedded within their games as well, especially those that could help them create better VR experi
Road to VR
MARCH 1, 2017
When it comes to VR, best practices say that the player’s in-game movement should be static, and if the player needs to move, it should be within their physical space, or through some locomotion method that’s comfortable in VR, like blinking or teleportation. Then along comes Sprint Vector , the latest title from Survios, the developer of Raw Data , which smashes those best practices with surprising success.
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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MARCH 1, 2017
When we last heard from OTOY , the company revealed it was bringing light field baking and more to its Unity integration. At GDC today, OTOY is announcing a heck of a lot more. Company CEO Jules Urbach is here to run through a list of updates in the video below but you best prepare yourself: there’s a lot. On display at Unity’s booth is the first light field video created in OTOY’s Octane renderer using the engine.
Road to VR
MARCH 1, 2017
Mage’s Tale is a VR Action RPG set in the world of classic fantasy RPG The Bard’s Tale. It is being shown at GDC 2017 for the first time on Oculus Rift and Touch and here’s six minutes of gameplay footage to whet your appetite for the title. As one of six new titles announced at GDC for Oculus platforms, Mage’s Tale is built from the ground up for Oculus Touch.
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MARCH 1, 2017
Microsoft’s VR headsets, made in partnership with major companies, remain shrouded in mystery at the moment, but select developers will start getting a peak behind the curtain later this month. The company today confirmed that development kits for its first partner device, made by Acer, will be rolling out in stages starting this March. In fact, any developer that attended its mixed reality session at the 2017 Game Developers Conference today received a ‘Golden Ticket’ that wil
Slashgear
MARCH 1, 2017
This week the folks at Microsoft have announced that they’re sending out Windows Mixed Reality headsets to developers. This release will prepare developers for the most forward-thinking platform to be found within Windows 10. To do this, Microsoft has partnered with device makers like Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and 3Glasses to create Mixed Reality headsets.
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?
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MARCH 1, 2017
VR video games are some of the most immersive, visceral experiences to date. Travelling to fantastic worlds, going brain-to-rotting-noggin’ with zombie hordes and throwing coffee mugs at floating sentient CRTs has never felt so real. But games are just the start of where VR and AR are heading, and honestly, most likely will not be either platform’s primary function in the future.
AllThingsVR
MARCH 1, 2017
MWC & GDC Headset Updates: Google has shipped 10M Cardboard, Hands-on With LG’s SteamVR Headset & With Microsoft’s First Windows Holographic VR Headset 1) Amit Singh, the VP of VR at Google, announced Google has shipped over 10M Cardboard viewers and seen 160M Cardboard app downloads. While Google is pushing for the Daydream VR framework, it’s clear that the free Google Cardboard is still aiding in momentum.
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MARCH 1, 2017
Today at the Game Developers Conference, Epic Games announced its VR shooter Robo Recall is available now for free on Oculus Rift with Touch. In addition, Robo Recall comes with full mod support at launch. The Robo Recall mod editor allows you to manipulate various aspects of the game including environments, sounds, physics, skins, fire rate and object reactions.
Slashgear
MARCH 1, 2017
Eager to get your hands on a virtual reality headset but not quite ready to part with several hundred dollars? If so, Oculus has some good news: it has slashed the price of the Rift + Touch VR headset and controllers by $200, bringing the new total to $598 USD. If you aren’t interested in the whole package, though, the … Continue reading.
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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