Sat.Feb 24, 2018

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BBC Launches New VR Studio with Documentary about the Nile

VRScout

Explore the Nile in this immersive VR documentary released by the BBC’s new VR Hub. Currently, there is contention between Egypt and Ethiopia over the potential damming of the largest river in the world, the Nile River. BBC Africa correspondent Alastair Leithead even says this disagreement could potentially lead to a war over water. In his new two-part immersive documentary, Leithead explains that Ethiopia wants to build Africa’s largest hydroelectric power station and one of the worldR

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Training AI & Robots in VR with NVIDIA’s Project Holodeck

Road to VR

At SIGGRAPH 2017, NVIDIA was showing off their Isaac Robot that had been trained to play dominos within a virtual world environment of NVIDIA’s Project Holodeck. They’re using Unreal Engine to simulate interactions with people in VR to train a robot how to play dominos. They can use a unified code base of AI algorithms for deep reinforcement learning within VR, and then apply that same code base to drive a physical Baxter robot.

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CatsAndVR interviews Konrad Kunze, the creator of Konrad The Kitten.

Cats and VR

FusionPlay just released its creative pet raising sim “Konrad the Kitten” for PlayStation VR, Oculus and Steam. Konrad the Kitten puts players in a colorful world and makes them care about a cute little virtual kitten. The game features a unique “Plushy-Mode” that brings a plush toy into the virtual world by attaching a VR controller on its back. CatsAndVR recently had the chance to interview Konrad Kunze, the creative mind behind Konrad the Kitten.

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