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APRIL 26, 2017

The Smithsonian launched its first virtual reality attraction at The National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. on Wednesday. The four-person ride, called the “VR Transporter,” tests if you have what it takes to be an astronaut. “Most of us can only dream about being in space, but now Smithsonian visitors can have the sensation of actually going there,” said Zarth Bertsch, theaters and entertainment director at The Smithsonian, in a press release.

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APRIL 26, 2017

According to a Bloomberg story published this week, Apple hired Jeff Norris of NASA to work on augmented reality initiatives. Norris has reportedly been an employee of Apple since earlier in the year, according to Bloomberg’s unnamed sources. Now at Apple, Norris is reportedly working as a member of a team run by Mike Rockwell, formerly of Dolby Labs.

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VRScout

APRIL 26, 2017

You’ll probably want to experience this twice. I’m not sure what’s more disturbing. Hearing the sound of a beating heart while being trapped inside a claustrophobic host body. Bursting through the back of an infected crew member and realizing you’ve taken the body of an alien at birth. Or the blood curdling screams coming from your first victim as you move in for the kill.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2017

If you don’t already know Cliff Bleszinski from his involvement with the Unreal Tournament and Gears of War franchises, you may remember him from Oculus’ 2012 Kickstarter video. Now under the banner of his own studio, Boss Key Productions, Bleszinski says he’s been seeking funding to develop a big budget VR title. According to Gamasutra , who watched long time game designer address attendees of the Reboot Develop conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Bleszinski says he’s been

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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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APRIL 26, 2017

The Nintendo Switch has been out for over a month now and it’s still going strong. I play mine almost daily, even after finishing the full main story in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. New games are coming out every week, including Mario Kart 8 Deluxe this Friday, and the portability and versatility make it easy to pick up and play in tons of situations.

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APRIL 26, 2017

With Resident Evil 7 and Robo Recall both releasing already this year, Star Trek: Bridge Crew and Fallout 4 VR are both fighting for the honors of being the public’s “most anticipated VR game” on the horizon. Star Trek is coming on May 30th according to Ubisoft, but Bethesda has not yet put a date on their first foray into the VR ecosystem.

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Cats and VR

APRIL 26, 2017

As the Mindshow team heads into their upcoming open beta they have released a HUGE update for early adopters. First up the team has introduced starter scenes to provide a little creative inspiration! Starters help you create shows very quickly because they come with half the story - it's up to you to complete the scene by adding your own personality!

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APRIL 26, 2017

Over the past three years, Melbourne, Australia-based startup Zero Latency has been refining its multiplayer virtual reality arcade platform, which currently has three playable games for up to six players with plans to add eight-player support by the end of this year. The idea came to co-founders Tim Ruse (who’s now the CEO) and Scott Vandonkelaar (CTO) when the two first saw the Oculus Rift while working together at web agency Roadhouse Digital.

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APRIL 26, 2017

Have you ever faced down World of Warcraft's Lich King and wished you could be in the action yourself? Now you can with Age of Heroes VR, an all new multiplayer action RPG focused on taking on MMORPG style raids in virtual reality. Set in a fantasy world, Age Of Heroes pits players against challenging enemies in multiplayer raids. Utilizing actual body movement, players can sling fireballs, summon creatures and heal allies in an engrossing multiplayer virtual reality experience.

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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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APRIL 26, 2017

There’s steady growth across the VR industry, but the market is under a microscope nevertheless. Mass consumer adoption is the goal and many eyes are looking out for what will ultimately inspire the transition in the average consumer’s household. Considering the average consumer’s desire for entertainment, it makes sense that some expect gaming to be the spark and it looks like the PlayStation VR (PSVR) is leading that charge in Japan as reported on eMarketer. 2016 marked the b

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Slashgear

APRIL 26, 2017

One of the biggest hurdles to virtual and augmented reality today isn’t really the display. We’ve pretty much gotten that down. What breaks the illusion of the made-up worlds is, in fact, our input methods. While our eyes and ears are deceived into believing the immersion, our hands aren’t. While the likes of Oculus and Vive are grappling with coming … Continue reading.

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APRIL 26, 2017

A pioneer who helped kickstart VR’s renaissance is driving the strategy for Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality platform, spanning both HoloLens and a collection of VR headsets rolling out later this year. We knew Mark Bolas, who ran the mixed reality lab at USC, took a position at Microsoft as the company built up its efforts in mixed reality, but we didn’t know precisely what he’d be doing.

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AllThingsVR

APRIL 26, 2017

Weekly VR Funding & People Roundup: Vizor Raises $2.3M, Apple Hires Tim Dashwood ( Final Cut Pro Maker) & Jeff Norris (AR/VR projects at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab) Vizor announced it has raised $2.3M in a seed funding round led by The Venture Reality Fund (The VR Fund) and co-led by Inventure. The company also announced the private beta launch of its VR creation and hosting platform, which allows users to effortlessly produce 360-degree tours, stories and WebVR experiences by simply dragging an

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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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APRIL 26, 2017

Herman Fredlund (right) prepares to shoot Bernard Fredlund (left) in a short film where a disabled father plays a virtual reality game with his son. The scene opens with with a robot coming online. It opens its disturbingly lifelike eyes and begins shuffling toward the viewer. The robot reaches out its clamps, grasping at the air – only to grab a loaf of bread and begin making a sandwich.

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AllThingsVR

APRIL 26, 2017

VR Camera Wars: Facebook VS Google On day two of Facebook’s F8 conference, Facebook’s CTO Mike Schroepfer showed off designs for two new 360 cameras that the company is going to help push to market. The x24, with 24 cameras, and its little brother the x6, with six cameras, can each capture in six degrees of freedom for more immersive 360 content. Facebook plans to license the designs of the two cameras to select commercial partners to get each to market later this year.

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APRIL 26, 2017

With body language, humans are able to express a range of feelings with only the most the subtle shifts in demeanor. Our facial expressions alone can show off a huge range of responses. Interaction with VR is something various companies continue to try to nail down, attempting to enable users to manipulate these worlds while breaking immersion as little as possible.

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VRWorld

APRIL 26, 2017

Welcome to this week’s edition of Top Five Thursday. What’s new around the globe: Sky is the limit for the upcoming drone with a 100 megapixel camera! [link] and-hasselblad-team-for-a-100- megapixel-camera-drone- 25483279/. “This new 100-megapixel aerial solution is a combination of three products: the DJI M600 Pro drone, the aforementioned Ronin-MX Gimbal, as well as Hasselblad’s H6D-100c camera.

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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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APRIL 26, 2017

Former Epic Games developer Cliff Bleszinski has long taken an interest in VR, and was one of the original investors in Oculus long before it was purchased by Facebook. So far his new indie studio, Boss Key Productions, hasn’t made a VR game, but that may soon change. As reported by Gamasutra , Bleszinski noted that he was currently trying to gather investment to fund a VR game during his talk at least week’s Reboot: Develop event.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2017

In development by indie studio KUKURU3 , Panzerwehr: 1949 is a mech combat simulator made for VR which imagines an alternate WWII timeline where mechs rule the battlefield as anti-tank hunters in a war that’s dragged on to 1949. Panzerwehr: 1949 began as a tech demo in June 2016 and began development as a full VR title shortly thereafter, with support planned for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

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APRIL 26, 2017

At VRLA we got a look at an impressive tech demo from a startup out of Russia that is moving to San Francisco soon. The startup is called. The system features a small on-board camera on the bottom of the headset facing down and outward. It detects rapidly pulsing infrared light markers on strips at the outer edge of the tracked space. For the demo we saw there were four strips placed in a square.

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VRWorld

APRIL 26, 2017

It has been a long overdue, the time has come to write an article on physical activity i.e. sports. Over the past couple of decades, we’re witnessing a big problem everywhere in a world – people just do not exercise and make dubious choices of removing the balanced diet. From Hawaii to the continental U.S., Germany or Croatia, Singapore or China – high percentage of people on this planet do not exercise at all (I know I don’t do it regularly).

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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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APRIL 26, 2017

Battlezone from Rebellion was absolutely one of the best PlayStation VR (PSVR) launch titles when Sony’s headset launched late last year. It combined the immersive power of sitting in a cockpit in VR with the thrill of engaging in intense combat all wrapped up in a retro-futuristic vibe that bled 80s nostalgia. The original Battlezone was re-envisioned through the lens of a Tron-like dystopia.

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APRIL 26, 2017

Some of us will be lucky enough never to be in or witness a car accident. Personally I haven’t been so lucky; I’ve seen one car totalled right in front of my eyes and a pretty horrific collision with a pedestrian over the past few years. I don’t need to be reminded of the importance of driving responsibly, but many young drivers that are just starting out do.

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APRIL 26, 2017

Welcome to the Daily Sketch! We’ve teamed up with Sketchfab and expert VR artist Elizabeth Edwards to produce one new piece of 3D art per weekday throughout April you can view with your VR headset. So grab your headset and take a look. According to the Internet, today is Hug a Friend Day. You know what that means, right? For most people that means taking off the VR headset and interacting with someone in meat space.

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