VRScout

APRIL 19, 2019

GYMNASIA is a dark world of theater, VR, animation, and puppets. The 2019 Tribeca Film Festival is just around the corner and with it comes Tribeca Immersive Virtual Arcade , an entire exhibit dedicated to highlighting creators who explore how storytelling and technology can come together to deliver wondrous VR and AR experience. One such experience is GYMNASIA , a groundbreaking cinematic VR experience developed as part of a collaboration between the EMMY® Award-winning immersive entertainment

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2019

Today I want to start a new column on this blog dedicated to storytelling virtual reality content from VeeR video platform , with reviews and interviews regarding VR movies and videos. As a full disclaimer, there will be no monetary compensation for these posts. VeeR will provide me the material necessary to write some posts and will help me in sharing them, and I will write some posts about the content from their website.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2019

PSVR users have been waiting for an app that essentially lets them watch all of their favorite content with their other VR headset-owning buddies, or something akin to how Bigscreen Beta works on headsets like Rift, Vive, and Go. Sony actually created its own social VR viewing app for PSVR users in Japan, but it’s certainly no Bigscreen. According to CNET Japan , Sony recently pushed a new update to their virtual theater app Theater Room VR that finally lets users connect with up to t

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 19, 2019

If climbing Mount Everest in real life is too expensive or dangerous, but you still want to find out what it’s like, virtual reality may have the answer. EverestVR is an immersive experience for the Vive and Oculus Rift headsets, available on the Vive Infinity platform. Set amongst the world’s tallest mountain viewers can take in the incredible journey two adventurers set out to accomplish in honor of their beloved friend.

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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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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2019

Microsoft researchers have created a tool that could make VR more accessible to users with impaired vision. Called SeeingVR, the tool kit is designed to address a problem that affects users with low vision, or vision that can’t be corrected by prescription glasses. As reported by Engadget , Microsoft researchers teamed up with Cornell Tech and Cornell University to create SeeingVR, a kit intended for Unity developers to integrate into their VR projects.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2019

With Nintendo’s latest ‘Labo’ kit for Switch, the company made its first real strides into VR (not counting Virtual Boy). Within only a week of its release, the cardboard VR headset maker-kit is already sold out all over the web in the US and in parts of Europe. Large online retailers such as Amazon US , Best Buy , Target , Walmart and NewEgg are all sold out of the $80 full set, which includes Nintendo Labo software, VR headset, Wind Pedal, Camera, Elephant, Bird, and Blas

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CraneMorley

APRIL 19, 2019

In the next installment of the Lunch & Learn series, we are delighted to host Mr. Rex Conner. Rex has been in the training industry for over 40 years and his professional career has spanned from positions as an Instructor Pilot in the U.S. Air Force, a corporate trainer in the financial services field and as a trusted performance consulting partner inside more than 50 companies in more than two dozen industries.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2019

Cyan, the creators of genre-defining puzzle adventure games Myst (1993) and Riven (1997) , are only a week away from the end of their latest campaign, a new VR puzzler called Firmament. With still over $400,000 to go, the company is now asking backers to tell friends about the project in an ostensible race to the finish. As an ‘all or nothing’ campaign, the project will only come to fruition if it reaches the $1,285,000 mark.

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Oculus

APRIL 19, 2019

This week, we released several titles and updates across the Oculus Platform. Here’s a rundown of the highlights.

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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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