Wed.Mar 08, 2017

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Facebook Launches Its First Dedicated VR App

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The Samsung Gear VR app features 360 photos and videos. As Facebook continues to emphasis video within the newsfeed, the tech giant has also made a commitment to embracing new formats like 360° photos and video. Now Facebook is doubling down on the immersive medium with the launch of the Facebook 360 app for Samsung Gear VR. The first dedicated VR app from Facebook, you can download it now to start exploring 360° photos and videos posted to the platform.

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‘Korix’ Claims to be the First PSVR Title to Run Natively at 120Hz

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Korix a visually-minimalist VR RTS headed to PlayStation VR claiming to be the first title to run natively at 120Hz on the headset. While the PSVR display supports a 120Hz refresh rate, most games on the platform run at 60Hz and use a technique called asynchronous reprojection to inject interpolated frames to bring the output up to the 120Hz rate. The headset can also run with a native 90Hz refresh rate (matching the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive).

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Kaleidoscope Reveals VR Lineup for Showcase Vol. 2

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The quarterly VR event series will hit 11 cities around the world. On the heels of last year’s Kaleidoscope’s Summer Showcase that traveled to eight cities across the globe, Kaleidoscope is expanding their Showcase Vol. 2 to now include four additional cities. The quarterly event series that features some of the best new work from VR creators includes a diverse selection of over 20 VR experiences.

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SteamVR Gets Beta Development Build with Support for Linux

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The beta channels for the Steam client and SteamVR now support Linux. As a development build, the selection of Linux-supported SteamVR games is very limited, but Valve says the build aims to let developers begin making VR content that supports the open source operating system. Valve recently provided some positive news for VR on Linux, which has been fairly limited since Oculus ‘paused’ its Linux development in 2015.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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Shazam Launches Augmented Reality Brand Platform

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The music recognition app is stepping beyond just identifying songs and TV to now include branded augmented reality experiences. Shazam announced Tuesday that it would now help companies and popular artists create AR experiences that include 3D animations, product visualizations, mini-games and even 360-degree videos. Since launching their visual-recognition functionality in 2015, Shazam is taking their visual capability to the next level and hopefully delivering more engaged and immersive brand

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Vimeo 360 is a Revolution for Immersive Storytellers—Here’s How

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Vimeo 360 is here, and it’s more than just 360 video functionality. It’s a big day for VR and 360 video. In addition to Facebook launching a dedicated VR app for Samsung Gear VR , high-end video platform Vimeo has announced Vimeo 360. Detailed in this announcement post , the platform consists of three different components: 360 video upload functionality for users, 360 Video School , and a curated 360 channel.

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Watch A Smartphone Turn Into A Controller For HoloLens

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Microsoft’s HoloLens is still very much in an early stage, and interesting new ideas and uses for the device are being discovered by the week. This most recent example turns your phone into a controller for the mixed reality headset. Currently, HoloLens is mainly controlled through gestures with your hand, though can also be navigated with voice recognition and gaze-based input.

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‘Chess Ultra’ is Bringing its Luxurious Game Environments to PSVR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive

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Ripstone Games , makers of Pure Chess (2012), are bringing their upcoming sequel Chess Ultra to PlayStationVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The classic chess game features a number of beautifully rendered environments that will finally make you feel like the rich and magnanimous Grandmaster you always knew you’d become—or a streetwise criminal who’s broken into a closed museum to host underground chess games to the death.

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7 Nintendo VR Games We’d Love To See On The Switch

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While we were busy running around the Game Developers Conference (GDC) last week in search of VR and AR goodies, Nintendo was busy launching a new console, the Switch. This hybrid device acts as both a handheld and a home console with detachable controllers that allow you to play how you want. Of course, how we really want to play is in VR, and things are a little murky on that point at the moment.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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‘Bigscreen’ Social Computing Space Metrics Show Big Value for VR Power Users

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Bigscreen VR announced that they raised $3 million dollars for their “social utility” VR application. Bigscreen gives you access to your computer screen in VR, which is a deceptively simple idea but one that is unlocking new ways of working on your computer and enabling collaborative social environments that range from virtual 2D video game LAN parties to productive work meetings.

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Dragon Front Gets Touch Support And New Faction Next Week

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High Voltage Software’s Dragon Front moved from Beta into a full release last November, but that doesn’t mean new content isn’t on the way. The developer recently confirmed that its VR card battler will be getting a new update next week with two very big additions. The first is a new faction, Delirium, which offers a new set of cards and units to play with.

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‘Neurospeculative Afrofeminism’: Using VR to Build the Future You Want to Live Into

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Hyphen Labs is a immersive design collective made up of women of color, and they were showing a sci-fi VR experience at Sundance this year called Neurospeculative Afrofeminism. Their VR experience features black women as some of the pioneers of brain optimization, and you get to experience a futuristic neurocosmotology lab where you can receive transcranial stimulation.

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Duck Hunt Meets Five Nights At Freddy’s In Stress Level Zero’s Next VR Game

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Duck Season is easily my favorite premise for a VR game. For anyone in the age range of about 30-45, the upcoming release from Stress Level Zero will be a giant nostalgia trip with a freaky twist. The 1980s are in full swing and my virtual living room looks like it fits perfectly into that time period. My mom brings home a copy of the popular game Duck Season as a one day game rental, and I’m going to spend all day playing it on a giant box television.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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Experiential Poems: Exploring Emotions & Embodied Vulnerability in VR with Cabbibo

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Using language to translate an experience into words is one of the highest levels of abstraction that we know as humans. Using the power of visual metaphor through poetry is able to get to deeper levels of emotion, and virtual reality is able to remove nearly all levels of abstraction by tricking your senses into having a direct sensory experience within your body.

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Job Simulator Tops February PSVR Downloads

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Sony shared the top 10 downloads for February on PlayStation VR (PSVR) and, despite releasing in October last year, Job Simulator continues to be a leader on the system. Psychonauts In The Rhombus of Ruin [Review: 5/10 ] had a strong debut too, arriving at second on the list even though it was released later in the month. It wasn’t enough to overcome Job Simulator though, which continues to secure its position as one of the most popular VR games — earlier this year developer Owlchemy

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Women Already Represent 41% Of Mobile VR Users According To.

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Women Already Represent 41% Of Mobile VR Users According To Market Research Although the virtual reality (VR) market is largely dominated by young men between the ages of 18-35, young women and older adults are rapidly catching up, according to market research by SuperData in their report ‘The Virtual Consumer’. SuperData found that the current VR market is comprised of a niche audience of early adopters, which tends to skew more towards men.

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Vive Tracker Could Transform Into ‘Hundreds of Hardware Accessories’ in 2017

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During my interview with HTC’s President of Vive in China, Alvin Graylin, last week, I asked if the company had any more plans for add-on peripherals for its VR headset — like its upcoming Vive Tracker — in 2017 and beyond. In response, he pointed out that there could be “hundreds” of accessories for the HTC Vive this year because of that Tracker. “I think the Tracker is already creating new peripherals that we don’t have to design,” Graylin said.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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HTC Will Open Source Full-Body Tracking For Vive With.

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HTC Will Open Source Full-Body Tracking For Vive With Tracker Last week at both the Mobile World Congress and Game Developers Conference we got hands-on with the HTC Vive’s Tracker peripheral once more, and one of the best uses for it we saw was to enable full-body tracking in VR. Speaking to UploadVR at MWC, Alvin Graylin, President of Vive in China, said that HTC had been working on a “similar system” for full body tracking in its China research lab, and would be open sourcing it for all devel

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Facebook Launches 360 Content App On Gear VR

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Facebook acquired VR specialist Oculus all the way back in 2014 and, while its funding and resources have greatly accelerated what the latter has been able to do, it still hasn’t released a tailored version of its own social network to run on Oculus products. That is until today. Facebook 360 is a new app for Oculus and Samsung’s Gear VR that brings portions of the social network into headsets for the first time.

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18 women leading the way in wearable tech and VR in 2016In no.

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18 women leading the way in wearable tech and VR in 2016 In no particular order, and with contributions from across the editorial team, here’s Wearable’s 2016 list of the women to watch in wearable tech and virtual reality. Read more here.

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PS4’s 4.50 Update Hits Tomorrow Makes PSVR’s Social Screen, Cinematic Mode Better

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Did you know you can play almost all of your PS4 games inside PlayStation VR (PSVR)? No, they won’t be true VR experiences — unless they natively support the headset — but they will be displayed on an enlarged screen, a little like you were in a cinema. In fact, the feature is called Cinematic Mode, and it’s actually pretty handy for watching movies too.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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GearBest launches OnePlus 3T Anniversary Giveaway

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GearBest is one of fast growing e-tailers, trying to replicate the success of Alibaba and Amazon. The company opened warehouses in United States and European Union, and is shipping more and more products from U.S. and EU, rather than its home in mainland China. In March 2017, GearBest is celebrating its third anniversary. In that spirit, the company organized a whole bunch of cool deals, giveaways, discounts, awards, and many other things for their customers.

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The American Dream Gets Educational in Latest Parody Trailer

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The American Dream is an upcoming VR game that takes a long, hard look at American’s gun problem. We played a short demo at PAX West and interviewed the developers last year and came away impressed with how well the team at Samurai Punk were able to blend the sardonic parody premise with rewarding gameplay. In the actual game, everything plays out as if you’re being treated to a tour of an alternate version of the future, similar to Fallout.

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Students Hack Positional Tracking onto Gear VR with SteamVR Tracking

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In a reverse engineering exercise, two students at Utah State University have hacked positional tracking onto a Gear VR headset using SteamVR Tracking technology. Mobile VR solutions like Samsung’s Gear VR currently employ rotational tracking only. The popular forms of mobile VR headsets, such as the Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream View and Cardboard, are currently limited to rotational head tracking, meaning that you can look around comfortably from a single vantage point, but movements of

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Dying: Reborn PSVR Review – Should Have Stayed Dead

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I have to admit I didn’t expect much going into Dying: Reborn PSVR. Publisher Oasis Games’ previous efforts on PlayStation VR (PSVR) have ranged from the mediocre (Ace Banana) to the downright terrible ( Weeping Doll and Pixel Gear ), so you could forgive me for being skeptical that this would be a different story. Much to my surprise, though, I found myself starting to have a bit of fun with this cheesy B-movie style escape room game.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

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?