VRScout
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
‘Gnomes & Goblins’ will be released for the HTC Vive on September 8th. I’m standing in the middle of a dark wooded forest, surrounded by sprawling trees that tower overhead. Each tree is glowing a soft warm color from tiny candles that line the surface of the weathered trunks. Thats when I notice the modest windows and doors covering the side of the tree.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
For a while now we’ve been waiting for the industry to coalesce around a standard VR hardware platform. Now Qualcomm , a leading semiconductor company which regularly releases smartphone ‘reference’ platforms from which companies build their products, aims to fill that gap in the mobile VR space. Guest Article by Anshel Sag. Anshel is currently Associate Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy where he has multiple areas of coverage including a heavy coverage of VR.
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Cats and VR
SEPTEMBER 25, 2016
One of the big issues with working for a VR startup in Biz Dev while also running a VR blog is that your bandwidth ends up at some pre cable modem levels. Well I was at TechCrunch Disrupt SF recently and I am only now getting the chance to post. I mean outside of a little small time Oculus news yesterday. www.catsandvr.com/blog/palmer Ironically Oculus does not make any best of TechCrunch Disrupt SF list cause the only presence was a giveaway.
VR Bites
SEPTEMBER 4, 2016
Play PC VR games inside your mobile VR headset with VRidge technology. For a fraction of the cost!This app enables RiftCat’s VRidge technology on Android phone. Transforming your phone to a powerful VR headset screen. All you need is to put it inside a headmount like Google Cardboard and have fun. It uses your desktop PC computing power to handle PC VR games and stream it into your phone via WiFi.
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.
Next Reality VR
SEPTEMBER 18, 2016
Cancer is a complicated illness, but the more we understand it, the likelier we are to beat it. The 3D Visualisation Aesthetics Lab at the University of New South Wales took to virtual reality to help improve our odds by allowing scientists to walk through virtual representations of actual cancer cells. The project, spearheaded by the lab's director, John McGhee, uses a high-resolution electron-microscope to pull data from a cancer cell—or, really, any part of the body—and recreate it in three d
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
This is the Call of Duty PlayStation VR experience that lets you feel what its like to pilot a personal fighter jet in space. Coming to PS4 later this year. Activision’s much anticipated Call of Duty XP event has returned Friday at the Forum stadium in Los Angeles. The second “non-annual” fan conference is expected to bring in huge crowds, all looking to get hands-on with new content from Modern Warfare Remastered , Black Ops III and Infinite Warfare.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 3, 2016
Starbreeze, Acer and the StarVR team are celebrating a milestone this week as the very first headsets, sporting a unique 210 degree field of view, have rolled off the production line and are winging their way to IMAX, who’ll be using them to wow customers with new immersive content to be shown at IMAX venues. We wrote recently about Starbreeze’s plans to supply their high-spec, high-FOV virtual reality headset the StarVR, to IMAX – a company reknowned for premium movie watching
Cats and VR
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
Guerrilla Cambridge breaks down Single Player Mode for RIGS Mechanized Combat League. Coming exclusively to PlayStation VR, RIGS Mechanized Combat League puts you in the pilot seat of an athletic fighting machine, battling for supremacy in the adrenaline-fuelled sport of the future. Though pushed as a multi player potential VR esport the game has a very in-depth career mode.
VR Bites
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
Everyone agrees that a virtual reality headset is an expensive piece of technology. If you are lucky enough to own one, you want the headset to last in top condition as long as possible. The foam that is pressed to your forehead is the most fragile part and very sensitive to dirt and wear. VR cover found a solution for this problem with a simple sleeve that fits around the foam you can protect it.
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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.
Next Reality VR
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
People fear virtual reality will isolate us, but the right experience can prove it does the opposite. AltspaceVR is a virtual world you can utilize to chat with others around the world, but that's not all. You can also play card and board games, a game of laser tag, or a song on the piano. You can even attend a comedy show or a concert. Friends playing Cards Against Humanity in Altspace.
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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
Omelet and Smashbox Cosmetics invite you to go on a virtual tour of their fashion photography studio and check out some products while you’re there. You’re on set during a fashion shoot with models strewn on top of a convertible blasted with giant red lips. Now you’re transported to a conveyor belt catwalk with flashing cameras hitting from all sides.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 3, 2016
Announced alongside the new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone last month, the 2016 Gear VR headset is new and improved, with thoughtful backward compatibility with prior Gear VR phones. Our pal Ritchie Djamhur explores the differences compared to the 2015 model. Comparing the 2016 Gear VR to the 2015 version , Ritchie highlights notable improvements in the video above.
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.
Cats and VR
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Lionsgate and Starbreeze will showcase their highly anticipated, newly titled first-person action shooter VR game, John Wick Chronicles, during New York Comic Con, October 6–9, 2016. The first missions of the game will be released on Steam for HTC Vive in February 2017. New York Comic Con attendees will be able to demo a 7-minute preview of the first mission of the VR game in HTC Vive, titled John Wick Chronicles: An Eye for an Eye, at the John Wick Chronicles booth at the Jacob K.
VR Bites
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
Great to see free experiences are so much fun! Relix Coaster is an amazing app for the Gear VR. Couldn’t find a Google Cardboard version. Hopefully they release it for Google Daydream. Thank you for watching and I hope to see you in the next video! Bye! Relix Coaster: https://goo.gl/3UickG. ⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨. ☛ Subscribe and become a ClassicGamer: https://goo.gl/6MFVkR. ☛ Check out my Instagram: https://goo.gl/mUOhiE. ☛ Say hi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vrbites. ☛ Facebook: http
Slashgear
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
Qualcomm always had virtual reality in mind for its Snapdragon 820, and now the chipmaker has revealed just what you can do with that, in the shape of a standalone VR headset. The Qualcomm Snapdragon VR820, announced at IFA 2016 today, pairs - unsurprisingly - the 820 chip with a bevy of sensors and a pair of AMOLED screens for … Continue reading.
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.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
SurviVR trains users how to handle dangerous real-world scenarios. It’s not a secret that the world’s a little messed up at the moment. In fact, a little may be a bit of an understatement. Countless acts of needless violence are committed every day, which makes active shooter preparedness more important than ever. That’s where Human Condition Safety (HCS) comes in.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
HypeVR is working to bring live-action volumetric 360 video to VR. The company’s crazy camera rig, built to capture the necessary data, is a mashup of high-end cameras and laser scanning tech. HypeVR recently shot a brief demonstration of the output of their rig, which they say can capture ‘volumetric’ VR video that allows users to move around in a limited space within the video, similar to Lytro’s Light field capture which we saw the other day.
Cats and VR
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Neoglyphic Entertainment, a storytelling company built for the digital age, has released a comprehensive feature updates to its award-winning, cross-platform, real-time fur and fiber technology, NeoFur. Now available, NeoFur 2.0 for Unreal Engine 4 enables developers to better tackle the creation of challenging fuzzy and fibrous characters, objects and surfaces such as furred creatures, carpets, blankets, mosses and other natural landscapes.
VR Bites
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Loki’s not allowed in my room when I’m not home! …Odin said so… Wrath Of Loki – Oculus Store $2.99 https://www.oculus.com/experiences. Quick Message From RCVR ! “Thanks for watching my video, really I mean it! I hope it had enough silliness to make you laugh, but not too much that I annoyed the crap out of you. Last thing I wanna do is scream in your ear and p**s you off… you’re my friend and I want you to come back and see more of my vidz)) I plan
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?
AllThingsVR
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
Tilt Brush Teases Multiplayer Mode and More VR is always more fun with friends. And now our favorite VR creator tool will soon be getting the update we’ve all been waiting for. In a Friday announcement, Google showcased their latest plans to introduce multiplayer functionality into the popular app, along with a slew of other features that the Tilt Brush team is hoping to roll out soon.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 3, 2016
Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. With Labor Day Weekend upon us here in the States, you probably deserve some VR leisure time to yourself. So we’ve listed out a ton of new content to check out over the long weekend. This week’s storefront includes a balanced selection of both Rift and Gear VR titles, from puzzlers to platformers, adventure games to card games, there’s a little something for every
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 3, 2016
Veteran Director of Iron Man , Chef and more recently The Jungle Book , Jon Favreau has now teamed up with veteran VR production house WEVR on a brand new project entitled ‘Gnomes & Goblins’, a realtime VR experience set in a magical fantasy world. The interest from Hollywood and its key players in immersive technologies seems to be growing apace, with studios and creatives keen to explore the artistic and, of course, financial potential of VR.
Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers
Did you know that companies such as Paychex, 3M, and Honeywell are getting better results by incorporating video-based practice and coaching within their L&D strategy? From sales pitches to soft skills, learners are becoming top performers by applying and validating knowledge transfer using the unique benefits of video. Whether used as a stand-alone application or integrated with a learning platform, video-based practice and coaching platforms give learners the ultimate opportunity to repeatedly
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