VRScout
MAY 26, 2016
Over the past year or two, the RYOT crew have become the cool kids of VR. Not just because they dress cooler than the rest of us, which they all do, or that they avoid the inevitable drama of an adolescent industry getting too big for its britches, which they also do. It’s because they know who they are and they give a s**t. This is their story, with pictures.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MAY 20, 2016
The fantasy of playing a true approximation of the fictional games shown in the Sword Art Online The post ‘Sword Art Online’ Producer Discusses Interest in “VR exclusive titles” for Anime Property appeared first on UploadVR.
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Road to VR
MAY 27, 2016
What puts the ‘E’ in E-sports? VR may have something to say about the notion that ‘electronic’ sports can’t be physical, and could even further legitimize the growing field. Anyone remember Sports Champions (2010) ? Essentially Wii Sports (2006) for PS3 using PlayStation Move, it featured a table tennis mode that remains, to my eyes, the greatest motion-control game ever published.
VR Bites
MAY 18, 2016
The Climb is a first-person climbing simulator for the Oculus Rift. Make your way to the top of the mountain in the shortest possible time. The game is developed by Crytek, famous for their high quality visuals and of course their powerful game development platform Cryengine. This game is a graphical masterpiece and without doubt most beautiful game that you can find in the Oculus Store right now.
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.
Cats and VR
MAY 28, 2016
Samsung Electronics announced the Galaxy S7 edge Injustice Edition in collaboration with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment. To commemorate the third anniversary of the popular mobile game, Injustice: Gods Among Us, the companies came together to bring Samsung’s technology and one of the game’s central characters, Batman, in a sleek, high-performance smartphone.
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VRScout
MAY 19, 2016
The Galaxy Adventure Park includes virtual sky diving and volcano bungee jumping. Samsung just opened their own version of an immersive theme park for music fans attending Lisbon’s Rock in Rio festival, one of the largest music festivals in the world. The on-site entertainment experience is being housed in a decently sized multi-story building, designed liked a theme park, with multiple attractions to check out and experience the company’s latest mobile products.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MAY 24, 2016
If you’re consistently wowed by the outlandish ways in which CSI stars solve crimes, then this story might be for you. The UK is experimenting with using VR to virtually reconstruct crime scenes for use within real court cases, it’s been revealed today. The post The UK is Using the Vive to Build VR Crime Scenes for Court Cases appeared first on UploadVR.
Road to VR
MAY 26, 2016
Google’s ambitious Daydream VR platform for Android hinges on a combination of hardware and software to enable a high quality VR experience. To ensure the desired level of performance, Google will certify phones of a certain minimum specification as ‘Daydream Ready’ But the company says that even today’s top phones are unlikely to qualify for the title.
VR Bites
MAY 14, 2016
In todays video, ManVsVR is showing you how to play PC games on your Gear VR and/or mobile device ready Head Mount Unit. If you have any questions, Be sure to ask in the commments on his channel. Software requered for this: TrinusVR Lite App – https://play.google.com/store/apps/de… Trinus Server Software – [link]. Tridef 3d software – https://www.tridef.com/cart/product.p… Moonlight Game Streaming App – https://play.google.
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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.
Cats and VR
MAY 4, 2016
SubPac, a transformational technology brand, is pioneering a cultural shift across the music and technology industries by revolutionizing the traditional perception of sound. SubPac is immersive physical-sound technology that brings music to life, expanding beyond an audio concept to a full-body experience. The startup has attracted major investors and industry leaders who have joined forces to engineer this unprecedented sound movement.
Slashgear
MAY 20, 2016
While Apple's next iPhone seems to show little potential for great change, Google announces Android software integration with one of their most forward-thinking projects ever: Tango. Apple has built a massive consumer following with the idea that their iPhone is reliable, secure, and ubiquitous - unavoidably present in the public eye. Google, on the other hand, creates the software that … Continue reading.
VRScout
MAY 16, 2016
Two Oculus pilot programs hope to inspire the next generation of VR creators. We have all seen how virtual reality can change gaming and entertainment forever with this immersive technology. But one thing we love to highlight here at VRScout is how VR can be used for good and drive action to help make this world a better place. There are creators like RYOT connecting supporters directly to a purpose in VR with their Pencils of Promise experience and Vrse transporting us into a Syrian refugee cam
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MAY 21, 2016
Finding like-minded creatives for any type of project can be a challenge. But The post Artella is a Cloud-Based Tool That Aims to Be the GitHub of Creative VR Collaboration appeared first on UploadVR.
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.
Road to VR
MAY 18, 2016
Google’s newly announced ‘Daydream’ promises to raise the bar for virtual reality on Android compared to Cardboard. At I/O 2016, the company showed the first glimpse of Daydream in action. In the video (above) we get the first glimpse of the Daydream ‘home’ space where users will be able to launch games and apps. We also see Google’s new VR controller reference design in action, which allows gesture-based interactions within the virtual world.
VR Bites
MAY 15, 2016
Hé Guy’s, Thank you so much for visiting VR Bites. The website grew far above my expectations. I’m so thankful for the all the visitors. I know I didn’t post that much lately. I’m rethinking my strategy a little bit. Let me explain: I started building VR Bites because no one cared about VR. Most people hated the DK1 and didn’t believe in it. I tried to convince my clients this was the future but they laughed at me.
VR Game Critic
MAY 19, 2016
Google is getting ready to expand its virtual reality hardware partnerships. The company announced at its Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View, California Thursday that it is partnering with IMAX as well as the Chinese digital camera maker YI Technology on building cameras that can capture 360-degree video content, which is then automatically uploaded to Google’s JUMP VR video editing platform.
Slashgear
MAY 23, 2016
This week the OnePlus 3 is being teased by the folks at OnePlus, a group that previously gave away thousands of "Cardboard" viewers with Google's spec. Now they're bringing the idea back, giving away thousands of an accessory they call the Loop VR. They've also gone so far as to show the OnePlus 3 off in the video by sliding … 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
MAY 24, 2016
Samsung begins selling the Gear 360 in New Zealand – who’s going to be next? When Samsung first unveiled their Gear 360 camera back in February, I was eager to learn more and compare the camera to other competing consumer 360° models. At the time, there was little information available on a release date or price range. Then early this month we finally got our hands on a Gear 360.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MAY 25, 2016
It looks like a 4K Samsung Gear VR might be a lot closer than we thought. At the Display Week conference in San Francisco, CA this week – Samsung showcased a number of next generations of displays, but it was the VR area that (obviously) caught our eye most. The post Samsung Showcases 4K UHD Display For VR appeared first on UploadVR.
Road to VR
MAY 27, 2016
Techcrunch reports that Snapchat just raised another $1.8 billion in a Series F round, and Snapchat could end up being a major player within augmented reality hardware market. Snapchat is probably considered a bit of a dark horse by most people when compared to other major AR players including Microsoft, Meta, Daqri, or Magic Leap. But Snapchat has captured the attention of Generation Z through the use of augmented reality filters for selfies and vlogs.
Hypergrid Business
MAY 25, 2016
Just a week after Google unveiled its new virtual reality platform, Daydream, the first compatible headset has hit the market. Mumbai-based ConvergeVR Tech Labs Pvt. Ltd.
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?
VRWorld
MAY 23, 2016
With the arrival of Baahubali: The Conclusion in April 2017, the world of Bollywood movies might change forever. At the 69th edition of Cannes Film Festival, movie producers sat down to discuss the arrival of Virtual Reality into the movie industry, in a bid to change the industry paradigm. Up until last year, most of movie industry spoke of ‘second screen’ i.e. engaging the movie goers by offering additional content on their favorite device (tablets, smartphones etc.).
Slashgear
MAY 5, 2016
The HTC 10 might in the end suffer the same fate as the HTC One (M7). Both smartphones have been warmly received and praised by critics and even users but ended up flopping in terms of actual sales. Of course, it's still too early to tell, but in China, the signs are quite damning. According to media, there have only … Continue reading.
VRScout
MAY 19, 2016
You can now try your hand at being a skate photographer with a Vive controller as your camera. Have you ever wanted to see if you have what it takes to be an action sports photographer? What about a war photographer or maybe even a paparazzo cruising hot spots in LA? Well now is your chance to get some practice in and make a game out of it at the same time.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MAY 26, 2016
A lot of VR fans may be focused on the big guns, like the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Playstation VR, but the real pioneer in marketing virtual and augmented reality to the masses is mobile VR, such as the Samsung Gear VR headset. That’s where existing smartphones are attached to headsets to simulate a VR environment. The post Apple is Playing The Long Game With VR – And It May Work appeared first on UploadVR.
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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