VRScout

AUGUST 11, 2016

Imagine standing in Peru on the edge of the highest peak on Machu Picchu, sitting in the front row of a Chanel fashion show at the Palais Royal, or witnessing the adrenaline rush of a gold medal sprinter at the Olympics in Rio. Virtual reality (VR) makes these types of experiences accessible from your couch. It’s an incredibly exciting tool that goes beyond mere entertainment or gaming, and it’s even more exciting to be involved at these early stages – freely experimenting and collectively build

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 10, 2016

Set in the late 19th-century London, Wands presents an alternate history and drops gamers into a virtual reality steampunk world where they can join a secret society of spell wielders who seek to prove their power and unlock hidden magical talents. I had recently heard about Wands and it was something I was looking forward to seeing during my time at VRLA.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 10, 2016

Envelop , the virtual reality desktop platform for Windows, has launched as a public beta for anyone with a Vive or Rift to enjoy. After announcing a $5.5 million Series A investment at the beginning of 2016, followed by a closed beta at the beginning of July, Envelop has now launched as an open beta for anyone to use their HTC Vive or Oculus Rift to turn their Windows computer into a VR desktop environment.

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VR Bites

AUGUST 11, 2016

OK… so this game took me a bit by surprise… As most of you know the RTS style games are usually not my preferred type of game to play but lately in VR this is starting to change a bit! I really liked the ability to observe the battlefield from a God perspective and it was really cool to zoom in close and take a better look at the action.

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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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VRScout

AUGUST 10, 2016

Not to long ago my friend said, “One day a kid will create an Oscar winning short-film in their bedroom.” The idea behind that statement fascinated me. If that was said just ten years ago it would be considered preposterous. Filmmakers in earshot would have bursted into laughter at the mere thought of it. But in 2016, the thought seems totally reasonable, highly likely even.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 11, 2016

The venerable iFixit has done it again: taken a brand new, perfectly good VR headset and ripped it apart for our pleasure. OSVR’s recently launched HDK 2 headset is starting to land in the hands of eager users. iFixit has promptly opened theirs up and given it a detailed teardown to find out exactly what’s inside. Reading through the teardown, it’s clear iFixit admired the ease of disassembly, and scored the headset 9 out of 10 in repairability—good news for a headset that is c

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VR Bites

AUGUST 7, 2016

Today on Lunchtime with my Gear VR I take a look at the new Oculus Home and play a bit of Sky Fighter Training Day. I gotta say I was pleasantly surprised to see that Oculus Home is now the same on Gear VR as it is in the Oculus Rift CV1. It’s a great improvement over the old home screen and makes things much easier to navigate. As for the gameplay portion of today’s lunchtime segment, I play a bit of Sky Fighter Training Day.

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VRScout

AUGUST 12, 2016

Meet the Nosulus Rift. This is not a joke. No, seriously… Virtual reality is great for seeing and hearing new worlds and experiencing new adventures. But don’t you wish you could smell all those cool, new places you visit? Ubisoft definitely would as apparent by the announcement of their new smell-tech VR device, the Nosulus Rift. YES! I’m all in!

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 9, 2016

Introducing Mindshow, an app that allows anyone anywhere to create, experience and share shows in VR. www.mindshow.com This weekend I attended one of the best up and coming conferences dealing with VR. Just like the humble beginnings of GDC, VRLA started because of a true passion for its respective industry. Having attended E3, PAX, GDC and many more events in the gaming industry VRLA may have been one of the most productive events I have ever attended.

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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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Road to VR

AUGUST 10, 2016

Aerofly from developers IPACS is a flight simulator which aims to bring realistic visuals to the VR-enabled civilian flight-sim genre, and it looks stunning. One interesting side effect of virtual reality and its early adoption by the games industry is the chance to give me a reason to return to a genre that previously held no interest to me. With the promise of placing you inside the game-world, titles which left me cold when framed by a flat screen, can suddenly make me sit up and take interes

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Slashgear

AUGUST 7, 2016

In case you haven't heard, the new show Stranger Things is Netflix's latest binge-watching hit. It just debuted a few weeks ago, and now fans are already clamoring for a second season. With the series as popular as it is right now, it makes sense that Netflix would feature it in its first 360-degree video experiment. While it's only two … Continue reading.

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VRScout

AUGUST 11, 2016

This VR platform hopes to help America conquer their biggest phobia of public speaking. Sometimes getting up in front of a room of clients to give a presentation or raise a glass to toast the bride and groom can be an overwhelming task. Now there’s a new interactive education platform for Samsung Gear VR that teaches individuals and corporate employees to become better communicators.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

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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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Road to VR

AUGUST 12, 2016

The free three-game bundle that comes with the purchase of an HTC Vive is now featuring two new titles. HTC today debuted a new game bundle for new purchases of the Vive. The Gallery: Call of the Starseed and Zombie Training Simulator now join Tilt Brush. All three of the titles hold a ‘Very Positive’ rating on Steam. The bundle represents $80 in VR games.

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Slashgear

AUGUST 10, 2016

A virtual reality headset that won't make you look like a chap from an 80's sci-fi bomb movie and one that will really let you take the VR experience anywhere. That is probably what some VR fans are dreaming of at the moment. Luckily for them, A Chinese company by the name of Dlodlo ("dwo-dwo") is about ready to make … Continue reading.

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VRScout

AUGUST 9, 2016

Take in the Google Street View scenery with this custom built Gear VR app. Exercise bikes can be boring. Even with music blaring or a maybe a TV playing your favorite rerun — riding in place on a stationary bike can be a monotonous daily activity. But not for one developer in Scotland who wanted to spice up his daily exercise bike rides by pairing a Gear VR headset with Google Street View imagery data for one unique ride up the length of Britain.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

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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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Road to VR

AUGUST 10, 2016

Frank He goes hands on with Wands , a new PvP Gear VR title from NUX Studios which pitches you against your opponent in a magical duel to the death. VRLA’s Summer Expo this year offered up a raft of new VR content, but one of the lesser known titles might be Wands by NUX Studios. It’s a PvP title for Gear VR with a steampunk art style, a spectator application for non-VR users (the first of its kind for a Gear VR game), and of course, magic wands.

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 12, 2016

‘Virtual Reality Challenge’ Promises the “largest VR-only Game Jam ever” Fellow virtual reality news outlet VRFocus has launched ‘Virtual Reality Challenge’ and has hopes for it to become the largest hackathon of its kind dedicated to virtual reality content. Hackathon events in various forms are now commonplace across different technologies and for virtual reality has proven an important catalyst for innovation and creativity in the past, with both Oculus and HTC embracing the format to encoura

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VRScout

AUGUST 11, 2016

Viewers can view different outcomes depending on where they’re looking in the 360° video. MTV was back at San Diego Comic Con in full force this year, but this time they brought a few surprising goodies with them. One of the most notable being an incredibly interesting video experience that incorporated some very exciting VR technology. The network debuted a new interactive VR experience based off their show Teen Wolf that utilized ‘gaze-activated’ technology to help users decide the direction i

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AUGUST 10, 2016

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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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Road to VR

AUGUST 10, 2016

VR Arcades are beginning to make their spread across the US, offering users timed access to consumer VR systems and an array of games. With the cost of consumer VR in these early days still decidedly in the ‘enthusiast’ realm, a business opportunity arises to give users a less expensive way to experience the latest in VR technology. That’s the idea behind three new VR Arcades that have opened in Utah, Ohio, and Washington, DC, which are leveraging the HTC Vive as the go-to R

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 12, 2016

New Gear VR Now Available For Pre-Order on Amazon Unveiled earlier this month at the Samsung Unpacked event, the new upgraded Gear VR is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The new Gear VR will be released on Amazon August 19th for a price of $99.99. And when we say that this latest edition of the VR headset has been upgraded, we are mostly pointing to a few minor improvements.

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VRScout

AUGUST 9, 2016

Riding a physical trike-bike in VR was one thrilling ride. This past weekend at VRLA , the world’s largest virtual reality expo, Russia-based Interactive Lab showed off their latest VR demo where you physically navigated a tricycle through a Tron-like race track. The same VR studio that brought us free roaming motion-captured Gear VR games back in May , spent two months developing this latest experience dubbed VReal Trike.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

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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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