VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Linden Lab opens VR exhibit in Sansar to coincide with The Last Jedi movie release. Can you feel it? There’s an unbearable frisson of anticipation among the legions of Star Wars fans this holiday season alongside the release of The Last Jedi. But apart from having to handle this excruciating wait, fans are also forced to put up with the endless marketing tie-ins as everyone tries to piggyback off the franchise’s popularity.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Earlier this year, Clay Bavor, VP of VR/AR at Google, revealed a “secret project” to develop a VR-optimised OLED panel capable of 20 megapixels per eye. The project was mentioned during SID Display Week 2017 but has gone largely under the radar as little information has surfaced since. Following a general overview of the limits of current VR technology, and an announcement that Google is working with Sharp on developing LCDs capable of VR performance normally associated with OLED, Ba

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Fallout 4 , the legendary post-apocalyptic adventure from Bethesda Game Studios and winner of more than 200 ‘Best Of’ awards, is available now worldwide in virtual reality on the HTC VIVE. Fallout 4 VR is a true, full-length open-world game, offering an unparalleled amount of VR content for players, including the complete core game with all-new combat, crafting, and building systems fully reimagined for virtual reality. " Fallout 4 VR is the most anticipated title for VR this holiday, and the ga

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Slashgear

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The HTC VIVE Tracker is a new tool for the VR universe – an extra bit of zazz that opens up new doors and dimensions. Over the past few days I’ve had the opportunity to test out the HTC VIVE Tracker with the relatively limited set of games it already works within. Included with this review package was a set … Continue reading.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2017

I’m not crying. There’s just something in my eye. Late night television appears to be developing a fondness for Tilt Brush. The popular VR painting app has already seen multiple appearances on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in the form of a Pictionary-esque party game with participants including stars such as Scarlett Johansson and SNL’s Michael Che.

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Firesprite is proud to announce it's upcoming procedurally generated sci-fi horror, ‘The Persistence’ PSVR will be playable this weekend at the PlayStation Experience event in Anaheim, California between 9th & 10th December 2017 A new enemy-type will be shown for the first time. The ‘Skulls’ – a stealth-killer that hides in the procedurally generated corridors & rooms of ‘The Persistence’ just waiting for the unsuspecting Player to walk-by.

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Slashgear

DECEMBER 15, 2017

YouTube just launched a virtual reality app for Steam, making it available to HTC Vive users. That’s good news, except that many of those users are reporting some pretty serious bugs, some of them so problematic that the app repeatedly crashes, making it unusable. This isn’t the first iteration of YouTube designed for virtual reality headsets.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The first-of-its-kind VR experience incorporates real testimonies and photogrammetry to highlight the need for global nuclear disarmament. As tension continue to rise between various nations, the probability of a major global conflict taking place in the near future is only becoming more of a reality. That’s why it’s more important than ever to look back at history at our previous actions in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes we’ve already made.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 15, 2017

It’s been a long while coming, but Google has finally launched a YouTube VR app on PC. The app is now available on Steam, officially for the Vive (but also functional with Rift and Windows VR headsets). Google expects YouTube VR to remain in Early Access through 2018 as they continue to develop it based on feedback. As one of the largest video content libraries on the planet, demand for being able to watch YouTube content in a VR headset has been understandably strong.

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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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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Several brand new VR experiences got announced for PSVR at PSX 2017, including The Last Guardian VR demo, Wipeout VR, Firewall Zero Hour and Jupiter and Mars. There were also a bunch of VR announcements made for PSVR ports of already released games including Rick And Morty VR. Here is a video list of all the VR content covered during PSX 2017. The Last Guardian VR demo is available for FREE on December 12th in EU and US.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 9, 2017

OSCC Expo area. (Image by Maria Korolov.). The OpenSimulator Community Conference opened this morning. This is the fifth year that AvaCon is running the conference, celebrating ten years of OpenSim. It is being live streamed on YouTube. From 7 to 8 a.m., Pacific time, the developers will discuss the latest 0.9 release of OpenSim. Panel members include developers Robert Adams, Melanie Milland and Ubit Umarov with AvaCon founder Joyce Bettencourt moderating the panel.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Old school Mario makes the leap to real-life thanks to AR. I don’t think Mario will ever die. The legendary video game icon has seen countless iterations since his original reveal back in 1985 and has managed to remain relevant in gaming and pop culture for over 30 years. We’ve seen everything from classic 2D Mario, 3D open-world Mario, Mario with a watergun, Mario in space, pretty much every kind of Mario you can possible come up with.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 9, 2017

The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Mozilla Firefox web browser, just made their experimental WebXR Viewer app available for download on iOS devices , letting developers quickly experiment with web-based AR built with web technologies and ARKit. According to a blogpost announcing the app, the WebXR Viewer lets you view web pages created using Mozilla’s own JavaScript library that features sample code for a proposed API for building AR and VR applications in web brows

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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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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 9, 2017

PSVR fans can finally get riggity riggity wrecked when Virtual Rick-Ality finally gets a Playstation VR release sometime in 2018 The game is a great fan service and I consider it a real work of heart. Developers Owlchemy Labs originally began in the mobile and PC game space back in 2010. The team created the highly entertaining and successful VR game Job Simulator, which launched as a day-one launch title on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and PSVR with motion controllers.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 15, 2017

A University of Toronto graduate student is seemingly the first to utilize virtual reality in helping to present research findings during a biochemistry research lecture. PhD student Aidin Balo and his PhD supervisor Professor Oliver Ernst delivered a lecture to 200 people in 2016 at a conference in Berlin, which had the audience use cardboard-based tools in conjunction with their smartphones to immerse themselves in a VR experience.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The location-based VR startup headed by Disney and DreamWorks veterans, has teamed up with Nickelodeon to produce an experience based on Nickelodeon’s intellectual property. Location-based VR is on the rise. The immersive free-roaming virtual experiences are the culmination of VR’s most current advanced technology, delivering arguably the most captivating and interactive adventures currently available to the public.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Popular VR boxing title Knockout League is coming to PlayStation VR. The game has remained in Early Access on SteamVR, Viveport, and Oculus stores for almost a year, but no release window for PSVR has been confirmed. Announced at PSX 2017, the full version of Knockout League , with its 9 opponents and training modes will make the transition to Sony’s VR platform.

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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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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Published by Bossa Studios ( I Am Bread , Surgeon Simulator ), Purrfect Date mixes dark British comedy influences with (decidedly furry) dating sim mechanics. Throughout the six main chapters, the player adopts the role of several freshly employed research assistants on an island almost entirely populated by cats and is tasked with uncovering the location’s shady history.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 9, 2017

OpenSim hosting company Dreamland Metaverse received the highest scores for performance, support, stability and its user interface in this year’s hosting providers survey for the fourth year in a row, followed by Zetamex Network , DigiWorldz and 3DLES. There were 36 responses total to this year’s hosting survey, which asks grid owners about their hosting providers.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Now you can fly through the space-time vortex. We already know how hard it can be to keep track of time while in VR. But now imagine you’re in the Doctor Who TARDIS, journeying through the depths of space time. Transporting into vortexes from past eras, from the current vortex to re-imagined designs from the 1960’s and 1980’s. It’s easy to get lost in VR, and that’s what BBC is hoping with their new VR game.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Ready Player One , the 2011 novel by Ernest Cline, is getting turned into a movie by none other than Steven Spielberg. As the movie’s March 2018 release date approaches, the first full trailer debuted today. Cline has also confirmed work on a sequel to the novel. Ready Player One follows the story of Wade Watts, an orphan whose life is centered around a virtual reality metaverse called Oasis.

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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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VRWorld

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The traditionally “high-touch” fashion industry is among the latest to embrace augmented reality, with the advent of Code and Craft’s new AR Product Catalog tool. The mobile app, which utilizes Apple’s ARKit technology, allows fashion vendors to showcase their collections in an augmented reality environment. The company says the technology allows them to replace the traditionally expensive sample interaction process with a “life-like 3D online showroom experience.”.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Moderator Joyce Bettencourt and OpenSim core developers Robert Adams, Melanie Milland and Ubit Umarov. (Image by Maria Korolov.). OpenSimulator’s core developers said that they’ve gone pretty much as far as they can with the server code, and what the project needs is new people — and a new viewer. “My own kids say that it looks ancient,” core developer Melanie Thielker said at the developer panel that kicked off this year’s OpenSimulator Community Conference.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 12, 2017

When it comes to curation of up-to-date news and information in real life, Twitter is one of the best social media platforms to turn to…so why not bring that into VR? TweetReality is the first augmented reality app that breaks the Twitter feed out of its strictly 2D frame, bringing instead a futuristic Minority Report style interface that looks like you’ve dissected your feed into blocks and then laid them out in front of you in an interactive grid.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Rockstar Games, the mega studio behind Grand Theft Auto , Red Dead Redemption , and plenty more, has launched its debut VR title, L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files. The game is an adaptation of L.A. Noire (2011), which has had a number of its missions reworked specifically for VR. LA Noire is a unique game to say the least—designed as a sort of action-detective game, the title employed some of the top facial motion capture of its time to present believable characters for players to interrogate a

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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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