VRScout
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
This gamer has his own personal workout routine in VR and he’s already lost 12 lbs. For those of you who’ve tried games like Audioshield on the HTC VIVE, you know how physically demanding it can be sometimes. It’s pretty easy to break a sweat within a few minutes of dancing your butt off while your hand-controllers flail in the air. Which raises the question — has anyone ever used VR as their daily workout routine?
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
Thalmic Labs, makers of the gesture control armband MYO may be working on a new VR controller, a wristband device which senses the position of your fingers. The company is teasing new products after closing a whopping $120 million Series B investment. Thalmic Labs just secured a cool $120M in Series B funding from some very high profile investors. Led by Intel Capital, the Amazon Alexa Fund, and Fidelity Investments Canada, the new tranche of money will allow the company to “realize our vi
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SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
VR Bites
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
Vertigo is a awesome first person story-based shooter for the HTC Vive. Explore the scary underground facilities of Planck International Energy Solutions an Quantum Reactor, filled with mysterious secrets, jumpscares, adorable robot drones, and parallel universes. Check out the free demo in Virtual Reality: [link]. Did you like this video? Subscribe Nathie!
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.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
Google Cardboard has brought us in VR the closest thing to Jurassic Park yet. The newest feature of Google’s Arts & Culture app has added a giant swimming rhomaleosaurus to a 360º virtual tour of the Natural History Museum of London. And it doesn’t stop with this 23-foot long aquatic predator. Google is already working with 50 natural history museums to bring 150 more enormous dinosaurs to life.
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
VR Bites
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
From the upper steering position, to the engine room and jet space below deck, take a look around the RNLI’s new Shannon class of lifeboat, the most agile and manoeuvrable all-weather lifeboat in the fleet using your Google Cardboard headset. Explore every space in the lifeboat in 360 photo-spheres allowing you to see all the detail as though you’re there in person!
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
Among all the content we regularly demo on Steam VR, there’s a good amount to choose from. Whether its a multiplayer shooter like Onward or social environments like Rec Room , there’s a little something for everyone. We’ve even see you create VR workout routines out of games to help you lose some extra pounds — fantastic. But one question we see more frequently and expect more of as we get closer to the holidays in a couple months is recommendations for kid friendly VIVE games.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
Touch , the long awaited natural input controller for the Oculus Rift, still doesn’t have an official price or release date—but a tweet from Nick Summers, associate editor at Engadget UK, has revealed that Oculus Touch is going to be priced at £189.99, at least in Britain. While no specific location was mentioned in the tweet by Summers, to our eyes it looked suspiciously close to a GAME store in London’s Westfield Stratford City shopping center.
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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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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
Slashgear
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
This week Google announced that their very own virtual reality software developer kit was graduating out of beta. This announcement came just in time for the release of their all-encompassing hardware and software event, set to take place on the 4th of October. At that event we’ll likely see new software for all Android devices, but specifically for two new … Continue reading.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
What’s more glamorous than Kate Moss on the cover of Vogue ? Kate Moss in virtual reality, of course. That’s why Samsung teamed up with renowned makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury to produce the world’s first VR perfume ad starring the supermodel for New York Fashion Week. NYFW guests wore Samsung Gear VR headsets to experience a 360º video set in outer space with a sparkling Moss and a male model (who dances in front of you awkwardly for a bit too long).
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
A new chip that Valve is recommending for use in future SteamVR headsets and accessories brings improved performance and significant power reduction compared to the first generation solution along with potential manufacturing savings. Each divot has a Lighthouse sensor at its base. An essential component in the first generation HTC Vive is the cratered sensors that cover the headset and controllers.
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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
VR Bites
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
You don´t always need an app or game to give a great VR experience. Winbush Design gives a great 360 VR experience by using existing media like YouTube and vrideo. Have a look at Magma Chamber VR. This is a 360 VR Live DJ Experience. After the release of the full album Magma Chamber, from Mix Master Mike, Mike wanted to take the album to the next level and combined his audio arsenal with the visual onslaught that Vr Compositor / CG Artist Jonathan Winbush.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
The two made for VR series will be coming to the Hulu VR app this Fall. HuffPost RYOT has created a new slate of VR shows, set to launch this fall on the Hulu VR app for Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR headsets. The first show is a VR comedy series called “Virtually Mike and Nora,” and will be written, directed and star Nora Kirk Patrick ( The Office ) and Mike O’Brien ( SNL ).
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Innoactive has answered the call of nomadic VR developers on-the-go with a super slick portable pop-up, self-powered Vive station in a case, it’s called the VR Suitcase and it’ll put a serious dent in your wallet. Whilst the HTC Vive offers incredible room-scale VR experiences, no one could ever describe the SteamVR powered package as compact.
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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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
Hypergrid Business
SEPTEMBER 18, 2016
The social virtual reality platform AltspaceVR is doubling down on the social aspect, with interface changes designed to make it easier for people to get together.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
It’s been months since fans Nikon’s surprise unveiling of their KeyMission 360° camera at CES back in January. With competitor 360° cameras like Samsung’s Gear 360 already available and gaining market share quickly, we’ve been eager to hear more details about the Japanese camera company’s first foray into not only action cameras, but a 360-degree video camera that shoots in 4K.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 17, 2016
Platforms continue to lead the charge in VR funding as InstaVR lands a $2 million series A investment led by The VR Fund. InstaVR aims to offer dead-simple VR app creation, allowing non-developers to easily piece together 360 degree photos and videos into simple branded experiences, then publish to a broad range of VR platforms. The company’s newly announced $2 million Series A funding comes on the heels of InstaVR launching three major clients: Smithsonian American Art Museum, AECOM, and
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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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
Slashgear
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Google’s next move with Android looks beyond the display of the smartphone and expands on in to the virtual realm. Right off the side of the screen goes the user interface, buttons, controllers and all, in a series of images made public by the USPTO after submission from Google earlier this year. These images show the future of Google’s VR … Continue reading.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
A first look at launch content that includes 360° videos from VR Playhouse and Wevr. Time Inc. is rebooting the LIFE brand for a new era, bringing the compelling stories you would expect from the iconic magazine to life in virtual reality. Announced on Tuesday, Time Inc. unveiled LIFE VR, a VR and 360° video app available on both iOS and Android devices.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 17, 2016
Crytek’s Robinson: The Journey is the studio’s first PlayStation VR game. A new gameplay video reveals more about the title’s gameplay and interactions. Robinson: The Journey is shaping up to be an ambitious VR adventure game, and a beautiful one at that. Crytek has clearly built the game from the ground up for VR. As the new video above shows us, the game is full of small scale interactions between the player and the world: clearing barrels from a stream to unblock a generato
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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