Sat.Dec 10, 2016 - Fri.Dec 16, 2016

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Facebook Launching 360-Degree Live Streaming Video

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National Geographic will be the first to test the new feature. Publishers will soon be able to take their live streams to an entirely new level — broadcasting live in 360-degrees. Facebook unveiled the latest expansion to live broadcasting Monday, dubbed Live 360 , that marries their existing features of livestreaming and pre-recorded 360-degree videos.

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Brendan Iribe Is No Longer CEO of Oculus, Now Leads PC-Focused VR Team Within Facebook (Update)

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Some days when you work on the media side of the tech industry, you get through the day by going through the motions, reporting on stuff you knew about a good bit in advance, and writing about cool upcoming games, events, and gadgets. Other days, you get an email in your inbox at 9:30AM PST with a 10AM embargo that is nothing short of one of the most surprising announcements of the year.

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‘Raw Data’ Developer Survios Raises $50 Million, Now Top Funded VR Dev Studio

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Survios , the VR development studio behind the Vive title Raw Data , has announced a whopping $50 million in funding to further expand its VR content offerings. The new round makes the company the most funded pure VR development studio to date. Survios’ announcement today is actually an announcement of two individual funding rounds together totalling $50 million.

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VR experience featuring First Lady Michelle Obama and Modern Family's Nolan Gould encourages students, parents, and educators to experience America's National Parks.

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Jaunt Inc., Sub Rosa, a Manhattan-based strategy and design studio, The North Face, and Civic Nation today unveiled the brand-new Every Kid in a Park Virtual Reality Experience featuring First Lady Michelle Obama and Modern Family’s Nolan Gould, a Sierra Club Youth Ambassador. The VR video was designed to support President Obama’s Every Kid in a Park program, which provides the Nation’s fourth graders, their teachers, and their families with free admission to more than 2,000 public lands and wat

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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Netflix VR Launches on Google Daydream

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You can finally watch your favorite Netflix show lying on your back. Only a day after seven new apps dropped on Google’s Daydream VR platform, we finally got the one app that many of us have all be waiting patiently to arrive this month. You can now watch your favorite Netflix shows in virtual reality. Netflix just launched their brand new ‘Netflix VR’ app in the Play Store, letting you sit in a virtual environment and watch all the content your heart desires on a giant living room screen.

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HTC Vive Exec Makes Predictions for the Next 2 Years of Virtual Reality

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HTC’s China Regional President of Vive, Alvin Wang Graylin, took to the stage at the Unity Vision Summit in Asia this week and made a series of bold predictions for where we’ll see VR in the next two years. In a presentation this week in Beijing, Graylin, who has been closely involved with HTC’s ‘Vive X’ accelerator , made 10 predictions each for VR in 2017 and 2018.

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Construct Studio are on the cutting edge of VR storytelling with The Price Of Freedom.

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Recently CatsAndVR.com had the opportunity to check out a preview of Construct Studios upcoming interactive VR experience "The Price Of Freedom". The Price Of Freedom is Construct's first interactive room-scale VR storytelling experience. The experience is inspired by Project MKUltra, a Cold War era mind control experiment which has been the inspiration for the recent Netflix hit "Stranger Things".

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HTC Brings VR Center to Paris; Vive Exhibit at Nobel Museum

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Since the launch of HTC’s dedicated VR app store, Viveport , it was clear that the company was looking to give us more ways to discover and experience non-gaming content with the Vive. There’s so much more to VR than just gaming. Which is probably why HTC has been exploring entirely new ways to bring VR to art, education and culture — starting with museums around the world.

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Starting Tomorrow You Can Make Unity Games From Within VR

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Unity was reluctant to put a final date on the launch of Editor VR when it was last shown at Unite 2016 in November, but we now know it will be with us very, very soon. Timoni West, Principal Designer at the company and one of Editor VR’s biggest evangelists, confirmed that an “experimental build” of the tool kit will be launching on December 15th.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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Unity’s In-VR Game Editor Launches Tomorrow, This Is What It’s Like

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Tomorrow Unity plans to launch the first experimental build of EditorVR, a component of the Unity game engine which will let developers build games within virtual reality. Timoni West, Principal Designer at Unity Labs, has announced that EditorVR will launch tomorrow, December 15th. The initial launch is being called “experimental,” and is likely to change over time.

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After trying VR, nearly half plan to buy

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According to a new survey by Parks Associates , nearly 50 percent of U.S. broadband households who try a virtual reality headset plan to buy one. (Image courtesy Parks Associates.). In addition, 3.5 percent of broadband households, or about 3.4 million households, already own a virtual reality headset. Despite the recent media attention to virtual reality, however, many people are still unfamiliar with the technology.

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Take A Ride In Santa’s Sleigh With This Samsung VR Experience

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The 4D VR experience will have you flying high with all your favorite horned friends. It’s the night before Christmas and Santa’s workshop is busier than ever. While Santa’s Little Helpers pack the sleigh full of presents, a nice elf buckles you into the sleigh’s sidecar, readying you for one epic ride we all wish we could have taken growing up as kids.

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Survios Acquires $50 Million In Funding, Begins Building Publishing Program

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Nathan Burba, CEO of Survios, is quoted on the company’s About page as saying that the Survios team sees “gaming as an art form. And we don’t just want to make games more immersive — we want to make them more human”. Immersion is the buzzword of buzzwords in the VR industry, reflecting the unique promise of virtual experiences like no other word can.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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VR Metaverse Company High Fidelity Raises $22 Million in New Funding

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Uncovered among recent regulatory filings, VR metaverse company High Fidelity has raised $22 million in new funding. The company, which has reportedly raised $17.45 million across four prior venture investments, has raised a new round of venture capital to the tune of $22 million, reports the Wall Street Journal. High Fidelity CEO Philip Rosedale confirmed to New World Notes that the investment was led by IDG Capital and new investor Breyer Capital.

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Samsung Glass AR headset tech teased (pre-MWC)

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Samsung AR glasses may be on their way not long after the Galaxy S8 and the newest Gear VR headset is revealed this February. These would be the newest edition of the Gear VR and a pair of smart glasses that haven’t yet been revealed. “If there are any good ideas to make AR glasses [out there], we want to … Continue reading.

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BBC Debuts VR Film ‘We Wait’ For Oculus Rift

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The animated VR experience tells the real stories of refugees — placing you at the heart of the story. BBC has released their first VR short film for the Oculus platform. Now available to download for free on Rift, We Wait is a dramatized story that brings you along a Syrian family’s journey to embark on their second perilous attempt to cross the sea to Greece on smuggler boats.

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Tunnel Vision: How Ubisoft Created ‘Eagle Flight’, A VR Flying Game With No Nausea

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Almost two years of scientific research and development went into creating Ubisoft’s new VR gaming experience, Eagle Flight [ Review: 7.5/10 ]. At a VRDC presentation this past month , Game Director, Olivier Palmieri, went through an in depth look of Eagle Flight ’s creation journey. In September 2014, Palmieri gathered a small team of VR enthusiasts within the Company and got to work.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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StubHub ‘Virtual View’ Lets You Preview Your Seats Before Buying Tickets

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Ticket marketplace StubHub has launched a new ‘Virtual View’ feature which will let users know exactly what the view from their seats will look like before buying tickets. If you’ve ever gone through the process of buying tickets to a sports or concert venue, you’ll know how frustrating it can be to look at a top-down diagram of the seating layout as you’re asked to pick your seat.

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Google’s Improbable Deal to Recreate the Real World in VR

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Let a thousand virtual worlds rain down from the clouds. Or <em>the</em> cloud as Google backs a tiny British startup with its massive computing infrastructure. The post Google's Improbable Deal to Recreate the Real World in VR appeared first on WIRED.

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Google Debuts VR Tour of New York’s Famous Festive Store Windows

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Take a virtual stroll past festive window displays and get swept up in all the holiday goodness. There are very few places more spectacular than New York City during the holidays. Skating at Rockefeller Center, seeing the Christmas tree lighting, so many awesome moments that you really have to see to understand. One of the harder things to explain to those who have never been is the fascination with checking out storefront windows with incredibly elaborate decorations.

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Exclusive: ‘Perfect’ Wants To Be The VR App You Show Your Grandma This Christmas

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I was talking to a friend the other night about VR fatigue, and how some of the initial wonder had washed away. The best VR is still incredible, but there are some apps that just don’t pull me in the way they used to. In response, he reminded me that any VR software, no matter how big or small, is something of a miracle. The ability to pull a lump of plastic over your eyes and see anything that even remotely feels like it is really there is something we should not take for granted.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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Oculus CEO Steps Down to Head PC Division, Founder Palmer Luckey to Shuffle Too

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In a post to the company’s official blog , Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe confirms he’ll be stepping down from the company’s top position to head the new PC VR group. Founder Palmer Luckey will also land in a new role. Brendan Iribe with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Brendan Iribe was one of Oculus founding team members back when the company formed in 2012.

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VR stocking stuffers you still have time to get

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It’s not too late to order virtual reality presents for the holidays — and they don’t have to cost a lot of money, either! Once you get your headset, click here for instructions on what to do next. Here are some of my favorites — and I’ve personally tried these, and have had other people try them, and can confirm that they’re great for watching 360-degree videos and playing casual games, and aren’t overpriced.

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New VR Arcade Opens in Tokyo

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This entertainment park will transport you to virtual worlds from the heart of Shibuya. Adding to the growing list of VR arcades popping up in Japan, Tokyo-based entertainment company ADORES has just opened a VR entertainment park called “VR Park Tokyo” on December 16. Conveniently located only 5-minutes away from Shibuya Station, VR Park Tokyo takes up an entire remodeled 4th floor of the company’s flagship store “Adores Shibuya Shop” With higher-end VR headsets of

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Palmer Luckey’s New Role At Oculus Will Be Revealed Soon

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As we digest the news today that Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe is stepping down from his role as CEO of the company and moving to head up the PC VR team, we asked Oculus whether Palmer Luckey would be staying with Facebook and Oculus through the transition. “Palmer is still at Oculus and we’ll have more to share on his new role soon,” is our answer from an Oculus spokesperson.

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The Key to Getting the Best Out of Video-Based Practice & Coaching

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