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Big Ideas in VR: The Space is the Story

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This post is part of an ongoing series about writing, storytelling, and critique in VR, in partnership with Galatea , a writing and narrative design management tool for immersive stories. Storytelling in VR: the elusive holy grail. Everyone is trying to discover the “way to go”— that project or handbook that comes along and instantly enlightens us all on how to tell stories in this wonderful medium they way they’re meant to be told.

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Lytro’s Latest VR Light-field Camera is Huge, and Hugely Improved

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In the last few years, Lytro has made a major pivot away from consumer-facing digital camera products now to high-end production cameras and tools, with a major part of the company’s focus on the ‘Immerge’ light-field camera for VR. In February, Lytro announced it had raised another $60 million to continue developing the tech. I recently stopped by the company’s offices to see the latest version of the camera and the major improvements in capture quality that come with i

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VR puzzle game Solaright is the first HTC Vive title from a development team based out of India.

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Solaright is the first HTC Vive title from a development team based out of India. Solaright is a zen-like VR puzzle game where the player has to illuminate a tree from a solar power source by solving a series of jigsaw puzzles from simple 3x3 virtual cubes to 4x4 and 5x5 complex cubes as you move ahead in the game. The VR controller lets you rotate the cube, and understand the puzzle flowing through multiple faces.

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A ‘Brand New’ Google Earth Experience Is On The Way

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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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This College Acceptance Letter Came With A VR Viewer

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This is that time of the year when millions of high school seniors sprint home after school hoping to find a super thick envelope stuffed into the mailbox from the dream college that they’ve applied to, or in some cases, ANY college they’ve applied to. This year, students who applied and have been accepted by Skidmore College, a small liberal arts college located in Upstate NY, will find something slightly different in their mailbox.

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VR creation application Mindshow gets date for open beta, a new website, and a new trailer at VRLA.

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The Mindshow team announced today at VRLA that the Mindshow Open Beta will be available for the HTC Vive Q3 2017. The team celebrated with a brand spanking new website and official Mindshow trailer. [link]. Mindshow lets you make animated movies in VR with your body and voice! Become 3D cartoon characters and act out all the parts. Create with your friends by passing scenes back and forth, then share your shows in VR and on social media.

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Bandai Namco’s Tokyo-Based VR Arcade Opens This Month Until October

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Drake’s Extravagant New Mansion Is Now A VR Experience

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‘Drizzy Manor’ takes you on a tour of the hip hop superstars new home because YOLO. Based on various schematics and blueprints made available through public domain, Toronto-based VR studio OPIATS has begun constructing a virtual reality rendition of Drake’s incredible new $35 million home. The immense 21,000 square foot castle will include a regulation size basketball court, a lavish pool, a 34-meter driveway for several luxury cars and a spectacular kitchen, all of which are painstakingly-captu

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‘HoloLems’ Makes Your Room into a ‘Lemmings’ Level with HoloLens

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Canadian technology company Globacore have created an AR homage to video game classic Lemmings (1991), now for Microsoft HoloLens. HoloLems , which is free on the Microsoft Store , uses HoloLens’ spatial mapping technology to generate an obstacle course from the player’s real environment. This gameplay video (heading this article) shows Globacore have managed to reproduce the basics of Lemmings within a real environment—one of the more impressive examples of HoloLens technology being applied to

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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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4/20 aint just about getting high this year, ITS ABOUT GETTING SQUANCHY with the new Rick And Morty VR game

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4/20 aint just about getting high this year, ITS ABOUT GETTING SQUANCHY with the new Rick And Morty VR game. Just like we were surprised by the Rick and Morty Season 3 premiere we were surprised by the launch date of Rick and Morty Simulator: Virtual Rick-ality. Our favorite dynamic science duo will be teleported into your living room for a cutting-edge VR adventure from Adult Swim Games and Owlchemy Labs (Job Simulator).

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The 7 Biggest Things Coming to Virtual Reality This Year

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The VR Music Album Vortex of ‘Melody of Dust’

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Viacom NEXT and Hot Sugar have teamed up to let you cast objects into a reactive vortex to unlock more than 80 original m elodies. Tarantulas. A flying dove. A gothic castle. Champagne glasses. A technicolor… bowling ball/glowing orb/ball thing? Oh and by the way, all of these things make music. Welcome to the Melody of Dust. Following the successful Virtual Cinema premiere at SXSW, the collaboration between indie musician Hot Sugar and Viacom NEXT, Viacom’s future-forward branch with a fo

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Vive Tracker Used to Create Pressure Sensitive Photoshop Stylus for VR

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Developer Jimmy Gray recently posted a short video (see above), showing the latest version of a DIY motion-tracked VR stylus prototype. Using an HTC Vive Tracker mounted above a stylus-shaped unit, a VR stylus can be tracked and rendered, usable in Photoshop and capable of pressure sensitivity. According to Gray’s tweets , the prototype emulates an HID device using ‘ Teensy ‘, a very compact USB development board.

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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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The WaveVR officially launches on Steam.and lives up to the months of anticipation to be perhaps a Killer VR app.

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If you have been reading CatsAndVR you know that I am a fan of The WaveVR. The team behind it are talented and looking to make one of the KILLER apps of the future of VR. The WaveVR has been endorsed by several members of the VR community from Kent Bye to Reggie Watts and anytime someone has tried it they have been blown away. The first experience of The WaveVR for me came in 2016 at SVVR when Grimecraft demoed to me as a DJ simulation with great visuals.

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Field in View: Which VR Headset(s) Will Scorpio Support?

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Sir David Attenborough’s Voice Makes PSVR Debut

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The legendary actor lends his soothing voice to one of three new VR nature experiences. When it comes to expertly narrating stunning wildlife footage, there’s no better voice for the job than that of the iconic broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough. The veteran naturalist has a resume that includes credits on monumental projects such as Planet Earth , Planet Earth 2 , Life , The Blue Planet and much more.

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VR’s Trippiest Social-Music Platform ‘TheWaveVR’ Launches on Steam, Adds $4M in Seed Funds

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Social VR platform TheWaveVR is now in open beta and delivering weekly DJ sets in its wild and weird environment filled with psychedelic interactive art. Distributing on Steam Early Access for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the platform lets you watch, host, and socialize in shows while music is mixed live. The company has been developing TheWaveVR for a year, and while it’s basically a social VR platform that lets you invite friends, chat and explore—like AltspaceVR , RecRoom , or VRChat —

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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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Visbit Launches the First All-In-One 360-Degree Virtual Reality Video Streaming Service in Open Beta

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Following a successful closed beta period that began in December 2016, VR and 360-degree video streaming company Visbit is releasing their service into open beta, marking the industry’s first official availability of an end-to-end platform offering streaming of 4K and above resolution VR 360-degree videos over regular Wi-Fi and LTE for mobile VR devices.

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Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-Ality Releases April 20 For Rift And Vive

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John Legend Partners with Baobab Studios for VR Series ‘Rainbow Crow’

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Award-winning musician, actor, producer, and activist John Legend will Executive Produce and Star in upcoming VR series, Rainbow Crow , from Baobab Studios. Attendees at Tribeca Immersive’s Virtual Arcade (April 19-29) are going to have a tough time deciding which VR content to experience, but if they want to hear the voice of John Legend, they’ll have to check out the first chapter of Rainbow Crow , the all-new VR series from Baobab Studios.

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Global Virtual Reality Industry to Reach $7.2 Billion in Revenues in 2017

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In a new Virtual Reality Industry Report, Greenlight Insights forecasts modest VR industry growth in the short term, growing into a major global content marketplace by 2021. In its new Virtual Reality Industry Report: Spring 2017 , Greenlight Insights forecasts total virtual reality revenues to reach $7.2 billion globally by the end of 2017, of which, head-mounted displays (HMDs) will account for $4.7 billion.

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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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Google Cardboard now supports WebVR on Chrome

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Virtual reality has to be personally experienced to be understood and appreciated, but it’s not exactly the most accessible thing at the moment. Both in terms of equipment as well as content. Google Cardboard solved half the problem by making it almost too easy for anyone with an Android phone to get a cheap VR headset. WebVR solves the other … Continue reading.

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AR Smashed Funding Records in 2016

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AltspaceVR launches Women in VR talk show

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AltspaceVR , a social virtual reality platform, has launched a talk show focused on women in virtual reality that is taped before a live audience — well, live virtual audience. The show was launched on March 8, in honor of International Women’s Day , to celebrate and capture some of the wonderful stories of women leading in virtual reality. The show’s first guest was virtual reality evangelist Eva Hoerth.

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‘Tornuffalo’ Shows What Full-body VR Gaming Could Look Like with Vive Trackers

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Using HTC’s Vive Trackers, Tornuffalo —named after a combination of ‘tornado’ and ‘buffalo’—has been given a ‘Full-Body Action’ mode, an early example of full body tracking in a VR gameplay scenario. This simple action game involves dodging flying debris (which occasionally includes buffalos) heading towards your body, while trying to smash crystals for points.

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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