VRScout
SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
Is this a hint of Apple’s future plans for VR and AR? The rumored iPhone 7 Plus with a dual-lens camera system finally made its debut at Apple’s September product presentation Wednesday. With Phil Schiller taking the stage to unveil the latest iPhone camera update, it was clear that Apple is serious about their “best camera we have ever made.”.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
With Valve’s move to open up its Lighthouse tracking technology to third parties, Triad Semiconductor is soon to be selling specialized chips which companies can use to create new VR headsets and peripherals with SteamVR Tracking. See Also: Analysis of Valve’s ‘Lighthouse’ Tracking System Reveals Accuracy. Last month Valve finally made the first big step in opening the Lighthouse tracking technology for third-party licensing.
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
VR Bites
SEPTEMBER 4, 2016
Play PC VR games inside your mobile VR headset with VRidge technology. For a fraction of the cost!This app enables RiftCat’s VRidge technology on Android phone. Transforming your phone to a powerful VR headset screen. All you need is to put it inside a headmount like Google Cardboard and have fun. It uses your desktop PC computing power to handle PC VR games and stream it into your phone via WiFi.
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 6, 2016
Audi is expanding their VR dealership experience and testing has begun on a virtual training drive. The German luxury automobile manufacturer is finally ready to bring their VR dealership experience to customers, having spent the last three years working on the simulation tool. A Virtual Audi Dealership. Demonstrated at the 2016 Audi Tech Day in Munich, the Audi VR experience will allow you to virtually explore every last detail of a car in 3D 360-degrees just like you’re in a dealership.
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Cats and VR
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Henry, the charming VR film from Oculus Story Studio, has won an Emmy® for Outstanding Original Interactive Program! This award recognizes creative achievement in interactive media and comes from the juried Emmy categories, where winning entries must earn unanimous approval from a panel of Interactive Media Peer Group professionals. Henry is the first VR original narrative movie to ever win an Emmy.
VR Bites
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Media Markt in Germany announced the price and release date for the Oculus Touch controllers! The price will be 199 euro’s and the release date appear to be November 21 2016. Furthermore, the specs of the controllers are shown. They are 114.3 mm wide and 96.5 mm high and the depth is 104.1 mm. The controllers weight just 127.6 g. We don’t see anything about a second sensor.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
While we’re still over a year away from the Steven Spielberg directed adaptation of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One , production is already underway in London. With a March 2018 release date, Ready Player One will star Simon Pegg, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, and Tye Sheridan who’ll be playing the lead character Wade Watts, an American high school student who lives most of his life inside the virtual reality simulation called the OASIS.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
When Rand Miller was a kid, he played Dungeons & Dragons with his brother Robyn where they would go on adventures together exploring and creating imagined worlds. They wanted to embed that same sense of wonder and awe of exploration and discovery into a videogame, and so they were inspired to create Myst (1993) together. They tend to think of Myst, Riven (1997), and their latest adventure game Obduction more as places than games since you can’t die, and you’re learning more about
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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.
Cats and VR
SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
Syfy, the home of provocative and inspiring science fiction entertainment, announced the September 22 launch date for Halcyon – the groundbreaking hybrid VR scripted series. Beginning with that date, the series will premiere across Syfy channels and companion websites outside the U.S.; it will also be viewable in VR on the Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR.
VR Bites
SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
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VRScout
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Put away that ladder and get ready for this new game twist on an old favorite in VR. Tilt Brush by Google for the HTC Vive continues to be one of the most powerful creator tools available for VR consumers today. We’ve seen the community create everything from marriage proposals to music videos. We’ve even featured it ourselves during VRScout events , getting Tilt Brush into the hands of the creative community and letting artists, fashion designers and musicians create VR performance art ex
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 3, 2016
Starbreeze, Acer and the StarVR team are celebrating a milestone this week as the very first headsets, sporting a unique 210 degree field of view, have rolled off the production line and are winging their way to IMAX, who’ll be using them to wow customers with new immersive content to be shown at IMAX venues. We wrote recently about Starbreeze’s plans to supply their high-spec, high-FOV virtual reality headset the StarVR, to IMAX – a company reknowned for premium movie watching
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.
Cats and VR
SEPTEMBER 9, 2016
Humble Bundle is offering a great end of Summer deal on VR games, Catlateral Damage leads the way! Catlateral Damage is a first-person destructive cat simulator where you play as a cat on a rampage, knocking as much stuff onto the ground as possible. See the world through the eyes of a cat! Like other first-person games, you can walk and look around, jump, and crouch.
VR Bites
SEPTEMBER 4, 2016
Pretty much what the title says there. Got Witcher 3 working in VR with the first person mod. Pretty cool! Hi! My name is Austin Hooper, and I make virtual reality gaming videos! With my trusty Oculus Rift, GearVR, Razer Hydras, and many more VR gadgetry, I try to find the best and most compelling experiences to share with the world! VR is here, and I’m coming right along with it.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
Although we are undeniably in the early adoption stages, the latest numbers from the International Data Corp. project worldwide VR/AR industry revenues to be $162B by 2020. Investors are certainly chasing after that future revenue. In the first half of 2016, the VR/AR industry saw $1.3B invested over 76 deals (of which a big chunk went to Magic Leap’s Series C round in February, to the tune of almost $800M).
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
As researchers and VR start-ups make great strides in increasing the sense of presence such as larger field of view, lower latency and more natural input, a Brighton based start-up has just announced a new technology that can track a user’s facial expressions without markers. Emteq, with was founded with $1.5 million of seed funding, hopes their technology will enhance social engagement in the growing social VR space, which combines miniature sensors and artificial intelligence to enable digital
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 6, 2016
Hypergrid Business
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
An OpenSim viewer that runs in a regular web browser has long been at the top of most-wanted lists for OpenSim users. And the U.S. Army is stepping up. This fall, the U.S.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 9, 2016
Now this is how you do a 360 guided tour. It’s no secret that the industry is still trying to nail down the secret formula for the perfect 360 video. Well watch and learn as the guys over at Reel FX team up with the Wilson brothers for a 360 video tour that’s not just well-produced and choreographed, but genuinely entertaining. The video follows the always-stellar Luke Wilson as he gives an in-depth and surprisingly humorous tour of the infamous Shinola factory and offices in Detroit.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 3, 2016
Announced alongside the new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone last month, the 2016 Gear VR headset is new and improved, with thoughtful backward compatibility with prior Gear VR phones. Our pal Ritchie Djamhur explores the differences compared to the 2015 model. Comparing the 2016 Gear VR to the 2015 version , Ritchie highlights notable improvements in the video above.
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 5, 2016
Next Reality VR
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
People fear virtual reality will isolate us, but the right experience can prove it does the opposite. AltspaceVR is a virtual world you can utilize to chat with others around the world, but that's not all. You can also play card and board games, a game of laser tag, or a song on the piano. You can even attend a comedy show or a concert. Friends playing Cards Against Humanity in Altspace.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Everyone wants to come to this lovable hedgehog’s party now. Oculus just won their first Emmy last night. The animated VR short film from Oculus Story Studio, Henry , won an Emmy for Outstanding Original Interactive Program. Henry is a heartwarming comedy about a lovable hedgehog who longs for friendship but scares away other animals with his spikiness.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Oculus is asking for early adopters to give the company a second chance on delivery expectations with the forthcoming launch of Oculus Touch. After years of anticipation, starting with the Oculus’ 2012 Kickstarter for the first development kit (DK1) of the Rift headset, enthusiasts and early adopters have been eager to finally get their hands on the first consumer Rift headset which launched earlier this year.
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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