VRScout

AUGUST 27, 2017

First, a disclaimer: if you haven’t read Ready Player One already, now would be a great time to stop reading. I know, I know, you really want to hear what I have to say, but read on at your own risk. Another disclaimer: I’m not here to discuss whether or not I think this is a “good” book, or whether I think Spielberg can make it into a great movie. As someone who firmly believes in the power of VR, and that it’s going to change how we interact with computers in the future, I think there’s a lot

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

According to Aaron Stanton, director of the newly-founded Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise , many of the popular VR games and applications are actually more effective at burning calories than a traditional treadmill exercise routine. The organisation recently announced a program to independently assess VR games in a controlled environment, with the aim of publishing the results through a rating system.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 26, 2017

In a special media event for the "media" KFC unveiled a VR experience that seemed more like Bioshock than a VR Chicken Frying trainer. KFC's first foray into VR will be used as a promotional to regional general manager training classes, quarterly franchise meetings and during corporate onboardings in order to instill pride in KFC’s heritage and process.

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Slashgear

AUGUST 31, 2017

Microsoft is betting big on Windows Mixed Reality, and Lenovo is hoping to ride that headset rollercoaster with the Lenovo Explorer. Its first headset to take advantage of the virtual and augmented reality technology Microsoft will bake into the Windows Fall Creators Update, the Explorer is making its official debut at IFA 2017 this week. It looks much like many … 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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

AR and VR are gearing up for a giant leap forward thanks to advancements in eye-tracking technology. The industry has been experiencing a boom in recent years with hundreds of startups and heavy investment from tech giants including Google, Apple, Samsung, and Facebook. Despite all the activity, AR/VR hardware remains relatively crude. Most interfaces take cues from head movement and manual inputs.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

Independent game developer and publisher Pawmigo Games has launched Cat Sorter VR, a virtual reality game where players find and fix faulty cats and restore them to normal. The game is available to download meow on Steam and Viveport for the HTC Vive for $12.99, but for those who act quick enough, Pawmigo is off-furing Cat Sorter VR at a special sale price of $9.99 for a limited time.

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Slashgear

AUGUST 28, 2017

Microsoft is gearing up for a big week of mixed reality announcements and showcases at IFA 2017, but it’s also made a few big reveals ahead of time. Today Microsoft published what could be something of a refresher course to its mixed reality efforts, detailing things like expected pricing (both of mixed reality headset bundles and the PCs that will … Continue reading.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2017

The Netflix original series gets an episodic VR experience for PlayStation VR, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift. Voltron is getting the VR treatment. Fresh on the heels of season 3 of the Netflix original series DreamWorks Voltron: Legendary Defender , you’ll now be able to join forces with beloved characters Lance, Hunk, Pidge, Keith, Shiro, Allura and Coran to fight back against the relentless threat of Zarkon in virtual reality.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 31, 2017

HypeVR is developing volumetric video tech which we called “ a glimpse at the future of VR video ,” when we got to see it back in January. Now the company has adapted their system for Apple’s ARKit, showing how phone-based augmented reality can be used to view volumetric footage, and allow users to step through a portal into the footage.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2017

Mindshow is a product built from a passion for VR. Not just because VR is cool but because we were promised the future when we were kids and still seeking it. “VR is still in its infancy, and there’s still a lot to learn about the way players interact with VR. By staging Mindshow in Early Access we can learn more about what players value and what they need.

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Slashgear

AUGUST 30, 2017

Some will argue that smartphone-based VR platforms like Cardboard and Daydream can’t give justice to what virtual reality is really capable of. While smartphone hardware has improved by leaps and bounds, they still pale in comparison to VR PC rigs. On the other hand, headsets like Vive, Oculus Rift, and PS VR are prohibitively expensive and tied to a specific … Continue reading.

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VRScout

AUGUST 31, 2017

AR Museum lets you create your own masterpiece with augmented reality. Back in 2015, Disney developed AR technology that could bring coloring books to life through live texturing , the process of capturing a 2D drawing to create a 3D augmented-reality image in real-time. Since then, Disney has evolved their live texturing technology into a new AR application called AR Museum , which allows for a non-intrusive interactive and personalized museum experience.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2017

In an answer to Apple’s recently released ARKit , a developer tool used for making augmented reality apps and games that run on newer iPad and iPhones, Google today released a preview of a new Android-compatible software development kit (SDK) called ARCore. Google prides itself on its stewardship of Android, the largest mobile platform in the world with over 80 percent of the mobile market share in 2016, according to research and advisory firm Gartner.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2017

WarDucks, a virtual reality game studio founded by a former Facebook employee, announces the launch of its game Sneaky Bears for PSVR and will soon release on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive platforms. In Sneaky Bears, Frank, a twisted Teddy Bear Mastermind, has taken over a toy factory and has created an army of evil teddy bears to help with his quest to take over the world.

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Slashgear

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

This week the folks at HP have revealed the release information around their fabled HP Windows Mixed Reality Developer Edition Headset. This isn’t the final edition, instead opting to use the “Developer Edition” moniker we’ve seen used on several of the most famous VR headsets to be released over the past several years. This headset is part of Microsoft’s big … Continue reading.

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VRScout

AUGUST 31, 2017

Jedi Challenges will have you battling Kylo Ren with an augmented reality light saber. Soon you’ll be trading blows with Darth Vader from the comfort of your living room, all thanks to the latest partnership between Disney and Lenovo. The Star Wars Jedi Challenges AR experience comes with a lightsaber controller, a tracking beacon, and Lenovo Mirage AR headset, all for the price of $199.99.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

TPCast, the wireless streaming device that lets HTC Vive owners play VR games cable-free, is now available for pre-order in most of continental Europe starting at €349 (or the regional equivalent). TPCast pre-orders are available in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and UK.

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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

AUGUST 28, 2017

“Hangry Bunnies From Mars”, the first VR title from Studio229, is available today for the HTC Vive, with Oculus Touch launching soon. Face off against an invading armada of adorable little killers with a serious case of mankind munchies in Hangry Bunnies From Mars, an exciting new VR shooter from Studio229. Join up with the Critter Death Squad (an unconventional extermination company) and arm yourself to the teeth with epic weaponry designed by the team’s unhinged mad scientist, get tactical upd

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 28, 2017

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VRScout

AUGUST 27, 2017

Merging the digital and physical worlds is not just for scientists, technologists, content creators, and grown-ups. In fact, future sci-tech pioneers (AKA kids) are getting in on truly immersive experiences once only available to adults. With more than $2 billion invested in augmented and virtual reality over the past year and $800 million of it invested in Q2 2017 , it’s no surprise that VR and AR continue to grow.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 28, 2017

Microsoft today announced that 343 Industries, the studio tasked with overseeing the Halo franchise, will be creating Halo- themed experiences for the company’s lineup of VR headsets. The information, revealed by HoloLens’ chief inventor and ‘Mixed Reality’ project lead Alex Kipman, comes alongside the news that Microsoft’s VR headsets and controller bundles will be launching this holiday season for $399. “…it’s my pleasure to let you know that we are wo

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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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Cats and VR

AUGUST 26, 2017

SLIVER.tv, the leading esports 360º virtual reality entertainment platform, announced the close of a $9.8 million series A round of equity funding, led by Danhua Capital, along with Heuristic Capital Partners and ZP Capital. With total funding of $17.5 million to date, the Series A round was also participated by SLIVER.tv’s existing seed investors, including DCM, Sierra Ventures, The VR Fund, Samsung Next Fund and Sony Innovation Fund.

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Everything VR & AR

AUGUST 31, 2017

Avery Bedows, CEO of Altar joins us to discuss thinking in 3D. We discuss how his company is creating a platform to think and present in VR and AR, applying insights from the Method of Loci and cognitive science research. Avery discusses Altar’s early release on Steam for VR and how they’re porting the experience to AR using the Apple ARKit and Google’s recently announced ARCore.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2017

AR is happening. When Apple first introduced ARKit back in June at WWDC , we were blown away. Apple’s massive leap into augmented reality with no additional sensors or hardware, only the phone in your pocket, seemingly opened up the largest AR platform in the world overnight. And as developers continued to experiment with the ARKit platform, creating some pretty killer apps , it left us scratching our heads wondering where Google fell into this mix now.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 26, 2017

Dr. Skip Rizzo heads the Medical VR Research Group at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies , which has been exploring how to use VR for psychological treatments, cognitive assessment, motor rehabilitation therapy, as well as interactions with virtual humans. He’s been on the forefront of using virtual reality to treat soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder with virtual exposure therapy.

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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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