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JANUARY 27, 2017

Your dream of finally becoming John Wick, a hitman out for murderous vengeance over his beloved puppy Daisy, is about to come true — thanks to virtual reality. Lionsgate and video game publisher Starbreeze have partnered to launch a VR first-person shooter based on the movie John Wick. The VR game that will be released on Steam for the HTC Vive is expected to launch shortly after John Wick: Chapter 2 hits theaters on February 10th.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

For its first few months of availability, Google only worked with a select group of developers on Daydream-compatible apps. While the approach allowed Google to work closely with partners and carefully curate content for the new Daydream platform in its opening months, it also severely limited the number of apps one could download for the new headset ecosystem through the Google Play store.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

Earlier this month, a panel of legal experts met at the SIXR Legal Workshop to discuss legal challenges in VR and AR development and how to navigate them. While VR and AR startups have many of the same legal needs as other tech companies, there are some challenges that are unique to the VR and AR space. While the panel focused mainly on the US legal system, some of their guidance also applies in other countries.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

Today i take a look at Ripcoil, and what a fun and great game it really is. Oculus Rift & Touch at its best. Check out Game Hard 4.0 ‘s super awesome YouTube Channel!

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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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JANUARY 26, 2017

Writer/Executive Producer Mickey Fisher is bringing one of the hottest technologies of the year to television. TV is no stranger to virtual reality. The technology has appeared in countless films and television shows over the years from Family Guy and Star Trek , to South Park and most recently Black Mirror. However despite its constant appearance in mainstream entertainment the influential tech has yet to earn its own live-action series dedicated entirely to its possibilities.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is an undeniably fun VR party game that you can play together with a big group with only one VR headset. Now the game has added much requested support for both Vive and Rift’s VR controllers. In Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes , the player wearing the VR headset will find themselves sitting alone in a room with a ticking time bomb in front of them.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

HoloBall puts players into an Virtual Reality arcade arena inspired by one of the most iconic game titles of all time. You will have to use powerful paddles to hit, smash and curve the HoloBall past your enemy to score. Learn and master skillshots to outmatch your increasingly difficult opponents. Did you like this video? Subscribe Nathie! [link].

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JANUARY 23, 2017

British programmer travels 900 miles, all without leaving his living room. Aaron Puzey has become the first person ever to cycle from Land’s End to John o’ Groats, the entire length of Britain, in virtual reality. Using a Gear VR headset, a cheap bluetooth cadence monitor and his android smartphone, Aaron has built an affordable virtual reality cycling experience that should get even the laziest sack off the couch and on the road.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

The HTC Vive Tracker presents a lot of new possibilities for VR software, and the company is making sure developers make the most of it. Vive today opened up applications for developers to get their hands on one of 1,000 Tracker units before they launch later in the year. Successful studios will get one of an “initial batch” of Trackers, according to an official blog post.

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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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JANUARY 25, 2017

HTC announced earlier in January that they’d be giving away 1,000 Vive Trackers to developers. Applications to get your hands on one of the Trackers are now open through February 7th. The new HTC Vive Tracker is a standalone tracking ‘puck’ which uses the same precise Lighthouse tracking system that presently tracks the Vive headset and controllers.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

I had a lot of contact with Oculus support, but they didn’t seem to find a solution for the tracking issues. I had to search for a solution on my own. One of the problems was caused by placing the sensors on different heights. If one of the three or four sensors is higher than the other sensors, and it has to pick up tracking, is causes a ‘tracking drop’, or in the worst case you will get taller or get smaller.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

The Australian Air Force and Saab Australia are trialing the Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality headset as the Australian military evolves into a “fifth-generation fighting force.” Saab and Australia’s Defense Science and Technology Group demonstrated the Microsoft HoloLens to 50 military personnel on October 2016, showcasing how the headset can offer augmented reality vision (ARV) to assist in strategy, threat management and training, according to a Royal Australian Air For

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JANUARY 27, 2017

Oliver Kreylos is a researcher at UC Davis focusing primarily on virtual and augmented realities. He is known as something of a sleuth in the industry and was one of the first people to determine the actual field of view of the HoloLens before Microsoft released the official specs. More recently, Kreylos has been digging into the Oculus Rift Sensor and its ability to function as a basic webcam.

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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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JANUARY 26, 2017

According to a report by The Verge , HTC’s VP of Design is leaving the company to join up with Google’s Daydream VR team. Having joined the company in 2008, in recent year’s HTC’s VP of Design, Claude Zellweger, played a key role in the design of the Vive headset, The Verge reports. Now he’s taking that experience with both mobile and VR design over to the Google Daydream VR team, according to a tweet by Zellweger.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Today we are going to play Pierhead Arcade for the Vive and Oculus Touch. It’s basically your own private virtual arcade with unlimited tokens. We will be playing a bunch of fun games like Shooting Gallery, Skee Ball, Honey Rush and Artic Shuffle. Check it out on Steam: [link]. Did you like this video? Subscribe Nathie! [link].

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JANUARY 24, 2017

When I sat down with Maureen Fan and Eric Darnell, CEO and CCO of Baobab Studios, at Sundance this past weekend, the snowy vista outside their cottage window looked like it was pulled straight from their 2016 breakout hit, INVASION!, the story of a little white bunny who dupes a pair of invading aliens. ASTEROIDS!, the second part of a five-episode series, follows those same two aliens, Mac and Cheez (voiced by Darnell and actress Elizabeth Banks), as they complete their daily tasks in their shi

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JANUARY 27, 2017

Starting a new game studio specifically dedicated to VR content is all the rage these days. Indie developers, former AAA stalwarts, and everything in between are ceasing the opportunity to dive into the VR market head first and take advantage of the early years of creative experimentation. One such company is 3rd Eye Studios. It’s made up of several industry veterans with experience ranging from working at companies like Unity, Pixar, Google, and more.

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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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JANUARY 26, 2017

Over the course of the last 50 years, capital markets have significantly codified a generational model approach consumer technology products. New “generations” of products are expected to come at a regular pace and provide increased features and reliability at the same prices. But depending upon the product type, the typical life cycle from one generation to the next can vary greatly.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

Today I will be playing the Multiplayer of Cloudlands VR Minigolf together with RowdyGuy in Virtual Reality. Cloudlands is a mini golf game that let’s you play on crazy courses high above the clouds. You can play the singleplayer, online and local multiplayer. The best thing about this title is the fact you can download a custom golf course created by the community and play it with friends.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

FX promotes its new X-Men-related show with cool augmented reality art murals. One of the years most anticipated new shows, Legion , premieres this February 8th on FX and the network is advertising the interesting new show by launching five augmented reality murals spread across the United States. Not only that, but FX will also be hosting a three-day art exhibition in New York featuring renowned artists called Legion Where?

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JANUARY 25, 2017

Oculus appears to be listening to recent complaints about tracking stability for its Rift VR headset and Touch controllers, and is offering owners more help today. The VR specialist posted a new blog in which it details ideal set ups for the Oculus sensors that track the headset and controllers. Every Touch owner will have two sensors that should be ideally positioned to best track the user’s position, but they can also buy a third sensor to enable room-scale tracking.

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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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JANUARY 27, 2017

EXOS is a new haptic enabled VR glove which uses force feedback to deliver the sensation of physicality when inside immersive applications. Tokyo based developer Exiii are working on a new VR glove which delivers so-called “reactive force” in response to your actions inside virtual reality – the practical upshot of which is that you’re able to ‘feel’ virtual objects.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

Today on Lunchtime with my Gear VR I take a look at the new RTS Strategy game Skylight. This one is done by E McNeill the developer who brought us other great titles such as Darknet and Tactera. Like his previous titles McNeill has opted for a holographic look to the gameplay which works so well in the Gear VR! I have never been a huge fan of RTS or strategy games in the past but Tactera and Skylight have made me a believer that this game style is a perfect fit for VR!

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JANUARY 27, 2017

The software company admits to selling only ‘thousands’ of their advanced AR headset, but claims that’s all they need. It’s no secret that the Microsoft Hololens wasn’t exactly this year’s hottest product. The highly advanced augmented reality headset has been making waves with it’s impressive positional tracking and accurate hand gesture recognition, but a relatively clunky design and expensive price-tag have kept the high-end hardware out of most people’s hands.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

MIT is partnering up with Bayview Labs and early stage VC firm the Seraph Group to launch a new accelerator dedicated to “Playful Technologies” such as VR and AR. The program starts in the summer and will offer mentorship, facilities and funding to selected start-ups looking to enter that space. Applications are now open for this first Play Labs cohort, but only if you’re a MIT-affiliated start-up – meaning that at least one founder has to be an MIT alumni, student, or faculty member.

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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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