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JUNE 2, 2016

With one click you can turn any public Instagram account into a virtual museum. For all you Instagram obsessed, your prayers of having your heavily VSCOed snapshots hang on the walls of the Louvre have finally been answered – in virtual reality that is. The folks over at 3D-model platform Sketchfab have cooked up another delicious VR app called Instamuseum that will let you turn your Instagram photos into a virtual reality art gallery.

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JUNE 2, 2016

Many of us, including Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey, have dreamed of the day that Nintendo gets into VR. According to a new report, that day may be coming soon. The post Report: Nintendo NX to Be VR Compatible appeared first on UploadVR.

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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2016

Vedavi, a medical animation studio working closely with the University of Zurich, wants students to drop the heavy books and plastic models and pick up a pair of Oculus Touch controllers later this year with their highly detailed anatomy software, VR Human Anatomy. I spoke with Vedavi’s Managing Director and recent graduate from University of Zurich with a Master of Medicine, Schwyzer Moritz, to get a better idea of what was in store for VR Human Anatomy.

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Cats and VR

MAY 28, 2016

Samsung Electronics announced the Galaxy S7 edge Injustice Edition in collaboration with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment. To commemorate the third anniversary of the popular mobile game, Injustice: Gods Among Us, the companies came together to bring Samsung’s technology and one of the game’s central characters, Batman, in a sleek, high-performance smartphone.

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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

MAY 31, 2016

The lavish VR film shoot takes 360-degree video to new heights. Have you ever wanted to experience what its like to fly in a first-class apartment aboard a luxury Airbus A380 on its way to Abu Dhabi? What about having Nicole Kidman join you for the journey, helping her rehearse scenes from the script of her next film? Thanks to UAE’s Etihad Airways , you can now take to the skies with the Oscar-winning Australian actress in virtual reality.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2016

Rob Jagnow is a senior software engineer who was a part of Google’s Daydream Lab team that produced over 60 VR prototypes in 30 weeks. . This team was originally revealed in a WIRED magazine profile of VP of VR Clay Bavor , and this Daydream Labs prototyping team was officially announced by Bavor in his Google I/O talk on VR at Google. The Daydream Labs team gave a really amazing talk at Google I/O titled Lessons Learned from VR Prototyping , which had a lot of great VR design insights acr

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Cats and VR

MAY 28, 2016

Here are the recently released games for Oculus Rift and GearVR for the week of May 25th-28th. Not sure how I feel about Kittypocalypse since it is basically a kitten kill simulator but since the site is CatsAndVR.com and it is Caturday I figured I had to post it. Kittypocalypse is an in-depth, strategic tower defense game built exclusively for VR. Across a diverse range of environments, defeat the hordes of evil alien kitties and salvage what's left of your home planet.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2016

Ok, we seriously want one. Earlier this year Samsung bundled the Gear VR headset with Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge pre-orders. It was a major win for mobile VR, getting a ton of headsets into the hands of first-time VR users. But now Samsung just unboxed a new bundle that i’m sure will sell out – a Batman-inspired Galaxy S7 and Gear VR. To commemorate the third anniversary of Injustice: Gods Among Us , Samsung has revealed their Galaxy S7 edge Injustice Edition inspired by one of the mobi

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JUNE 2, 2016

Worried about how VR software might perform with the current install base? Cherry Pop Games has some encouraging news for you. The post Pool Nation is One of the First VR Games to Hit Steam’s Top Sellers List appeared first on UploadVR.

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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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MAY 31, 2016

At Computex 2016 today, AMD took to the stage to reveal their latest GPU, the RX 480. Priced at starting at $199, the company says they designed the card to help make the first 100 million PCs ready for VR. On stage at AMD’s Computex 2016 keynote today, Raja Koduri, Senior VP & Chief Architect of Radeon Technologies Group, revealed the AMD RX 480 GPU, saying that the card is designed for “premium VR” Koduri said that AMD has found that of 1.43 billion PCs worldwide, only 13

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Cats and VR

MAY 30, 2016

Cinematic virtual reality represents a totally new medium that instantly gives the viewer a sense of being transported to an entirely different location, as if they were actually there. Many ailing and disabled Veterans are physically unable to visit memorials made in their honor. Through the new medium of cinematic virtual reality these Veterans were given the experience of being present, alongside their comrades who actually visited the Memorials in Washington DC earlier in the year.

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MAY 31, 2016

The virtual reality industry is exploding. Practically everywhere you look, VR is flooding into the mainstream consciousness at an increasingly rapid rate. Huge sums of money are being pumped in for content creation, and it’s all thanks to 360-degree video. Let’s be honest, we would not have the level of public interest in VR that we have now without easily accessible content.

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JUNE 3, 2016

When is VR storytelling going to grow up? That’s what I’ve found myself asking time and again over the past few months. The post Ctrl is Astonishing Proof that VR Storytelling is Growing Up appeared first on UploadVR.

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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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MAY 30, 2016

Born out of a lengthy period of experimentation, Lucid Trips begins with a novel method of locomotion and follows through with a unique approach to game design and multiplayer interactivity. Lucid Trips is an excellent example of the sort of creative game design that we’re going to need much more of for virtual reality to emerge as its own medium, rather than a subset of the existing gaming space.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 1, 2016

RalphVR announced that their award winning multiplayer VR game Daydream Blue is coming to Google Daydream. “Our mission is to connect people together and help foster smiles in virtual reality. We are thrilled to be achieving a major milestone on our journey by bringing Daydream Blue to Google’s Daydream.” - Richie Hoagland, CEO and Game Designer. Daydream Blue is like a camping simulator for VR…if the simulation was run by an eight year old.

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JUNE 1, 2016

Microsoft unveiled their vision of a mixed reality world today at Computex in Taipei. . When Microsoft first announced their HoloLens augmented reality headset, they also showed off their Windows Holographic platform, which let developers build Windows 10 apps and experiences for the device. Now Microsoft has announced that they want to be a major part of virtual reality too.

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MAY 30, 2016

“ FlashBack: Immersive Virtual Reality on Mobile Devices via Rendering Memoization ” This is the title of an extremely complicated and highly detailed research paper recently published by Kevin Boos (Rice University), David Chu ( The post Microsoft’s ‘FlashBack’ Could Bring Mobile VR Up To RIft/Vive Performance Levels appeared first on UploadVR.

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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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JUNE 2, 2016

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has poured scepticism on the hype surrounding VR post launch by voicing concerns about the cost and requirement of current systems, mostly (by the sounds of it) the HTC Vive. Strauss Zelnick isn’t exactly what you’d call a VR zealot. The CEO of Take-Two, the company behind some of the most successful gaming franchises out there, the biggest being Grand Theft Auto , has previously voiced doubts about virtual reality’s mainstream appeal and potential

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Cats and VR

MAY 31, 2016

Looks like Oculus Rift is getting a hotly anticipated VR exclusive. The Superhot team announced via a blog post that they will be coming to Rift later this year. "We're now working super close with the guys at Oculus to release Superhot VR later this year," the team said in its first developer's log. "We're really trying to capitalize on all of the new design possibilities that Virtual Reality is giving us.".

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VRScout

JUNE 2, 2016

The NX is delayed, but for good reason. I’m sure i’m not the only one deeply interested in what Nintendo has planned for it’s upcoming ‘NX’ device. I say ‘device’ because Nintendo has made it painfully clear that this isn’t JUST a console. It’s a magical piece of future technology that transcends the very definition of entertainment, or something to that extent.

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JUNE 3, 2016

Snapchat already offers some great augmented reality (AR) features, but an alleged new acquisition suggests it could also get involved with VR soon. The post Report: Snapchat Buys 3D Model Capture Company Seene appeared first on UploadVR.

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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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MAY 29, 2016

HP and MSI are working on concept ‘PC on your back’ projects (often known as backtops) which opens the door to untethered PC-level virtual reality experiences by allowing you to carry around your VR experience without those trailing cables. A relatively new area for personal computing, but one I think we’ll see some significant growth in the medium term, are PC’s built with not only portability in mind, but wearability too.

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VR Bites

JUNE 3, 2016

It’s time for a brand new adventure in Virtual Reality. We are going to take a exclusive look at Kingspray the one and only graffiti simulator for the HTC Vive. Let your artistic skills free by spray painting on real-life surfaces without the fear of getting locked up by your neighbourhood police officer. Choose from a wide range of colors or pick your own!

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VRScout

JUNE 3, 2016

The Icelandic music icon is taking her VR album on tour, starting in Sydney. Björk has always been an early adopter when it comes to immersive technology, having released her “Stonemilker” video from last year’s album Vulnicura as a VR app along with an installation at New York’s Museum of Modern Art PS1. Now the artist is again teleporting fans to her native Iceland with the Björk Digital exhibition, launching on Friday in Sydney, Australia, with Björk herself expected to DJ at the event.

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MAY 31, 2016

VR editors are set to change how developers make their games, and Unity just let us know when its take on the concept is coming. A third demonstration of the Unity editor was held at today’s The post Unity’s Awesome VR Editor Gets a Release Window in Fresh Look appeared first on UploadVR.

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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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