Sat.Jul 23, 2016 - Fri.Jul 29, 2016

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Scariest Thing at Comic-Con: American Horror Story VR

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Lay back and enter the nightmare world of American Horror Story in virtual reality. Among the highly anticipated VR experiences making their debut at San Diego Comic-Con this year like Mr. Robot and Suicide Squad , we still had one more at the top of our list we needed to check off before the four-day convention came to an end. Debuting publicly for the first time just outside the convention center at the Hilton Bayfront Park, FX built an immersive American Horror Story VR experience for fans in

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HTC’s $100 Million ‘Vive X’ VR Accelerator Announces First 33 Investments

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Today at the China International Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference (ChinaJoy 2016), HTC announced the first batch of companies to take part in their recently announced Vive X Accelerator program. The cohort of 33 VR startups, coming from across the industry, will see investments from the fund and go through a four month course to get their products into a market-ready state.

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Kite and Lightning raise 2.5 million in funding for Baby Fighting VR Game and other projects.

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Kite and Lightning announced today that they have raised raised a $2.5 million dollar seed round lead by Raine Ventures. Additional investors include Courtside Ventures, Comcast Ventures Catalyst Fund, Social Capital, Outpost Capital, Boost VC, & Jason Rosenthal, CEO of Lytro. Not to shabby for a team of two who looked to VR as a glimpse into the future after using a DK1 3 years ago.

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Social VR Series Part 1 – vTime

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This will be the first video in a series that I will be starting looking at the different social spaces available to VR users. For today’s video we take a look at vTime. This app is available for the Oculus Rift CV1, Gear VR, and Google Cardboard. I have to say that the environments in vTime are stunning and really bring on a strong sense of presence for me.

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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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Saturday: Watch Real Madrid vs. Chelsea Live in VR

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You can now watch world-class soccer live in virtual reality with NextVR. Soccer fans, rejoice. NextVR and Relevant Sports are broadcasting the 2016 International Champions Cup (ICC), a preseason tournament between some of Europe’s top clubs. Using the NextVR app you get to watch the best players in the world from the stands, on the field, and behind the goal without leaving your house or paying a dime. 2016 ICC Live VR Schedule.

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The limited edition Mr Robot VR episode is live again! No VR headset required to watch in 360°.

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The MR. Robot VR experience that premiered during San Diego Comic Con for a limited time is back. Not only is it back but it is offered as just a 360° video for those without a headset. If you have not seen it and are a fan of the show it is pretty damn good and is full of the feels. Worth watching in VR. [link] Cats And VR.

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THE FINAL STAND | Out of Ammo: Mission Icarus #7 (HTC Vive Gameplay)

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What a suprise! Out of Ammo had an update that brought us two new shooter missions Overwatch and Icarus. We are going to play Icarus a mission in first person in where your plane has crashed and you are the only survivor. It”s up to you to stay alive until rescue comes. You only have a desert eagle and a little bit of ammo that can be found around the crash site.

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The Ridiculous Conan VR Headsets at Comic-Con

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Interact with Conan Pop! Vinyl figures in virtual reality all while wearing this on your head. TBS and Conan were back at it again for Comic-Con International in San Diego with a slew of 360-degree VR activations that were a pleasant change from all the other horror and action packed experiences we had already seen. Building on the success of CONAN360 VR at Comic-Con 2015, Team CoCo brought even more 360-degree camera angles to their Comic-Con shows, letting fans at home take the best seats in t

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Exploring Methods for Conveying Object Weight in Virtual Reality

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With no way of generating resistive force feedback with today’s VR motion controllers, how can we make users feel and behave as though virtual objects have varying weights? Creative agency B-Reel explored several approaches and open sourced their experiments for others to learn from. Guest Article by B-Reel. B-Reel is a creative agency. Founded in Stockholm in 1999, we are now an extended family of over 170 designers, developers, writers, strategists, and producers across 6 offices worldwi

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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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World War Toons Beta will come to Playstation VR at launch.

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World War Toons is going to be available on October 13th, 2016. The open beta will launch with PlayStation VR and on PS4. Here is what Reload Studios CEO, James Chung had to say. “We’re big fans of the work Sony has done with PlayStation VR. From day one of our studio, we knew Sony would be an important partner in VR gaming because of their history of handling hardware, software, as well as the content platform business.

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Annie Amber is Beautiful But Somewhat Disappointing.

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So what can I say about Annie Amber other than it is a really surreal and beautiful experience but one that leaves the player a bit flat and wanting more. I was expecting this to be a bit better than it was since the developers previous title, “Mind: Path to the Thalamus” was great! Annie Amber is described as a puzzle/exploration game and while there was some on rails exploration, I found very little in the way of puzzles.

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Behind the Scenes Look of Suicide Squad’s VR Experience

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Last week during Comic-Con International, we popped into a bar converted into a high security prison where Warner Bros. and Samsung showed off their latest Suicide Squad VR experience. Winding through long halls of barbed wire and prison cells in this recreated Belle Reve penitentiary space, we got our first look at the 360° video on Gear VR headsets while sitting on swivel chairs strapped with SupPac haptic vests.

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Steam Launches First ‘VR Weekend Sale’, 181 Vive and Rift Titles Discounted

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Steam has launched the first VR Weekend Sale giving steep discounts on VR titles for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, including a huge 20-game bundle at 30% discount. Looking to bolster your VR game library? Vive and Rift owners alike benefit from Steam’s VR Weekend Sale which has 181 VR games and experiences with discounts ranging from 10% to 80%.

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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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Lionsgate and SilVR Thread Partner to Launch Intense First-Person VR Experience for New Film “NERVE”

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Earlier this year I had the chance to check out some of SilVRThread's amazing work within the 360° video space. [link] Well Tai Crosby and the SilVRThread team is back again and this time partnering with Lionsgate to create a promotional VR experience for the new action crime techno-thriller survival film NERVE. The “NERVE - Do You Dare” app is an example of how film studios have the opportunity to put people right in the movie via VR.

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D-DAY IN VIRTUAL REALITY! | Out of Ammo #4 (HTC Vive Gameplay)

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Update 0.6 is live! Tanks, Normandy Map, Engineer Outposts and much more updates have been added to Out of Ammo. ‘RocketWerkz has added two new environments in this update, a Canyon level and a D-Day style Beach defense map. Both of these are very much Alpha and require testing and feedback. For now on the D-Day map the units arrive in boats from the sea, and the Canyon level has mortar teams that spawn like sniper teams.

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51 Free VR Downloads for the HTC Vive

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It’s been a few months since the HTC Vive began shipping to consumers and already content available on Steam VR is approaching 350 titles, excluding Steam Greenlight content. Every month we’ve been rounding up the latest VR releases available on Steam VR on our Facebook page, so make sure you follow us over there. The variety of content varies in type and prices — everything from free demo versions of games to full blown AAA title productions.

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FOVE Debuts Latest Design for Eye Tracking VR Headset

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FOVE, the company behind the eponymous eye-tracking VR headset, today announced that they will be showing off a new industrial design at both Comic-Con and SIGGRAPH 2016 where attendees will have a chance to demo the new headset design themselves. Previous FOVE design | See Also: FOVE’s Eye-tracking VR Headset Was the Next Best at CES. The newly revealed design differs from the most recent prototype by doing away with the rigid plastic wrap-around piece (as on the right), and opting for a head s

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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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Ride the rails and throw up with Rollercoaster Dreams for Playstation VR.

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So another game has been announced for Playstation VR and it may make you nauseous. Rollercoaster Dreams launches on the same day as Playstation VR and allows you to not only build your own rollercoster and ride it in VR it allows you control of a whole theme park equipped with bumper cars, carnival food, and zombie dance parties. Wait wut? Yes, there seems to also be some strange Zombie Dance Party in the trailer.

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Demystifying Magic Leap: What Is It and How Does It Work?

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Nerve Film Premieres With First-Person VR Experience

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Step into the body of Emma Roberts and hitch a high-speed skateboard ride on the back of a police car. Are you up for a good dare? Lionsgate’s latest suspense thriller, NERVE , is hitting theaters this week and they’re challenging you to experience the movie’s top “dares” in virtual reality. For the NERVE premiere afterparty, Lionsgate teamed up with first-person VR studio SilVR Thread to let you feel what it’s like to embody and step in the shoes of a character from the film as you tackle some

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Oculus CTO Shares VR Dev Tip: ‘The Formula for Avoiding Aliasing’

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Oculus CTO John Carmack is an OG of the game development world has demonstrated a deep understanding of the ins and outs of computer rendering. In a detailed technical post published on Facebook, he shares a useful tips with VR developers which explains how to avoid ‘aliasing’, a common CGI artifact. Aliasing, when it comes to 3D rendering, often manifests itself as apparently jagged edges in virtual scenes.

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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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Scoble: VR will create a ton of jobs, but it’s going to be a.

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Scoble: VR will create a ton of jobs, but it’s going to be a bumpy ride Robert Scoble is no longer worried about job creation. And that’s good, right? I mean… one less thing. ‘Scobleizer,’ the Entrepreneur in Residence at Upload VR and noted futurist, took some today time to tell me all about it. Like it or not, automation is coming here Another conference.

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New HTC Vive Releases for the Week of 07/24/16

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DC Comics Unveils Batman View-Master at Comic-Con

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You can pre-order this new Batman View-Master VR pack and help save Gotham City. DC Comics was all about virtual reality this year at Comic-Con International, letting fans engage in an entirely new way with some of their most popular characters. In addition to the offsite Suicide Squad Gear VR experience and daily Oculus Medium demos on stage at their booth, the company also gave previews of their new Batman VR experience.

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Take an Immersive Drive Through the World’s Most Secretive Country

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North Korea is one of the most secretive states in the world, but one man received permission by the nation’s strict regime to capture a drive through its capital Pyongyang. It’s a rare and immersive peek into a world few are allowed to witness. North Korea’s citizens cannot travel abroad, they have little contact with those granted access and any media available in the country is tightly controlled by the Communist state, presided over by it’s ‘supreme leader’

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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