VRScout
APRIL 5, 2017
Vive is turning one today — marking a year since those giant black and teal boxes began showing up at doors across the globe. And to celebrate HTC Vive’s first birthday, HTC has launched their first, and likely industry first, VR app subscription service. Viveport Subscription comes at a time when VR app libraries continue to grow, making it more challenging to decide on what you should or should not purchase.
Road to VR
APRIL 6, 2017
What do you do when you want to push VR racing simulation to the limit of immersion? This. Played with just a headset and a controller, Dirt Rally in VR is a pretty awesome experience. But if you veer off of down the path of Sim Racing at the corner where it intersects with VR, you’ll end up being able to push the envelope significantly further with the help of some accessories.
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APRIL 6, 2017
This is Imogen. She’s seven years old and lives in the UK. She likes to visit the seaside, play arcade games and loves to swim. She owns two chihuahuas, Fudge and Ru, and a cat name Jasper. Fudge is her favorite, and she’ll bake buns with her dad, too. She also has Williams Syndrome. Williams Syndrome is a rare genetic disease that causes children to struggle with grasping concepts like numbers and learning new things.
Cats and VR
APRIL 4, 2017
Batman: Arkham VR will be coming to both the Oculus Rift and HTC VIVE with not only Touch and Vive controller support but also full gamepad support on PC, including the PS4™ Dual Shock 4 Controller, Xbox One Controller and the Steam™ Controller. The game will be available on April 25th. Batman ™ : Arkham VR is the first virtual reality experience to immerse players into the Dark Knight’s universe, putting them inside the Batman’s™ cowl like never before.
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
APRIL 3, 2017
A new VR exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art gives us a glimpse of dystopias in our near future. Styles and Customs of the 2020s , developed by New York studio Scatter and art collective DIS , transports you to fictional landscapes with four separate 3-minute experiences. It presents “a digital dystopia inflected by rapid climate change, social unrest, and shifting global economics,” reads a Carnegie Museum of Art blog post.
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APRIL 6, 2017
If you’ve been gaming for the past decade, chances are there’s a Rock Band guitar laying around in your house somewhere, perhaps stashed at a bottom of a cupboard or buried in the garage. If you’re looking to get into Rock Band VR, though, it may be time to dust it off. Harmonix this week issued a new update for its Oculus Studios game , which launched back in March.
Cats and VR
APRIL 6, 2017
Happy belated 1st Birthday to the HTC Vive. I would have posted on this yesterday if I was not stuck on a plane due some unfortunate delays(so VR of me). Well its better than never and in honor of that birthday our friends at Rank17 are discounting most of its HTC Vive titles by 50% during Steam's VR Anniversary Sale (April 5-12)! Their VR Baseball game is discounted at 45%.
VRScout
APRIL 7, 2017
The latest Smurfs film gets it’s own mixed reality children’s game for Microsoft’s HoloLens. Sony’s latest edition to the Smurf reboot anthology, Smurfs: The Lost Village hits theaters today once again bringing the iconic 80’s characters back from the dead much to the delight of children and nostalgic adults everywhere. The marketing team is doing everything it can to fill the seats of the animated children’s adventure, but after shelling out an outrageous $150 million in promotional support for
Road to VR
APRIL 6, 2017
While the Vive is often criticized for its front-heavy weight, the headset has actually managed to slim down over time thanks to manufacturing improvements. HTC has managed to shave 15% off of the original 550 grams (1.21 pounds), bringing the headset’s weight in line with the Oculus Rift. Beyond the obvious wants of next-gen headsets like higher resolution and field of view, comfort is still a major hurdle that needs to be improved going forward.
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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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APRIL 7, 2017
Through a combination of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), a large number of jobs may soon go away. A recent McKinsey report states that automation could make up to 45 percent of all jobs in the United States obsolete, potentially affecting $2 trillion in annual wages. Autonomous trucking alone has the potential to automate away 3.5 million driver jobs.
EON Reality
APRIL 3, 2017
We would like to extend a warm thanks to all speakers, delegates, IDC partners, and co-workers that made the EON Experience Fest 2017 in Laval France a great success. More than 123 delegates from 32 countries had a chance to experience the future of Augmented and Virtual Reality during the two day event held in conjunction with Laval Virtual, the largest VR and AR exhibition in the world.
VRScout
APRIL 4, 2017
A creative set-up turns a standard living room into intense hot air balloon archery. Ever since the release of the HTC Vive Tracker we’ve seen some truly creative projects that have utilized the device’s tracking to transform everyday objects into immersive VR tools. Whether it be guns, baseball bats or even a house cat , the game-changing peripheral has already seen an extensive amount of use by the development community.
Road to VR
APRIL 2, 2017
For immersive technologies like AR and VR to be effective, they need to understand not only about our world, but also about us. But we don’t even understand us all that well yet; as we capture more biometric information on our quest to lose ourselves in augmented and virtual realities, we’re learning more about ourselves too. Last month we wrote about a Disney Research project which used virtual reality to study human perception.
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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APRIL 6, 2017
Recently, we reported that Disney’s CEO Bob Iger has stated that he would rather focus on augmented reality over virtual reality for his company’s fleet of worldwide amusement parks. Today, we’re getting our best look yet at what Disney’s vision of an AR device might look like in the form of a new patent application. The patent was filed by the Mouse House today and is titled: Augmented Reality Controls for User Interactions with a Virtual World.
AllThingsVR
APRIL 6, 2017
SVRF Launches On Android! Today at SVRF we’re excited to launch SVRF for Android into open beta! SVRF for Android is yet another way we are allowing consumers to experience the best VR content. A core part of our ethos at SVRF is to build products that make VR more accessible and approachable. As we began to design SVRF for Android, we encountered many people who said they were interested in VR but had never tried it, mostly because they did not have direct access to a headset.
VRScout
APRIL 6, 2017
Google, in a partnership with underground music broadcaster Boiler Room, has launched a new VR experience for the Google Pixel that teleports you to a pop-up “industrial night club” in Berlin — a city with arguably the most thriving nightlife in all of Europe (if not the world). The 15-minute experience, called VR Dancefloors: Techno in Berlin , takes place in the “industrial environs of a typical Berlin nightclub” and “lets you ‘choose your own adventure̵
Road to VR
APRIL 4, 2017
Batman: Arkham VR (2016) is one of PlayStation VR’s top games, and an exclusive too. Now, developer Rocksteady has announced that it will soon launch the game on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Batman: Arkham VR has placed consistently in the top 10 most downloaded PSVR titles since the headset’s October 2016 launch. Built on Unreal Engine 4 and well optimized for PSVR, it’s also one of the system’s best looking games.
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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APRIL 4, 2017
Few video game industry icons are as well-known as Peter Molyneux. He’s the mind behind the entire “God game” genre for the most part, having released the very first Populous all the way back in 1989 for the Amiga. Since then he has gone on to work on other God game titles such as Black & White , as well as the popular roleplaying game (RPG) series, Fable.
Slashgear
APRIL 5, 2017
Today just so happens to be the first anniversary of the HTC VIVE‘s launch. The virtual reality headset has been available for a whole year now, and to celebrate, HTC is dropping the price on new VIVEs for one day only. If you’ve yet to take the plunge and find yourself wanting to dive into the realm of virtual reality, … Continue reading.
VRScout
APRIL 4, 2017
You can now watch a 2D video version of Björk’s latest VR music experience. This isn’t Björk’s first VR rodeo, and it likely won’t be the last. The Icelandic art-pop singer released the full version of the VR music video for Notget, off of her 2015 LP, Vulnicara , after releasing a teaser for the video last November. Slightly over the six-minute mark, the video features an animated, armored avatar of Björk that moves and dances underwater in an exotic oceanic world.
Road to VR
APRIL 1, 2017
With the Galaxy S8 and S8+ coming later this month , Samsung is hoping to sweeten the deal with a free Gear VR headset and Controller for US and Canadian pre-orders before April 20th. And while there are plenty of free games on the Oculus app store, Samsung is also giving away a free Oculus content pack to get you started (US purchases only). Samsung Galaxy S8 ($750) and Galaxy S8+ ($850) aren’t exactly cheap, but if you’re looking for an easy way to jump into VR and upgrade your ph
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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APRIL 4, 2017
When PC VR headsets first launched a year ago now, we worried that there wouldn’t be enough support from developers, and Oculus Rift and HTC Vive owners would be facing a content drought. In the end, the opposite turned out to be true. In the past year well over 1,000 pieces of VR content have released for Vive and Rift on Steam. We’ve seen loads of great games like Fantastic Contraption and Arizona Sunshine hit the platform over that time but there have been a lot of lackluster titl
Hypergrid Business
APRIL 7, 2017
(Image courtesy Riza Nugraha via Flickr. ). It seems unfair, but there are some people out there who seem to have the trust of their customers, no matter how many times they let them down. And other, completely decent, honorable grids can’t seem to get any respect. Part of the problem is that many honest, reliable, hard-working people don’t like to toot their own horn.
VRScout
APRIL 7, 2017
Toronto will soon be home to Samsung’s sixth and largest immersive retail store. Set to open this summer at the Toronto Eaton Centre, Samsung’s “Experience Store” will be its biggest yet featuring 21,000 square feet of mobile technology spread across two jam-packed floors. Much like the other five locations, the new center will serve as the ultimate one-stop-shop for everything Samsung, giving customers the chance to not only purchase their products, but sample their line-up of VR de
Road to VR
APRIL 4, 2017
We all saw this one coming, and yet it still looks like a blast. Robo Recall now has an unofficial Star Wars mod that dresses up the game with a fresh coat of paint and new weapons. With official modding support , Robo Recall is ripe for community adaptation. The other week we saw a mod that added full locomotion support to the game , and now the same modder, tonsta31, is building out a Star Wars mod for Robo Recall.
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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