VRScout

JANUARY 31, 2018

A Microsoft-endorsed hard hat solution lets construction workers use holograms on site. Industrial collaboration tools are one of the fastest-developing areas for the Microsoft HoloLens, with many companies such as Object Theory looking for ways to diversify and broaden the market for Mixed Reality. On the other hand, selling this technology as an everyday working tool in places like construction sites, offshore facilities and mining projects means making it robust enough to be used as such.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 30, 2018

Will virtual reality help you learn a language more quickly? Or will it simply replace your memory? VR is the ultimate medium for delivering what is known as “experiential learning.” This education theory is based on the idea that we learn and remember things much better when doing something ourselves than by merely watching someone else do it or being told about it.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

Starting toward the end of 2017, the number of listed job openings at Oculus has nearly tripled, with the current number of openings floating around an all time high. Across Oculus’ 15 locations, the company is currently listing 443 available openings , spanning 20 categories from Research to Software Engineering to Computer Vision, and more. The number of openings has spiked significantly since November, data collected from the last 20 months by Road to VR shows.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Team-based #PSVR FPS Bravo Team is almost here, and it works great with the PlayStation VR Aim Controller! Grab this new bundle, which includes the game and Aim Controller, at @GameStop starting March 6. pic.twitter.com/bYuQBwaOlE — PlayStation (@PlayStation) February 1, 2018. Until Dawn developers, Supermassive have been on a PSVR role as of late.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2018

Experience On Demand is an in-depth look at VR and how it can be harnessed to improve our everyday lives. I’m still old enough to remember a time when typing a message on a touchscreen keyboard felt very cutting-edge. But I also remember doing that for the first time in a crowded Apple store, with no real intention of buying the first-generation iPhone I was playing with.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2018

VR/AR expert Antony Vitillo (aka ‘ Skarred Ghost ‘) got an opportunity to speak with HTC Vive China President Alvin Wang Graylin recently, and while Graylin predictably couldn’t answer the question on everyone’s mind—”how much is Vive Pro going to cost?”—we learned the headset is definitely targeting a prosumer price range that make it “more expensive than the existing consumer product.” Vitillo got a chance to speak with Graylin for about an hour

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 30, 2018

Xperiel , inventor of the Real World Web (RWW) platform, today announced $7 million in Series A funding, which includes new investments from Scott Cook , Co-Founder of Intuit, Cyan Banister of Founders Fund, WTI and the National Basketball Association’s Sacramento Kings. The new investment will fuel the company’s growth and expansion into markets beyond sports technology.

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VRScout

JANUARY 31, 2018

University of Alberta’s uses AR technology to project a patient’s internal anatomy onto their body in real-time. Ever press a flashlight up against the palm of your hand and watch the innards illuminate? Now imagine a machine that did pretty much the same thing, only 1000x more accurately. That’s what the brilliant folks over at the University of Alberta are working on with ProjectDR, an exciting new AR-powered system capable of displaying a patient’s detailed internal structure dire

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Slashgear

JANUARY 27, 2018

Lenovo has officially announced its VR Classroom package, which is designed to bring virtual reality into the classroom and use it as a tool to enhance students’ learning experiences. At its core, the set includes Lenovo’s recently debuted Mirage Solo with Daydream, the first standalone VR headset on Google’s Daydream platform, along with plenty of educational content.

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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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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Two images showing a seemingly consumer-ready box containing Oculus Go, the company’s upcoming standalone VR headset, found its way to Reddit and Twitter recently, possibly indicating that launch is right around the corner. As first reported by TechRadar , the images appear to indicate that developers are now receiving the next big wave of dev kits.

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VR Game Critic

JANUARY 28, 2018

Now, get ready to go all Die Hard on your friends as we present you with some of the finest multiplayer FPS games out there so far. These games all thrive on an active player-base so why not gear up with your friends and give one or two of them a shot. Do note that all but one are still in Early Access, so please expect some bugs, features under development and plenty of ways to impact how these games turn out in the end.

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VRScout

JANUARY 30, 2018

The Facebook/Snap wars are heating up once again. This time, however, it’s Facebook creating technology that Snap may one day copy. – When Dancing Hotdogs Go To War. “Good artists borrow, great artists steal.” Those are the words of the late great Pablo Picasso. However, if the iconic painter had lived in modern day Silicon Valley, his famous quote might be remembered as “good companies acquire, Facebook steals.” It’s no secret that the world’s lar

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 31, 2018

Martin Luther King delivers is “I Have a Dream” speech at 1963 march on Washington. (Image via Wikimedia Commons.). Keng City will open a new museum on Wednesday, February 1 on the DigiWorldz grid to celebrate Black History Month. The museum will showcase African-American accomplishments and events throughout history starting with the slave trade to present day inventors and innovators.

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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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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

Back at CES, Oculus announced that Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi would exclusively bring its own branded version of the standalone Oculus Go headset to China. The headset will support the Oculus Mobile SDK, meaning existing Gear VR and future Oculus Go apps can be packaged up for sale to the Chinese VR market through Xiaomi’s Mi VR store. The Xiaomi Mi VR Standalone headset is identical hardware to the forthcoming Oculus Go, the $200 standalone headset that Oculus announced late last y

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Slashgear

JANUARY 30, 2018

At the moment, the mainstream VR market is mostly a two-horse race, with Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive taking the lion’s share of the market. Not that others haven’t tried. Microsoft has its own Windows Mixed Reality platform and Sony came even earlier with the PlayStation VR, formerly codenamed “Morpheus”. PS VR, sadly, still has a lot of growing … Continue reading.

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VRScout

JANUARY 29, 2018

Legendary singer/songwriter/costume-enthusiast, Sir Elton John has announced that he will retire from touring after one more trip around the world. The Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour will be mark they 70-year-old John’s final live appearances. It will take place over the course of the next three years and will include 300 international performances.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 27, 2018

OpenSim’s longest-running live music venue — Maritime Club Belfast — is celebrating its tenth anniversary this weekend. The party starts at the club location on OSgrid on Sunday, January 28, at 1 p.m. Pacific Time. The club is a virtual recreation of a blues club opened and run by Van Morrison in 1964 in the basement of The Maritime Hotel in Belfast.

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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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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

One of the current barriers to immersion for high-end VR headsets is being tethered to a powerful PC. For now, there are two options if you want to eliminate that pesky cable: a special wireless adapter, or a backpack PC to let the rendering happen directly on your person. Here we take a look at a range of VR backpack computers and what they offer. Intro.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 31, 2018

VR safety training company PIXO VR today announced the release of its Gas Meter Safety Inspection VR Training system , marking the first time a VR training module has been made commercially available for utility companies. The system addresses the challenge of providing reliable, efficient training to natural gas company employees responsible for discovering problems in gas meters — something normally difficult given the many possible configurations and defects workers may need to tackle.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Toilet plungers as VR controllers. Every so often a VR experience comes along so ridiculously insane you’re not quite sure it actually exists. It starts with you reading the description, scrolling through a few comments and photos, and digging around in mild interest for any more information you can scrounge up. Next thing you know you’re frantically scouring your apartment for a couple of toilet plungers to screw Vive Trackers into so you can collect alien insects in deep space.

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Everything VR & AR

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

On this episode, we are joined by Charlie Rosenbury who is the Owner of Self Interactive. Self Interactive provides interactive development services ranging from websites to custom applications for startups, agencies and large corporations and the business is growing significantly in creating virtual reality & augmented reality experiences. We talk about the VR training platform that Self-Interactive has deployed with a major manufacturer and how it adapts into other verticals like healthcar

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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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Road to VR

JANUARY 30, 2018

Positron , a Los Angeles-based VR technology studio, announced at Sundance that it closed a $1.4 million seed funding deal to further develop the next generation of the company’s VR motion chair, Voyager. Funding was provided by Lazar Ventures co-founders Cathleen Ihasz and Nicole Ihasz, and OWC. Voyager was used at Sundance 2018 to debut the world premiere of Felix & Paul Studios’ space-themed VR experience made in collaboration with NASA, Space Explorers: A New Dawn.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

While it isn’t difficult to get excited about virtual reality, many people have not jumped onboard yet by setting themselves up with VR-capable hardware. Whether it is pricing (top of the line PC can cost thousands), availability or a knowledge gap (or a combination of either) that stands in the way, we can certainly help alleviate part of the challenge by providing you with a PC spec sheet build for a killer VR experience, all on a budget of around $1,000.

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VRScout

JANUARY 28, 2018

Tons of customization, multi-user support and attention to detail could make this one of the best content viewing applications for VR yet. Finding a VR experience to watch your favorite media on can be a daunting task. Sure there are plenty of official apps from Netflix , Hulu and other major players, but all of that treasured content doesn’t mean much if you’re watching it in an uncomfortable virtual theater.

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VR Spies

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Today I am taking a look at the new bow shooter from Sólfar Studios, “In Death” This is quite a different experience from Sólfar’s previous virtual tourism title Everest VR. As it is described on the games launch page, In Death lets you Battle through procedurally generated levels and dungeons in intense ranged combat coupled with a unique locomotion system perfectly attuned to your fighting style.

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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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