VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

11 filmmakers give us the 360° camera low down. As the founder of eevo , an interactive VR / 360º video company, I speak every day with filmmakers exploring the world of VR. They are hungry to learn more about creating interactive 360º video and spatial audio experiences. Whether for the sake of storytelling, real estate tours, medical content, art, or tourism, they often ask the same question: What 360º camera should I be using?

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 1, 2018

The crossover between fun and training might well bring about the killer VR app we’ve all been waiting for. “We live in a world where the entire history of mankind, and all its knowledge, is available through Google and other resources, yet the average adult spends only 5 minutes per day learning, compared to 50 minutes per day on Facebook and social media,” muses Tom Impallomeni, Co-founder and CEO of Tribe VR.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Volkswagen Group and VR studio Innoactive revealed the global, multi-brand automotive company is planning to train 10,000 employees this year alone using virtual reality. Volkswagen Group first deployed its Volkswagen Digital Reality Hub Group last year, a VR platform designed to help the company’s employees collaborate across the Audi, SEAT, ŠKODA and Volkswagen brands.

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VR Game Critic

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

March is here as a late freeze tightens its grip on the UK, though it won't be stopping us from preparing for some cozy VR evenings. We’ll be chillin' and takin’ it easy all day in 'Bravo Team' on the 6th to honour The Big Lebowski and The Day of The Dude day. we’ll be riding dinosaurs on the 22nd in 'ARK Park' and hopefully 'The American Dream' is more than a dream this month with its yet to be confirmed final date.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

4:33 Creative Lab announces Ghostbusters World, a Pokemon Go! style game for iOS and Android. . Right on the heels of Google’s recent ARCore update , comes an announcement by 4:33 Creative Labs: Ghostbusters World is a new AR game that will have you answering the call when there’s something strange in your neighborhood. The Ghostbusters World app – which will be available on iOS and Android devices – has you strapping on the famous Proton Pack to bust some of the more popular

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Road to VR

MARCH 2, 2018

According to Valve’s February Steam hardware and software survey, the Oculus Rift is now the most used VR headset on the Steam platform, taking the market share of VR headsets on Steam with a near 2% lead over its competitor HTC Vive. This is the first time Rift has surpassed Vive in Valve’s monthly survey. Each month, Valve runs the survey among Steam users to determine some baseline statistics about what kind of hardware and software is used by the user population, and to see h

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

FusionPlay just released its creative pet raising sim “Konrad the Kitten” for PlayStation VR, Oculus and Steam. Konrad the Kitten puts players in a colorful world and makes them care about a cute little virtual kitten. The game features a unique “Plushy-Mode” that brings a plush toy into the virtual world by attaching a VR controller on its back. CatsAndVR recently had the chance to interview Konrad Kunze, the creative mind behind Konrad the Kitten.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Explore the Nile in this immersive VR documentary released by the BBC’s new VR Hub. Currently, there is contention between Egypt and Ethiopia over the potential damming of the largest river in the world, the Nile River. BBC Africa correspondent Alastair Leithead even says this disagreement could potentially lead to a war over water. In his new two-part immersive documentary, Leithead explains that Ethiopia wants to build Africa’s largest hydroelectric power station and one of the worldR

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VR Game Critic

MARCH 1, 2018

Vastly unexplored and full of wonders – the world’s oceans have fascinated mankind throughout the ages. What better reason to equip your virtual diving googles and venture into the unknown! Dive to the bottom of the North Atlantic to investigate one of the most historic shipwrecks in Titanic VR, discover marine wildlife and search for the Great White in Operation Apex – or why not explore an alien ocean world and fight for your survival in Subnautica?

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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 28, 2018

Varjo, the Finland-based headset manufacturer, today announced the company’s upcoming high resolution VR headset will have AR pass-through capabilities powered by Socionext image signal processors. Varjo’s headset is basically taking what some consider a shortcut to retina resolution with its ‘bionic display’ – a technique that combines a high resolution microdisplay with a standard VR display to achieve higher detail.

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Cats and VR

MARCH 1, 2018

CGTrader has partnered with the Women in VR/AR Facebook group to bring more awareness of how women are represented in the 3D industry, and are calling on all designers to create and upload more female characters to CGTrader. According to the communications team at CGTrader there are almost 25% more male 3D models available for developers to use on the CGTrader platform.

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VRScout

MARCH 2, 2018

Courtroom visual aids are getting an immersive upgrade. Virtual reality can help us explore the Nile river , paint in a 3D space , or even get a quick workout from home. Now VR may also help us in one more area that actually makes a ton of sense—the courtroom. When it comes to showing a judge, jury, or witness what it’s like to be at the scene of an accident or crime—to see the incident as accurately as possible—VR may be just what legal professionals have been looking for.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 1, 2018

Immersive Reality Welcome Center. (Image courtesy Immersive Reality.). The Immersive Reality grid, founded in late 2014, will close at the end of April due to new regulations and a lack of interest, owner Bob Reite announced yesterday. Land and currency sales will cease immediately, but the grid’s free land offer will continue until the end of April, Reite told Hypergrid Business. “We are still letting people play with that until the day we close the grid.” Region owners will b

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Though both products were announced back at CES, HTC showed off the Vive Pro and the Vive Wireless adapter used together for the first time today at MWC 2018. Back at CES, we went hands on with the Vive Wireless Adapter and the original Vive headset , but the company wasn’t showing the Adapter in use with the newer, higher resolution Vive Pro.

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Cats and VR

MARCH 1, 2018

World famous virtual singer Hatsune Miku gets her own VR music game ! Degica Games launches the game on HTC Vive and Oculus on March 8th. You can also win a copy and a chance to see Hatsune Miku live.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Why? Why would someone bring this terrifying moment to life? Remember that famous scene from Gore Verbinski’s bone-chilling 2002 horror film The Ring ? You know, the one where the demonic and perpetually wet demon child Tabatha first crawls out of a fuzzy television monitor in a scene that would cement itself as one of the most infamous scenes in horror cinema.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

For charities like Greenpeace , increasing engagement is a top priority. Charities need donations and volunteers to function and without enough engagement, the organizations won’t have enough resources to accomplish its goals. While recognized charity powerhouses don’t need to worry too much about this worst-case scenario, it’s always good to get more people onboard.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Magic Leap One, the upcoming AR headset from one of the most well-funded startups in history, is said to arrive sometime this year. While no real specs are known about the headset outside of a few choice bits revealed during its unveiling back in December, one important factor that’s been largely unresolved is starting to slowly materialize despite the company’s insistence on complete secrecy: content.

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Everything VR & AR

MARCH 1, 2018

Harold Hayes Jr. is an award-winning Hollywood VR writer/creator who has done work with Disney, Warner Brothers, Universal, and 20th Century Fox. As the creator of the VR experiences for The Greatest Showman (with a second experience soon to release), IT , Annabelle and The Conjuring , Hayes is helping to forge the future of entertainment. We focus our discussion on the entertainment industry’s lack of diversity, and the opportunities that come from adding diversity into the culture of entertain

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VRScout

MARCH 1, 2018

Free-to-play gaming is, for better or worse, big business. The idea is to get you in for free and then entice you with in-game power-ups, cosmetics, and upgrades that you can purchase with in-game currency. You can earn these digital dollars or, of course, you can always buy some with real world cash. Free-to-play business models exist in games on all platforms including mobile, console, PC and now virtual reality as well.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

At the 2018 Toy Fair, Mattel showed off a new augmented reality app that works with its Hot Wheels toys. Specifically, the application renders real-time 3D models of Hot Wheels Cities playsets when you aim your camera at their boxes in stores. The rendering shows the fully-assembled set, and you can even press a “Try Me!” button onscreen to send a virtual Hot Wheels car through the track.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

This year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona is underway, and while the event’s main focus is inevitably on the newest batch of smartphones to hit the market this year, VR’s presence can definitely be felt. Visiting HTC’s booth, we got a chance to see the newer Vive Tracker in action with Valve’s 2.0 SteamVR Tracking system.

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Immersive Authority

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

I am sold on the idea of blockchain technologies be employed to operate as a decentralised database to record data, where multiple people with incentives [.]. The post Blockchain and Gaming: MMORPG’s appeared first on Immersive Authority.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The HTC Vive is arguably the most popular high-end VR headset on the planet. Now, Vive is trying to do for VR software what it did for VR hardware through its software subscription service known as Viveport. – Viveport is Vive’s online game and experience store. With Viveport Subscription , users can select up to 5 titles every month (from a curated list) to download and use free of charge.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

2017 has been a busy one for VR/AR teams at Google, with company’s continued push into the space with Google Cardboard, AR for Pixel phones and, most recently, ARCore framework. The latter was announced mid-2017, and after all of this time in development, ARCore is finally ready to start shipping to developers and manufacturers. The framework will allow developers to more easily develop augmented reality applications for supported Android phones.

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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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