VRScout
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
‘Gnomes & Goblins’ will be released for the HTC Vive on September 8th. I’m standing in the middle of a dark wooded forest, surrounded by sprawling trees that tower overhead. Each tree is glowing a soft warm color from tiny candles that line the surface of the weathered trunks. Thats when I notice the modest windows and doors covering the side of the tree.
Road to VR
AUGUST 29, 2016
Jesus VR: The Story of Christ , an upcoming feature-length 360 film, is getting its first public preview at this year’s Venice Film Festival. Hailed as the world’s first ever feature length VR film production, the 90-minute movie depicts the life, works, and death of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus VR will be shown in the festival’s new VR theater, a space on the second floor of the Venice Casino that will house 50 VR headsets.
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Cats and VR
AUGUST 30, 2016
Damaged Core is a bold new first person shooter that puts you in control of a human-friendly AI, a premise heightened by the unique capabilities of virtual reality. Teleport into enemy robots and use their own weapons against them to reclaim the planet after a hostile machine uprising. I have been following the work of High Voltage software since Conduit 2 and I recently had the chance to play Damaged Core three weeks ago at High Voltages office right outside of Chicago.
VR Bites
AUGUST 29, 2016
On Gamescom I found a really interesting game that was made by two young developers for their graduation assignment: Filipe Simonette and Julie Baechtold. The game had a really nice concept. As a parent you watch over your young cubs and tell them what to eat and what not to eat by shaking you head. It is your task to learn the cubs distinguish food and danger.
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
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
This is the Call of Duty PlayStation VR experience that lets you feel what its like to pilot a personal fighter jet in space. Coming to PS4 later this year. Activision’s much anticipated Call of Duty XP event has returned Friday at the Forum stadium in Los Angeles. The second “non-annual” fan conference is expected to bring in huge crowds, all looking to get hands-on with new content from Modern Warfare Remastered , Black Ops III and Infinite Warfare.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Cats and VR
AUGUST 30, 2016
The idea for Squanchtendo was living in the brain of Justin Roiland for multiple years before the studio got properly started up. A gamer his whole life, he awoke to the idea of doing game design once he played with an Oculus DK2 headset. The possibilities of the technology and how it could be used for comedy combined with great gameplay was super exciting.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
Omelet and Smashbox Cosmetics invite you to go on a virtual tour of their fashion photography studio and check out some products while you’re there. You’re on set during a fashion shoot with models strewn on top of a convertible blasted with giant red lips. Now you’re transported to a conveyor belt catwalk with flashing cameras hitting from all sides.
Road to VR
AUGUST 29, 2016
The park is green, the mother behind me. She pushes my stroller perfectly straight; we glide across the pavement, green at either side. I face forward and listen to her voice, the only one audible in the park. On her cell she’s speaking about herself and me in the way one speaks about preverbal children in their presence: as though their presence and awareness flicker on and then off when the speaker addresses and then ceases addressing them.
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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.
Cats and VR
AUGUST 31, 2016
Steel Wool Studios – an independent VR development studio formed by creative veterans of Pixar Animation Studios, Lucasfilm, and Telltale Games – today announced that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding from HTC Corporation. The funding will support development of multiple medium-pushing VR projects already underway, which span game, simulation, and narrative-based concepts.
VR Bites
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
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VRScout
AUGUST 28, 2016
You’ll soon shop for your next outfit in VR. Not satisfied with disrupting China’s financial transaction industry, the Chinese Internet giant Alibaba now wants to enable consumers to purchase almost anything in VR with its new BUY+ service. Through its Alipay service, Alibaba has already captured over 70% of the mobile payments market in China enabling users to buy goods and services both online and in store.
Road to VR
AUGUST 31, 2016
Google, who has now has several major VR initiatives underway, notes major gains in interest in virtual reality and 360 degree video capture and sharing. The company is now prompting brands to consider what role VR will play in their marketing strategies. Google was one of the earliest major companies to jump into the modern virtual reality space, announcing their now well known Cardboard project back in June of 2014.
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.
Cats and VR
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
Guerrilla Cambridge breaks down Single Player Mode for RIGS Mechanized Combat League. Coming exclusively to PlayStation VR, RIGS Mechanized Combat League puts you in the pilot seat of an athletic fighting machine, battling for supremacy in the adrenaline-fuelled sport of the future. Though pushed as a multi player potential VR esport the game has a very in-depth career mode.
VR Bites
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
Kittypocalypse takes Tower Defense to Virtual Reality. Build tons of weapons on floating islands to repel waves of enemies! Do so successfully and save your home planet from utter destruction. Oh, and did I mention there were evil kittens? Check out RowdyGuy great YouTube-Channel for more VR Gameplay Video’s.
VRScout
AUGUST 31, 2016
Dance is a natural fit for a virtual reality setting, as it is theatric by nature, and movement does well to keep and guide viewer attention, something that is a current challenge within the VR content creation space. It’s surprising then that it has taken so long for a company to make a quality ballet-centric piece. Enter Night Fall , created by VR company &samhound in collaboration with Dutch National Ballet and Samsung, a piece that promises to immerse audiences in dance story.
Road to VR
AUGUST 27, 2016
Oculus says they could have shipped Touch alongside the launch of the Rift back in April, but explains why they’ve been biding their time. Despite delaying their Touch VR motion controller to the latter half of 2016, Oculus says the hardware could have gone out the door on day one. “It was possible for us to launch the first Touch device when we showed it, and everyone said ‘this is awesome,’ we could have shipped it,” said Jason Rubin, Head of Content at Oculus, sp
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.
Cats and VR
AUGUST 31, 2016
Acer and Starbreeze AB today announced at a global press conference in Berlin that they have started to ship StarVR® Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Displays (HMD) to IMAX Corporation in preparation for the highly anticipated opening of the IMAX VR® Center in Los Angeles, expected later this year, and others in the near future. Earlier in 2016, Acer committed to delivering a small volume of units of StarVR® HMDs this year with mass production of the devices to commence in 2017.
VR Bites
AUGUST 30, 2016
” IT’S FINALLY HERE! The very first episode of Vivecraft, our new Minecraft VR series! Join us as we attempt to survive in a perilous world, fighting monsters, hunger, and not trying to kill ourselves! All within the HTC Vive using the Vivecraft mod! Hi! My name is Austin Hooper, and I make virtual reality gaming videos! With my trusty Oculus Rift, GearVR, Razer Hydras, and many more VR gadgetry, I try to find the best and most compelling experiences to share with the world!
VRScout
AUGUST 30, 2016
He painted his proposal in virtual reality and let her reveal the question. Standing in a room with HTC Vive headset on and controllers in hand, Autumn began reading a love letter painted in virtual reality by her boyfriend. The hand-painted note ended with “I have something to ask you.”. Autumn then transported herself through a waterfall to reveal a mystical smoke filled room where she stood in front of a giant hand-painted heart and box with a bow resting on top.
Road to VR
AUGUST 30, 2016
Back toward the end of 2015, light field camera company Lytro announced a major turn toward the VR market with the introduction of ‘Immerge’, a light field camera made for capturing data which can be played back as VR video with positional tracking. Now the company is showing the first footage shot with the camera. Lytro has made point-and-shoot consumer light field cameras since 2012.
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?
Cats and VR
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
Virtual Reality company and development studio MyDream Interactive Inc. today announced the early access release of LightVR a multi-window computer interface for VR that lets users interface the Windows desktop, web apps, and games all from a fully customizable 360 VR space with multiple screens, 3D props, and environments. MyDream Interactive will be showcasing at booth VR3 during PAXWest.
VR Bites
AUGUST 29, 2016
Island 359 is literally crawling with Dinosaurs. But they chose me to do something about that. Armed to the teeth we fly in by chopper, ready to make some big bucks by selling Dinosaur heads. That is if I make it back alive… Currently in early access.
VRScout
AUGUST 29, 2016
The New Zealand Fire Service is testing fireproof 360 camera rigs that could one day save lives. House fires can be difficult for the average person to ever comprehend without experiencing one in person. The destructive force of a structure fire is fast and disorienting — making proper escape planning and preparation key. That’s why the New Zealand Fire Service is turning up the heat and testing some new 360° video camera rigs to help prepare citizens for a crisis situation and hopefully reduce
Road to VR
AUGUST 29, 2016
With the latest generation of NVIDIA GPUs, the company opted to stick what they say are desktop-equivalent cards into the next generation of gaming laptops, putting VR Ready performance into highly portable systems. How do they handle? Ritchie Djamhur takes the Asus GL502VS with GTX 1070 for a spin. Earlier this month Nvidia announced that their next generation GTX 10-series GPUs would find their way into a wide range of gaming notebooks from top manufacturers , and further that those GPUs would
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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