VRScout
JULY 7, 2016
This artist is showing us the future of creativity with virtual sculpting. When we first tried Oculus’ new tool Medium at Connect last Fall, we were blown away by how intuitive and natural sculpting in VR could be. The sculpting system uses the company’s Touch hand controllers, giving you full control to create whatever you can dream up of. And its amazing.
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JULY 6, 2016
Reach into the front sleeve of the Beatles’ White Album (1968), and you’ll find four glossy, high-quality prints—portraits of the late George Harrison and John Lennon, as well as those of Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. They are the sort of photographs you might see on the cover of a late-’60s issue of Rolling Stone ; in fact, two of them can be found on the John Lennon and Paul McCartney special collector’s editions of the magazine from 2012 and ’13, respectively.
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VR Bites
JULY 3, 2016
Walk the streets of River Round in the skin of an authentic news camera. Make your story, records and first-person survives with Susan and Dan to unexpected dangers that await in this short virtual adventures. WP-Appbox: Recorder VR (0,99 €, Google Play) →.
Road to VR
JULY 2, 2016
Standing in the lobby for thirty minutes, watching the crowd lumber by in the distinctive mode of Times Square tourists, overlain with the Ghostbusters theme (endlessly looped), I thought, without any special vigor, about where I was, and why I was there. I wondered: what justification does The VOID have for coining the term ‘hyper-reality’, and why has their platform been deployed in Madame Tussaud’s, a venue known for it’s life-like wax replicas of celebrities?
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
JULY 3, 2016
2 Spooky 4 Me. I was skeptical. I had heard incredible things about The Void , a custom ‘hyper reality’ experience that takes VR to the next level by incorporating real-life objects to interact with in-game. But would this temporary New York City version be just a cheesy-knockoff of the real facility in Utah? Just a lame marketing ploy to get people excited for the Ghostbusters reboot?
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Cats and VR
JULY 6, 2016
If you look at old rock concerts, you’ll see these HUGE synthesizers that the musicians connect together to make electronic sounds. These instruments are literally enveloping the player. SoundStage attempts to capture the feel of those epic music machines then take it to the next level with tools only possible in a virtual environment. All in a world inspired by the airbrush paintings and computer graphics of the 80s.
Road to VR
JULY 6, 2016
This is SoundStage , from solo developer Logan Olson, a VR application that aims to let musicians build their own dream music studio, allowing them to play, record and mix from within VR on the HTC Vive. Being a musician can be an expensive, space consuming activity one in which your ultimate creative ideals may well be limited by your budget and access to studio equipment.
VRScout
JULY 7, 2016
And I think I liked it. I pushed my way through the main hall entrance doors and began walking up aisles of vendors showcasing the latest in merchandise straight from Japan. Breezing past booth after booth selling anime, cosplay goods and fashion items – something caught my eye and I stopped dead in my tracks. I stood in front of a booth designed to look like the inside of a traditional Japanese style tatami room.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 4, 2016
It was over 50 years ago now that 60,000 lucky fans got to witness the fab four themselves, The Beatles, play a legendary gig at the now-demolished Shea Stadium in New York City. Today, you can live that experience for yourself. The post New Beatles VR Experience Lets You Attend Fab Four’s Iconic Shea Stadium Show appeared first on UploadVR.
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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
JULY 6, 2016
On this day in history, Paul McCartney met John Lennon. Hear about The Beatles’ Early Days in this 360° video from JauntVR. An emotional journey with Paul through Early Days and the formation of The Beatles. A visual and aural landscape of light, sound, and a few kids from Liverpool. Directed by Tony Kaye. Soundscape by Geoff Emerick. Check out more from Paul McCartney provided by J auntVR.
Road to VR
JULY 5, 2016
While Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland has been known to be working on various VR projects, San Diego Comic-Con 2016 could see the debut of the first such experience that’s actually based on the popular IP. Additionally, an American Horror Story and The Man in the High Castle VR experiences will be featured during SDCC 2016. Spotted by eagle-eyed reader Lenny Glionna in a post on Toucan , the official Comic-Con blog, was mention of a Rick and Morty Virtual Reality experience hea
VRScout
JULY 6, 2016
As the virtual reality industry begins to take hold, new innovations in fashionable smart glasses are appearing within view. In parallel with the immersive VR headsets that are now flooding the market, several startups are focusing their attention on the augmented end of the spectrum. Among those gaining traction is the eyewear company Laforge Optical who plans to release their alpha version by the end of 2016.
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JULY 3, 2016
With any luck, VR filmmaking is going to bring about a new generation of talent. A fresh wave creativity and energy is exactly what the medium will need to stand out from traditional films. The post 7 Great Directors We Want to Make Awesome VR Movies appeared first on UploadVR.
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
JULY 8, 2016
Elite Dangerous Arena will be completely free on Steam and the Frontier Store this weekend. If you purchase a copy of Arena between now and 6PM BST on Monday July 11 you won’t be charged a thing, and you’ll retain access to the game even after the deal ends. Steam Link: [link] . Elite Dangerous: Arena has native HTC Vive and Oculus Rift support through Steam.
Road to VR
JULY 6, 2016
Apple has just been granted another AR/VR related technology patent, to add to their growing list. In this case it’s a transparent, high field of view display which looks to be aimed at the augmented reality sector and, alongside other mounting evidence, could indicate Apple is preparing to enter the immersive technology race sooner rather than later.
VRScout
JULY 5, 2016
You may one day ride the Incredible Hulk roller coaster in virtual reality. In advance of Universal Orlando re-opening their much anticipated and redesigned Incredible Hulk roller coaster this Summer, the resort has been quietly testing a VR experience with guests willing to take a survey. Originally reported by Orlando Informer , the VR experience began testing last week only with Universal employees.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 7, 2016
The post Hands-On: ‘Envelop VR’ And How It Differs From ‘Virtual Desktop’ and ‘BigScreen’ appeared first on UploadVR.
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
JULY 7, 2016
HapticWave, an Oculus research project, uses a metal plate on a ring of electromagnet actuators to send vibrations to your hand to let you feel virtual objects. A headset and audio help the illusion along, says Ravish Mehra, a research scientist at Oculus. With this tech, your hand would stand in for your entire body, says Ravish Mehra, a research scientist at Oculus.
Road to VR
JULY 4, 2016
Eva Hoerth is a VR design researcher & community organizer, and she enjoys recording videos of people as they’re immersed within a VR experience. She shot a video of of her co-worker in VR trying out the latest Leap Motion Orion update, and tweeted it out saying “This is the future.” It went viral with over 5000 retweets, 5 million views on Imgur , it hit the front-page of Reddit, and amassed nearly half a million views on YouTube.
VRScout
JULY 6, 2016
Samsung’s VR experiment is showing results for people suffering from arachnophobia in just three hours. The Nordic division of Samsung has been investigating what people in the region fear the most. To no surprise at all, one of the biggest fears identified in their survey was the fear of spiders. The survey also showed that two out of three with an irrational fear felt restricted in their everyday life.
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JULY 8, 2016
The post ‘Pokemon GO’ is So Popular Businesses Are Posting Warning Signs appeared first on UploadVR.
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
JULY 7, 2016
Virtuix are forming a joint venture with Hero Entertainment, a billion-dollar, publicly listed Chinese game publisher and developer of Crisis Action, the most popular mobile first-person shooter game in China with more than 400 million players. Hero is partnering with Virtuix to convert Crisis Action to VR gameplay with the Omni, and to create other VR content and product bundles for both the U.S. and China markets.
Road to VR
JULY 7, 2016
VR Funhouse, Nvidia’s physics sandbox revealed alongside the GeForce GTX 1080 in May, is coming to Steam this month for free. Nvidia is keeping mum on exact release dates for now. See Also: Hands-on: ‘VR Funhouse’ Brings NVIDIA’s Most Advanced Physics Into VR. The suite of HTC Vive-compatible mini-games primarily acts as a showcase for the company’s GPU-based physics systems, wrapping in a number of visual effects available through the GamesWorks SDK.
VRScout
JULY 5, 2016
This VR tennis experience is taking over Waterloo Station. Jaguar has created a Wimbledon VR experience with their newest UK ambassador, Andy Murray. As part of the brand’s #FeelWimbledon campaign, Jaguar is bringing fans closer to the emotions of the The Championships with their latest Waterloo Station installation and distribution of Cardboard headsets at showrooms and Wimbledon grounds.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 5, 2016
While the Rift and Vive VR headsets are similar in many ways, they differ in one critical aspect. The headsets use dramatically different tracking systems. The post This Ridiculous Rig Turns The Rift Wireless Using Kids Toys (UPDATE) appeared first on UploadVR.
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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