VRScout

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Your chance to go pro in energy dodgeball has finally arrived. Like many of you, I too have long dreamt of teaming up with friends to throw glowing balls of plasma at my enemies in a heated match of augmented reality dodgeball. After all, if 90’s movies have taught us anything it’s that the future of sports is basically replacing balls with lasers. Now it appears that future has finally arrived as the HADO WORLD CUP AR eSports tournament is finally making its way stateside.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

As Netflix’s onslaught of original programming continues, one of the next targets in its sights is the popular VR-themed anime Sword Art Online. Altered Carbon creator Laeta Kalogridis has confirmed her involvement as executive producer on the project. Speaking recently with Collider , Laeta Kalogridis, the creator behind Altered Carbon’s own novel-to-Netflix treatment, confirmed that a live action adaptation of the Sword Art Online anime is coming to Netflix.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

How medical visualization tools enhance learning by reducing the cognitive load on our brains. Immersive learning technologies are proliferating fast and also growing in popularity, being used not only for entertainment but also in a variety of professional applications. immersive learning tools provide superior capabilities because they reduce the cognitive load on the learner, and more accurately represent these systems as they truly are Click To Tweet.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Moss is an adorable adventure game puts you in a fantasy world, aiding a courageous mouse on her journey through bright forests and damp caves. Many have become captivated by this upcoming cute PSVR title since it was revealed at E3 2017. Though Moss is the first title Polyarc is releasing as a studio, the team has years of experience and Moss looks to be a real work of heart.

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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 10, 2018

Facebook’s Quill tool now lets you animate in VR. Facebook’s own VR artistry experience, known as Quill , just got a major update that brings simple, but powerful animation tools to the platform. Quill update 1.4 brings “animated paint layers” and an “animation clip panel,” as well as “animated brush settings to control how strokes are drawn while clips are playing.” What this means for those of us that didn’t go to CalArts is that Quill now

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The New York Times unveils its new AR experience for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games. The NYT just debuted its first augmented reality experience: a preview piece for the Winter Olympics, enabling readers to meet world-class Olympic athletes–including figure skater Nathan Chen, big air snowboarder Anna Gasser and short track speed skater J.R.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In Stunt Corgi you are the parent of one daring corgi that dreams of being the most famous stunt pet in the world! With your inventory of props, set up the course and choreograph your corgi's routine. Call “Action!” at any time to capture each moment as your corgi struts her stuff. To celebrate the Year Of The Dog the team is adding a new skin, a new feature, and some bug fixes.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Hailing from 26 countries across the world, people came together in virtual reality to cheer on these top female founders in the XR industry. An orange robot head whizzes by me, powered by a propellor hat and gestures with floating mechanical arms. It settles in next to another bot by the stage. Although this second bot has no eyes, it seems like the two know each other, immediately trading heart emojis and high fives.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

According to documents filed last month with SEC, a new stock issuance of some $10 million by OLED microdisplay maker eMagin will be bought up by Apple, Valve, and LG, among others. Founded in 1993, Emagin is a producer of OLED microdisplays which have seen deployments in military, medical, industrial, and other sectors. With the rise of AR and VR in the consumer market, Emagin has recently marketed their display technology toward companies building consumer headsets.

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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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EON Reality

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Augmented and Virtual Reality are some of the fastest growing sectors of our economy. These technologies are spreading far beyond the gaming world and into business and education, where its being used to train employees and better educate students. Find out how you can get started on an exciting career and earn an accredited certificate. START DATE: JUNE 4, 2018.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Virtual pet simulator, Konrad the Kitten, will be launched on PlayStation VR on February 23rd. Currently the game is on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive in Early Access. Konrad the Kitten is a virtual reality cat tamagotchi game in which you satisfy Konrad's needs and desires, play mini-games full of action, and unlock more than 50 accessories! A particular highlight for all cat fans is the unique plush toy mode.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

One of the VR/AR world’s very few “unicorns” just announced its first major content partnership with the National Basketball Association. The Florida-based Magic Leap has raised $1.9 billion from heavy hitters like Google Ventures and the Alibaba Research group. Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz revealed in an interview last night at the Code Media conference that the recently unveiled Magic Leap One headset will be have an application for watching basketball.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

VR-based vision therapy company Vivid Vision announced today that it has secured the EU’s regulatory CE Mark, which certifies that the product conforms to the region’s relevant health, safety, and environmental protection standards. Following the certification, the company is expanding its offering into Europe, with Asia next on the roadmap.

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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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AllThingsVR

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

These portals to Elon Musk’s space Tesla and ‘Rick and Morty’ are going viral on Snapchat via @mashable [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) February 10, 2018.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Starting on February 16th, NBA fans will be able to get their All-Star coverage live and in VR through the NBA on TNT VR app. Through a partnership with Intel, TNT is bringing live and on-demand VR coverage of NBA All-Star events to Gear VR and Daydream headsets. The coverage kicks off on Friday, Feb. 16 with the 2018 Mtn Dew Kickstart Rising Stars at 9:00 p.m.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Microsoft AR technology could make Batman’s advanced crime-fighting headpiece a reality. Ok so the last couple of films to feature everyone’s favorite bat-themed vigilante superhero haven’t exactly blown audiences or critics away. However despite some questionable decisions regarding the script, there’s no denying that this most recent Dark Knight is one of the coolest iterations we’ve seen.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Chialin Chang, HTC’s President of Smartphone and Connected Devices Business, has made his resignation official, reportedly bringing with it a melding of the company’s smartphone and VR divisions—a move that possibly points to the HTC putting greater focus on VR in the face of the company’s waning smartphone business. Update (12:25 ET) : We’ve reached out to HTC and are waiting on further confirmation.

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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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AllThingsVR

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This Snapchat AR Portal Takes You To Space With Starman Since its release on Thursday, Elon Musk’s Tesla and pilot Starman have garnered hundreds of thousands of views on the platform. SVRF’s inspiration to make the portal came from the breathtaking images of Elon Musk’s Starman circling the earth in his Tesla Roadster. “We wanted to be Starman, to see and feel that beautiful immersive view of Earth and space,” said SVRF CEO, Sophia Dominguez.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Virtro Entertainment – the female-led VR indie game studio out of Vancouver, Canada, today announced that Run Dorothy Run – an immersive endless-runner and rhythm VR game, with a cheeky take on the classic novel, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." will be available on February 20th. The game is being released first on Sony PlayStation VR with other platforms to follow shortly after.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Snapchat lens portals are racking up the views. Back in December, Snapchat released a new tool that let anyone create their own custom lenses. Similar to the internal app that Snap uses to build lenses for Snapchat, Lens Studio gives the rest of us the same power to design and build AR experiences ourselves. Considering there are some 70 million users a day who interact with lenses, it was only a matter of time before we started seeing some really creative uses of AR lenses.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Gravity Sketch , a concepting & design tool made for VR, has raised $1.7 million in venture capital. Gravity Sketch , which allows VR users to quickly and easily sketch out 3D industrial design concepts, today announced that the company has raised a $1.7 million seed investment, according to UKTN. The seed round was led by VC firm Forward Partners, with participation by Super Ventures and Wacom.

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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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AllThingsVR

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

New Snapchat lenses take you to Elon Musk’s space Tesla, ‘Rick and Morty’ A new Snapchat lens appears as a portal to space. Users can enter, see Starman, and walk right back out. That lens is just one of the latest products out of SVRF , a tech startup vying to be the best search engine for immersive content like augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

[ Editor’s note: Timothy Rogers has been a valued member of the OpenSim community since he launched SoftPaw Estates back in 2012. That evolved into the Zetamex OpenSim hosting company, which has been ranked as one of the top hosting providers since 2013 in our annual reader surveys and is the company behind the ZetaWorlds grid. He has also contributed code and technical help to the OpenSim community, and also hosts the Zadaroo website and a complete collection of Linda Kellie OARs and oth

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Have you ever wanted to become genius billionaire Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, and zip through the world in an armored suit only to battle baddies, defend cities, and face off against fierce villains to save the world? Now becoming Iron Man is closer than ever. Coming this Spring for $50, Hasbro is releasing the Hero Vision Iron Man AR Experience, an augmented reality physical and digital play experience that transforms kids into Iron Man as well as bringing their favorite Marvel Universe character

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Ready Player One , the 2011 novel by Ernest Cline, is getting turned into a movie by none other than Steven Spielberg, who is directing the film. As the movie’s March 2018 release date approaches, a new trailer, ‘Come With Me’ debuted today. Ready Player One follows the story of Wade Watts, an orphan whose life is centered around a virtual reality metaverse called Oasis.

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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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