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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

A neurosurgeon planning to carry out the first human head transplant has revealed just how they will prepare the patient for life in a new body. Professor Sergio Canavero wants to carry out the operation next year and believes VR can offer the patient their first experience of a new body. The hope is that those who are paralyzed from the neck down will be able to walk again, but with a successful transplant, there may unexpected psychological reactions to putting someone’s head onto someone else

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The global construction market will hit $10.3 trillion in 2020, and it’s a field where mistakes are costly: rework typically makes up 12 percent of project costs, reaching tens of millions of dollars on big projects. But augmented reality can change that, which is why construction is one of the first industries starting to explore the use of AR in day-to-day work.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2016

The launch of Oculus Touch is just around the corner, and while the company says there’s a day-one launch lineup of more than 50 titles , your Touch pre-order will grant you access to at least seven pieces of free made-for-Touch content. Much ado has been made of the two games bundled with Oculus Touch pre-orders, but you’ll actually unlock seven solid pieces of free content if you pre-order Touch (or five without pre-orders) which will keep you busy for a while before you start drop

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NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Happy Thanksgiving to all the people who have helped me out and supported me this year in life, especially on the gaming and VR side. Lets take this time to think about how we can give back and give thanks. A bunch of indie video game creators have done that and are sharing their works to combat some of the ugliness in our world. For between $2-$20 dollars you can get up 151 indie video games with 100% of the proceeds from this bundle will be split 50-50 between the ACLU ( American Civil Liberti

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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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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Doctors and parents are getting a new perspective of babies in the womb thanks to VR. For years, expecting parents have been making the most out of blurry ultrasound photos in anticipation of meeting their unborn child. Luckily with new research, that might all change with the ability to meet your baby in virtual reality. 3D virtual model MRI view of fetus at 26 weeks.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2016

In perhaps the best Rift bundle we’ve seen yet, you can pick up a VR Ready PC and Oculus Rift headset for $999 today only , plus $160 in games and store credit. According to the deal page on Amazon , you’ll save $300 in this bundle which is said to be available today only and “while supplies last” The page breaks down the costs as follows: List.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

2K today announced NBA® 2KVR Experience , the first virtual reality basketball game immersing players in a new, entertaining NBA environment filled with the sights and sounds of fun mini-games and challenges. Available beginning on November 22 on PlayStation®VR, HTC Vive ™, and Samsung Gear VR, the new experience continues the dominance of the NBA 2K series.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Picking a camera or lens can be scary. Canon is using VR to make that a little easier. Over the past year VR has proven itself more than just a gaming device. Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets are being used in incredible fields for various purposes from medicine and psychology, to art and design. It’s astonishing to see the wildly creative applications people have found for VR.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2016

Facebook acquired face recognition technology provider FacioMetrics to beef up the social network giant’s photo and video capabilities. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. FacioMetrics spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 2015 as a response to market demand surrounding use of facial image analysis. The company produced facial behavior and demographic tools for developers, using video.

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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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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In the company’s most recent earnings call, HTC confirmed it’s making a profit on each Vive headset sold, and that the company has sold “much more” than a widely reported 140,000 units. Following recent financial troubles from the tumbling smartphone portion of the company’s business, HTC points readily to their relatively new VR business as a beacon toward recovery and eventual growth.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Today, most virtual reality avatars are very basic, cartoony figures, with a limited range of motions and expressions.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Look out Tilt Brush. There’s a new VR art tool in town. I think it’s pretty safe to say Adobe is the undisputed king of software for the creative arts. From photo manipulation and video editing, to illustration and animation the company is the number one go-to for anyone looking to create, well, anything. So it came as no surprise to hear that they’re finally taking the leap into virtual reality with Project Dali for the HTC Vive.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2016

It’s encouraging to see bigger brands tackle VR like the actual NBA with their NBA 2KVR Experience, but the new release gets completely outshined by a game obviously better-built for virtual reality even in early access: Nothin’ But Net. Also this week you get to become the beast in your favorite monster movies in King Kaiju and shoot/dodge your way through a fun Vive rail-shooter in The Torus Syndicate.

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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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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In a compatibility test application from recent Windows 10 test builds, Microsoft has revealed some minimum specs for Windows Holographic, the Windows 10 interface and platform for VR and AR devices which will include inexpensive headsets from big manufacturers. Spotted by The Verge , the ‘Windows Holographic First Run’ application seems to reveal some surprisingly low minimum requirements for AR and VR on Windows compared to what we would call a ‘VR ready’ computer today

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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Valve added support for the Open Source Virtual Reality headset from Razer. Games that support the platform, now have an icon next to their name. OSVR is the third VR platform supported by Steam after the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. The company announced 32 games that work with the platform, but when in the Steam Store is sorted games with OSVR support, there will be much more forward.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

We all need a break from the crazy reality we live in today. So why not take a step into a virtual world to relax and get away from all your worries? We’ve hand picked some of favorite meditative VR experiences out there available on a variety of headsets. Enjoy and namaste. Lumen – Framestore Inc. “De-stress in a bioluminescent forest with this interactive virtual reality experience.”.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

While VR developers are busy working away on their projects, trying to deliver that mythical killer-app that everyone keeps talking about, modders are delivering updates to existing games that bring us all one step closer to the fully-immersive AAA game industry we’ve all been searching for. Earlier today we published a story reminiscing about Alien Isolation on old Oculus hardware and now we’ve caught wind of a project that has actually gotten DOOM 3: BFG Edition to run on the HTC V

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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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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Launching later this year on Rift, Gear VR, and Vive, music VR platform MelodyVR is previewing a light version of its app across some 600 O2 stores in Germany in partnership with Telefónica. 42 of those stores will allow visitors to try the app on Samsung Gear VR headsets, where they can enjoy vantage points on concerts from the likes of Kygo, The Who, and the London Symphony Orchestra.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Search marketers can now use Google’s VR View, Street View and Cardboard Camera apps to capture, upload and optimize 360 degree videos, virtual reality videos and images for better and easier visibility on search engines...

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Delusion immersive theater experience announces partnership with Skybound Entertainment for new VR series. Immersive theater has become extremely popular in the last few years, particularly in New York and Los Angeles. Rather than plunking an audience down in front of a stage, immersive theater invites guests to become the protagonists, often requiring them to walk, crawl and maneuver through sprawling sets and interact verbally and sometimes physically with actors.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Children’s books are a very high-demand and lucrative industry. Bright, strong, and high-personality visuals combine with inventive and inspiring stories to capture the imaginations of children of all ages and origins. Dr. Seuss may be one of the most prolific authors, with his iconic visual style and hilarious rhymes, but I have strong memories of all kinds of children’s books from when I was younger.

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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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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The latest Compatibility Definition Document for Android includes a new section specifying what’s required from a ‘Daydream-ready’ phone. Daydream VR is Google’s new high-end mobile VR platform, built directly into Android, but it only works with specially designed phones. For every major release of the Android platform, all the way back to 2009’s ‘Donut’ (1.6), Google provides a Compatibility Definition Document (CDD), which must be strictly adhered to.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Press release: Registration is now open for the 4th annual OpenSimulator Community Conference AvaCon is pleased to announce the third annual OpenSimulator Community Conference, to take place virtually on the OpenSimulator Conference Center grid on December 10 and 11, 2016.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2016

Located in the heart of Philadelphia, The Franklin Institute is a leader in science and technology learning through hands-on exhibits, theaters and live shows. So what better way to transform the way visitors engage with the museum than by immersing them in unique content in virtual reality. This is the museum’s first time utilizing VR as an educational initiative and is also one of the larger VR presences we’ve seen at a museum.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Microsoft has been a shadow player in the virtual reality arms race since it officially kicked off on March 28, 2016. On that date the Oculus Rift launched in each and every box was a Microsoft manufactured Xbox One controller. When the HTC Vive launched a week later, Microsoft now had two HMDs that were soaring toward both their new owners, and their new homes on a Windows-powered personal computer.

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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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