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KLM Gives Budget Travelers a First-Class VR Upgrade

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KLM distributed VR headsets to budget airline passengers of other airlines so they could feel like they were flying KLM. Luxury airline Royal Dutch Airlines, or KLM, recently launched a new PR campaign called the KLM Flight Upgrader , which allows budget airline passengers to experience a first-class KLM flight right from their seat in coach. KLM distributed cardboard VR headsets bearing the label, “Do not disturb, pretending to fly KLM” to passengers on competing airlines and invited them to

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TPCAST Announces Wireless Adapter for Oculus Rift, Arriving Q4 2017

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TPCAST , the company known for creating a wireless adapter for HTC Vive, announced that they’ll be delivering a device that supports the Oculus Rift by the end of the year. If you own a PC VR headset (aka ‘tethered’), you’ve probably already mastered the strange dance you have to do to untangle the cable during room-scale gameplay.

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Oculus Connect Spotlight: Improving Accessibility Across the Metaverse

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If we want to make VR available to everyone, accessibility needs to be at the center of the development process. At OC4 Speakers from D.A.G.E.R. System and ILMxLAB discussed some best practices to create accessible content for more people around the world. I am sharing a few of the insights and resources that were presented in the hope we as the architects of the VR ecosystem can help to grow the platform to be as inclusive as possible.

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2017 OpenSim grids survey

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Each year, we ask our readers to rate their home grids. It’s a way to show off the best that OpenSim has to offer. Even though we only list the top 15 grids by traffic as default options, respondents can also write in the name of any other grid — in fact, each year there is usually at least one write-in grid that does extremely well in the results.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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This VR Experience is Powered By Positive Thinking

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Positivity Moves The World brings brain-controlled interface technology to the GearVR via a headband. There’s no shortage of bizarre control schemes for VR experiences these days. After all, developers are still experimenting with various methods they hope will become the standard. So it comes as no surprise that we have some truly unique options popping up almost every week.

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Felix & Paul Studios and Just For Laughs Launch “The Confessional” VR Comedy Series on YouTube and Daydream featuring comedians like Trevor Noah

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Felix & Paul Studios, the EMMY® award-winning creator of cinematic virtual reality experiences, and Just For Laughs, producer of the world’s largest comedy festival, today announced the launch of “The Confessional”, a seven-episode virtual reality comedy series available on Daydream, Google’s mobile VR platform, and YouTube. “The Confessional” features leading comedians and YouTube stars, including Lilly Singh, Trevor Noah, Judd Apatow, Howie Mandel, Jim Norton, Moshe Kasher, Natasha Leggero

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Samsung 360 Round has 17 lenses and captures 4K 3D streaming video

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Samsung 360 Round was revealed this week at the Samsung Developer Conference 2017 for enthusiasts and specialists in the 3D content field (for VR). That’s a fairly broad field, as it were – everything from extreme sports recording to live news broadcasting. As such, this newest 360 camera from Samsung is made to capture the most amazing spherical video a … Continue reading.

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Location-Based VR Horror Experiences With DarkCorner

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Real-world interactive elements bring immersive horror to new levels. There’s a reason the horror genre is so popular among VR developers and 360° video creators. The immersive technology pairs perfectly with the frightening medium, enhancing the atmosphere and jump scares ten-fold. So when an already horrifying VR experience adds interactive physical enhancements to the mix you can be sure things are going to get a bit horrifying real quick.

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Acer Windows VR Headset Review

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Microsoft’s ‘Windows Mixed Reality’ platform has finally landed and the first batch of supported VR headsets are hitting the streets. I toured around the new Windows Fall Creators Update—which builds AR and VR support deep into the OS—with the Acer Mixed Reality Headset. As usual, we’ll start with a general summary up top, and then expand into a deep dive further down.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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Transference from Elijah Wood's VR company SpectreVision is giving me nightmares.

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"We want you take off the gear and still feel unsettled." -Lisa Whalen CEO of SpectreVision I would say that Lisa Whalen is just doing her best to hype up the upcoming SpectreVision psychological horror title but then the nightmares keep coming back. Never has a game demo seeped into my psyche so much that I now dream using they layouts and elements presented in the demo.

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OpenSim land area drops due to grid changes

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The total land area of the public OpenSim grids fell by more than 1,000 regions this month as ZanGrid shut down and Genesis Metaverse moved its hosting. Total active users numbers continued to rise, however, with about 2,000 new actives. Zangrid , which had 439 regions as of last month, is closing at the end of this month while Genesis Metaverse , which had 1,148 regions last month, went offline for more than a week as it changed hosting from DigiWorldz to its own servers.

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Oculus Santa Cruz Headset Prototype is the Future of Wireless VR

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An Oculus Rift without wires is the best thing ever. Among the slew of updates that came out of Oculus Connect 4, everything from new updates to Rift software and Facebook Spaces upgrades, there were two devices we hoped to get our heads in—the Oculus Go and Oculus Santa Cruz headset. The newly announced $199 Oculus Go standalone headset was a huge surprise, a clear aim by Oculus to hit a larger goal of getting one billion consumers into VR.

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Oculus Adds 8 New Experimental Locomotion Methods to SDK

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Following a two-part blog series in partnership with Crytek , where the studio shared some of its research into VR locomotion comfort , Oculus has now added 8 new experimental locomotion methods to the SDK. A recent entry on the official Oculus blog provides an introduction to the techniques. Oculus encourages developers to explore the experimental locomotion options, noting that certain techniques that appear to detract from immersion don’t necessarily result in reducing the impact or enjoyment

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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Do cybercats dream of digital sushi? Ganbatte, a Multiplayer Cat VR Sushi Eating Game looks to answer this

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Eating sushi can be a very social activity, but did you know it can also be competitive? Soon, gamers will be able to eat sushi in the social multiplayer VR game Ganbatte, currently being developed by Mimicry. In Ganbatte, up to 4 players take up the role of cats and challenge each other at a conveyor belt sushi spaceship restaurant in order to eat as much as possible.

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Tangle’s Halloween Expo starts today

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Tangle Grid Welcome Center. (Image courtesy David Kariuki.). Tangle Grid is hosting the Halloween Expo starting this Sunday, October 15 at the Expo Isle region where different creators from all around OpenSim will come show off, sell and promote their Halloween-related items to visitors. It will be the fourth time that the grid is running the event, which will continue through November 19.

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Interview: Composing Music For VR With Jeremy Tisser

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Jeremy Tisser, the creator of the soundtrack to Raw Data , shares his experience creating music for VR. How do you captivate an audience? Some of the more obvious responses are stunning visuals, an engrossing storyline or relatable characters. However one of the most powerful tools for capturing a viewer’s attention often goes overlooked by the masses: Music.

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Magic Leap Raises Another $502 Million, Now Totalling Nearly $2 Billion in Funding

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Rumors from back in September of Magic Leap raising a Series D investment were confirmed today as the company revealed an additional $502 million in venture funding, led by a Singaporean investment firm Temasek, with participation from strategic and financial investors. The latest investment in the secretive augmented reality company comes in the form of a brief press release posted to the company’s website.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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The whimsical VR game LUNA is a beautifully crafted calming experience that will make you feel like a child with their first toy.

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LUNA IS A WHIMSICAL FABLE THAT TAKES PLACE IN A STAR TANGLED GALAXY WHERE A YOUNG BIRD MUST MAKE ITS WAY HOME. I had my first hands on experience with Luna at OC4 and was blown away by the charm of its gameplay as well as the way the game made me felt calm. My demo was a bit interesting, I had just finished demoing the PTSD Psychological Horror game Transference and really needed a change of pace as Transference is quite literally a mind warping twisted experience.

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Things to do in-world this Halloween season

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There is a lot you can do or a lot of places you can travel to in world this Halloween festive period with many OpenSim grids running Halloween-related events such as hunts and parties, some grids having Halloween related islands and regions where they are celebrating OpenSim builds and hosting build contests and expos, and still others offering costumes customized for the Halloween.

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The New Google Daydream View VR Headset Has Arrived

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It’s the small changes that will make you stay in VR longer. At first glance, the second generation of Google’s Daydream View VR headset may not look much different. Available in stores today and coinciding with the release of Google’s Pixel 2 phone, Daydream View is an improvement—but you’re probably not going to notice until you actually put it on.

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Valve Says New Calibration Software Makes Lower-Cost LCD Panels Viable for High-End VR

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New SteamVR optical technologies now available to VR hardware manufacturers includes the use of both LCD and OLED custom panels. According to the press release provided to Road to VR , Valve’s work with display manufacturers and recent advancements in LCD technology combined with VR-specific calibration “now make it a viable technology choice for high end VR systems.”.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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Oculus Connect Impressions: Dispatch from Here Be Dragons

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Oculus Connect is perhaps my favorite VR event as it seems to be a point where people seem to get a recharge of VR enthusiasm. Last year I checked out some amazing games including ARKTICA.1 and the runaway VR hit Lone Echo. However, last year was a different time for me and after being with a VR company that dissolved a few months before OC4 and several projects not going the way I wanted I was looking for something to inspire me to love VR again.

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LG’s VR headset may be named UltraGear: trademark filed

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Earlier this year, LG demonstrated a virtual reality headset prototype going by the codename SteamVR (and HMD) due to its intended use with Valve’s SteamVR platform. Though the public got a look at this headset, the company wasn’t ready to provide some important details, chief among them being this device’s real name. Now it seems the company has settled on … Continue reading.

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This VR App Reconstructs 30,000-Year-Old Homo Sapien Faces in 3D

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Virtual reality gives us a close up of our ancient ancestors. Humans 30,000 years ago looked different than us — but thanks to a VR app, we can now paint a picture of their faces in 3D. The app from Visual Science studio, VRScience , claims to offer the first scientifically accurate VR visualization of the Sungir people, who lived in Russia in ancient times and are the ancestors of today’s northern and eastern Europeans.

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Bought an Oculus Rift Just Before Last Week’s Price Cut? 5 Ways to Get a $100 Refund

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After a lengthy $400 Summer Sale on the Rift + Touch bundle , Oculus set an MSRP of $500. But last week, just over a month after the sale ended, the company announced they were permanently cutting the MSRP down to $400 (same as the Summer Sale price). Those unfortunate souls that bought an Oculus Rift in that short window where the price was $500 may be bummed at not waiting just a bit longer for the savings.

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The Key to Getting the Best Out of Video-Based Practice & Coaching

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