VRScout
MAY 26, 2016
Over the past year or two, the RYOT crew have become the cool kids of VR. Not just because they dress cooler than the rest of us, which they all do, or that they avoid the inevitable drama of an adolescent industry getting too big for its britches, which they also do. It’s because they know who they are and they give a s**t. This is their story, with pictures.
Road to VR
MAY 27, 2016
What puts the ‘E’ in E-sports? VR may have something to say about the notion that ‘electronic’ sports can’t be physical, and could even further legitimize the growing field. Anyone remember Sports Champions (2010) ? Essentially Wii Sports (2006) for PS3 using PlayStation Move, it featured a table tennis mode that remains, to my eyes, the greatest motion-control game ever published.
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MAY 24, 2016
If you’re consistently wowed by the outlandish ways in which CSI stars solve crimes, then this story might be for you. The UK is experimenting with using VR to virtually reconstruct crime scenes for use within real court cases, it’s been revealed today. The post The UK is Using the Vive to Build VR Crime Scenes for Court Cases appeared first on UploadVR.
Cats and VR
MAY 21, 2016
Cerevrum Inc. is a software development group with a focus on progressive social and educational VR projects. CEO Natasha Floksy would say that means to make people happy as well as smarter. CatsAndVR had the chance to learn more about Cerevrum the company as well as Cerevrum the game during XTECH 2016. Cerevrum the game left an interesting impression on me.
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
MAY 24, 2016
Samsung begins selling the Gear 360 in New Zealand – who’s going to be next? When Samsung first unveiled their Gear 360 camera back in February, I was eager to learn more and compare the camera to other competing consumer 360° models. At the time, there was little information available on a release date or price range. Then early this month we finally got our hands on a Gear 360.
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MAY 21, 2016
Finding like-minded creatives for any type of project can be a challenge. But The post Artella is a Cloud-Based Tool That Aims to Be the GitHub of Creative VR Collaboration appeared first on UploadVR.
Cats and VR
MAY 25, 2016
Do you dare to enter the Hodgson's house? Click and drag your mouse across to see true terror in this 360 video. James Wan's The Conjuring 2 be back in theaters on June 10. Should you want to take on the challenge of exploring the haunted house at Enfield famous for being plagued by demons, now you can. Enter the Hodgson’s house from the upcoming film and experience 360° horror.
VRScout
MAY 23, 2016
What if you could walk on Mars with fellow scientists or bring 3D spacecraft designs to life as holograms before they’re ever built? That’s what a group of researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California wanted to show us. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is at the center of innovation in virtual and augmented reality, working with Microsoft’s HoloLens to produce applications that support a variety of missions, including the Curiosity Mars Rover and the International Spac
Road to VR
MAY 27, 2016
Techcrunch reports that Snapchat just raised another $1.8 billion in a Series F round, and Snapchat could end up being a major player within augmented reality hardware market. Snapchat is probably considered a bit of a dark horse by most people when compared to other major AR players including Microsoft, Meta, Daqri, or Magic Leap. But Snapchat has captured the attention of Generation Z through the use of augmented reality filters for selfies and vlogs.
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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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MAY 25, 2016
It looks like a 4K Samsung Gear VR might be a lot closer than we thought. At the Display Week conference in San Francisco, CA this week – Samsung showcased a number of next generations of displays, but it was the VR area that (obviously) caught our eye most. The post Samsung Showcases 4K UHD Display For VR appeared first on UploadVR.
Cats and VR
MAY 24, 2016
You are now entering a dimension, a dimension of nostalgia and tomfoolery, you are now entering THE NETFLIX ZONE. As part of Bi-annual Netflix Hack Day, this ode to the bygone era of video rental stores was created for HTC VIVE. You can grab VHS tape version of Netflix shows watch them on screens on the walls and ceiling of the video store homage. Though it is unlikely this will be available to the public I do think this is a great idea and I can see someone developing this in some form.
VRScout
MAY 24, 2016
So you just shot your first 360° video, maybe using a Gear 360 camera , and now you want to share your masterpiece with the world. If you uploaded your content to an immersive video platform like Vrideo , friends could already check out your latest work of art with a Google Cardboard or Gear VR headset by downloading an app. But when it came to the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, viewing options were more limited.
Road to VR
MAY 26, 2016
Microsoft may be preparing a new, much more powerful version of their Xbox One games console codenamed ‘Scorpio’ to power the Oculus Rift some reports are suggesting. As the gaming industry and associated press wind the hype engine up in preparation for one of the biggest gaming events of the year, E3 next month, we’re starting to see some interesting VR related reports.
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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MAY 26, 2016
A lot of VR fans may be focused on the big guns, like the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Playstation VR, but the real pioneer in marketing virtual and augmented reality to the masses is mobile VR, such as the Samsung Gear VR headset. That’s where existing smartphones are attached to headsets to simulate a VR environment. The post Apple is Playing The Long Game With VR – And It May Work appeared first on UploadVR.
Cats and VR
MAY 25, 2016
One of the things I really enjoy about AltspaceVR is the fact that it turns VR into a community focused non isolation filled experience. Today AltspaceVR continued to push social VR as well as the boundaries of their product with the announcement of FrontRow, new technology that gives everyone a front row seat to events in VR and gives hosts limitless capacity at their events.
VRScout
MAY 25, 2016
These three developers created a virtual Netflix video rental store and we just had flash backs. Some of you, maybe not all of you, may remember a time in the 90’s when you had to walk into a video rental store to pick out the night’s entertainment with friends. You browsed the shelves of VHS tapes, drawn to various films by their cover art and movie title.
Road to VR
MAY 26, 2016
A new early prototype game for the HTC Vive is aiming to bring your time-shifting, lightsaber wielding dreams to life with Project Ghost , a new game, early in production, which mashes together so many individually cool ideas, some of them have to work! Project Ghost is a “passion project” for the developer Gaspar Ferreiro, also the founder of Project Ghost Studios.
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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MAY 24, 2016
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg bought Oculus something changed about the emerging mixed reality industry. Money spent to advance VR and AR started skyrocketing, with far-off technologies like light fields suddenly receiving The post Inside The Growing Rift Between Valve And Oculus appeared first on UploadVR.
Cats and VR
MAY 24, 2016
Virtual Reality is in the here and now(even if we are in the palm pilot era) and AR is right around the corner. It seems like there seems to be a conference or meetup every week that is VR related. Well Xtech 2016 had VR but it was not a conference showcasing the cool experience of the now but rather how VR as well as other technologies will redefine how we learn, grow, challenge, and understand the workings our brain on a conscious and unconscious level.
VRScout
MAY 24, 2016
Embark on a personal journey with Paul McCartney in this six-part VR documentary series. If you ever had the chance to sit with legendary singer-songwriter Paul McCartney and pick his brain – what would you ask him? Would you want to hear about the inspiration behind some of his most iconic songs? Or maybe you would rather he reflect on all the wild memories he had while in the recording studio or on tour.
Road to VR
MAY 27, 2016
A virus is spreading across the world infecting all in its path. Millions are dead. This pandemic is referred to as the ‘Jurassic flu’ named for the time period from which it originated. Scientists have thrown all of the best minds and current medical research at the virus with no success. When humanity is down on its luck and its back is against a wall there is only one thing to do: travel back in time and gather scientific data on creatures of the past in hopes that it will yield a
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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MAY 26, 2016
“I wanted to put another human inside a dream I had. VR let’s me do that. The post ‘X Men’ VFX Artist Used Google’s ‘Deep Dream’ To Create Psychedelic VR Film appeared first on UploadVR.
Cats and VR
MAY 26, 2016
Oriku, Inc. has announced its inaugural virtual reality music visualization experience, for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. vrAMP , available on Steam Early Access and coming to the Oculus Store. Motes of light and dust particles surround and move through you as they float, swirl, and react to the music. vrAMP listens to any program or web browser and can be used with the Steam in game overlay web browser.
VRScout
MAY 25, 2016
Samsung is bringing fans closer to the Olympic Games with this immersive Beach Volleyball VR film. Every four years, over one million athletes globally train to qualify for the Olympic Games. So much hard work goes into training and preparation, with only 1% actually making it to the Games. This is why Samsung wants to tell the inspiring stories of Olympic Games hopefuls who are defying barriers on their quest to compete.
Road to VR
MAY 24, 2016
Netflix engineers working on ways to bring their video streaming service into the immersive realm have released this video of their prototype room-scale virtual reality reality experience modelled on an 80’s VHS video rental store. Yes, it is as odd as it sounds. Have you ever thought to yourself “I know what would make this cutting-edge and hyper-convenient video streaming experience complete!
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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