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VR Games Are Now Ranked By the Workout You Get

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Can virtual reality gaming be a way to work out? The VR Institute of Health and Exercise partnered with San Francisco State University in a groundbreaking study to prove it is, claiming VR can be a source of “strenuous exercise.” A website launched today by the new VR Institute of Health and Exercise ranks VR games’ fitness potential by comparing them to exercises like running and biking.

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‘Star Citizen’ Devs Affirm Eventual VR Support, Say New UI is Designed With VR in Mind

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Star Citizen may be the world’s most ambitious Early Access project (and quite possibly the next textbook example of Development Hell ). For those still holding their breath, the company has recently affirmed that VR support is still planned as an eventual feature, and the game’s developers say that a new UI design is made with VR in mind.

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ARKit is a Goldmine for VR Developers

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One of the most enjoyable accounts on Twitter in recent days has been @MadewithARKit , which curates some of the best new pieces of content created in Apple’s new ARKit toolbox. The possibilities for VR developers that want to use the technology are literally endless, and if you use Unity, it is very easy to move VR objects into ARKit. It’s also quick — you can make an object in a program like Google Blocks and then put it in ARKit, where it can interact with the real world.

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Tonight TheWaveVR and Ash Koosha challenge the boundaries of music and take on tyranny with the power of VR.

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London-based electronic musician Ash Koosha will perform in the US for the first time via virtual reality in TheWaveVR. Originally from Iran, Koosha is currently hindered by Trump’s travel ban, which targets people from majority-Muslim countries and bars them from entering the United States. In Ash's 2016 Ted Talk from Oslo he challenged where is the boundary of what is just a sound, and what is actually music.

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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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Mind-Controlled VR Game Coming to Arcades 2018

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Awakening uses Neurable technology to let you control the experience with just your mind. Mind-control technology is nothing new. Once considered nothing more than farfetched science fiction, neuroscientists have since taken a much more optimistic stance on the potentially game-changing tech thanks to advances in brain-computer interfaces. In fact, one startup is claiming they’ll have a mind-controlled virtual reality game in VR arcades as soon as 2018.

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Puppet Fever Is A Promising VR Game Mixing Charades And Theater

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We’re still patiently waiting on the full release of the hugely promising Mindshow, but Puppet Fever looks like it could tide us over quite nicely in the meantime. Announced today, Puppet Fever is the first VR project from Coastalbyte, and is being published by Goat Simulator developer Coffee Stain. Along with the puppeteering of Mindshow, it looks like it draws inspiration from local multiplayer games like Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes in that one player uses a VR headset while others

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The Team Behind Goat Simulator to publish VR Puppet Charades Hybrid game Puppet Fever

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Puppet Fever is Coffee Stain’s (Goat Simulator) first VR project and marks Coffee Stain’s first contribution to making VR the future of gaming. It is developed by Swedish indie studio Coastalbyte. Coastalbyte was early to pick up VR development and found a match made in heaven during Dreamhack Winter 2016. Coffee Stain Publishing hosted a VR game jam in order to scout new teams and projects.

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Experience Near Death in VR

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If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to come back from the brink of death, then we have good news for you. It’s said that over 80% of those who go through a legitimate near death experience, or NDE, claim their lives were forever changed as a result of their incident. The recorded effects have ranged from both positive and negative, with many survivors reporting a loss of fear of death, abstract thinking, or more expansive concepts of love while simultaneously challenged to maintain healthy re

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Lead FX Artist on ‘ARKTIKA.1’ Shares Strategies for Great Effects in VR

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ARKTIKA.1 , an Oculus exclusive due to launch later this year, is shaping up to be one of VR’s best looking games to date. You’ll take it as no surprise that the title is being developed by 4A Games , the developer behind the Metro series (and its stunning next installment, Metro Exodus ). One important part of making a game look great is skilled use of effects—dynamic elements like particles, smoke, muzzle flashes, explosions, and lighting.

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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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NVIDIA Has Strong Earnings As GPU Surge Continues

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Nvidia keeps on raking in revenue from chips for artificial intelligence, game graphics, the Nintendo Switch game console, and self-driving cars. But we’ll have to listen to the conference call to find out if cryptocurrency mining also drove sales. The world’s biggest stand-alone maker of graphics chips and AI chips reported $2.2 billion in revenues for its second fiscal quarter, blowing past Wall Street estimates.

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AltspaceVR lives on to continue growing the VR community!

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Altspacers are celebrating tonight! pic.twitter.com/bA602ZfMG1 — AltspaceVR (@AltspaceVR) August 16, 2017. In an email statement sent to the AltspaceVR community last night it was revealed that Altspace is back. Full Statement below. We're back! AltspaceVR lives on thanks to you It has been a roller coaster of a ride for our team and our community since we announced that AltspaceVR was coming to an end.

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Social VR Platform AltspaceVR Is Back

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Better late than never. After an amazing run, Social VR pioneer AltspaceVR closed its doors earlier this month due to unforeseen financial difficulty. It was a sad day for many within the community, all hoping it wouldn’t come to an end. Hoping a solution would appear in the days leading up to its closure. AltspaceVR said its last farewell on August 3rd at 7pm PDT.

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This Impressive Short Film Was Drawn and Animated Entirely Inside of VR

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As VR continues to grow, the tools of the medium continue to mature as well. In an impressive demonstration of what you can now create entirely from within VR, artist Nick Ladd has produced an impressive short film using Quill and ANIMVR. Made by Ladd alone in just four days, the short film Escape was made in virtual reality by painting the environments and objects using Quill , while the animation and some effects were produced with Animvr.

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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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Snap Stock Dropped 17% From Decreased Revenue And Lagging User Growth

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Not even the dancing hot dog can cheer up Snap’s cranky investors. Only a few minutes into Snap’s earnings call Thursday, Evan Spiegel mentioned the popular hot-dog filter his company introduced last month, saying it may be “the world’s first augmented reality superstar.”. But it was too late. Even a beloved luminary like the breakdancing hot dog couldn’t undo the gloom that had already settled on Snap’s earnings report , which missed revenue and net loss estimates only slightly but seemed to

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More Star Trek Bridge Crew With SadGamerDad And Neuvron VR

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I had a great time going back on the bridge of the USS Aegis once again with my good friend SadGamerDad and this time with my new friends Benny and Dennis from Neuvron VR. For being a couple of Starfleet Academy drop outs Benny and Dennis picked things up quickly and did a great job as Helm and Tactical while SadGamerdad kept the power flowing at the Engineering station.

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New App Lets You Control Ableton Live Music Software In VR

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One of music production’s most popular programs comes to VR in the form of a 3D sample and mixing interface. As VR continues its infiltration into mainstream technology, developers are scrambling to discover that “it” factor that will send the humble hardware skyrocketing in popularity. This of course includes the music industry who, in the midst of a desperate struggle to adapt and evolve, is searching for its own salvation.

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Strider VR is an Intriguing New Omnidirectional Treadmill Solution

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Strider VR uses a novel approach to omnidirectional treadmill design, using a rotatable ball array positioned above a traditional linear treadmill, combined with a Microsoft Kinect 2 sensor. The system is currently available as a development kit from German company Pathbender. While most omnidirectional treadmills allow the user to physically rotate through a full 360 degrees, Strider VR’s Kinect-based system actively keeps your body facing the sensor, while giving the impression that you can tu

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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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Educators sour on virtual worlds

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Interior of the Educator Commons store on OSgrid’s Wright Plaza. (Image by Maria Korolov.). Educators are souring on virtual worlds, as evidenced by declining participation in online forums, in virtual conference attendances and education-related destinations on the Second Life grid. For example, Second Life Educators , the forum for educational organizations and educational use of Second Life, shows a dramatic decline in the number of messages over the past decade.

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Watch the 2017 solar eclipse in 4K 360 VR livestreamed next week

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Next week will mark the arrival of a solar eclipse that will be visible across a path spanning from the west to the east coast of the US. Many people are planning to make the trip into the path of totality to see it in person, but if you can’t for some reason, no worries. CNN has teamed up with … Continue reading.

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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

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An evening dedicated to celebrating the past years VR accomplishments. Back in March, VR Bound along with their partners AMD , Foundry and HP asked VR enthusiast from all around the globe to nominate VR experiences, hardware, startups and innovations in 12 different categories for the inaugural 2017 VR Awards ; an elegant black-tie event which will be held at the legendary Central London venue 8 Northumberland Avenue on October 9th.

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Social VR Platform ‘AltspaceVR’ Reopens Virtual Doors, May Live On Yet

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Following the recent announcement that social VR platform AltspaceVR would be permanently closing its doors after running dry of VR funds , the company has revealed that the service will live on, in a heartfelt message of thanks posted on the official blog. The team explained that the turnaround is due to “an outpouring of support,”, and are now “deep in discussions with others who are passionate about AltspaceVR who want to guarantee that our virtual oasis stays open.”

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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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Different way to scrape stats

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As you folks know, I’ve been struggling with collecting all the stats from all the grids every month, and, earlier this year, have almost fully automated the process, using an extremely jury-rigged Filemaker script. Today, I accidentally stumbled on the fact that Google Spread can be used to do the same thing, without the heavy database workload.

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Qualcomm just opened the AR floodgates for Android

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Right this minute the biggest names in smartphones are speeding toward the next “big thing” in mobile devices: Augmented Reality. Qualcomm is the latest company to make a public showing of their efforts with what they call “Qualcomm Spectra ISP, 2nd Generation.” That’ ISB as in Image Signal Processor, this paving the way for high-powered smartphone cameras that can do … Continue reading.

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A Mixed Reality Application to Heal Young Hearts

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A HoloLens visualization tool enables surgeons to treat heart chronic heart conditions more effectively. At this year’s Imagine Cup , Microsoft hosted dozens of student teams from across the world. They showcased an incredibly broad range of products developed to solve practical problems that ranged from getting rescue workers to disaster zones quickly to helping farmers manage the health of their livestock, improving water quality, battling fake news, and holding politicians to account.

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Studio Behind VR Music Videos ‘Surge’ & ‘Apex’ Teases First VR Game, ‘KIN’

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House of Secrets , the Amsterdam-based studio behind acclaimed real-time VR music videos Surge (2015) and Apex (2017) is developing their first full VR game, a puzzle platformer titled KIN. The studio is only teasing the game so far, but calls it a “VR puzzle platformer game with combat elements.” The game is due to launch “later this year” on both the Oculus Rift and Gear VR (Galaxy S6 or higher only).

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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