VRScout

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Two new patents from Microsoft show research centered on creating a way to change the color of real-world objects in augmented reality and place virtual “anchor” objects you can share with presumably other users of their HoloLens mixed reality headset. The first aforementioned patent, “ Color Fill In An Augmented Reality Environment ,” details how wearers of a head-mounted display could holographically change the colors of objects in their vicinity — such as furniture —

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 24, 2016

VR is so new that one of the regular activities of VR headset owners is introducing other people to the technology. Usually that means putting one person in a headset and standing around while they take their turn. But a few great VR party games let people both inside and outside of VR participate in the fun, and you only need one headset! Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Last week we announced a comprehensive list of nominees for our 2016 Game of the Year Awards. There were over 20 categories selected with approximately 4-8 different games and experiences nominated for each category. That all adds up to a ton of amazing content we saw in VR’s first full year of consumer adoption. We teamed up with the prolific Christopher Sabat (the voice of Piccolo, Yamcha, and of course Vegeta in Dragon Ball Z as well as Roronoa Zoro in One Piece ) to record a video ann

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VR Bites

DECEMBER 30, 2016

No one knew that the greatest discovery in the history of man would also lead it to its very end. Lockdown: Stand Alone is a blend of action and horror that offers freedom of movement, refined gun mechanics and large city scenes. WP-Appbox: Lockdown: Stand Alone (22,39 €, Steam) →.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Capping off a huge year for VR, people around the world are turning to VR for NYE celebrations. Every year, people from around world get together to ring in the new year. Some travel to faraway locations to join hordes of revelers in celebratory countdowns replete with massive fireworks shows. Others find comfort in quieter, more intimate celebrations with friends and family.

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DECEMBER 26, 2016

Virtual reality is a young industry and, in its youth, many are scrambling to see what best practices will raise this budding market into the strong and healthy grown up industry it needs to become to sustain success. With so many trying different things, best practices can get lost in the shuffle. Khronos Group is attempting to create a standard API (application program interface) across VR components and, announced via press release , they recently received the co-sign from Epic Games.

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VR Bites

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Dating Lessons is a VR dating course with a comprehensive program presented by a professional couch teaching dating skills. 12 lectures and 8 practical interactive sessions will give men tools to enhance their power of attraction and develop behavior patterns that women find irresistible. WP-Appbox: Dating Lessons (9,99 €, Steam) →.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2016

This installment of our LA Creator Photo Series takes you inside Two Bit Circus. Two Bit Circus was founded in 2012 by Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman. Gradman is a roboticist, inventor, and former circus performer. Bushnell is an engineer, entrepreneur, and son of Atari founder, Nolan Bushnell. Later that year, Bushnell and Gradman brought on Nancy Bennett to run production.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

After a recent bout of news articles detailing an experimental Alzheimer’s Disease therapy that has showed promising results in mice, the child of an afflicted father made a plea to the VR community to create a VR app which would recreate the therapy with a VR headset. “I’m losing my dad to Alzheimer’s. Every day that passes I can tell that there is less and less of him here with us.

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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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DECEMBER 24, 2016

Happy Holidays from all of us here at UploadVR! Whether you own a Rift, Vive, PS VR, Gear, DayDream View, Cardboard or no headset at all, please have a happy, safe and warm holiday season! To celebrate we’ve written a little poem for you. Enjoy: Twas the night before Riftmas, and all through the night. the young Palmer Luckey was nowhere in sight; His headset was hung by the PC with care, In hopes that St.

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VR Bites

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Virtual table tennis for VR and Android device owners. All you need is a little space to swing your arm, and you can now enjoy playing table tennis in your room! WP-Appbox: VR Swing Table Tennis Oculus (7,99 €, Steam) →.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Virtual reality experiences have become Hollywood’s hype-machine dream tool. A three- to four-minute VR experience puts moviegoers directly into the movie as a character or in the thick of action—all from the comfort of their own homes. Recent campaigns to generate buzz include The Conjuring 2 , The Forest , and Star Wars: Rogue One. The most recent film to get the VR treatment is Lionsgate’s upcoming Power Rangers movie. .

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Senso is a new virtual reality glove input device that offers per-finger haptic feedback and the ability to simulate differences in temperature – all tracked via a camera-less IMU-based system. Once a mainstay of fictional virtual reality input, we all once believed that the virtual reality glove would be a dead lock for our chosen input device for an immersive future.

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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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DECEMBER 30, 2016

We already know what HTC for Vive at CES: the next iteration of the VR headset. So, what is it showing? Apps. And lots of them. HTC revealed 23 of the more than 30 apps that the company is showing on the Vive in Las Vegas next week. We’ll see plenty of upcoming games like new Vive Studios projects in Arcade Saga , Front Defense and Knockout League , along with much anticipated projects like Star Trek: Bridge Crew.

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VR Bites

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Gem Monster is a virtual reality game. In the game you fight different kinds of monsters in which are composed of gems and different colors. The only way to defeat them is to match and remove all the gems on their body. WP-Appbox: Gem Monster (2,99 €, Steam) →.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Stephen Wiltshire , a British architectural artist who was diagnosed with autism at the age of 3 , has garnered fame for his ability to draw detailed recreations from memory—oftentimes of complex cityscapes he’s only viewed briefly. In a new ad for the 2017 Micra, Nissan puts his chops to the test. But instead of equipping him with his usual arsenal of pen and paper, in this case, Nissan tasks him with authoring his recreation in VR using Tilt Brush, which he’s never used before.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Microsoft’s after-holiday sale has one of the best HTC Vive deals we’ve seen yet, offering $100 off of the headset’s original price along with an additional $100 gift card to the Microsoft Store. Various stores have been offering $100 off of the HTC Vive in sales sporadically throughout the holiday season, but now Microsoft is doubling down on the offer with a $100 discount and throwing in a $100 gift card.

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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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DECEMBER 28, 2016

From the opening moments of Guerrilla Games Cambridge’s PlayStation VR exclusive competitive shooter, RIGS: Mechanized Combat League [ Review: 8/10 ], it’s clear that the idea of piloting giant robots that shoot each other is meant to be a futuristic sport in this fictional universe. The announcer’s booming voice reverberates around the arena, sponsorship decals are emblazoned across the chassis of each unit, and pilots are adorned in the colors and stripes of their chosen team

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VR Bites

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Child Of Ault is a tower-defense-shooting VR game, which will make you feel more real in game. In this game, your character is a boy who uses his magic catapult and tools to against wicked witches and defense your homeland. WP-Appbox: Child Of Ault (11,04 €, Steam) →.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Featured 360° is an ongoing series to highlight some of our favorite videos from creators and brands for you to enjoy during the week. For this week’s installment of Featured 360°, enter the trippy dreams of Dalí, scale Mount Everest, and let Fiat take you around for a minute. . A Whole New Spin. “Look around. There’s no end to where the Fiat 500X can take you.” To showcase the versatility of the new 500X, Fiat gives us a glimpse of all the different places the crossover vehic

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 28, 2016

The Eye Tribe , a Denmark-based eye-tracking startup, today confirmed they’ll be joining the ranks of Facebook’s Oculus VR. Both Oculus and The Eye Tribe today confirmed the acquisition with TechCrunch ‘s Josh Constine. The specifics of the acquisition are still fairly thin however. Is the company going straight to ex-CEO Brendan Iribe’s new PC VR team in Facebook?

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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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DECEMBER 29, 2016

Online harassment has been a common thread throughout 2016, and VR sadly isn’t a stranger to it. But the CEO of Epic Games thinks the tech will actually help combat harassment going forward. Industry legend Tim Sweeney said as much in a recent interview with The Verge. Talking about the issues with online harassment, he pointed towards “virtual anonymity” as a key factor in removing the “social moderating mechanisms” that people have in real life. “I think tha

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VR Bites

DECEMBER 29, 2016

You and your friends will have to communicate and work together (yelling at each other) to keep the ship going! WP-Appbox: FriendShip (4,99 €, Steam) →.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The massively popular Demolition Derby franchise is entering VR in a big way. Mobile game developer Destruction Crew is dipping its toes into virtual reality with its latest title, Demolition Derby VR Racing , currently available for free on the App Store and Google Play. The veteran team has already clocked over 20 million downloads of their Demolition Derby mobile games, but now they’re shifting gears by taking it to virtual reality for the first time—and they’re going full throttle by

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Lumus Ltd. recently confirmed a $30 million funding round led by Quanta and HTC. Lumus is a leading provider and developer of augmented reality technology. Following from the $15 million funding led by Shanda Group and Crystal-Optech in June, Lumus Ltd. recently announced a $30 million Series C round of funding led by Quanta Computer, the world’s largest notebook computer ODM company, along with HTC and other strategic investors.

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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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