VRScout
JANUARY 4, 2017
We’re Livestreaming President Obama’s Farewell Address in 360°. We are very excited to announce that VRScout is teaming up with The White House to bring you an exclusive live 360° broadcast of President Obama’s farewell address on Tuesday. As you may have heard, President Obama will take his place behind the podium one last time on the evening of January 10, 2017 to deliver his Farewell Address to the American people.
Road to VR
JANUARY 5, 2017
The Vive accessory market is about to get a huge boost thanks to the newly announced HTC Vive Tracker. Gaming, training, and more benefit from the enhanced immersion that comes from wielding “real” tools, weapons, and instruments. Today I was a sniper, a firefighter, and a professional baseball player, all thanks to VR. I’ve actually done all of those things in VR before, but this time I actually held a real (mock) gun, a high-pressure hose-nozzle, and a regulation baseball bat
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JANUARY 6, 2017
Dr. Mehmet Cengiz Öz, better known by the simplified monicker, “Dr. Oz,” has quite the extensive resume. He is a cardiothoracic surgeon and professor at Columbia University as well as an author, speaker and television promoter. Now, you can add “virtual reality evangelist” to that list as well. Öz recently co-founded a company called ShareCare — a web platform designed to help users create profile based, data driven hubs for their online medical records.
VRScout
JANUARY 3, 2017
In time for CES 2017, the VR/AR Association (VRARA) has launched theDirectory , a first-of-its-kind searchable global database of technology solution providers in the VR, AR, and MR ecosystem. With ever-growing interest in VR/AR—and companies offering services for nearly every industry vertical—it has become a major challenge for brands and organizations to know who is in the ecosystem, where they are located, and what they do.
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
JANUARY 3, 2017
Doctors might ditch textbooks for technology thanks to SpectoVive, a whole new way to examine the human body. Virtual reality has plenty of practical use cases outside of entertainment, but we may have just found a frontrunner: SpectoVive. Thanks to the amazing minds at the University of Basel , surgeons can use VR to interact with a 3D model of the human body prior to performing surgery.
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VRScout
JANUARY 5, 2017
The exciting new startup seeks to be a global educator and distributor of virtual reality. Meet Mark Metry, the 19-year-old CEO & founder of VU Dream , an organization whose goal is simple: put a VR headset in every household. The wunderkind aims to make his company a worldwide leader in the education and distribution of virtual reality. Mark spoke with the Huffington Post recently regarding the goals of VU Dream: “VU Dream strives to inform about the potential of Virtual Reality and provid
VRScout
JANUARY 1, 2017
It may look like China’s VR industry is imploding, but that’s not actually the case. In a recent news update via China.org.cn , Wu Jin reports that approximately 90 percent of start-ups in the Chinese domestic market have declared bankruptcy. This arrives amid a complicated year for the VR industry on both sides of the Pacific, including the revelation that projected headset sales numbers missed their targets by a factor of 1 to 3 (depending on headset) , amounting to a 65% different
VRScout
JANUARY 20, 2017
Meta let me and a partner interact with the same hologram in, “The Journey to the Center of the Natural Machine.” In the past few years, Sundance has established itself as a pioneer in showcasing virtual reality—and even dipped its toes into augmented reality …but never like this. This year, in the Claim Jumper section of the New Frontier initiative, Meta debuted, “The Journey to the Center of the Natural Machine,” a groundbreaking experience that lets multiple user
VRScout
JANUARY 4, 2017
Strap on the Vive Tracker to your next accessory and bring it into VR. It was only a year ago that HTC revealed their Vive Pre headset to attendees at CES. And if 2016 was the year VR had its coming out party, 2017 is looking to be the year we see VR content ecosystem really grow and hardware accessories take shape. During a press conference at CES on Wednesday, HTC debuted two premium accessories that will be available later this year — the Vive Tracker and Vive Deluxe Audio Strap.
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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.
VRScout
JANUARY 30, 2017
Those lucky enough to attend the Super Bowl Live festival in Houston have the chance to travel to Mars in virtual reality. The Super Bowl is just around the corner, and unsurprisingly the multiple promotional events dedicated to the massively-popular spectacle have begun to kick off. One of the biggest of these events, Super Bowl Live, will take place nine days leading up to the big game February 5th in Houston, Texas at NRG Stadium.
VRScout
JANUARY 18, 2017
2017 Sundance Film Festival kicks of this week and it won’t be without VR. It’s that time of the year again when art and technology converge on Park City, Utah for over a week of VR and immersive storytelling — along with some feature films too. Kicking off Thursday, the 2017 edition of New Frontier at the Sundance Film Festival will once again include a full slate of curated VR exhibitions and immersive stories from some of the most innovative creators in the world.
Road to VR
JANUARY 3, 2017
The first VR headset for Window’s recently announced Holographic platform is almost here, and according to a report by The Verge , it’s going to cost between $300 and $400 when it goes on sale later this year. Ramping up for CES 2017 in Las Vegas, Lenovo has revealed their newest entry into the world of VR, a yet unnamed headset sporting an impressive dual 1440 × 1440 OLED displays, a PlayStation VR-style halo strap system, and dual cameras that allow for room-scale positional tracki
Road to VR
JANUARY 2, 2017
NOLO VR is an intriguing Lighthouse-like positional tracking system designed to bring ‘room scale’ positional tracking and motion controls to mobile VR headsets. On top of that, the company is claiming SteamVR ‘compatibility’ through remote play via Riftcat’s VRidge software, all with an expected launch price of $99. You can sense CES is just around the corner as new VR-focused hardware is emerging in the run up to the event.
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.
Road to VR
JANUARY 4, 2017
HTC has announced a serious looking upgrade for its Vive headset at CES 2017. The ‘Deluxe Audio Strap’ replaces the original device’s harness and upgrades it with integrated headphones and a new, more robust adjustable head assembly. At CES 2017, HTC may not be announcing the next generation of the Vive headset, but it is concentrating very hard on giving the existing Vive owner every opportunity to enhance their experience with their hardware.
Road to VR
JANUARY 6, 2017
We speak to Trinity VR about their Vive Tracker powered Diamond FX project which aims to provide realistic virtual reality simulations for major league baseball teams, all powered by years of real pitching statistics. One of the more off-beat uses of HTC’s newly announced Vive Tracker came from Trinity VR who have taken the Vive Tracker, as announced by HTC at CES this week, slapped it onto a real baseball bat and were using it to demonstrate their baseball simulator.
Road to VR
JANUARY 4, 2017
Virtual world Second Life creator Linden Lab from has revealed what its like to create worlds within their new multi-user creative VR platform Sansar in this new video which follows Second Life veteran content creator Loz Hyde as he builds an elaborate virtual space using Sansar ‘s toolset. Sansar is Linden Lab’s shot at recapturing the success they enjoyed with their pioneering virtual online world platform Second Life , this time in virtual reality.
Road to VR
JANUARY 6, 2017
Owlchemy Labs today announced that its tongue-in-cheek simulator game, Job Simulator (2016) , has earned over $3 million in sales since its launch last April. According to Owlchemy Labs, this combined with the fact that Job Simulator has generated over 250 million views from videos created by the YouTube community, makes Job Simulator “the most popular VR title to date.” Job Simulator was included as a launch title for HTC Vive when it was initially released in April 2016.
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.
Road to VR
JANUARY 3, 2017
Hot off the tail of a $58 million capital raise , ODG today announced two new models of their R-series smartglasses, the R8 and R9, which add positional tracking, an improved field of view, and a closer-to-consumer price point. ODG calls their new R8 and R9 “Consumer AR Smartglasses,” though with prices at $1,000 and $1,800 and a field of view of 40 degrees and 50 degrees respectively, I’m not sure everyone would agree with that characterization.
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JANUARY 6, 2017
The bleachers at Intel’s CES sprawling booth at the Las Vegas Convention Center were packed to the gills with eager technophiles waiting to see something incredible on Thursday afternoon. As it turns out, they’re rewarded for their loyal presence when Aneet Chopra from Intel takes the stage and begins to explain the concept of “Merged Reality.” To begin his remarks, Chopra plays the following video: That video is four months old and primarily serves to position Project Al
Road to VR
JANUARY 4, 2017
HTC’s new Vive Tracker accessory was announced today , and while the company says it will launch to consumers in Q2 2017, ahead of that release HTC plans to give away at least 1,000 to VR developers. At CES 2017 today, HTC announced their new Vive Tracker accessory, a standalone tracking device which is made to attach to real-world objects and third-party accessories.
Road to VR
JANUARY 4, 2017
Today at CES 2017 HTC announced the Vive Tracker, a standalone tracking module that’s designed to attach to anything to become tracked in the virtual world. We heard at least as far back as the reveal of the HTC Vive headset back in 2015 that we might one day see a standalone ‘puck’ tracker using the tracking tech, and now it’s finally real.
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?
Road to VR
JANUARY 6, 2017
VR input gloves are getting a big boost thanks to HTC’s newly revealed Vive Tracker. The combination of Noitom’s Hi5 VR glove and the Tracker forms a surprisingly compelling input experience that adds finger-level fidelity to Vive experiences. We’ve seen plenty of VR gloves and other finger-tracking input methods over the years, and while a few of them proved quite functional, most had one flaw standing in the way of adoption.
Road to VR
JANUARY 6, 2017
Cirque du Soleil and Felix & Paul Studios recently launched another fantastical collaborative VR video, this time delving deep into the world of surreal underwater performance art with its aerial acrobatics, dives, fire, and hauntingly beautiful amphibious characters. The 12-minute 360 degree, 3D experience literally submerges the user into an abridged version of Cirque du Soleil’s live show “O”, creating a virtual reality universe filled with curious and madcap characters
Road to VR
JANUARY 6, 2017
Here’s a visual tour of some of the first VR headsets to be shown adopting Microsoft’s new Windows Holographic platform. At CES Acer, 3Glasses, Dell, HP and Lenovo are all showing VR headsets due for 2017, this is what they’ll look like. Microsoft’s Windows Holographic is the company’s immersive initiative built on foundations begun with their first foray into the augmented reality world with their HoloLens visor.
Road to VR
JANUARY 1, 2017
We check back in with Blade Runner 9732 , a stunningly detailed fan developed VR recreation of Deckard’s iconic flat from the original film. The project was recently updated showing some incredible progress, but despite its near final status, there’s one snag which is holding up its completion. It’s been a little while since we last checked in on Blade Runner 9732 , a one-man project that started as a technical exercise and blossomed into a quest to recreate one of sci-fi’
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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