VRScout
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
This gamer has his own personal workout routine in VR and he’s already lost 12 lbs. For those of you who’ve tried games like Audioshield on the HTC VIVE, you know how physically demanding it can be sometimes. It’s pretty easy to break a sweat within a few minutes of dancing your butt off while your hand-controllers flail in the air. Which raises the question — has anyone ever used VR as their daily workout routine?
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
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Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
In collaboration with Queen, Google Play’s Bohemian Rhapsody Experience for Cardboard is an impressive example of where VR music videos are heading. See Also: ‘Apex’ is the Next Real-time VR Music Video from the Creator of the Acclaimed ‘Surge’. In an age where people rarely buy physical albums anymore, music videos are today’s cover art; they connect memorable imagery to sound, and function as vehicles to spread songs beyond where they would go on their own.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
Google Cardboard has brought us in VR the closest thing to Jurassic Park yet. The newest feature of Google’s Arts & Culture app has added a giant swimming rhomaleosaurus to a 360º virtual tour of the Natural History Museum of London. And it doesn’t stop with this 23-foot long aquatic predator. Google is already working with 50 natural history museums to bring 150 more enormous dinosaurs to life.
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
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
You may never come back from this virtual ride. Virtual reality was the first thing that came to mind after seeing the mysterious trailer for HBO’s Westworld back in June. Whether or not the sci-fi series produced by J.J. Abrams and written by Jonathan Nolan ( The Dark Knight, Person of Interest ) and Lisa Joy ( Pushing Daisies ) will actually put VR front and center during the show, one thing’s for sure, HBO isn’t being shy about using the immersive technology to promote their ten-episode
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
This VR platform could change the way you buy homes. A house is the single biggest purchase most people will ever make. That’s why homebuyers sacrifice so many precious evenings and weekends going to open houses, looking for that perfect home. It’s a big, emotional purchase. Transported is a startup that hopes to reduce the amount of time buyers spend driving to and visiting potential homes using virtual reality.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
‘Gnomes & Goblins’ will be released for the HTC Vive on September 8th. I’m standing in the middle of a dark wooded forest, surrounded by sprawling trees that tower overhead. Each tree is glowing a soft warm color from tiny candles that line the surface of the weathered trunks. Thats when I notice the modest windows and doors covering the side of the tree.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
What happens in a Vegas virtual reality cube, stays in a Vegas virtual reality cube. Casinos are about to take a huge leap into the future next year thanks to the team over at Gamblit Gaming. The innovative casino-gaming company has officially debuted its own customized virtual reality ‘cube’ (aka VRC) designed to bring a whole new breed of competition and betting to show floors everywhere.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 25, 2016
Whether it be the 90’s or even the 21st century, these virtual reality monstrosities are the definition of ridiculous. With new technology comes endless manufacturers hoping to discover the winning formula that makes their design the gold standard for the industry. Virtual reality is all too familiar with this phenomenon. Countless attempts at the perfect VR headset has resulted in some truly horrible designs that’ll leave you with serious night-terrors.
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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
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
This is the Call of Duty PlayStation VR experience that lets you feel what its like to pilot a personal fighter jet in space. Coming to PS4 later this year. Activision’s much anticipated Call of Duty XP event has returned Friday at the Forum stadium in Los Angeles. The second “non-annual” fan conference is expected to bring in huge crowds, all looking to get hands-on with new content from Modern Warfare Remastered , Black Ops III and Infinite Warfare.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
VR headset adoption rates this year have been sluggish. According to a Steam survey , HTC Vive users increased merely 0.3 percent in July and growth was flat in August. Oculus Rift users also grew only 0.3 percent in July and a measly 0.1 percent in August. Today, about 0.18 percent of Steam players own the Vive while 0.10 percent have the Oculus Rift.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
Experience the future of music videos with The Bohemian Rhapsody Experience. Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody , maybe you have heard of it? Before steaming music, MP3s, CDs and MTV, back in 1975 a little band called Queen shot a video for Bohemian Rhapsody. On its 40th anniversary Rolling Stone Magazine said, “Its influence cannot be overstated, practically inventing the music video seven years before MTV went on the air.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
SeaWorld has been treading rough waters for awhile now, thanks in large part to the fallout from the Blackfish documentary, the US theme park chain has been facing swirling consumer sentiment and declining attendance. In March 2016, the theme park took steps to address their predicament, announcing the end of its killer whale breeding program. Now with the park on their last generation of orcas, animals that the company built its identity upon and brand around, SeaWorld needs to evolve quickly.
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.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
You can paint VR elements in real time into your immersive driving story. As more brands continue to experiment with VR, the experiences seem to get more polished and sophisticated as time goes on. Solely covering this space over the years, we know it wasn’t too long ago that an automotive VR event activation usually just included a simulated driving 360° video experience — maybe if you were lucky — a rumbling chair too.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
The pop rock band teamed up with Here Be Dragons to challenge what we’ve seen in the past from music experiences. The same VR studio that brought U2’s “Song for Someone” to life as a virtual reality music video with Apple Music has released a new immersive music experience — this time with a group of younger artists and completely void of cuts. With over 100 perfectly choreographed actors and a VR camera on a cable rig, Chris Milk’s studio Here Be Dragons created a VR experience for fans that b
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
What’s more glamorous than Kate Moss on the cover of Vogue ? Kate Moss in virtual reality, of course. That’s why Samsung teamed up with renowned makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury to produce the world’s first VR perfume ad starring the supermodel for New York Fashion Week. NYFW guests wore Samsung Gear VR headsets to experience a 360º video set in outer space with a sparkling Moss and a male model (who dances in front of you awkwardly for a bit too long).
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
The ILMxLAB created world will immerse you in a border crossing journey between Mexico and the United States. Alejandro Inarritu is taking a big step into the world of virtual reality. The acclaimed director of films like Babel , Birdman and The Revenant is teaming up with long-time collaborator cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki to create an experimental VR short film.
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.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
Virtual reality seems to be everywhere in the news these days. Most of the content and the news we see are in English, but now the Spanish-speaking world isn’t far behind. Last month, more than 1,200 people participated in VR Fest MX , Mexico’s first international virtual reality festival, the first of its kind in Latin America and Spain. VR Fest MX spanned 5 days and included a VR Fest Kids, VR Fest Forum with panels and fireside chats and VR Fest MX, the main event with 12 talks and panels and
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Microsoft has added a big HoloLens partnership to their growing list. Thanks to an agreement with Lowe’s, customers are using the Microsoft HoloLens to design their kitchen holographically in mixed reality. “The idea of using small samples and swatches to try and imagine what a room looks like seems very antiquated now,” Lowe’s Innovation Lab Executive Director Kyle Nel tells USA Today.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
HTC’s VR app store is now live, giving you more options to discover and experience non-gaming content. Back in August at VRLA , HTC announced they would be opening a dedicated virtual reality app store called Viveport, which would be home to a host of largely non-gaming immersive content. Steam may already be the go to place for HTC Vive gaming experiences, but games aren’t always for everyone — sometimes you just want to browse experiences by category and lose yourself in a virtual
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
Kawaii on the streets, Senpai in the sheets… Dating simulators have proven to be a massively popular genre in gaming. Hell, some people go as far as marrying their virtual girlfriends. Oh you think I’m kidding ? With this kind of popularity it comes as no surprise that dating simulators for virtual reality are poised to explode. Well we now have word about an upcoming title that not only lets you wine n’ dine a lovely digital lady, but introduces some technology that should make choosing t
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?
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
It’s been months since fans Nikon’s surprise unveiling of their KeyMission 360° camera at CES back in January. With competitor 360° cameras like Samsung’s Gear 360 already available and gaining market share quickly, we’ve been eager to hear more details about the Japanese camera company’s first foray into not only action cameras, but a 360-degree video camera that shoots in 4K.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
A first look at launch content that includes 360° videos from VR Playhouse and Wevr. Time Inc. is rebooting the LIFE brand for a new era, bringing the compelling stories you would expect from the iconic magazine to life in virtual reality. Announced on Tuesday, Time Inc. unveiled LIFE VR, a VR and 360° video app available on both iOS and Android devices.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
The two-day summit takes place at Paramount Studios October 13-14. October is going to be a busy month for VR. Google is set to debut their Daydream platform, Oculus is hosting their third annual developer conference and Sony will finally release their PlayStation VR headset. But if you can’t get enough VR in one month like us or maybe you’re more interested in the intersection of Hollywood and immersive technology, you’ll probably want to add one more to that list.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Zaxby’s is taking an interactive HTC VIVE experience on tour to tailgaters across the country. With over 700 locations across 17 states, quick service chicken restaurant Zaxby’s is giving college football fans a taste of something new while tailgating this season. The “Zaxby’s Fanz of Flavor” tour is hitting the road with a full-sized wooden barn where you can get your hands on the HTC VIVE and a few custom interactive VR experiences.
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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