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IMAX releases more details on its exciting new VR project. IMAX has finally launched imaxvr.imax.com , the official website of the upcoming IMAX VR Experience Centre, a new kind of facility designed to deliver highly-quality virtual reality adventures using the most advanced technology currently available. According to the site, IMAX VR Experience Centres will include: Room-tracking technology that will allow players to explore expansive virtual spaces.
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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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.
National Geographic will be the first to test the new feature. Publishers will soon be able to take their live streams to an entirely new level — broadcasting live in 360-degrees. Facebook unveiled the latest expansion to live broadcasting Monday, dubbed Live 360 , that marries their existing features of livestreaming and pre-recorded 360-degree videos.
You can finally watch your favorite Netflix show lying on your back. Only a day after seven new apps dropped on Google’s Daydream VR platform, we finally got the one app that many of us have all be waiting patiently to arrive this month. You can now watch your favorite Netflix shows in virtual reality. Netflix just launched their brand new ‘Netflix VR’ app in the Play Store, letting you sit in a virtual environment and watch all the content your heart desires on a giant living room screen.
You can finally watch your favorite Netflix show lying on your back. Only a day after seven new apps dropped on Google’s Daydream VR platform, we finally got the one app that many of us have all be waiting patiently to arrive this month. You can now watch your favorite Netflix shows in virtual reality. Netflix just launched their brand new ‘Netflix VR’ app in the Play Store, letting you sit in a virtual environment and watch all the content your heart desires on a giant living room screen.
New colors and more VR apps come to Daydream. Google’s Daydream VR is getting even better today with the launch of seven new apps and the release of two new colors for the Daydream View headset. Powered by the Google Pixel phone (the first Daydream ready phone), Daydream View is the tech giant’s solution to bringing VR to mass consumers with a more comfortable and simple mobile VR system — all for the price of $79.
The 4D VR experience will have you flying high with all your favorite horned friends. It’s the night before Christmas and Santa’s workshop is busier than ever. While Santa’s Little Helpers pack the sleigh full of presents, a nice elf buckles you into the sleigh’s sidecar, readying you for one epic ride we all wish we could have taken growing up as kids.
Take a virtual stroll past festive window displays and get swept up in all the holiday goodness. There are very few places more spectacular than New York City during the holidays. Skating at Rockefeller Center, seeing the Christmas tree lighting, so many awesome moments that you really have to see to understand. One of the harder things to explain to those who have never been is the fascination with checking out storefront windows with incredibly elaborate decorations.
From news to entertainment to gaming, these channels hit the pavement this year to produce stellar immersive content. NODE. The guys over at Node are some of the hardest working people on YouTube. Whether it’s video games, technology, or airsoft (IRL), the tight-knit team produces a seemingly endless stream of entertaining content. Though immersive videos are only one part of their catalogue, they happen to be some of the most impressive publicly available on the internet.
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.
THX has announced the development of a new audio amplifier chip which the company claims offers “the world’s lowest levels of distortion and noise,” along with “incredibly low power consumption,” positioning the amplifier for mobile VR headsets, wireless headphones, and VR PCs. The THXAAA chip, as the company calls it, is an ASIC chip that’s being made in conjunction with Triad Semiconductor , a firm who has also worked with Valve to create components of the H
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For those of us without a SAG membership or platinum album plaques on the wall, sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden seems like a dream. Thanks to VR, the dream is virtually real. Sports leagues such as the NBA , NFL and MLB have embraced VR technology. NBC broadcasted several events of the Rio Olympics in VR. College football teams and conferences are bringing fans closer to the game.
“Step inside the suspenseful world of film noir in a series of short virtual-reality films, and see what it’s like to be in a scene with the year’s best actors.” Following last years mesmerizing 360° series Take Flight , The New York Times is at it again with their annual celebration of Hollywood’s best performers, this time bringing us nine film-noir style 360 videos in a series titled Great Performers.
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.
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.
Nokia has launched the OZO Player SDK , a cross-platform foundation for creating applications with high fidelity VR video playback. Road to VR spoke with Nokia’s Head of VR Technologies, Tarif Sayed to learn more about the offering. While VR video portals like Jaunt , Littlstar , Samsung VR , and others offer a single destination from which to stream many different 360 and VR videos, another popular way to distribute VR video has been as a standalone app, offering more complete control ov
Since the launch of HTC’s dedicated VR app store, Viveport , it was clear that the company was looking to give us more ways to discover and experience non-gaming content with the Vive. There’s so much more to VR than just gaming. Which is probably why HTC has been exploring entirely new ways to bring VR to art, education and culture — starting with museums around the world.
The immersive artist is at it again; this time with Oculus Story Studio’s Quill. Back in July, artist Goro Fujita showed us the future of creativity using Oculus’ virtual sculpting tool Medium. The sculpting platform uses the company’s Touch controllers that just launched on Tuesday , letting you design beautiful creations in an intuitive and natural way.
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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.
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 —
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has served as a good way-point for VR’s progress over the years. With CES 2017 kicking off next week, here we take a look back at the highlights (and lowlights) from 4 years of VR at CES to gauge how far the industry has come and look for clues as to where it goes from here. Wedged somewhat inconsiderately at the very start of every year (it’s OK CES organisers, no one in the tech industry have families they want to spend time with), the ann
WordPress will now let you publish virtual reality content starting today. The most popular web publishing platform is giving bloggers even more options for publishing 360-degree images and video with the launch of support for all blogs hosted by WordPress.com. Up until now, if a blogger wanted to publish a 360-degree video in a post, they could embed a YouTube or Facebook video player of the video.
Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning
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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.
Before the calendar ever turned over from 2015 to 2016 people were already dubbing this as the “year of virtual reality.” This monicker was given for good reason. In 2016, we’ve seen not one, not two, but three high-end, ultra-powerful virtual reality headsets go from hyped future products to fully released consumer electronics, as well as a few new contenders on top of that.
YouTube first began support of 4K video uploads back in 2010, growing the video platform into the largest library of 4K videos online. There was one thing missing though — the ability to live stream in 4K. Now YouTube is taking it all one step further with the launch of 4K live streaming for both 360-degree videos and standard videos. It’s a bonus to have the ability to livestream in 4K, especially as more and more creators get their hands on reasonably priced consumer 4K cameras.
The immersive documentary takes you on the ground with the war-torn country’s first responders. VICELAND and Samsung are bringing us to the center of the Syrian war with their new documentary, titled The White Helmets , a part of a new project for the Beyond the Frame series. The documentary debuted on Samsung VR December 2nd, providing an unprecedented look at how VR is shifting the way journalists are bringing viewers into the story.
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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