VRScout
JANUARY 22, 2018
Fable Studio’s long-awaited Wolves in the Walls carries the banner of Story Studio with its Sundance debut. In May 2017, when Oculus shuttered Story Studio—the premium narrative VR house behind Emmy-winners Henry and Dear Angelica —many mourned the presumed loss of Wolves in the Walls , an adaptation of a children’s book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean.
Road to VR
JANUARY 21, 2018
If you’ve been eyeing a Windows VR headset, you’ll be interested to see the huge discounts currently available from Amazon US on every Windows VR headset except for the Samsung Odyssey. The Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets launched just a few months ago, but you can already pick one up with some steep savings currently available from Amazon US.
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Cats and VR
JANUARY 26, 2018
Skydance Media, LLC (“Skydance”), a diversified media company that creates elevated, event-level entertainment for global audiences across multiple platforms, and Tencent Holdings Limited (“Tencent”, SEHK: 00700), a leading provider of Internet value-added services in China, announced today that they have entered into a partnership, with Tencent making a strategic investment in Skydance Media.
VRWorld
JANUARY 26, 2018
While 2016 was the year of indie VR games launching alongside the HTC Vive , 2017 saw a huge jump forward in budget as releases from major, AAA developers and publishers shook the VR scene. Now that we’ve entered 2018, it’s time to look back at the year’s top 10 VR games. Top 10 VR Games of 2017. 10. Star Trek Bridge Crew (PSVR, Vive, Rift, Windows Mixed Reality).
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 25, 2018
It may be hard to believe but its been four years since Samsung and Oculus first announced their smartphone-powered Gear VR headset. Since then, Marvel has released not one but two Guardians of The Galaxy films that people actually love. I’m not sure which impresses me more. The mobile headset has gone through more redesigns and updates in the past four years than the LinkedIn homepage.
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Cats and VR
JANUARY 22, 2018
Paul George considers himself one of the biggest gamers in the NBA. Ever since getting his PS2 for Christmas as a kid, he has always wanted to work with Playstation. "This collaboration has been a long time coming. Ask me what my favorite PlayStation memory is and I’ll tell you it’s when my dad got me a PS2 for Christmas. I’d been dropping hints left and right because I knew that was it.
Slashgear
JANUARY 23, 2018
The Olympic organization U.S. Ski & Snowboard is working with California-based STRIVR to leverage virtual reality for training athletes. The technology is a key component in helping athletes training for events, giving them “mental access” to courses they will run so that they can learn the terrain, gate positions, turns, and more. According to the U.S.
VRScout
JANUARY 25, 2018
CES ushers in next-generation VR headsets with inside-out tracking. Aside from the lights going out and what seemed like days of rain, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was the place to be if you wanted a sneak peek of new VR headsets dropping this year. While HTC made a splash unveiling an upgraded Vive Pro off site, the big trend on the show floor was standalone VR headsets with “inside-out” tracking.
Road to VR
JANUARY 26, 2018
While HTC is planning to launch the Vive Pro headset itself starting in Q1, the full package including the headset, controllers, and new SteamVR Tracking 2.0 base stations won’t come until later in the year. Until then, here’s a glimpse that comes to us from Alvin Wang Graylin, HTC’s Vive China president, who recently took the kit to a Vive developer meetup in the region.
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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.
Cats and VR
JANUARY 24, 2018
Executive produced by Darren Aronofsky , Ari Handel , and Jessica Chastain , who also serves as the narrator and with an original score comes from Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon the minds behind the Stranger Things, Spheres just landed a massive seven-figure deal at Sundance. VR financing and distribution venture CityLights announced today that it is acquiring Spheres-a virtual reality journey that transports viewers into the deepest pockets of the Universe to bring to life interactive visions of
Slashgear
JANUARY 23, 2018
If you expected virtual, augmented, and mixed reality to be the centerpiece of CES 2018 a few weeks ago, you might have been sorely disappointed. Is the honeymoon finally over? Perhaps not. But there is a growing trend of making the technology more accessible to more people, in terms of design and, more importantly, price. As if to counter the … Continue reading.
VRScout
JANUARY 26, 2018
You can experience the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in entirely new ways. The 2018 Winter Olympic Games is getting a big technology boost when it opens on February 9th in Pyeongchang, South Korea. With plans to go where no other large scale sporting event has ever gone before, VR and AR will play a large role in giving fans unique one-of-a-kind viewing experiences.
Road to VR
JANUARY 26, 2018
Oculus Research, the company’s R&D division, recently published a paper that goes deeper into their eye tracking-assisted, multi-focal display tech, detailing the creation of something they dub a “perceptual” testbed. Current consumer VR headsets universally present the user with a single, fixed-focus display plane, something that creates what’s known in the field as the vergence-accommodation conflict; the user simply doesn’t have the ability to focus correctly
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.
Cats and VR
JANUARY 24, 2018
Independent games developer Dakko Dakko, the team behind acclaimed titles Scram Kitty And His Buddy On Rails , Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims , and The 2D Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character, has revealed its first foray into virtual-reality with Pop-Up Pilgrims , coming exclusively to PlayStation VR on Feb 13th. In Pop-Up Pilgrims , players guide a group of devoted followers across colourful pop-up islands - uniquely presented as 2D platforms in a wraparound 3D space.
Slashgear
JANUARY 24, 2018
Plex has announced support for Google’s Daydream platform, enabling home media enthusiasts to access and play their personal movie collection in the privacy of a VR headset. The support follows the launch an unofficial solution for VR headset owners called “Plevr,” which Plex says was impressive enough that it decided to bring about official virtual reality support.
VRScout
JANUARY 22, 2018
Users gather in concern as full-body tracking captures every moment of one individuals intense ordeal. Anyone unfortunate enough to have to deal regularly with episodes of paralyzing convulsions brought on by seizures knows how terrifying the process can be. Just witnessing one take place is a harrowing experience in itself. There isn’t all that much you can do besides provide comfort until it eventually passes.
Road to VR
JANUARY 21, 2018
Manipulating objects with bare hands lets us leverage a lifetime of physical experience, minimizing the learning curve for users. But there are times when virtual objects will be farther away than arm’s reach, beyond the user’s range of direct manipulation. As part of its interactive design sprints, Leap Motion , creators of the hand-tracking peripheral of the same name, prototyped three ways of effectively interacting with distant objects in VR.
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.
Cats and VR
JANUARY 24, 2018
The 2018 Game Developers Conference (GDC) has released the results of the sixth annual State of the Industry Survey, revealing trends in the games industry ahead of GDC 2018 this March. With responses from nearly 4,000 game developers, this year’s survey results reflect a growing level of developer interest in the Nintendo Switch, with 12% of respondents currently developing games for Nintendo’s unique hybrid console.
EnterpriseWear
JANUARY 25, 2018
The big automobile manufacturers have been using Augmented and Virtual Reality to both design cars and sell them in dealerships; but there is a step in between design and sales where AR/VR can be employed and that is production. I’m not talking about auto workers wearing AR glasses to view assembly instructions on top of […]. The post Virtual Reality and Production Ergonomics appeared first on BrainXchange.
VRScout
JANUARY 24, 2018
Curious about what a Jedi moonlighting as a club DJ might look like? Well wonder no more. Most rhythm games tend to follow the same general formula: Trigger a particular note/sound at its designated point in the corresponding timeline in the hopes of building up combos for maximum points. We’ve seen plastic guitars, touch-sensitive dance mats, electronic bongos—the list of peripherals go on.
Road to VR
JANUARY 25, 2018
Following their appearance with a new “8K” prototype at CES 2018, Pimax’s latest update says that backers won’t see their finished headsets until Q2, delaying the initially expected delivery date by several months. Pimax ran an awfully successful Kickstarter for the “8K” headset back in 2017, concluding the crowdfunding campaign with some $4.2 million in funding.
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?
Cats and VR
JANUARY 25, 2018
Primetime Emmy® Award-winning developer Secret Location and publisher Archiact have joined forces to bring the unabashed bullet hell mayhem of Blasters of the Universe to PlayStation®VR. Available on Feb. 27, 2018, nimbleness will be key in Blasters of the Universe as players duck, dodge and deflect their way through increasingly challenging levels in a neon-bathed world inspired by the outrageous cover art of 90s VHS tapes.
VRWorld
JANUARY 26, 2018
Consumer electronics company HTC officially started shipping pre-ordered Vive Focus VR headsets at an event earlier this week, in what was heralded as the “world’s first on-stage in-VR customer product delivery.” The company also announced that forty pieces of VR content, including several games, are already available for the Focus. The news comes via HTC’s China Regional President of VR, Alvin Wang Graylin.
VRScout
JANUARY 20, 2018
SPHERES: Songs of Spacetime makes its debut at Sundance. When it comes to exploring space, we are constantly in search for what else exists in the Universe. As we reach for the stars, we’re able to make new discoveries that help us better understand the cosmos and learn more about our origin as humans. But one discovery, black holes, have continued to be a mystery.
Road to VR
JANUARY 20, 2018
Dell and AR headset manufacturer Meta announced a new partnership, allowing Dell to be the first third-party seller of the Meta 2 Augmented Reality Development Kit. Dell says that through the partnership, they’ll also be able to provide both the Meta 2 Dev Kit and the tools necessary to create immersive experiences to businesses involved in sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing and construction.
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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