VRScout
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Intel has revealed a new augmented reality prototype called Vaunt. Like many other AR concepts we’ve seen, Vaunt is able to overlay digital information with the physical world. Unlike other concepts we’ve seen, it actually looks…cool. According to a report published by The Verge , Vaunt was created by Intel’s experimental New Devices Group.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
In a patent filed in 2017 and issued today by the United States Patent Office, Apple describes a VR headset designed to be compact and comfortable. Spotted by Patently Apple , Apple’s patent titled Optical System for Head-mounted Display makes it clear up front that this particular design is aimed at creating a VR headset that’s more compact, specifically by redesigning the optical system. “If care is not taken, a head-mounted display may be cumbersome and tiring to wear.
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Cats and VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
I Am A Man VR Experience Trailer from Derek Ham on Vimeo. I Am a Man! is a declaration of civil rights used as a personal statement and as a declaration of independence against oppression. During the Civil Rights Movement at the Memphis sanitation strike in 1968, "I AM A MAN!" signs were used as part of the protests for equal treatment. Dr. Derek Ham's upcoming VR experience I AM A MAN challenges us to never forget the battles that had to be fought in order for many Americans to have civil liber
Slashgear
FEBRUARY 9, 2018
Apple has cooked up a new head-mounted display design that could dramatically shrink the size of a virtual reality or augmented reality headset, a newly-published patent application reveals. The company has been coy about its AR and VR ambitions, with CEO Tim Cook dismissing suggestions of any sort of imminent smart glasses release by pointing out the technology just isn’t … Continue reading.
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
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Alien Zoo lets you walk, soar, and escape alien creatures with friends. Location-based VR is the culmination of everything we’ve grown to love and expect from immersive technology. These attractions can let you interact with physical objects, walk never-ending mazes, and feel sensations of heat and water—all while in VR. You can even join your friends in cooperative gameplay, making virtual high-fives with other avatars very convincing.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Cats and VR
FEBRUARY 7, 2018
Vreal just landed $11.7 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Axioma Ventures, along with new investors Intel Capital and AET Fund, as well as existing participating investors Upfront Ventures, Vulcan Capital and CRCM Ventures. Vreal will use the funding to further develop and launch their platform, paving the way for gamers to create, share, and enjoy video game content all within virtual reality.
VRWorld
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Boston-based startup Neurable will bring its brain-controlled VR video game Awakening , which the company claims is the first of its kind, to VR arcades around the world by the end of this year. This brain-computer interface (BCI) is made possible by the attachment of an HTC Vive VR headset to a brain-scanning headband equipped with electrodes that pick up neural activity by recording electroencephalography (EEG) signals.
VRScout
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
Car salesman are always trying to get you to “picture this baby at home in your driveway.” But who needs imagination when we have augmented reality? Audi has released a new AR smartphone application that is triggered by their TV commercials. The app brings the cars from the commercial out of the screen and into your living room or driveway.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
I AM A MAN is an upcoming interactive VR experience that lets you participate in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike and the events leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. Created by Dr. Derek Ham , an assistant professor of Graphic Design at NC State University, I AM A MAN was a winner of Oculus’ 2017 Launch Pad, a program designed to help fund VR content from diverse backgrounds.
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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
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
The VR multiplayer adventure ARK Park – based on Studio Wildcard’s survival game ARK: Survival Evolved – will be released Thursday, March 22 during the Game Developers Conference. ARK Park allows HTC Vive, PSVR, and Oculus Rift users to interact with the majestic creatures last seen in the popular action-adventure survival game ARK: Survival Evolved – fulfilling the dream of meeting living, breathing dinosaurs “face-to-face” through a series of exquisite VR-powered theme-park attractions.
Hypergrid Business
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Fashionistas Island on Kitely, which allegedly infringed copyrights (Image via Fashionistas Island.). About a week ago, a social media post accused a region on the Kitely grid of distributing infringing content. Strictly speaking, any infringement complaint needs to be made by the original content creator, through official channels. That wasn’t the case here.
VRScout
FEBRUARY 7, 2018
The world’s largest company by revenue and the United States’ biggest supplier of jobs has just made a major investment in virtual reality commerce. Walmart has agreed to purchase a little-known VR startup called Spatialand for an undisclosed amount. Spatialand creates tools that let content creators transform their 2D work into immersive VR experiences.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Quill , Facebook’s VR painting tool, has been a great way to sketch in VR since its launch back at the end of 2016, but today a new update transforms it into something entirely new. Now, with tools for animating Quill artwork directly in the app, users have a new dimension for artistic expression: time. If you’ve ever made a stick figure flip book using the corner of a notebook or a stack of sticky notes, you already understand the fundamentals of key frame animation: arrange a sequ
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.
Slashgear
FEBRUARY 4, 2018
Has the VR market plateaued already so quickly? The hype may have been dialed down a bit, if CES 2018 was any indication, but that’s probably because the industry is going through a bit of a transition. With headsets like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and even Windows Mixed Reality firmly in place, proponents are starting to push for more … Continue reading.
Veative
FEBRUARY 4, 2018
Veative exhibited its extensive educational VR STEM library at EdTechReview, held at Vivanta By Taj, Dwarka New Delhi. Veative won the best EdTech Solutions for K-12 at EdTechReview Summit Expo 2018. Aditya Hansen, Director of Operations (Emerging Markets) was awarded this prestigious honour. Vipin Goyal, Director Of Strategy and Operations, was one of the speakers on ‘ Making Immersive Learning A Practical Reality,’ and also a panelist for a session entitled ‘ How Technology is Changing Educat
VRScout
FEBRUARY 4, 2018
Between 1978 and 1995, the U.S. was terrorized by a domestic terrorist named Ted Kaczynski. He’s more famously known as The Unabomber. A former mathematician, Kaczynski abandoned his academic career to live in a small secluded cabin in Lincoln, Montana. From there he set out on a twisted bombing campaign that killed 3 people and injured 23 others.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
The full release of Godot 3.0 is now available, bringing VR support to the engine via a lightweight, 3DoF, ‘Cardboard-like’ solution, and OpenVR support through a GDNative-based plugin. The multiplatform Godot Engine is an open source, non-profit project available to download for free via the official site or through Steam. As described in the news article on the Godot Engine website , Godot 3.0 is the result of over 18 months of development, bringing many changes and improvements, with a “bran
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.
VRWorld
FEBRUARY 3, 2018
Although VR headset technologies continue to improve, with a number of new technologies slated for release this year , and with a long-rumoured Apple AR device potentially in the works, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that there are several more senses beyond sight and sound. And, because virtual taste technology appears to be nowhere near commercialization, and the only commercialized virtual smell technology remains in pre-order phase, sniffing virtual roses or eating a virtual slice of ch
Slashgear
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
HP kicked off the work week by making a bunch of new announcements, indicating that it’s about to hit the world of VR hard. Today the company unveiled its new HP Windows Mixed Reality Headset – Professional Edition. Though it could do with a somewhat shorter name, those who are looking for a high-end VR headset might want to give … Continue reading.
VRScout
FEBRUARY 7, 2018
‘The Big Apple Coaster’ is an adrenaline-fueled thrill ride with an extraterrestrial twist. “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” It’s a phrase I’m sure most of us are familiar with, serving as the unofficial motto of sin city for as long as anyone can remember. However, this iconic saying could be on its way out the door thanks to a new attraction everyone will be spilling the beans about.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2018
The 2018 Winter Olympics is about to kick off in PyeongChang, South Korea today, and this year you’ll be able to watch a total of 30 events in VR, shared across live and on-demand 360/180 recordings. NBC has partnered with Intel to provide more than 50 hours of live virtual reality coverage through the NBC Sports VR app. On-demand video will be open to the public, while live streaming video will require you to authenticate your subscription with your pay TV provider, i.e. cable, satellite
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?
VRWorld
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
HP appears to be the latest hardware manufacturer to be making a strong push into the VR space, after announcing a range of developments including the pending release of a professional version of its mixed reality headset. The announcements came earlier this week at SOLIDWORKS World , a popular event for those working in the field of 3D CAD. Among the product announcements are an upgrade to the HP Z4 Workstation , the pending (March) release of the commercial-grade HP Windows Mixed Reality Heads
Everything VR & AR
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
We are joined by Ray Kallmeyer, CEO of CreateAR. CreateAR is a leading Augmented Reality design and development firm and is a part of the Microsoft Mixed Reality Partner Program. We talk about CreateAR’s work with Mercedes Benz in Japan and their strategy for refining mixed reality user interface design. We also talk about the current landscape for recruiting talent to build, design and develop new AR, VR, and MR applications and how app developers and game developers are converging more than ev
EnterpriseWear
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Remote collaboration via smart glasses, Virtual Reality training, design visualization with HoloLens…These are incredible applications of wearable technologies in enterprise today. While a VR headset is definitely more exciting than a connected wristband, an unassuming wrist-worn device equipped with the right sensors could have tremendous value in the workplace.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
HP is bringing out an enterprise-focused version of its Windows ‘Mixed Reality’ VR headset in March. Called the ‘Professional Edition’, HP is pushing out basically the same headset hardware-wise save a few tweaks it considers necessary for VR-use in the workplace. As first reported by AnandTech , the HP Windows Mixed Reality Headset Professional Edition will be available in March for $450—only $50 more than the consumer version is currently.
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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