Road to VR

JANUARY 30, 2019

Valve’s monthly Steam Survey has long offered some useful insight into which headsets are actively connected to users computers and the share of the Steam population that’s using each, but the figures provided are relative to the non-static Steam population, which obfuscates the actual adoption trend of VR headsets on the platform. To demystify the data, Road to VR has created a model which derives actual headset counts by correcting for Steam’s changing population.

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VRScout

JANUARY 28, 2019

First responders will be able to use drones equipped with augmented reality technology to better deal with emergency situations. . Drones have been getting a really bad rep as of late, especially in the United Kingdom where rogue operators managed to shut down operations at both Gatwick and Heathrow airports, effectively ruining Christmas for thousands of travelers and prompting widespread clamour for greater regulation against the easily obtainable devices.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Welcome to a new episode of The Ghost’s Spotlight , where I give you brief opinions and reviews about VR products that I have tried. Today I want to tell you about two indie products that I have tried: Salsa Virtual and Towards a Perilous Journey. Salsa Virtual. Salsa Virtual is a VR experience that teaches you Salsa. The experience has been created by Jorge Ortiz , that during the college years decided to take dance lessons and fell in love with this activity.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 28, 2019

Virtual laughs can mean big bucks, and Sansar is announcing a host of new live comedy acts to draw in the crowds. Linden Lab has just announced a host of new collaborations designed to attract paying punters to its live events platform, which they launched last year. Linden Lab has just announced a host of new collaborations designed to attract paying punters to its live events platform Click To Tweet.

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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.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 28, 2019

Last month, TIME and Felix & Paul Studios launched VR cameras to the International Space Station (ISS) in a new project to bring viewers an intimate look aboard one of the most exclusive places in human existence. Dubbed The ISS Experience, over the course of the next year VR cameras will provide what the makers call “unprecedented access to a participatory experience—one that will culminate with the first-ever filming of a spacewalk in cinematic virtual reality.” The year-lon

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2019

Do you have a passion for ancient history and virtual reality? Then Rome Reborn is for sure a project you should look into. Rome Reborn is an amazing project that goes on since 22 years ago (yikes!) with the purpose of creating a digital reconstruction of ancient Rome. Lately, this incredible work has been ported to virtual reality and so you are able to live the ancient Rome as if you were there.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 30, 2019

The games giant joins VRM Consortium in Japan as an observer, but does that mean they’re closer to entering the immersive space? As early as 2016, former Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima had already hinted that the company was “looking into” VR. In a later interview in 2017, that interest had been somewhat upgraded to say they were “studying” the possibility of perhaps adding a HMD accessory to the Nintendo Switch once they were convinced users could play for longer durations without experie

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Saab, a global defense and security company (and former parent company of the car manufacturer of the same name), says that it will further develop a VR experience designed to demonstrate a shoulder-mounted rocket launcher offered by the company. Saab is the manufacturer of the Carl-Gustaf recoilless rifle (among a wide range of other defense products), a man-portable anti-tank launcher that’s been used in militaries around the globe following its initial introduction in 1948.

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VRScout

JANUARY 29, 2019

One of music’s strangest acts invades Sundance with an even stranger AR experience. It’s fitting that YouTube darling Poppy is at the center of an interactive AR piece that ends with you questioning your own reality. It’s her thing and The Jester’s Tale from RYOT is no exception, presenting a mix of Magic Leap technology and live performance that shows how easily the lines can blur between our physical and digital worlds. “To me, Poppy represents a new kind of cultural critique, one

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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.

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Next Reality AR

JANUARY 31, 2019

With Magic Leap One approaching six months since launch, Magic Leap is fully focused on building a content ecosystem and developer community. The company's latest endeavor in engaging developers was sponsorship of the Reality Virtually Hackathon, which took place Jan. 17 to 21 at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Now, Magic Leap has released a highlight reel that gives the public a peek at the fruits of their endeavor.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2019

Some weeks ago, I have published my post where I detailed how to install the 6 DOF Controllers devkit for the Vive Focus. Later on, I published on my social media a video of the controllers in action, shot directly from inside my Vive Focus. As you can see, this video is in a nice monocular undistorted (actually, there are some distortions… so, “less distorted”) format that is different from the ones that I was used to publish until that moment, that showed a distorted binocula

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

It appears that the 2018 holiday shopping season was one of the best ever for PC VR headsets. The latest data released today from Valve shows VR making its single biggest leap yet, on a path toward 1 million monthly-connected headsets. There’s now more Steam users with VR headsets connected to their PCs (0.91%) than there are Linux users running Steam (0.82%), which includes all of Valve’s ‘Steam Machine’ consoles running the company’s Linux-based SteamOS.

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VRScout

JANUARY 30, 2019

Colin Farrell narrates this three-part animated adventure from the team at Atlas V. Atlas V , the development team behind AAA VR projects such as Six Years and Battlescar , have returned once again with yet another high-quality immersive experience that pushes VR storytelling in a bold new direction. Debuted at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival ‘New Frontiers’ exhibit, Gloomy Eyes follows Gloomy, a pint-sized zombie struggling to find his place in a bleak world fractured by ongoing con

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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.

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Next Reality AR

JANUARY 28, 2019

I was today years old when I first heard of Bhad Bhabie, but I'm told she is apparently a rapper with a rags-to-riches story. So, of course, she should get her own reality show. And Snap is pulling out the big guns to promote her Snap Original show, Bringing up Bhabie, with an AR-enabled billboard on the prominent Sunset Strip along with the debut of a Bhad Bhabie single via an AR Lens Challenge.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 26, 2019

Do you remember the game P.T. for PlayStation 4 ? Well, I have played it in VR and I really got scared… If you don’t remember what P.T. is, don’t worry, Tony is here to help you. P.T. was the playable teaser (P.T. stands exactly for those two words) for the game “Silent Hills” that should have been the sequel of the popular horror game “Silent Hill” This little demo was directed by the two geniuses Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro and was designed to

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Road to VR

JANUARY 30, 2019

Neat Corporation, the team behind Budget Cuts (2018) , revealed today that they’re currently porting the VR stealth adventure to PSVR. Moreover, if everything goes well, it could be coming to Oculus Quest too. right now we are working on a PSVR version of budget cuts – quest will require even more of a performance optimization but we will look into it once we are "done" with PSVR!

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Microsoft is set to announce their HoloLens 2 in February. Do these patents show the future of Microsoft’s AR device? There’s currently a lot of discussion surrounding Microsoft’s HoloLens 2, which is rumored to be making its unveiling at Mobile World Congress in February. We don’t know too many of the details around the device as of yet, but one thing is for sure, Microsoft’s next iteration of AR headset technology is definitely on the way.

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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.

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Next Reality AR

JANUARY 30, 2019

Move over, cosmetics companies. The athletic footwear industry wants to be able to give their customers the opportunity to try on products in augmented reality as well. A new mobile app from augmented reality commerce company Wannaby, appropriately named Wanna Kicks, uses smartphone and tablet cameras to show users what shoes look like on their feet from various angles in real time.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 29, 2019

If you ever dreamed of fighting or putting on the gloves as the Italian Stallion himself, CREED: Rise to Glory brings some of the most legendary figures of the ROCKY franchise to the game’s Freeplay and PvP roster across all VR platforms in its latest free content update. The list of new fighters include World Heavyweight Champion Apollo Creed, father of Adonis Creed and Rocky’s original rival-turned-friend; Rocky III ’s streetwise Southside Slugger Clubber Lang; and, most notorious of all, Ivan

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Ubisoft today announced in a blogpost that a special arcade edition of their upcoming VR shooter Space Junkies has rolled out to “100+ arcades” around the world. To celebrate, Ubisoft is collaborating with the Virtual Athletics League to throw a Space Junkies International 2v2 Tournament, which starts this month. The tournament will see over $4,500 worth of prizes given away to the top teams.

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VRScout

JANUARY 31, 2019

Relax, it’s just rocket science. Students taking classes with Kosmos School can design and launch rockets in VR as a way to study physics and chemistry, but the school hopes that students will soon be able to study all of their coursework in a virtual environment. Right now, things are still small. Kosmos School is trying things out with a single class composed of just 6 students called ‘Intro to Rockets’, where students can run science experiments and work on engineering probl

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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?

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Next Reality AR

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

In the realm of internet security, it's becoming clear that augmented reality is not immune to the increasing wave data breaches plaguing users. On Friday, furniture retailer Houzz, an early adopter of ARKit, revealed details of a data breach that occurred in December 2018. Don't Miss: Art.com & Houzz Apps Take Imaginative Approaches to Hang AR Art Until ARKit Update Arrives While an investigation into the breach is ongoing, Houzz has learned that profile information, internal identifiers wi

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 31, 2019

Mosh Pit Simulator is a hyper-interactive physical VR sandbox set in a world overrun by boneless and brainless humanoids that despite having no brains, still try to lead normal life, even tho they don't know how. So they keep crashing cars, breaking things and being generally goofy. The player's job is to get in their way. Their generally harmless and don't mean anything wrong, but you just kind of don't like them.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 30, 2019

Vive Cosmos, HTC’s upcoming PC VR headset (which is also likely to support tethering to smartphones), has popped up in FCC listings, suggesting that the company is moving rapidly to bring it to market. The Vive Cosmos headset was only just revealed last month and details are still quite thin on the ground , but new filings at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) suggest it’s moving quickly toward market-readiness, likely with the intention of heading off Oculus’ upc

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VRScout

JANUARY 26, 2019

New research by UBC highlights the similarities and differences in the way people interact in VR versus the real world. Contagious yawning is a well-documented phenomenon in which people – and even some non-human animals – yawn reflexively when they detect a nearby yawn. Another aspect of this is that when people are in company, the presence of others also causes most of us supress that reflex (or at least try to).

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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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