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Felix & Paul’s ‘The People’s House’ 360 Video Wins an Emmy

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Sep 11, 2017

The Peoples House Oculus(2) — image courtesy Felix & Paul

The second night of the 69th Emmy Awards saw a number of nominations for virtual reality content, including rendered experiences and 360 video spanning a diverse swath of genres. Taking home an Emmy this year was The People’s House: Inside the White House with Barack and Michelle Obama, a 360 video created by Felix & Paul Studios and Oculus Studios that gives you a guided tour of one the most important buildings in the world, led by former US President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama.

Acer Upgrades VR Headset’s Headstrap for Consumer Launch

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Sep 10, 2017

acer-mixed-reality-headset-strap — Image courtesy Acer

Acer’s Windows VR headset initially became available earlier this summer as a development kit. In October the company will launch the consumer version of the headset now with an upgraded head strap.

Nintendo Still Not Ready For VR, Not Enough “Truly Fun” Experiences

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Sep 10, 2017

Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America’s President and COO, took the stage Thursday at Variety’s Entertainment and Tech Summit to discuss the company’s immediate future, including the likely (and entirely predictable) shortage of Nintendo Switch this holiday season. According to Fils-Aime, who spoke briefly about the company’s plans for VR, there still isn’t any reason for Nintendo to go head-first into the medium.

Devs Use ARKit to Make an iPhone Motion Controller for HoloLens

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Sep 10, 2017

Ok, these ARKit experiments and mashups are getting darn cool. Here VR development studio Emergent linked together HoloLens and an iPhone with ARKit to turn the iPhone into a 6DOF motion tracked controller.

Meta 2 Adds Initial SteamVR Support, Soon to Work With Vive Controllers

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Sep 9, 2017

meta-2 — Photo by Road to VR

The Meta 2 AR headset SDK now supports SteamVR, making it easy for developers who have built SteamVR applications to add support for the headset.

Pimax Teases ‘Next Generation’ Accessories for Its 8K VR Headset

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Sep 8, 2017

Pimax, the Chinese VR headset manufacturer, released a teaser video showing a number of high-tech accessories that clip onto the company’s upcoming 8K VR headset—a headset that boasts a staggering 200 degree field of view (FOV) at 3840×2160 per eye resolution via its dual LCD displays.

‘Marvel Powers United VR’ to Include ‘Inhumans’ Black Bolt and Crystal as Playable Heroes

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Sep 8, 2017

Marvel Powers United VR, the upcoming co-op superhero adventure game for Oculus Rift, revealed that two of its twelve payable heroes are coming from the Inhuman franchise: Black Bolt and Crystal.

Mimesys Leverages ARKit as a Mobile Viewer into Collaborative Virtual Environments

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Sep 8, 2017

VR remote collaboration company Mimesys has dreamt up an experiment which envisions mobile AR as a portal into remote virtual environments, allowing for quick spatial collaboration on-the-go, without putting on a VR headset.

How VR, AR, & AI Can Change Education Forever – Part 2, Tomorrow’s Solutions

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Sep 8, 2017

lucas-education-(72) — Image courtesy Noah Bradley / Wizards of the Coast

Today’s educational system is static, generalized and puts less focus on individual self-development than it perhaps should. To make matters worse, students often don’t understand why they are learning the things that they’re learning, which makes certain classes feel arbitrary and purposeless in the face of their personal ambitions.

The Easiest Way to Set Up Oculus Rift Room-scale Tracking (without drilling any holes)

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Sep 7, 2017

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While it’s true that the Oculus Rift didn’t initially support room-scale tracking, Oculus has embraced large-scale tracking, allowing for 360 degree tracking and room-scale gameplay at similar sizes as the HTC Vive. This guide will show you the easiest way to get up and running with rooms-scale tracking starting with just two Sensors (cameras) and no drilling holes.

Google & Song Exploder Create ‘Inside Music’ VR App to Help You Better Appreciate Songs

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Sep 7, 2017

Song Exploder, the popular music podcast that lets musicians explain every part of their songs, has gotten some help from Google to create a new app that throws you in the middle of song so you can experience it like never before. Called Inside Music, the WebVR app lets you turn individual pieces of a song on and off, giving you a little more insight into just how it’s made.

ManoMotion Brings Hand Gesture Input to Apple’s ARKit

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Sep 7, 2017

AR-Kit-3 — image courtesy ManoMotion

ManoMotion, a computer-vision and machine learning company, today announced they’re integrated their company’s smartphone-based gesture control with Apple’s augmented reality developer tool ARKit, making it possible to bring basic hand-tracking into AR with only the use of the smartphone’s onboard processors and camera.

Rockstar to Bring ‘L.A. Noire’ to HTC Vive With Cases “rebuilt specifically for virtual reality”

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Sep 7, 2017

lanoire_aslipofthetongue_1920x1080 — image courtesy Rockstar Games

L.A. Noire (2011), the hit neo-noire adventure game for PC and console, is coming to VR in a series of cases taken from the original game that Rockstar says are being “rebuilt specifically for virtual reality.”

Blending Immersive Theater & VR with ‘Draw Me Close’ by NFB and National Theatre

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Sep 6, 2017

The National Theatre has created an Immersive Storytelling Studio to better understand the practices, protocols, opportunities of how virtual and augmented reality technologies are creating new storytelling possibilities. They collaborated with the National Film Board of Canada on an immersive theater piece called Draw Me Close that premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. It featured a one-on-one interaction with a live actor in a mixed reality environment while the audience was unveiled within a virtual reality headset where you play the archetypal role of a son/daughter as your mother embraces you, draws with you, and tucks you into bed as she narratives a memoir of her life. I talked with Immersion Storytelling Studio producer Johanna Nicolls about the reactions, intention, and overall development of Draw Me Close, which is their first immersive theater VR piece.

‘Brass Tactics’ RTS Now Available for Pre-order, Launching October 19th

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Sep 6, 2017

Brass Tactics, the RTS from Defense Grid 2 (2016) studio Hidden Path Entertainment, was first teased at GDC earlier this year where they showed off their miniature tabletop world of war. As an Oculus platform exclusive, Brass Tactics is now available for pre-order on the Oculus Store with an October 19th launch date.

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