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Overcoming Fears of Public Speaking with ‘Speech Center VR’

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Aug 17, 2016

Cerevrum is building an ambitious educational platform starting with training people to become better public speakers with Speech Center VR. The basic mechanic is that you stand in a variety of different virtual rooms in front of an animated crowd of virtual listeners as you give a presentation. The app is designed to help people get over their fears of public speaking, but there are many other educational learning opportunities from a number of upcoming courses featuring public speaking coaches.

Digital Domain’s New 360 Camera to Capture 250 Hours of Major Sports Footage

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Aug 17, 2016

Digital Domain is to capture some 250 hours of immersive 360 video at a major sporting event in Rio this year using a new bespoke camera of their own design.

Introducing Exemplar 2, Save $100 on Our Second-generation VR Test Bench

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Aug 17, 2016

Today we’re are pleased to announce Exemplar 2, the second generation of our high-end VR gaming PC designed for those who want to push the limits of immersion. Exemplar 2 Ultimate is Road to VR’s internal test bench for VR reviews and benchmarking.

Preview: ‘Racket: Nx’ for HTC Vive

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Aug 17, 2016

Matthew Magee gets active and takes a swing at the new futuristic VR sports featuring heavy classic arcade influences for the HTC Vive, Racket: Nx.

This is How NOT to Shoot 360 Video, According to YouTube

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Aug 16, 2016

YouTube tells budding VR film-makers what not to do when shooting an immersive 360 in this excellent crash course in this fledgling but ever more popular form of content.

Intel Reveals Project Alloy, an All-in-one VR Headset With Mobile Positional Tracking

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Aug 16, 2016

intel-project-alloy-vr-headset-2 — Photo courtesy Intel

Today at the Intel Developer Forum event in San Francisco, Intel revealed Project Alloy, an all-in-one mobile virtual reality headset which the company says will launch in 2017 as an “open platform.”

Hands-on: New GTX 10-Series Equipped Notebooks Put Desktop VR Performance in a Portable Package

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Aug 16, 2016

Nvidia’s rollout of Pascal technology continues at a relentless pace. After a launch presentation that included a live demo of Gears of War 4 running at 4K on Ultra settings on a GTX 1080 notebook, and Doom running on a mobile GTX 1080 overclocked to 2GHz, we were given some hands-on time with an impressive range of Pascal-based notebooks from Acer, Asus, EVGA, HP, MSI, and Razer.

‘New Retro Arcade: Neon’ Review

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New Retro Arcade: Neon is striving to be one of the most accurate recreations yet of the so called ‘Golden Age of Arcade Gaming’ with its heavy emphasis on ’80s and early ’90s nostalgia. Featuring a multitude of configurable emulator-based coin-op cabinets and consoles like SNES and Gameboy (respectively called ‘Cartridges’ and ‘Gamebro’ for obvious legal reasons) alongside a healthy serving of arcade classics like air hockey, bowling and skee ball—Neon has undoubtedly rebuilt an important piece of gaming history, and all beautifully rendered in virtual reality. But before you pop on your Power Glove and open up a can of Tab, there are some clear limitations to the platform that may hinder your on your quest to relive the Reagan/Thatcher era of arcade gaming.

First Gameplay for Batman: Arkham VR Revealed, Pre-Orders Now Live

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Aug 16, 2016

Warner Bros. Entertainment are finally giving the world a glimpse at Batman’s first official foray into virtual reality, Batman: Arkham VR, first shown at E3 this year, and teased here alongside fan reactions to their time with the PSVR exclusive experience.

Turtle Beach Launching VR Headphones With an Incredibly Obvious but Undeniably Useful Tweak

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Aug 16, 2016

Gaming peripheral maker Turtle Beach has a new pair of headphones aimed specifically at VR gamers.

Next-gen VR Ready Gaming Notebooks Will Start at $1,300 with NVIDIA 10-Series GPUs

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Aug 16, 2016

Today NVIDIA has revealed that its 10-Series GPUs—the GTX 1080, 1070, and 1060—are coming to gaming notebooks from a slew of major computer manufacturers. The company says the GPUs are not mobile variants, but desktop-class chips which will mean widespread availability of ‘VR Ready’ laptops.

Minecraft Windows 10 Beta with Oculus Rift Support is Out Now

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Aug 15, 2016

At long last Minecraft, one of the most popular games on earth, has officially arrived on the Oculus Rift in beta form as part of a new beta update for the Windows 10 edition.

NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH: New Quadro GPUs, AI, & the Future of Interactive Ray Tracing

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Aug 15, 2016

iray-vr-gensler-420h — A scene rendered with NVIDIA's Iray ray tracing renderer

SIGGRAPH is a popular place for GPU manufacturers to announce new versions of professional graphics cards designed for the visual effects industry and high-end virtual reality content producers in architectural visualization and engineering. NVIDIA announced two new ‘Pascal’ GPUs including the Quadro P6000 with a 24GB frame buffer and a staggering 3,820 CUDA cores, as well as the Quadro P5000 card with 2,560 cores and 16GB frame buffer.

‘Racket: Nx’ is a Retro-Inspired Futuristic VR Sports Workout for HTC Vive

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Aug 15, 2016

Racket: Nx is a new, futuristic VR sports title which draws inspiration from the game of Racquetball and classic arcade titles and promises to help you work up a sweat.

This Project to Preserve Classic Ghost Trains in VR Needs Your Help

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Aug 15, 2016

The Dark Ride Project is an initiative that wants to preserve the dying history of the classic carnival ghost train ride by setting out to capture as many as possible in 360 video before they disappear forever.

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