BaptisteGreve

Hello everyone,

Just wanted to share our Forklift VR Training simulator we are developing for some European training companies.

While learning to drive a forklift in VR is not enough to be able to operate it professionally in "real life" it can saves the first few hours of training and eliminate risks.

Would the same thing have happened if you were using the Brave browser (supposed to protect your privacy) - https://brave.com/?

Down for me (FR)

Same issue in France

Same thing for me.

This is a momentous day for VR lovers!

Hello Hackernews!

We spent the last few months building the first VR learning platform and we would love to get your feedback!

Baptiste

Hello everyone!

I shared here a few weeks ago the first version of my experience Colosseum VR and I received a lot of help from your community to improve the experience!

My goal is to help people discover the ancient Rome through a VR headset (the Oculus Rift is the most famous for now). I only added 5 true elements from the ancient Rome for now:

- The Colosseum

- The Temple of Venus and Rome

- The colossus of Nero

- The Elagabalium

- The Arch of Constantine

I will add more and more buildings in the coming months to help users realize how incredible this city was.

You can download the experience here: https://unimersiv.com/course.php?id=21

Let me know if you have any questions/remarks.

Thank you for your help!

Baptiste

109,142EUR collected in a few hours, that would be amazing if the campaign could make it.

Hello everyone!

I just launched the demo of Colosseum VR, an educational experience that will let you explore the Roman Colosseum as it was in its brightest days with your Oculus Rift.

Link: https://unimersiv.com/course.php?id=21

I am convinced that virtual reality could offer some great benefits to education and I want to be a part of that.

It reminds me of an article from Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

"The way to win here is to build the search engine all the hackers use. A search engine whose users consisted of the top 10,000 hackers and no one else would be in a very powerful position despite its small size, just as Google was when it was that search engine. And for the first time in over a decade the idea of switching seems thinkable to me.

Since anyone capable of starting this company is one of those 10,000 hackers, the route is at least straightforward: make the search engine you yourself want. Feel free to make it excessively hackerish. Make it really good for code search, for example. Would you like search queries to be Turing complete? Anything that gets you those 10,000 users is ipso facto good."

It just says "The experiment is over"

I believe YC starts investing in VR: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/

Moreover, the first VR accelerator has been lauched last year from Rothenberg Ventures: http://www.rothenbergventures.com/river

On Business Insider for example:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/valve-is-making-a-virtual-real...

http://uk.businessinsider.com/virtual-reality-amusement-park...

http://uk.businessinsider.com/htc-virtual-reality-headset-20...

http://uk.businessinsider.com/trying-samsung-vr-for-the-firs...

http://uk.businessinsider.com/virtual-reality-is-getting-rea...

It looks amazing... "When you look into the telescope, you'll potentially see far more than any real backyard telescope can reveal."

I'm working on Unimersiv, a platform to learn through virtual reality.

We believe that Virtual Reality can strongly improve the capacity of the human mind to remember the things it learned for a long time. According the Cone of Learning created by Edgard Dale, the american educatonist, after two weeks, the human brain tends to remember 10% of what it reads, 20% of what it hear but 90% of what it does or simulate Unimersiv yields the latter scenario impeccably.

With the educational content published on the platform students can interact with the virtual environment in person and manipulate the various objects within it. This supports “learning by doing” and also results in creativity by constructionism. There are already some great experiences that Oculus Rift' users can use to feed their thirst for learning, the most famous is Titans of Space which takes you into space to teach you everything about our solar system or Apollo 11 in which you become Neil Armstrong on what is the 20th century greatest achievment.

Link: https://unimersiv.com

Link: https://unimersiv.com/course.php?id=17

Bill shares a look at the data before pressing the panic button

Submit it to Product Hunt! http://producthunt.com - It is a great place to launch your start-up.

An other article about the subject : https://unimersiv.com/blog_post.php?id=15

I strongly believe that VR could help us learn much faster.

We are trying to follow his advices at http://unimersiv.com

Hello HN,

Since the first time I used my Oculus DK2, I've been convinced that virtual reality could disrupt education as we know it and some amazing experiences like Apollo 11 just proved that...

That's why I'm building Unimersiv, a platform dedicated to virtual reality courses on which VR developers will be able to share and sell their educational content. I envision a world where people will be able to learn anything faster (sports, sciences, history...) through their VR headset.

I would love to know what you think about this idea, is VR educational content something you appreciate? As a developer, would you publish your educational content on Unimersiv? (btw, don't hesitate to contact me if you are currently working on a VR courses).

Thanks!

VR Development (Unreal Engine and Unity) and 3D modeling (Blender)

Virtual reality being used in education is a great thing, it will add in experience-based learning, as we will be able to practice skills in a simulated environment. And networking, as we may interact with other students and instructors inside virtual spaces.

Link: http://unimersiv.com

- If you see this lady turning clockwise you are using your right brain.

- If you see her turning anti-clockwise, you are using your left brain.

You should post it on the Apptopia's Marketplace : https://marketplace.apptopia.com/

Here is the link to download the app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/puwf-push-ups-with-friends/i...

"It is shown, that of all bodies in the solar system other than Earth, Mars is unique in that it has the resources required to support a population of sufficient size to create locally a new branch of human civilization."

Oculus seems seriously amazing!!