Vision Summit brings creators, artists, programmers, and leaders in the virtual and augmented reality space together for a twoday VRAR conference. This page is no longer being updated Please update your bookmarks and visit www. patchesscrolls. de from now on. Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine ScummVM is a set of game engine recreations. Originally designed to play LucasArts adventure games that. Virtual reality has been seen as nothing more than a promising gimmick for the majority of the last 20 years. However, the last couple years have seen VR advance by. Created by the University of St Andrewss spinout company Smart History, Virtual Time Binoculars Edinburgh 1544 provides a unique window into the capital around the. Apple and MLB team up to catch fans with ARAugmented reality is coming soon to a big league ball park near you. MLB. com. During Apples i. Phone launch two weeks ago, I spotted a 1. What the expletive is that I said, as Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller teased a new AR feature in Major League Baseballs popular At Bat mobile app. He demonstrated how fans at a game could see special stats, including how hard a ball was hit, how far it was thrown or how fast a player runs in real time, simply by pointing their i. Phone toward the action on the field. Also watching the demo, my colleague Claudia Cruz yelled my name across the office to make sure we both saw the same thing. I emailed MLB spokesman Matthew Gould. Let me get back to you, he replied. Virtual reality is on the verge of transforming how quarterbacks prepare in college and the NFL. A week later, Claudia and I found ourselves jockeying with other reporters in a crowded suite at AT T Park in San Francisco, about a 4. Apples spaceship campus in Silicon Valley. We were promised a peek at the new AR capabilities during an actual game between the San Francisco Giants and the Colorado Rockies. What we saw was an internal prototype. The goal is to debut the updated app in 2. Its no secret Apple wants its augmented reality developer kit, announced in May, to be used to create apps for the i. Phone and i. Pad that will prove more enduring than last years Pokemon Go phenomenon. Now the tech giant is experimenting with At Bat, the most popular sports league app, to give diehard baseball fans like Claudia and me more data than we probably can consume. The AR feature may also get MLB teams looking to cheat er, um, gain an advantage to use their i. Pads during games. Apples Phil Schiller teases the companys plans to add an AR feature to Major League Baseballs At Bat app. Apple. We want this to be fun for fans in the stands, to tell them something new about the game they cant see on the scoreboard or have to search hard for, said Chad Evans, a mobile product executive with MLB Advanced Media, baseballs interactive arm. Everything is in play. For non sports fans, Claudia and I compare this AR feature to those Omnioculars used to watch Quidditch matches in the Harry Potter movies. They will provide the user with a play by play breakdown if desired, showing the names of the manoeuvres performed by players, according to the Harry Potter Wiki page. And thats sort of what the AR feature in the MLB At Bat app does. On Wednesday, Evans and Greg Cain, MLBAMs senior data director, pulled out i. Pad Pros and showed us how, by clicking on a players augmented image, you can get his data from Statcast. The Statcast tool uses HD cameras, a Doppler radar and machine learning to track every move on the field. Statcast gives teams, broadcasters and fans an array of metrics and trivia, including that New York Yankees rookie Aaron Judges 4. Or how his teammate, Aroldis Chapman, has thrown the seasons fastest pitch at 1. During the Giants Rockies game, we grilled Evans and Cain on what stats are available. Could they tell us how hard Rockies star and National League MVP candidate Charlie Blackmon hits a baseballIts around 8. 6 mph his exit velocity, compared with Judges shots, which can reach around 1. We also learned that Rockies catcher Jonathan Lucroy has a 2. Too inside baseball Developers are trying to strike a balance with the data  They dont want to overwhelm casual fans, but they also dont want to bore stats freaks. Were going to try to create the right information at the right time. We just need to figure out how to do it, Evans said. Theres all of these data stories we are going to try to tell. The demo left us hankering for more. Claudia wants to see instant replays in AR, as well as the weight, height and strength comparisons of players on the field. She also wants the app to anticipate when a record could be broken. Id like the feature to show me what a hitters batting average is when he has two strikes and the bases are loaded. Maybe it could also tell me the probability of him hitting either a triple or a double in that same situation. We could be asking too much, but they tell us being able to marry data with the world is the promise of AR. This is not a static product, Cain said. We will continue to grow and build it out over time. Solving for XX The industry seeks to overcome outdated ideas about women in tech. Special Reports All of CNETs most in depth features in one easy spot.