![]() ![]() For server installation and updates, see Server Setup.For backups, see Backups and Recovery (already included for singleplayer),.For compatible mods, see Additional Mods,.Vivecraft for 1.This page shows how to install, update, or migrate a GTNH client.Another cool Mixed Reality Minecraft Video! July 31, 2016.Vivecraft updates v4 & 31 August 2, 2016.Vivecraft v5 – Huge roomscale overhaul August 14, 2016.Play Vivecraft on your phone! August 20, 2016.New update and server plugin for 1.10 August 24, 2016.Vivecraft for Minecraft 1.11! November 30, 2016.Update for Oculus Touch December 7, 2016.Animation update and non-VR companion December 14, 2016.Vivecraft is 1 year old today! May 24, 2017.Vivecraft for Minecraft 1.12 July 7, 2017.We’re updating our Privacy Policy! May 25, 2018.Still waiting for 1.13 October 15, 2018.1.14, SteamVR Input, and Vivecraft’s 3rd birthday.I deck the halls with this Lapis Lazuli December 25, 2019.1.16, Forge Support, and 4 years running July 4, 2020.Vivecraft 1.16.1 and new features! August 7, 2020.1.17 and Vivecraft after 5 years July 4, 2021.Log4j security and 1.18 December 10, 2021.Update on 1.19 and mod support July 4, 2022.1.19 beta builds are available on Patreon July 18, 2022.If the game does not launch or you encounter any issues, please read the faq, which covers many common problems. See Image.Ĭheck the How to play page for an overview of VR features and tips. The profile for Vivecraft should already be selected, If is it not, ensure the ‘modded’ profiles checkbox is checked.Make sure to force the high-performance processor in the gpu control panel. The program will download some files and set up your launcher profile. 4gb is more than sufficient for all but the largest modpacks. Do not allocate more RAM than you need.If the installer cannot detect Forge already installed it will download and run the installer for you If you want support for Forge mods check the Forge box.Hover your mouse over each option to see what it does.Make sure the Minecraft Launcher is NOT running.You don’t need to actually launch the game. Run the Minecraft Launcher on your PC at least once to make the game folders.You can install Vivecraft multiple times with different options with no issue. Installation is the same the first time you install and for updates. Follow these instructions to install the Vivecraft client. These versions no longer receive updates and may not include all the features described on this site. Downloads and instructions for this version can be found on curseforge or modrinth. Vivecraft 1.18.X, 1.19.X, and 1.20.X are available as a mixin-based mod for Forge or Fabric. Current Standalone Versions Minecraft Version Please see the Multiplayer page for instructions on setting up a Vivecraft-compatible multiplayer server. The VR and NONVR clients use the same page. The downloads are in the Assets section on github. The links will take you to the release page for that file. – the Forge server mod is to enable animations on a Forge server. ![]() – The Spigot plugin is to enable animations on a Spigot server. – The NonVR (2D) Client is for desktop players who wish to see VR animations or LAN-host. – The VR Client is the main mod for VR players. There are 4 downloads available for each version. Not all versions support the same VR features or support Forge mods. All versions contain Optifine which adds shaders support, dynamic lights, and other graphical improvements. Vivecraft is available for several Minecraft versions.
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![]() ![]() More from Kyle Cheney and Andrew Desiderio Wednesday: Gordon Sondland … Laura Cooper … David Hale. Alexander Vindman … Kurt Volker … Timothy Morrison. NEXT WEEK’S WITNESSES: Tuesday: Pence aide Jennifer Williams … Lt. But in the middle - the next nine days - you’ll get nonstop, white-knuckle action. We’ll hear from longtime foreign servants, a military official and White House insiders, all of whom have the same view of this administration’s behavior: improper, immoral and wrong-headed.īUT, AT THE END OF THE DAY, we all have a pretty good idea how this movie is going to end: a nearly party-line vote, with most every Democrat voting to impeach the president, and nearly all Republicans voting against it. ![]() government was dangling meetings and money as enticements. They will highlight just how unusual this White House is: The president’s personal lawyer was running around the globe trying to get a foreign country to investigate a political rival, and the U.S. Yes, the hearings these next two weeks are momentous and historic. In the end, though, you also know the showrunners probably won’t kill him off. Every episode makes you sweat as Jack gets into one pickle or another. You know the dude is going to get chased, shot at or stabbed - and do it all in exotic locales. THE HOUSE’S IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS KIND OF LIKE WATCHING the newest season of “Jack Ryan” on Amazon Prime Video. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images DRIVING THE DAY Most every Democrat will likely vote to impeach President Donald Trump, with nearly all Republicans voting against it. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, wealthy families, especially those whose fortunes are not from tech, have a mixed history investing in start-ups. Shailesh Sachdeva, managing director of the family office practice at SVB Capital, suggests the York family is not alone: there has been much more participation from ultra-high net worth families whose wealth did not come from technology.įield of dreams: San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York, left and Brano Perkovich, 49ers chief investment officer, at their stadium in Santa Clara © Jason Henry for the FT York says his family is “probably more overweight venture ” than other US family offices, but not compared with those in the Bay Area that have made their fortunes in tech. Increasingly, that includes clans that grew rich from retail, real estate and other industries with few connections to the kinds of software and internet-based products that have generated billions in the latest boom. While those totals fall short of the money invested in private equity buyouts and other alternative assets, such as hedge funds and property, the growth shows how even normally conservative families have begun eyeing riskier investments. ![]() The average family office in the survey held direct stakes in 17 companies and 10 investments in venture funds, which accounted for 12 per cent of its portfolio. Three-quarters of family offices surveyed globally by SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) and Campden Wealth said they made venture investments in 2021, about double the share that were striking deals a decade earlier. The San Francisco 49ers celebrate a defensive play during a 2020 game © Thearon W. A growing list of wealthy families from outside the tech world have tried to gain a foothold in the explosive growth of start-ups during the recent tech boom. If York seems an unlikely venture capitalist, the 49ers owner is not alone. He says Aurum has returned more than four-and-a-half times the money it has invested in more than two dozen companies since 2014. Now, says Perkovich, the fund has few problems securing access to attractive deals - thanks to tight relationships it has developed with top venture capitalists. The fund was being approached by “companies that had been up and down the valley and couldn’t raise anywhere else”. “There was a significant - I would call it negative - selection bias,” says Perkovich, 47, who was born in Bosnia and studied electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Instead, it heard many pitches from start-ups in stagnating areas such as advertising technology that had found little success raising money elsewhere. Aurum also made an early investment in DripDrop, a rehydration drink mixture with backing from Hall of Fame football quarterback John Elway.Įven so, Aurum struggled to get into deals backed by top-tier venture capital firms, according to its principals. As one of its first investments, the fund started a ticketing and food-ordering app for sports stadiums that quickly received backing from Twitter’s venture arm and other strategic investors. To help run the fund, he recruited Brano Perkovich, a technology investment banker with Barclays in Silicon Valley. The Twitter bio for Danielle York, his wife, states that she is “CEO of the fresh-faced York had to work hard to win access to deals after he started a venture fund called Aurum Partners in 2014. York’s online presence gives the appearance of a family man. After a brief stint in investment banking, he joined the family business at the lowest rung of the organisation, sewing names on jerseys and taping players’ ankles. He was captain of the baseball team in high school, then attended the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, America’s most prestigious Catholic university. Nor did York himself have much tech experience. ![]() “There’s a level of entrepreneurship, but it’s not necessarily in what Silicon Valley would look at as tech.” “My parents didn’t start a computer company in the 1970s . . . That’s not the make-up of my family,” says York. A shrewd $16.5mn investment became the basis of a family fortune worth about $4bn, according to Forbes estimates.īut, if football made the family’s fame and fortune, it was of little help when York decided to diversify into technology investing and break into the tight-knit world of Silicon Valley. In the decades that followed, the 49ers became one of the dominant National Football League teams, bringing home five Super Bowl championships. The 42-year-old owes his wealth to sports and shopping malls: his grandfather made his riches in Midwest property before buying the 49ers in 1977. Heads for business: Jed York, left, and Brano Perkovich at the Levi’s Stadium, home of the 49ers © Jason Henry for the FTįew people would guess that Jed York, owner of the San Francisco 49ers football team, is an early investor in dozens of technology start-ups. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Trax’s underpinnings are much like those of many typical small cars and carlike crossovers, with a MacPherson strut front suspension and a torsion-beam rear setup with tubular V-shaped beam and twin-tube gas shocks. Fuel economy ratings are 29 mpg combined for the front-wheel-drive version, dropping to 27 mpg if you add all-wheel drive. It’s paired to a six-speed automatic transmission with a wide range of gear ratios, allowing relatively quick takeoffs but a deep overdrive sixth gear for relaxed, fuel-efficient highway cruising. Trax models come powered by a 1.4-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine, making 138 horsepower and 148 pound-feet of torque-with peak torque from just 1,850 rpm on up. Inside, the Trax gets an instrument panel look that has a lot in common with the Sonic's motorcycle-influenced layout, including a sweeping tachometer, a digital speedo, and otherwise, a simple, sporty, upright look to the dash and trim.Īll U.S. Rubber-look lower-body components to offer a hint of ruggedness-although, of course, the Trax isn’t meant for the trail. An arched-back roofline and nicely sculpted flanks do their best to keep it from feeling too slab-sided, fronted by a taller, stubbier version of the current Chevrolet corporate grille that blends into a high hood line. It is, at 66 inches tall, quite a bit higher than a typical subcompact hatch. It's about 169 inches long, with a 101-inch wheelbase and 61-inch-wide track, which gives it the footprint of a subcompact by today’s standards. You could consider the 2015 Trax a tall five-door hatchback, or a classic two-box utility vehicle in miniature. Trax may be one of the more quieter small utilities on the road, and conceivably more refined than simpler Trax versions sold in more than 60 other countries. market gets several new features plus a structural upgrade to handle tougher new crash-safety tests. And while it's been on sale in Mexico and Canada for a couple of years, the 2015 Trax entering the U.S. then it adds optional all-wheel drive, which isn't available on the Sonic hatchback or sedan. Expanding Chevy's lineup of small cars-from Spark minicar through Cruze compact sedan-the Trax gives the brand its least-expensive all-wheel drive entry.īased on underpinnings shared with the Buick Encore, the Trax is derived from the subcompact Sonic and shares its engine and transmission. With a lower entry price, the Trax offers most of the amenities of its larger sibling, the compact crossover Equinox. ![]() The 2015 Chevrolet Trax, along with several other new and smaller SUVs, is jumping into the red-hot utility vehicle market. ![]() ![]() ![]() Under the balance sheet insolvency definition, insolvency occurs when liabilities exceed the reasonable market value of assets held. 1994), rehearing overruled (July 12, 1994), writ denied (Dec. Under the equity insolvency definition, a corporation is insolvent when it is unable to pay its debts as they become due in the ordinary course of business. In other contexts, courts have historically utilized two definitions of insolvency: the so-called equity definition and the balance sheet definition. Despite the serious implication of expanding the scope of the fiduciary duties to creditors into the pre-insolvency status of a corporation, courts have given surprisingly little guidance on defining the "zone" of insolvency. For the past 10 years, directors and officers have wondered whether their corporation has actually entered the "vicinity" or "zone" of insolvency. The Credit Lyonnais decision - which clearly departed from the prior bright-line insolvency test for imposing a shift of fiduciary duties - created instant uncertainty for directors and officers in distressed situations. In other words, the duties to creditors may arise even where the corporation is actually solvent but is approaching insolvency. would make if given the opportunity to act." Id. irectors recognize that in managing the business affairs of a solvent corporation in the vicinity of insolvency, circumstances may arise when the right (both the efficient and fair) course to follow for the corporation may diverge from the choice that the stockholder. ![]() The court gave the following explanation for the shift in duties: "here a corporation is operating in the vicinity of insolvency, a board of directors is not merely the agent of the residue risk bearers, but owes its duty to the corporation enterprise. The genesis of the doctrine is the Delaware Chancery Court's seminal decision in Credit Lyonnais Bank Nederland, N.V. The doctrine of expanding the fiduciary duties of directors and officers in the pre-insolvency period is relatively young, but has been widely accepted. As many courts have stated, to impose obligations on the directors and officers to the corporation's creditors only when insolvency is undisputed may be too late, given the critical operational and financial decisions made just prior to being declared officially insolvent. The theory behind expanding the scope of fiduciary duties to include creditors at the pre-insolvency stage is that creditors may no longer be adequately protected by the agreements they negotiated with the corporation and so they need additional extra-contractual protections. ![]() While it is undisputed that these fiduciary duties to creditors vest when a corporation is insolvent or initiates an insolvency proceeding, many courts have expanded the time when directors and officers owe fiduciary duties to creditors to include the period when the corporation is in the vicinity of insolvency or the "zone" of insolvency. When a corporation becomes financially troubled, a shift occurs in the fiduciary role of its officers and directors, who must more actively and consciously consider the interests of the corporation's creditors when making decisions. Officers and directors continue to have fiduciary responsibilities, but they are no longer limited to the corporate entity and its shareholders. The obvious question for corporate officials and those who advise them is: At what point prior to insolvency do the fiduciary obligations of officers and directors shift to include creditors? This article summarizes the circumstances that may give rise to a shift of fiduciary duties to creditors, and describes the duties that may be owed when a corporation is in the vicinity of insolvency.Shifting Fiduciary Duties In the 'Zone' of InsolvencyThe rules regarding fiduciary duties applicable to solvent corporations become more complicated when a corporation is financially troubled. Under a relatively recent but widely accepted theory, courts have held that the fiduciary duties of directors and officers have been expanded to include the corporation's creditors when the corporation is in a financially troubled situation and approaching insolvency. It is well established that when a corporation is insolvent, its officers and directors owe fiduciary duties not only to the corporation and its shareholders, but to the corporation's creditors as well. ![]() ![]() ![]() This time, it’s set in a gloomy textile factory, and ends with the factory’s owner, Paul (Billy Burke), lying mangled on the floor. “Lights Out” opens with a bigger-budget recreation of the original short, featuring the same actress - Sandberg’s wife, Lotta Losten - and the same female figure in the darkness. But there’s an invigorating leanness - and a giddy, almost innocent energy - to the filmmaking, with Sandberg shooting for nothing more than inventive, relentless jolts, and the film should win over a sizable fanbase as Sandberg continues on to bigger things. Very obviously a first feature, “Lights Out” is full of camp (most of it clearly intentional, some perhaps not), and its underlying mythology is confused and often ridiculous. What’s most shocking is how well it still works. Now armed with studio backing, his feature length expansion of that short never strays too far from its source, essentially repeating the same jump scare, over and over again, for most of its muscular 80 minute running time. But Sandberg’s three-minute execution of this simple premise was clever enough - and virally popular enough - to secure the inexperienced Swedish filmmaker the support of horrormeister James Wan. A woman is alone in her apartment, and when the lights turn off, an eerie female figure appears when they come back on, the figure disappears. Sandberg’s no-budget, near-wordless 2013 short film “ Lights Out” features a premise so simple it’s essentially a cinematic haiku. I hope to see more from Sandberg in the future.David F. Whether people thought this movie was the epitome of the perfect horror film-which I’m sure many, including myself, do not- I give this movie two thumbs up for showing the world what mental illness really is: a monster that attacks and isolates the people it inhabits. ![]() Diana was the perfect personification of mental illness-she rid the carrier of the illness with guilt and shame she pushed away everyone that Sophie loved and she grew weaker the happier Sophie became. But what really makes this movie great is how scarily accurate Lights Out is at depicting metal illness. There is a lot of psychological play that takes place between film and audience members that makes the movie worth watching again and again. ![]() The monster is hellish, but it doesn’t have actual features (at least, not that we see for a while), and it can only attack you in the dark. Overall, this movie hits all the right “scary” points. Rebecca, along with her partner Bret ( Alexander DiPersia), try to save Martin from the suffering his sister went through in childhood and as help Sophie defeat her demons. ![]() Sophie’s demons take the form of a childhood “friend,” Diana- who is a terrifying monster that can only harm you in darkness. Sophie ( Maria Bello) is a mother whose mental illness has led her to the abuse and neglect of her two children, Rebecca ( Teresa Palmer) and Martin ( Gabriel Bateman). The premise of the movie takes place in the form of family drama. Sandberg created short film Lights Out, and it was such a popular hit that producer James Wan (director of The Conjuring) teamed up with Sandberg to create a full-length film, making Lights Out Sandberg’s directorial debut. Lights Out is not a movie for the faint of heart- especially those afraid of the dark- but I will say it’s the best scary movie of the year. ![]() |
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