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Neurosurgery Patients Take A VR Tour Of Their Own Brains

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Ohio-based company Surgical Theater is well aware of the common reactions people facing brain surgery may often have, and are offering a solution that would use VR to dull – and in some cases – erase parts of that fear. As VR and AR continue to grow within the medical field, so has Surgical Theaters partnerships.

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USC Launches $1bn XR, Generative AI Initiative

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Full Sail University and XR Education USC’s Frontiers of Computing Programme follows several key efforts from universities in the United States to develop the virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) industries. Founded in Dayton, Ohio in 1979, Full Sail University launched as an audio recording workshop.

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Mr. Mercedes VR Escape Room Hits Comic-Con

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The interactive pop-up shop included both a VR and AR game. In addition to the VR escape room, fans of the original series also had the chance to enjoy an AR adventure game while waiting in line. The series picks up a year after Brady Hartsfield’s thwarted attempt to perpetrate a second mass murder in the community of Bridgton, Ohio.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. DISNEY USES VR FOR RESEARCH WHILE CEO SAYS WE’LL SEE AR AT THEME PARKS.

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How VR Saves Lives in the OR

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We see seven themes emerging from new VR and AR apps for health: Training. With tips from sources, we found one AR Health startup, Echopixel, in stealth mode that wants to map CT scans on real patients. Doctors are surrounded by screens all day, but they have to look away from the patient to see them. Visualization. Psychology.

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