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The Official US Civil Rights Trail Book Adds AR Experience to Engage the Young Generations

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Some of the places are Birmingham (Alabama), Memphis (Tennessee), Atlanta (Georgia), Charleston (South Carolina), already mentioned Little Rock (Arkansas) and Selma (Alabama), and more. The itinerary covers places important to the Civil Rights Movement, as according to the official site, “what happened here changed the world”.

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Walmart Rolls Out AR Shopping App

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

US retail behemoth Walmart announced on Thursday it had updated its customer shopping app with two novel augmented reality (AR) solutions aimed at improving shopper experiences.

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AR to Transform Medical Surgery, Vuzix US Survey Shows

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Vuzix, a provider of enterprise augmented reality (AR) solutions, published a survey on Tuesday on the efficacy of immersive tech in the medical industry. 25 percent of these surgeons recognised augmented reality as the future of training and its potential advantages over traditional educational models.

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Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neidra of EAC at University of Arkansas Little Rock

Everything VR & AR

Carolina Cruz-Neidra who is known as the co-inventor and developer of the CAVE automatic virtual environment and is currently the Director of the Emerging Analytics Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Make sure to visit www.thevrara.com for more information about the VRAR Association and how you can get involved.

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Using augmented reality, Altoida is identifying the likely onset of neurodegenerative diseases

TechCrunch VR

For the past 19 years, Ioannis Tarnanas, the founder and chief scientific officer at Altoida , has been developing virtual and augmented reality tools to offer predictions about the onset of mental illness in older patients.

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The Knight Foundation launches $750,000 initiative for immersive technology for the arts

TechCrunch VR

Project lead: Shane Richey | Bentonville, Arkansas | @crystalbridges. Improving Arts Accessibility through Augmented Reality Technology – Institute on Disabilities at Temple University, in collaboration with People’s Light. AR Enhanced Audio Tour – Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

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Apple said to be working a high-priced standalone VR headset as debut mixed reality product

TechCrunch VR

The headset will reportedly focus mostly on VR, but will also include some augmented reality features, in a limited capacity, for overlaying visuals on real world views fed in by external cameras.

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