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Epic Games, Oakland University Launch Augmented Reality Center

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Epic Games has launched an Augmented Reality Center (ARC) at Oakland University in Michigan. Focusing on three verticals, ARC firstly will use its facilities to incubate an ecosystem of hardware and product demonstrations. That’s just half the picture—the hardware, how you build the application software.

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Christopher Lafayette: Let’s build together an inclusive XR community

The Ghost Howls

I’m also an emergent technologist in virtual and augmented reality, medtech, climate, and applied sciences here in Silicon Valley. The key areas I’m currently focused on and am exceedingly happy to contribute towards their growth are Medical XR and Virtual & Augmented Reality for common and Global good.

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Suffolk, Carnegie Mellon Universities Join Transatlantic VR Partnership

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Finally, Epic Games kicked off its Augmented Reality Center (ARC) with Oakland University Michigan. Founded in October 2021, the facility became the first in the UK to offer a full suite of XR tools to students to upskill, train, and prepare students amid the ongoing job skills crisis.

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The Future of Play: How Intel And The ESL Are Helping Bring Virtual Reality To ESports

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

When you look at the gaming landscape, the only thing as “hot “as eSports is virtual reality. Newzoo forecasts global virtual reality and augmented reality will generate $569 billion by 2025. And gamers will be a big part of that revenue, with projections of spending $100 billion on VR hardware by 2018.

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The Pain of Empty Space, with SpatialFirst Co-Founder Emily Olman

XR for Business Podcast

So we have come at it from this approach of what– we have the tools — with augmented reality — to view the information and to get content onto a mobile device, or onto a wearable. And now we’ve seen the prices come down on the hardware. But what is the interface for that? What does that look like?

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The Pain of Empty Space, with SpatialFirst Co-Founder Emily Olman

XR for Business Podcast

So we have come at it from this approach of what– we have the tools — with augmented reality — to view the information and to get content onto a mobile device, or onto a wearable. And now we’ve seen the prices come down on the hardware. But what is the interface for that? What does that look like?

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The Pain of Empty Space, with SpatialFirst Co-Founder Emily Olman

XR for Business Podcast

So we have come at it from this approach of what-- we have the tools -- with augmented reality -- to view the information and to get content onto a mobile device, or onto a wearable. They have about 40 billion in assets under management and they're testing this out with one of their marquee properties in Oakland, California.