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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

I spoke with him about many topics, like why VR is so good for training (and he told me that his company Strivr has trained more than ONE MILLION Walmart employees in VR ), if it is true that VR is the “ultimate empathy machine”, how much is graphical fidelity important for presence, and of course also about his encounter with Zuck.

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The Future of VR in Education: Full Immersion in Learning

ARPost

They are more interested in playing than listening to their teachers. VR provides students with this opportunity and makes them active participants in the educational process. Many generations have learned according to this “golden” formula. Those with poor academic performance cannot memorize large amounts of information.

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Podcast ads are the latest tool in the fight for reproductive rights

Mashable VR

Familiar favorite podcasts' ads might start to sound a little different, as more audio shows take on the latest form of digital reproductive rights activism. I pondered to myself about how we (the podcast industry) could respond. SEE ALSO: How to help abortion funds and reproductive justice networks.

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How Mozilla is working on the (privacy-safe) immersive web of the future

The Ghost Howls

For creators to be successful, they need to be able to build great things, get them discovered, and make money off of them. XR devices are on track to get into the hands of tens of millions of users in the coming years , and developers are eagerly prototyping applications and platforms to meet this demand. Mozilla Hubs.

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Finding our True Selves in VR

Tech Trends VR

A new documentary explores how embodying digital characters in virtual worlds like Second Life empowers people of all abilities to find their voice and identity. This movie makes me want to be a better person, a more responsible human - Deanya Schempp Click To Tweet. In Our Digital Selves: My Avatar is me!

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HTC Vive Focus 3 BE in-depth review: it’s all about business

The Ghost Howls

I have to say that I missed a lot the “Health & Safety Guide” that I usually find inside headsets and I throw away across the room just for fun. Thanks to HTC that has kindly provided me a loaner device, I have been able to test in the last days the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. Are you ready? (PS

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How to be a good VR startupper – Part 2

The Ghost Howls

But how can people buy something that they don’t know? But how can people buy something that they don’t know? And if you can partner with someone that is expert in the field, that’s even better , because he/she will know the strategies that work. This shows you how marketing is important. Marketing marketing marketing.

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