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Paraplegics are learning to walk again with virtual realityThe.

AllThingsVR

Paraplegics are learning to walk again with virtual reality The chances of recovery for paraplegic patients were once considered nearly nil. Researchers had created a brain-machine interface (BMI) that allowed Pinto to control a robotic exoskeleton for the symbolic kickoff at São Paulo’s Corinthians Arena. Read more here.

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How a Self-Taught Teen Built His Own North Star Headset

Leapmotion

But the most surprising developments come from North Carolina, where a 19-year-old AR enthusiast has built multiple North Star headsets and several new demos. Graham Atlee is a sophomore at High Point University in North Carolina, majoring in entrepreneurship with a minor in computer science.

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4 Ways Governments May Adopt (Or Respond To) The Metaverse

Bernard Marr

In training, for example, the US Navy has tested an AR platform called TRACER (or, to give it its full name, Tactically Reconfigurable Artificial Combat Enhanced Reality) at the Center for Security Forces in North Carolina.

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Digital Twins: XR Today Expert Roundtable

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

A workplace trainee can learn how to use or repair a piece of equipment using a digital twin; some solutions allow trainees to take apart complex digital objects, like an engineer, to see the inner component – saving a lot of time, usually reserved for clean-up.

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Facebook ads have a problem. It's called digital redlining.

Mashable VR

Research from October 2021 pulled from public voting records in North Carolina analyzed the impacts of Facebook's advertisements and found that it has discriminatory outcomes. Meta hasn't disclosed how well this actually works. In the U.S.,

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Exoskeletons Get Real: The Ultimate Wearable Technology?

EnterpriseWear

Combining the power of robots with the intelligence and adaptability of humans sounds great, but the execution – designing machines that conform to how we’re shaped and the way we move – is challenging. How do you make a machine both lightweight and flexible, adaptable to a wide variety of body shapes and sizes? Ottobock .

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

Because now suddenly you can interact with the objects, you can cognitively so much easier to learn when you can do it immersively with a VR headset. The next thing we'll do is we'll be part of the design, because we do a lot of HMI, the Human-Machine Interface. That's beautiful. I can give you an example in construction.

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