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2020: The Year of AR and VR for Education and Training

EON Reality

Beginning with early virtual reality games and devices in the 1960s and evolving to today’s HMDs, virtual reality has been part of society for a long time. In the last few years, augmented reality has become commonplace as it has also been used in marketing and other game applications.

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How Virtual Reality Training can Benefit Your Company

Unimersiv

While VR is experiencing a resurgence unlike ever before, many seem to think that it is strictly limited to gaming. In point of fact, professional VR training can help your organization achieve faster growth by arming employees with hands-on experience instead of just theory that needs to be refined with trial and error in the field.

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2020 – The Year of AR and VR for Education and Training

EON Reality

Beginning with early virtual reality games and devices beginning in the 1960s and evolving to today’s HMD devices, virtual reality has been part of society for a long time. In the last few years augmented reality has become commonplace as it has also been used in marketing and other game applications. .

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Oculus CTO John Carmack Talks Immersive Technology On The Joe Rogan Podcast

VRScout

It was a fairly engaging conversation, during which Rogan remained uncharacteristically quiet as Carmack dove into each new topic with considerable detail; not a huge surprise considering Rogan’s well-known love of Quake and DOOM , two video games in which Carmack served as lead programmer. .

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How Hollywood Has Predicted VR in Movies

VRScout

From zero gravity chambers to organic gaming consoles, Hollywood has been dreaming up some of the biggest and best ways to implement virtual reality for decades. They’ve envisioned it as the latest method of psychoanalysis, human enhancement, law enforcement training and so much more. Arcade (1993).

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9 best sci-fi movies on Prime Video for a world-rattling escape

Mashable VR

So, when Signs hit in 2002, audiences turned out in giddy anticipation to be scared out of their wits. The time crunch means astronauts can't be trained to do the digging, so NASA turns to a crack crew of deep sea oil drillers, led by Harry S. Signs With The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable , M. We were not disappointed.

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Review: VirZoom, The Virtual Reality Exercise Bike That Works With Rift, Vive and PSVR

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

It was a game controller called the Kilowatt Pro for the PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and PC. This was back in 2002. Finally, I realized, video games would be my salvation from slothdom and singlehood, not the cause of them. As a result there are a limited number of games at the moment that are both fun to play and a decent workout.

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