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Holovis Uses Giant Robot Arms for Intense VR Motion Simulated Experiences

Road to VR

This ‘new generation’ KUKA Coaster was revealed at the end of 2015, but KUKA has been active in the entertainment sector for well over a decade; their ‘robocoaster’ arms have been in service at Legoland parks since 2003. The post Holovis Uses Giant Robot Arms for Intense VR Motion Simulated Experiences appeared first on Road to VR.

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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 was lucky enough to get a job at UC Santa Barbara in a combination social psychology lab and computer science hub , where we were using VR to run experiments, to simulate the social world. I learned how to build hardware because back in the late ’90s, we weren’t using beautiful inside-out tracking systems. This is 1999.

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

Morton Helig’s 1962 patent describes a system that delivers a realistic simulation for potential work and military training purposes: There are increasing demands today for ways and means to teach and train individuals without actually subjecting the individuals to possible hazards of particular situations.

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It's Star Wars Day! How to celebrate your favorite space fantasy on May 4.

Mashable VR

From the pre-Disney+ era, there's The Clone Wars and Rebels , plus Genndy Tartakovsky's excellent Star Wars: Clone Wars series of shorts from 2003. The 2020 release riffs on a series of classic Star Wars flight combat simulators — best exemplified by the originator, X-Wing , and its beloved sequel, T.I.E.

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