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How Are XR Firms Training Sports Athletes and Saving Their Lives?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

News reports have revealed that a new extended reality (XR) tool has now become integral to Germany’s European Under 17 (U17) football training programme, leading to enhanced sports training. Ten players trialling the virtual reality (VR) training module were on the team that earned the championship title.

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How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

VRScout

So from a personality perspective, if you’re starting to train agents, they will be trying to understand not just what is being said, but how it’s being said,” says Pavitt. Fun Fact: Watson itself was only developed in 2004 as a part of IBMs DeepQA project to compete in Jeopardy, and it eventually appeared on Jeopardy!

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Editorial: How the Crypto Crash—and Meta’s Missteps—Are Souring the General Public on the Metaverse

Ryan Schultz

This will apply both to behemoth corporations like Meta, Apple, and Alphabet (the parent company of Google), as well as to much smaller metaverse-building companies. Also, this “trough of disillusionment” means that it’s going to be harder to sell consumers and businesses on the metaverse.

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Mega-roundup of Facebook Connect 2: all the news in a single place!

The Ghost Howls

Yes, it is a game from 2004, but entering GTA in VR will be tons of fun ! Considering that Quest supports multitasking for 2D apps, this is great to use the Quest as a tool to work: you could have Slack in one Window, and Google Doc in another, and work on a document together with your team.

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