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‘Garry’s Mod’ Sequel ‘s&box’ Details Initial VR Support

Road to VR

S&box is an in-development sandbox game designed as a sequel to the legendary Garry’s Mod (2006) , a game that turned Valve’s Source Engine into a multiplayer playground and content creation tool which has spawned games, memes, and machinima.

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Will 3D Cities Unlock Immersive Experiences?

AR Insider

I n 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. 3D mapping’s evolutionary path was recently accelerated with a developer tool from Here Technologies. Other potential apps include entertainment, auto-navigation and enterprise-facing tools. cities, starting with San Francisco. Force Multiplier.

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Boris Johnson Left His Cell Phone Number on the Internet for 15 Years, Screened Our Call :(

GizModo VR

The British gossip site Popbitch used a sophisticated hacking tool called Google and discovered his direct cell line at the bottom of a 2006… Read more. Boris Johnson, British prime minister who’s been passing out his deets like a sloppy rando at last call, has left his personal cell phone number online for the past 15 years.

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Will 3D Cities Unlock Immersive Experiences?

ARVR

In 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are Revolutionizing Healthcare Geospatially Sound 3D mapping’s evolutionary path was recently accelerated with a developer tool from Here Technologies. cities, starting with San Francisco.

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The New Age of Learning Science with Virtual Reality: A Literature Review

ARVR

The research thus far creates a foundation for the most effective use of virtual reality as an educational tool. A 2006 study found that the use of educational games in different learning models and mixed realities are more likely to increase a student’s motivation to learn (Pan, Cheok, Yang, Zhu, & Shia, 2006).

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Surgeon Chooses VR Over Sedatives For Patients

VRScout

After presenting the findings at the 2006 Medicine Meets Virtual Reality conference in California, the pioneering surgeon received a considerable amount of attention as well as resources to further expand his project. He would then record the experiences of his patients and gauge their levels of pain while using the immersive technology.

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Building Augmented Reality for the Web: Which Platform is the Best?

ARVR

MUSE Museum AR Experience on a mobile application Finding the best platform for your WebAR project Introduction I have been building Augmented reality apps since 2006, and I have worked with various systems: PC, Mobile, Adobe Flash FlarToolkit, Depth sensors, RGB Sensors, Magicleap, Microsoft Hololens, Google Tango andARCore, and Apple AR Kit.