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BISim tells us how XR is relevant for the Army

The Ghost Howls

Military simulations are one of the fields where virtual reality has always been an important technology , even before that VR had its new renaissance in 2012. Can you be so kind as to also introduce Bohemia Interactive Simulations? VBS4 is an easy-to-use, whole-earth virtual and constructive simulation.

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Training to Craning in 60 Minutes: Putting My VR-learned Skills to the Test with a Real 22 Ton Crane

Road to VR

Last week, I traveled to the Houston Area Safety Council in Pasadena, Texas, to put Industrial Training International VR’s new crane simulator through its paces. While ITI has been training crane operators, riggers, and signallers for 30 years, the inclusion of VR in their training programs is a recent development.

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VR’s Most Bizarre Game ‘Mosh Pit Simulator’ is Coming to Steam Early Access Soon

Road to VR

Mosh Pit Simulator is bizarre, disturbing, funny and unapologetically crass—the sort of fever dream that could only leak from the brain of Sos Sosowski, the Polish indie developer behind the well-received (and patently ludicrous) bomb defusing game McPixel (2012). Additional environments (forest, desert, train).

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Immersive Technology for Education: How Virtual Reality Will Change the Learning Process

ARPost

This figure has been growing steadily since 2012 and does not plan to significantly stop its growth soon. Based on the experiments already conducted, it can be argued that the effectiveness of training using VR is higher than of the classical methods. The growth in the volume of investments in VR is more than $2.5 billion per year.

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XR Today’s Virtual Reality Guide for Enterprises

XR Today - Virtual Reality

In 2012, the first Oculus Rift emerged, triggering a burst of excitement followed by relative silence from consumers. For example, enterprises have deployed VR for upskilling and training new hires. Varjo Technologies has also used VR to train pilots with its cutting-edge Aero headsets. Virtual Reality Guides: Case Studies.

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A Complete Guide to Virtual Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The technology allows people to create ‘virtual’ landscapes and environments that simulate the real world. It debuted in 2012 and later, became the world’s first consumer-ready headset in 2016. Of all of the various forms of extended reality (XR), virtual reality (VR), is the most familiar.

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VR Training Might Help Part-Time NFL Referees Get The Calls Right

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Coming off the substitute referee circus of 2012 and a series of rule additions of varying efficacy in subsequent years, the NFL is looking to VR for potential training of our thankless officials. Tagged with: football , nfl , Referee , training , virtual , VR. Maybe we’ll be able to find out if Odell Beckham Jr.

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