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XR Training Offers Major Boost to Learner Outcomes, CWRU Exec Says

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Farrow stated that her medical school, one of the top 25 institutions in the United States, developed a new facility in 2014. IGS and the Future of XR Training. Nancy Farrow, Executive Director of Global HoloAnatomy & HoloNeuroAnatomy Software Suite at Case Western Reserve University.

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Lowe’s ‘Holoroom’ Lets Customers Test Drive Power Tools in VR Before Buying

Road to VR

Using an HTC Vive and a specially made controller, the ‘Holoroom Test Drive’ allows anyone timid around power tools to put on a VR headset to learn how to use the tools in a safe virtual space. Innovation Labs has been working with AR and VR platforms since 2014 with the original intent to assist customers with home projects.

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L’Oréal Launches VR Hair Education For Stylists

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Part of L’Oréal’s “Matrix Academy,” an educational beauty program for hairstylists, the VR education program will allow stylists to learn new techniques just by popping on a VR headset like the HTC Vive. There is even an option to step into the hairdressers’ shoes to get a first-person perspective during the training as well.

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XR Cloud Streaming to Break Down Enterprise Barriers, says Innoactive

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Seidl noted: Back when we started in 2014, the enterprise discovered gaming engines as a tool to speed up access to custom-developed VR simulations. ” We developed our product, and in the next step, we added cloud streaming because back then, it was just HTC VIVE and clients used to deploy VR training to a PC.

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The Room VR: A Dark Matter Coming to Multiple VR Platforms in March

Peter Graham

Way back in 2014 not long after VRFocus had first arrived on the virtual reality (VR) scene we spoke to Fireproof Games’ co-founder Barry Meade about bringing its popular mobile franchise The Room to VR, with him saying that: “It would be very, very difficult to port.”

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Audi Dealers Will Soon Sell Cars Using Virtual Reality

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Audi is expanding their VR dealership experience and testing has begun on a virtual training drive. Prototype use of the Audi VR experience began in late 2014 but Audi only recently completed their last pilot phase in the past few months. The Audi Virtual Training Car. A Virtual Audi Dealership.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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In 2014, Snapchat paid $15M for Vergence Labs, a company experimenting with augmented reality and whose notable product was Epiphany Eyewear – a stylish pair of smartglasses that could possibly lay the groundwork for an eventual Snapchat augmented reality device. Someone is Always Ready to Help THIS version of the HTC Vive….