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How Businesses Are Cutting Employee Training Costs With VR

VRScout

VR is the future of employee training, and businesses are taking notice. . It’s no secret an increasing number of businesses are turning to virtual and augmented reality for employee training. STRIVR is one leading US-based startup developing VR training apps and has worked with companies such as Walmart, Chipotle and Tyson.

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Report: Meta in Talks with Magic Leap for Multiyear AR Headset Tech Deal

Road to VR

” Since it exited stealth in 2014, Magic Leap has released two AR headsets, Magic Leap 1 and Magic Leap 2, which have been compared in functionality to Microsoft’s HoloLens AR headsets. The company has raised over $4 billion, with minority investors including Google, Alibaba, Qualcomm, AT&T, and Axel Springer.

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

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Case Western Reserve University, a world-renowned medical institution, joined the event to reveal how it leveraged Microsoft’s MR tools by combining them with its educational software platform. Farrow stated that her medical school, one of the top 25 institutions in the United States, developed a new facility in 2014.

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VRLA’s John Root on AR, Privacy, & eSports in VR

Road to VR

John Root co-founded VRLA with Cosmo Scharf in 2014 , and it has organically grown into a thriving VR event with over 10,000 attendees at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Katie Kelly, Head of Engagement, AltspaceVR / Microsoft. Gary Radburn, Director, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Dell.

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Martial arts in the metaverse

Life at the Feeding Edge

A good few years ago I started to experiment with body tracking and how it could be used to add another element to my martial art training in Choi Kwang Do. Using the old Microsoft Kinect c ontroller then the newer version 2 ( 2012 and 2014 even longer ago than I thought ). The possibilities are quite vast.

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How Will the AR Cloud Unlock the Spatial Web?

AR Insider

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including If Google is the spatial web’s knowledge layer, Facebook could be its social layer , Microsoft the enterprise productivity layer , and Amazon the commerce layer. Meanwhile, AR cloud goals and approaches will vary.

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Snagging Pearson’s AR assets and $1 million in cash, GIGXR is ready for its close up

TechCrunch VR

Initially established as part of a collaboration with Microsoft back in 2014 when the company first began work on its Hololens, the media giant is spinning out the team as it explores the broader sale of certain assets.