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Where is VR/AR and Education Now?

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1 VR/AR is proving to be an effective learning tool. 2 – The number of interactive teaching tools for K-12 teachers has exploded. Several companies including MergeVR, Curiscope, zSpace, Google Expeditions , QuiverVision and others couple these teacher resources with physical hardware or tactile tools to further engage learning.

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Samsung to Manufacture Ultra Violet 7nm Chips in 2017

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14nm is getting traction not just by high-end chips from Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Apple, Samsung and other large players, but also by smaller companies which are moving to revolutionize the way how we build virtual reality glasses, cars, infotainment systems, TVs and many other.

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Google’s Most Experienced VR Studio Changes Leadership

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Eiche joined Owlchemy in late 2015 as a producer before the 2016 launch of Job Simulator, one of VR’s most well-known and highest selling titles. “A s CEO, my mission is to keep Owlchemy Labs on our proven path of success and to continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible with VR,” Eiche said in a prepared statement. “We

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Take a Look Inside Two Bit Circus

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You may have read a couple stories here about haptic installations they produced for Verizon with the NFL and IndyCar in 2015. In 2016 they teamed up with Samsung to simulate an in-game basketball experience for the Rio Olympics. Two Bit’s Jake Sally taking someone through the Samsung Olympic experience.

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The Obama administration launches competition to harness the creativity and ingenuity of the VR and AR developer community on behalf of America’s students.

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The DOE is incentivizing the competition with $680,000 in cash prizes and additional sponsor prizes from IBM, Microsoft, and Samsung. In 2014, the Administration held the first White House Education Game Jam and in 2015 the U.S. Department of Education held the first Games for Learning Summit with Games for Change.

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In latest blow to mobile VR, Google ends Poly and Expeditions

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It’s been used by millions of students since its launch in 2015. Another major Google virtual reality app is the 3D painting tool Tilt Brush. In addition to Cardboard and Daydream, there was one other major phone-based virtual reality platform — the Samsung Gear VR. Expeditions was an even bigger loss than Poly.

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Snapchat Launches Lens Studio for Making AR ‘Lenses’

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The free software has several templates for getting started, and advanced tools for experienced users and professionals. Image messaging app Snapchat first incorporated camera-based AR with the ‘Lenses’ feature in 2015, which enabled dramatically enhanced selfies using facial tracking.

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