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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.

Cats and VR

The DOE is incentivizing the competition with $680,000 in cash prizes and additional sponsor prizes from IBM, Microsoft, and Samsung. Information provided by WhiteHouse.gov https://www.edsimchallenge.com/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/11/15/new-prize-challenge-virtual-and-augmented-reality-learning-tools.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

I’ve been a big fan of the cute little Samsung Gear 360 camera since its first unveiling in the spring of 2016, and always recommend it to people inquiring about the best consumer-friendly 360 cameras out there. The cost is lower than the 2016 version with a pricetag of $229 and you can record in up to 4K resolution.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. Of course, it will exploit the already awesome Microsoft platform.

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What F8 2017 Means for Mass Market Adoption of Immersive Technologies

VRScout

They are offering two different tools: Frame Studio , which allows anyone to upload simple, static-overlaid image frames that will appear in Facebook camera to their friends or a Page’s fans. It’s been viewed 15 million times so far, since it was posted in December 2016. Zuck is doing the same thing with Augmented Reality.

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The Virtual Arena: Educators Learn Their VR

Peter Graham

A system that took much of what had been achieved with mobileVR in 2016 and packaged it into a reliable and compelling solution for the education sector, becoming a world leader deserving much more recognition. edutainment” a factor in the deployment of virtual education). Image credit: KWP.

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Magic Leap One first impressions review: it’s not a leap, but a step

The Ghost Howls

But while we were great on the technical side, we weren’t good at doing business and marketing (I only started my blog in summer 2016 ), so in 2017 we closed the curtain on our crazy adventure. Furthermore, it is not something original to Magic Leap, since I’ve seen Microsoft doing it in VR some years ago.

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As UploadVR Turns 2 We Reflect On The First Full Year of Consumer VR

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

We captured the transition from a couple companies shipping development tools to hobbyists into a fast-moving industry driven by some of the world’s largest tech companies, each of which is selling increasingly sophisticated systems directly to consumers. January 2016. February 2016. December 2015.