article thumbnail

Vantari VR Expands Training Solution to Middle East, Italy

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Founded in 2017, the enterprise currently hosts partnerships across the United States, United Kingdom (UK), United Arab Emirates (UAE), Italy, and India. He continued that the country had a “total of 37 medical universities, less than [1,000] hospitals, and 70 simulation centers.”

Italy 254
article thumbnail

The Lab, SUPERHOT, More Nominated In D.I.C.E. 2017 ‘Immersive Reality’ Awards

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Last week we reported that Magic Leap, Oculus, and Insomniac Games were set to talk at the 2017 edition of the D.I.C.E. Namely, we lamented the lack of a category for VR and AR games at the 2017 iteration of the show, and the small number of these games listed in general. Summit in Las Vegas.

Immersion 100
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Do Virtual Reality Healthcare Clinics Work?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Immersive Healthcare as an Emerging Technology VR solutions allow healthcare professionals to engage patients with bespoke, simulated environments to provide medical education. The London, England-based enterprise has aimed to upskill surgeons and healthcare professionals with its cutting-edge solution since 2017.

article thumbnail

The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek: Facebook admits that VR is taking longer than expected, Pistol Whip ready to launch and much more!

The Ghost Howls

And this is also what Marky Z thinks: a Redditor spotted Zuckerberg commenting the earnings of Facebook in 2017 underlining how XR is a 10-years journey and not a 5-years one. More info (Facebook earning call) More info (Zuckerberg commenting VR in 2017). Owlchemy Labs adds subtitles to Vacation Simulator. We must be patient.

article thumbnail

The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

or later you can use the Gear 360 app (unfortunately, this is not a retrograde compatibility– it only affects the new 2017 version). After quietly settling a gender discrimination lawsuit recently, it turns out that Magic Leap is back on the fundraising trail. Now this is what I call retail theater. Apparently the $1.4B

article thumbnail

All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

The Ghost Howls

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. Magic Leap releases its SDK. It is so possible to start creating your Magic Leap application.

AR 165
article thumbnail

Noctvrnal: audio in AR/VR is 51% of the experience

The Ghost Howls

After noticing a lack of female entrepreneurs in audio and music production , the duo decided to launch Noctvrnal in January 2017 and have since expanded into the XR and immersive tech space. Also, within a game engine, you can simulate room reflections and occlusion more accurately for VR, because the objects are all virtual.

AR 242