Road to VR

MAY 19, 2022

VR ice hockey training company Sense Arena announced that it’s closed a $3 million investment round, something the startup says will be used to support continued development on its ice hockey training platform as well as expand to new sports. We believe that Sense Arena has only scratched the surface of its potential.

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Road to VR

MAY 7, 2020

Vantage Point , the enterprise-focused training company, announced a $2.25 million investment, something that will help them further develop their platform which was created to increase empathy and accuracy of retention through VR-based training. SEE ALSO Strivr Secures $30M Series B Financing to Accelerate Adoption of VR Training.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2020

Varjo announced today that Boeing is spinning up a VR training program for its upcoming Starliner mission to the International Space Station in 2021. The company says that its retinal resolution headset enables virtual training scenarios—like docking to the ISS—that weren’t feasible before.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 14, 2019

BOSTON, December 14, 2019 — Research estimates that by 2020 nearly 35 percent of the top skills needed across all job groups will change (World Economic Forum), which highlights the growing need for businesses to focus on corporate training. Statista in 2017 found that corporations estimated spending at $362.2

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 24, 2019

After passing through the boom and bust cycle of 2016 and 2017, the last two years were more about measured optimism in the face of industry shakeout and retraction. AR Wins With “Training Wheels”. This taps into an existing area of interest (social sharing), and represents the types of training wheels that AR needs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Mercia, a major investment firm, began shoring up capital for Luminous in 2017, with total funding topping more than £1.9 The company has demoed the new passthrough capabilities for mixed reality (MR) training on the Meta Quest 3 in a recent YouTube video, leading to a new era of immersive training and worker upskilling.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

360VR videos and photos became a regular part of our social media feeds , billions of dollars invested in VR technology advancement, and a VR experience for everything from movie trailers, corporate training and Presidential farewells. It was indeed a big year for VR. . An area of VR that I have personally done a lot of research on.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

At SIGGRAPH 2017, NVIDIA was showing off their Isaac Robot that had been trained to play dominos within a virtual world environment of NVIDIA’s Project Holodeck. They’re using Unreal Engine to simulate interactions with people in VR to train a robot how to play dominos. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes.

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VRScout

JUNE 4, 2017

Walmart staff have their work cut out for them, one of the many reasons why the retail giant began opening its many ‘Walmart Academies’ to train its future staff on the details of their expected duties in a comfortable and cost-efficient manner. We’ll just have to wait and see how the public reacts.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2019

Delays are a train driver’s worst nightmare, and while it’s true upcoming VR train simulator Derail Valley has seen a modest setback after its planned January 18th launch, the game is now full steam ahead as it makes its Early Access debut on the Oculus Store and Steam this week.

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XROM

AUGUST 3, 2022

This will be the first CFR (Cryonics First Response) training to be organized in Spain, after some smaller similar events during previous years in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Visit the campus of the Instituto Europeo , and find its location in central Madrid.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

ARK Park, the VR multiplayer adventure game based on the world of ARK:Survival Evolved (2017), is officially releasing on PlayStationVR this December. An HTC Vive version of the game is also currently listed on Steam with an unspecified 2017 launch date.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Certifying a worker to operate heavy construction equipment like a crane costs companies time and money, and now that the United States’ Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires all crane operators to be certified by 2017 , there’s never been a better time for simulators to enter the market in force.

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VRScout

MAY 9, 2017

The next generation of professional healthcare training has arrived. That’s exactly why Children’s Hospital Los Angeles teamed up with Oculus and other VR companies to bring low-cost emergency care training via virtual reality technology. It is far more flexible and students can perform the training far more often.”.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A new immersive training facility and program, the Immersive Technology Institute (ITI), has been launched Luton, UK in a collaboration between Central Bedfordshire College (CBC) and AI and VR development firm AiSolve. This translates to an ability to help educate and train students who will become the workforce of tomorrow.”.

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JULY 31, 2017

What followed was a brief training session where a group of objects floated in front of me — a train, ball and block among them. He said the eye tracking inside the headset wasn’t active during the training and test portion of the demonstration. I did so a number of times for several of the objects, all successful.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

A survey published by Statista indicates a significant growth in the investments these companies make in AR/VR technologies: 8% in 2017, 23% in 2018, and 34% in 2019. Share of supply chain leaders who are planning to invest in AR and/or VR worldwide from 2017 to 2019; Source: Statista. VR Training for Employees.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2023

Gemba , an enterprise-focused virtual reality (VR) training startup used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has raised $18 million in a Series A round of funding. Training in particular remains a central focus for many current VR applications, and investors have been taking note.

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MAY 19, 2017

We’ve created a robotics system, trained entirely in simulation and deployed on a physical robot, which can learn a new task after seeing a human do it in VR once. Details: Posted by OpenAI on Tuesday, 16 May 2017. Recording that data, the robot learns what it’s meant to do and imitates the process in real life.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2017

I had a chance to catch up with co-founder and chief creative officer Rik Shorten at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality conference both in May 2016 as well as a follow-up and update in March of 2017. The post ‘Bioflight VR’ for Medical Training, Patient Behavior Modification, & Diagnosis appeared first on Road to VR.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 8, 2022

“Since 2017 and the fruition of the 1st International VR Awards we have seen a lot of changes within the industry, both big and small, and I am pleased to see how far we’ve come with the VR Awards and as an industry as a whole.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Robo Recall is easily one of the most exciting VR experience coming in 2017, but its roots actually trace back to a relatively simple tech demo from 2015. Members of the Epic team are on-hand here to discuss how Robo Recall builds upon what the studio learned in Bullet Train.

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InstaVR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When we last wrote about the topic in 2017 , healthcare companies were just starting to deploy VR to doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals. One of the more popular use cases for VR in healthcare is training. The costs — both literally and figuratively — of not using VR for training are significant.

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ARPost

AUGUST 28, 2021

One organization that the Orlando Tech Council played host to fairly early, in 2017, was the VR/AR Association. “We In 2017, Cunningham worked for Disti, a virtual maintenance training company specializing in aviation and based in Orlando. Air Force and broader defense sector when it comes to training,” said Almaskati.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

In both corporate training and K-12, companies and schools are reporting positive results about the impact of VR/AR on retention, engagement, and efficiency. Upskill, an augmented reality software training company, has cited seeing on average a 32% improvement in the workforc e of their clients. . #3 5 Teacher adoption still lags.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) and accompanying Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) are right around the corner. There’s a lot going on at GDC every year, but with VR’s first big consumer year in the books last year, 2017 should be bigger than ever for our industry. It’s a crazy time to be alive.

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EON Reality

JANUARY 15, 2018

AR and VR are being utilized by enterprise and education professionals to train employees and better educate students. The Virtual Reality Training Academy and Development Lab at Lehman College (CUNY) teaches the skills needed to create Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality applications for enterprise and education. RSVP Today!

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Road to VR

MARCH 29, 2017

Held from May 8-11th in Silicon Valley at the San Jose Convention Center, NVIDIA’s GTC 2017 session schedule is chock full of deep tech talks that we’re looking forward to. Patney’s talk is just one of several deep technical talks that we’re looking forward to at GTC 2017. Register for GTC 2017.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Founded in 2017 and based in Delaware, United States and Prague, Czechia, Vrgineers is slated to use the funds to accelerate growth in addition to releasing a new version of its XTAL headset later this year. . The funding round was led by Taiwania Capital, a venture capital firm based in Taipei, Taiwan.

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MARCH 29, 2023

After entering these worlds, doctors can train in virtual operating theatres , rehabilitation gaming rooms, and meditative practices for mental health and wellness. Virti A global leader in immersive training, Virti offers bespoke training modules for studying human anatomy and performing surgeries.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Debuted at GDC 2017 and announced via their official blog, Oculus offer a first look at some of the titles coming to Rift and Gear VR in 2017. Strengthen your units by training and upgrading them in the lab. Release Date: Fall 2017. Release Date: Fall 2017. Release Date: Q2 2017. Oculus Rift Games.

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VRScout

JANUARY 12, 2018

Learning to play the piano is getting an immersive upgrade with a new augmented reality (AR) piano training software called Music Everywhere. Founded in 2017, Music Everywhere began at Carnegie Mellon’s ETC with Seth Glickman, Fu Yen Hsiao, and Byunghwan Lee realizing the nascent technology could be used for skills training.

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EON Reality

AUGUST 24, 2017

EON Reality received the Global Education Award for Outstanding Contribution In Education And Training from SCOO News’ Global Education Awards 2017. The post EON Reality receives Global Education Award for Outstanding Contribution In Education And Training appeared first on EON Reality.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 7, 2020

And though it won’t be the be-all platform shift it was once touted to be in 2017, VR will find value in targeted verticals. In addition to data visualization, it’s being used to train finance pros for sales effectiveness. Moreover, it reports that its VR workshops are 1/8 the cost of classroom-based sales training.

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VRScout

JULY 13, 2022

2017’s Get Out was a smash-hit, finishing first at the box office during its opening weekend. Monkeypaw Productions: All Aboard has you traveling on a virtual train that leads to different worlds. Monkeypaw Productions has partnered with Meta to bring his collection of unique films to life in Horizon Worlds.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

And so startup STRIVR Labs has launched into a new enterprise VR training business, while still remaining in the sports VR training game. STRIVR is already working with a handful of Fortune 500 companies on comprehensive training programs utilizing VR. This training content works effectively if done the right way,” Belch said.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 16, 2018

Vantage Point , the world’s first Virtual Reality-based enterprise training platform has announced a Seed funding round of $1.3M to bring immersive Anti-Sexual Harassment Training to corporations. Vantage Point is founded by solo female minority founder, Morgan Mercer.

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