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Using VR Revolutionize Sports Training with STRIVR Labs

Road to VR

When Derek Belch was a kicker on Stanford’s football team in 2007, he took a class with the Virtual Human Interaction Lab’s Jeremy Bailenson where he was exposed to virtual reality technologies for the first time. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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What is WebVR, How to Create It, and Main Use Cases

InstaVR

It’s likely because the medium is not ideal for 360 video, not fully immersive, and doesn’t involve a powerful headset. Image courtesy of University of Arkansas – Pulaski Technical College. WebVR is an underappreciated virtual reality publishing outlet. What it does have going for it though is reach.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

Why have you fallen in love with this technology for your work and your research? One of the teams we work with is the Arkansas Razorbacks. In Arkansas, there is the largest company in the world. Brock, the head of training from Walmart, decided to come to the Arkansas Razorback football office. I love that question.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms’ Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

Cortney Harding talks with Alan about how emerging tech, like VR and 360 video, can help us all be a little kinder to one another. You feel a little self-conscious already, just given the nature of the technology strapped your face. And a lot of people — including myself — are not video gamers.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms’ Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

Cortney Harding talks with Alan about how emerging tech, like VR and 360 video, can help us all be a little kinder to one another. You feel a little self-conscious already, just given the nature of the technology strapped your face. And a lot of people — including myself — are not video gamers.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms' Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

Cortney Harding talks with Alan about how emerging tech, like VR and 360 video, can help us all be a little kinder to one another. You feel a little self-conscious already, just given the nature of the technology strapped your face. And a lot of people -- including myself -- are not video gamers. You're already a headset.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

XR is no different, and VRdōjō founder Michael Eichenseer runs Alan through a few of the cardiovascular benefits to the technology. Everybody’s getting this interest in, “what can this technology do for my business? I worked at their technology headquarters, and we did technology training for the employees.

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