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How VR Can Ease the Transition for First-Time Wheelchair Users

VRScout

The designers logged obstacles, collected data from POV photos and videos, and studied multiple accessibility maps before honing in on the Wheelchair Training Program’s final form. “We We were not focused on a design solution at that point,” said Fjord Design Strategy Lead John Jones. “We We considered 360 video,” said Jones.

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Facebook’s Social VR Platform ‘Spaces’ Debuts First Mini-Game

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The still-in-beta social VR platform has delighted us with the ability to join friends to watch 360° videos, capture silly Avatar selfies, draw or even let you answer video calls all from within VR. But Spaces has also shocked and angered a few with some less-than-ideal marketing strategies.

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Google Launches Social Awareness VR Initiative ‘Daydream Impact’

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Although there are a number of tools and strategies that can help drive awareness, there are few more effective than VR to help shine a light on important issues. When it comes to social change, awareness is the first step on a long journey to impact the causes and problems that we care about.

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#1230: Captioning for XR Accessibility with W3C’s Michael Cooper

Voices of VR

It's still very early days for this type of Darwinian experimentation with Owlchemy Labs' innovations of captioning starting with Vacation Simulator in October 2019 as well as the captioning experiments and accessibility features by ILM Immersive (formerly ILMxLAB) within Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

A bizarre strategy, that doesn’t surprise me anymore, though. NVIDIA is using its program Folding@Home to help research centers in doing their research and simulations on the new coronavirus. In the meantime, when asked about these rumors, Rony Abovitz answered his typical way, just saying “42”. Two creative XR things worth watching.

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Weekend Downloads: New on Gear VR, Rift and Touch

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Experience the world of Hard Enduro with this app featuring a number of 360° videos from the Red Bull Hare Scramble at the Erzberg Rodeo 2016 in Austria. Come up with your own trick shots and your own strategies. The Martian VR Experience is executive produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Robert Stromberg.

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HTC Invests in 33 More AR/VR Startups Through Vive X Accelerator

Road to VR

The headset-agnostic tech stack connects advertisers with developers and publishers to deliver immersive, native VR/AR/360 video advertising experiences. Its series of original content includes Nature and Science discovery, Historical and Social stories, and Physical environment simulations.

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