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VR Simulation Teaches Canadian Children The Importance Of Road Safety

VRScout

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s UAB’s Youth Safety Lab previously developed a 360-degree VR experience for Google Cardboard headsets in which children could practice road safety in the classroom. The post VR Simulation Teaches Canadian Children The Importance Of Road Safety appeared first on VRScout.

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Transfr Secures $12M Series A Financing to Scale Immersive VR Job Training Platform

Road to VR

Currently, Transfr is already working with Alabama’s AIDT, a workforce agency, and the Alabama Community College System to use its curriculum and Oculus Quest to provide skills training for careers that don’t require four-year degrees, such as automotive manufacturing, construction and other skilled trades. “By

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Space Force Using Holodeck-like VR For Medical Training

VRScout

million dollar research and development program cleverly referred to as “Virtual Advancement of Learning and Operational Readiness (VALOR),” with funds being allocated to adapt SimX’s VR medical simulation platform so it can be used during aerial and space operations with both the Air Force and the Space Force.

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Transfr raises $12M Series A to bring virtual reality to manufacturing-plant floors

TechCrunch VR

Transfr leverages virtual reality to create simulations of manufacturing-plant shop floors or warehouses for training purposes. Labster, which offers schools VR simulations of science class, had product usage grow 15 times since March. Most notably, though, is Transfr’s recent work in Alabama.

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The 2017 Virtual Reality Conference and Expo Schedule

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Birmingham, Alabama. Driving Simulation Conference (DSC) // September 6th – September 8th. SIGGRAPH // July 20th – August 3rd. Los Angeles, California. Registration: Exhibitor | Attendee. Sidewalk Film Festival // August 24th – August 28th. Registration: Exhibitor | Attendee. Paris, France.

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2018 Highlights: Award-winning VR gloves, global customers, and a growing team

HaptX

Later in the year, Destin invited us to show off our new HaptX Gloves Development Kit with other YouTube stars in Huntsville, Alabama at the first-ever ThinkerCon. We’ve now seen (and felt) some incredible simulations created by customers with the power of this SDK across many different industries.” – Ed Foley.

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Big XR News from Boeing, ENGAGE XR, Apple, and Meta

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

In the exercises, the companies used a Boeing TA-4J aircraft to simulate scenarios during air combat, setting the stage for integrating and trialling the system on a T-7 advanced trainer. Daniel Robinson, Founder and Chief Executive of Red 6 , said, “the future is now” when discussing the T-7, powered with ATARS.

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