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VR Simulation Teaches Canadian Children The Importance Of Road Safety

VRScout

In response to these ongoing safety concerns, Morrongiello and her team of researchers at the University of Guelph have begun introducing a brand new virtual reality program designed to educate children on the proper safety procedures when crossing a busy intersection. What’s the catch?

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How the XR Community Celebrates Black History Month (Black Futures Month?)

ARPost

The real Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama was the site of many civil rights marches, including those of Martin Luther King Jr’s march from Selma to Montgomery. Virbela is a creator of virtual worlds, typically for enterprise and education. However, it also would have been limiting. Virbela’s Black History Library.

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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. Destin’s video is approaching two million views and hit YouTube’s front page. It was exciting to see them love our stuff as well. We also demoed to astronauts at NASA.

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A Year of Saying Goodbye

ARVR

A 15 year old boy from northern Alabama spoke with poise about his great-grandfather dying. We are making up new rituals in new Virtual Worlds and Saying Goodbye is one of them. They were still watching on Zoom when the EMTs arrived and took her body out of the tub. They couldn’t have a funeral.

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