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Alaska Airlines Begins Testing VR As First Class Entertainment

VRScout

Alaska Airlines new VR theater experience could make you forget you are on an airplane. VR, however, doesn’t come easy to everyone; something Alaska Airlines and SkyLights are fully prepared for. Their answer? Limit the VR trials to strictly First Class passengers.

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Oculus To Meta: 10 Years Of Mark Zuckerberg's Quest For VR

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From Oculus founder Palmer Luckey hand-delivering a Rift in Alaska in 2016 to his unceremonious dismissal a year later, Oculus inside Facebook faced a series of leadership changes ( Hugo Barra ), strategy shifts ( Facebook accounts required ), and accelerated hiring sprees. A lot has happened in the decade to get us here.

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Taking AR Walk in the Woods

Tech Trends VR

Stretching from Alaska through Canada and Scandinavia all the way to the Pacific coast of Russia, The unique ecosystem of the Great Northern Forest circles the planet and plays a vital role in preventing climate change. With AR, Greenpeace hopes to create greater empathy between us and forest ecosystems under threat.

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Fat bears, ranked

Mashable VR

But Diver employed a rare strategy. The Fat Bear Week winner is the champion we all needed How the fat bears are beamed from remote Alaska to the world 5. This successful bear lived a profoundly long life (over three decades) at the Brooks River, the popular fishing ground for the livestreamed bears. Kopshever / NPS.

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Magic Leap’s LEAP Con 2018 round-up: all the major announcements in only one place

The Ghost Howls

” , that are all the member states of the USA, excluded Alaska and Hawaii. It is very important in my opinion because it shows that Magic Leap has a strategy to make people try AR for the first time in arcades , to start generating interest for the device. Finally Magic Leap will be available in almost all the United States.

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How to Analyze Virtual Reality (VR) Heatmaps and Analytics

InstaVR

Based on that data, you can then come up with a more focused marketing strategy. So, for instance, if you’ve built a travel VR app where the user can initially choose between visiting Hawaii, Alaska, Maine, or California, you can understand which choice is the most popular. You can also make decisions based on device type.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

So once you learned and trained, then you– let’s say you work with engines, and you’ll get to Alaska and you have to repair that engine. The second part of our platform is for training to apply what you learn. And the third part of this is performing. And you may not remember all the steps. But it will come.

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