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HTC Vive Shows US Mayors How VR Can Help City Planning

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

During this year’s South by South West (SXSW) show HTC held an event in which Mayors from cities like Albuquerque, West Sacramento, and the festival’s own home of Austin. Going beyond that, this tool could be used to help city planning and management in the future.

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Emerging Post-Pandemic Innovations

Tech Trends VR

As most of us struggle with the challenge of adapting to this ‘new normal’ where much of the world’s population finds itself unable to safely hold face-to-face meetings, Smithson explains that XR Collaboration tools are emerging as viable alternatives — not to replace current video conferencing, but to augment them through spatial understanding. “By