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MARCH 6, 2023

GIGXR Debuts Immersive HoloScenarios: BLS Training GigXR, an immersive healthcare training platform, launched updates for its HoloScenarios platform. According to an executive from the company, the partnership would allow its medical group to provide XR training globally to boost learner and instructor accessibility.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 2, 2021

Wait, here I am, a black man in America. Though the majority of BTMP students are located in North America. We also have great representation from Africa, South America, and Europe. There are people training, learning, speaking, and educating together in virtual reality. So here I am, an African-American.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He's designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Those enterprise customers have enthusiastically been adopting Microsoft’s mixed reality technology in a variety of productivity, collaboration, training, and visualization use-cases; while Microsoft, in turn, have been satisfying the wish-list of those dedicated customers. Spatial Anchors. Trimble XR10 w HoloLens 2 / Image Credit: Microsoft.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. Google gave a grant to the DuSable Museum in Chicago, so they wanted to reboot the Mayor Harold Washington exhibit. It could have been a prospective student tour at Arizona State University.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. Google gave a grant to the DuSable Museum in Chicago, so they wanted to reboot the Mayor Harold Washington exhibit. It could have been a prospective student tour at Arizona State University.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. Google gave a grant to the DuSable Museum in Chicago, so they wanted to reboot the Mayor Harold Washington exhibit. It could have been a prospective student tour at Arizona State University.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

They’ve envisioned it as the latest method of psychoanalysis, human enhancement, law enforcement training and so much more. Head mounted display: Used during the Gibson hack attempt, Dade wears a Google Glass like headset with a drop down heads up display. Though, they do not appear to provide any haptic feedback. Virtuosity (1995).

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He’s designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He’s designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger says that AR training can allow those workers to qualify themselves for all sorts of tasks, and have fun doing it, to boot. And then work training, because training is also a lot of communication. Also, for training processes, AR is really good thing, a tool to make things visible.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger says that AR training can allow those workers to qualify themselves for all sorts of tasks, and have fun doing it, to boot. And then work training, because training is also a lot of communication. Also, for training processes, AR is really good thing, a tool to make things visible.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And XR Collaboration introduces that way of thinking, that way of training each other, and mentoring each other, and using that technology to express our creativity. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. Coming back to my XR Collaboration, we can't do this alone.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And XR Collaboration introduces that way of thinking, that way of training each other, and mentoring each other, and using that technology to express our creativity. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. Coming back to my XR Collaboration, we can't do this alone.

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Machine Learning Education Apple Technology 78

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

For sure the announcement at FC and the release date in 2021 have been studied to put some pressure on Apple , which seems to be the only rival to Facebook for what concerns the AR future. Imagine the people wearing Aria like the guys wearing Google Maps backpacks inside museums of campuses: they go around and collect data to build some maps.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You also have North being acquired by Google, so Google's making some strides there. Apple had a very kind of-- it's the first time Apple didn't announce a phone in September, which is interesting. Don't quote me on those numbers, I'll have to Google them.) Google's got a head office there. I don't know.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You also have North being acquired by Google, so Google's making some strides there. Apple had a very kind of-- it's the first time Apple didn't announce a phone in September, which is interesting. Don't quote me on those numbers, I'll have to Google them.) Google's got a head office there. Alex: [laughs].

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And XR Collaboration introduces that way of thinking, that way of training each other, and mentoring each other, and using that technology to express our creativity. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. Coming back to my XR Collaboration, we can't do this alone.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

It was the VRARA gathering in San Francisco, and then we went from there to Verizon's head office and we went for a meetup where we learned from Apple and a bunch of other people about what's coming up in virtual reality. and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. the idea of the QR code in North America, I don't know. for your camera.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

It was the VRARA gathering in San Francisco, and then we went from there to Verizon's head office and we went for a meetup where we learned from Apple and a bunch of other people about what's coming up in virtual reality. and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. the idea of the QR code in North America, I don't know. for your camera.

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AR Retail China Augmented Reality 78

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You also have North being acquired by Google, so Google's making some strides there. Apple had a very kind of-- it's the first time Apple didn't announce a phone in September, which is interesting. Don't quote me on those numbers, I'll have to Google them.) Google's got a head office there. Alex: [laughs].

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But we’ve got some amazing people this year, both in the enterprise side — so talking about training — we’ve got a whole defense and government sector that’s happening at the event this year, a couple hours of that. Anne-Marie: So they have taken their training globally into VR and AR with their staff.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But we’ve got some amazing people this year, both in the enterprise side — so talking about training — we’ve got a whole defense and government sector that’s happening at the event this year, a couple hours of that. Anne-Marie: So they have taken their training globally into VR and AR with their staff.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

For example, if you’re in downtown San Francisco, and you’re calling an Uber, you’re going to have to manually place on the Google map where you are almost every time, because it’s going to be off by half a block or more as to where your real location is. Google, about a month ago, announced their AR navigation system.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

For example, if you’re in downtown San Francisco, and you’re calling an Uber, you’re going to have to manually place on the Google map where you are almost every time, because it’s going to be off by half a block or more as to where your real location is. Google, about a month ago, announced their AR navigation system.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

It was the VRARA gathering in San Francisco, and then we went from there to Verizon's head office and we went for a meetup where we learned from Apple and a bunch of other people about what's coming up in virtual reality. and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. the idea of the QR code in North America, I don't know. for your camera.

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AR Retail China Augmented Reality 60

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

There’s a hundred Macy’s across America that have VR now. So standardizing the 3D models that everybody uses; There’s OBJ, there’s glTF, there’s FDX, there’s now USDZ with Apple. We finally got WebAR working, and then Apple shut down the cameras, and I was like, “what?”

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

There’s a hundred Macy’s across America that have VR now. So standardizing the 3D models that everybody uses; There’s OBJ, there’s glTF, there’s FDX, there’s now USDZ with Apple. We finally got WebAR working, and then Apple shut down the cameras, and I was like, “what?”

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But we’ve got some amazing people this year, both in the enterprise side — so talking about training — we’ve got a whole defense and government sector that’s happening at the event this year, a couple hours of that. Anne-Marie: So they have taken their training globally into VR and AR with their staff.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

So we really train them, we have our own education program where we train them. But of course, there are many more if you look into the training sector. We watch what America does, and we wait for them to make their mistakes, and then once it’s proven, we jump on. Dirk: That’s like the Apple strategy, right?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

So we really train them, we have our own education program where we train them. But of course, there are many more if you look into the training sector. We watch what America does, and we wait for them to make their mistakes, and then once it’s proven, we jump on. Dirk: That’s like the Apple strategy, right?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

We have about 40 million under management and we invest in primarily in North America, but also in Asia and Europe, too. So it’s more like AR on a Google map. Teppei: I’m sure Google is working on it, but Phiar’s team is like really nimble and fast. And Google has been creating the Google map.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

We have about 40 million under management and we invest in primarily in North America, but also in Asia and Europe, too. So it’s more like AR on a Google map. Teppei: I’m sure Google is working on it, but Phiar’s team is like really nimble and fast. And Google has been creating the Google map.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

So we really train them, we have our own education program where we train them. But of course, there are many more if you look into the training sector. We watch what America does, and we wait for them to make their mistakes, and then once it's proven, we jump on. Dirk: That's like the Apple strategy, right?

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A lot of it involved training with staff. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. I do a lot with Apple technology. So we set up a website called iPadEducators.com, which went on to win an award, and it led to both of us becoming Apple distinguished educators.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A lot of it involved training with staff. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. I do a lot with Apple technology. So we set up a website called iPadEducators.com, which went on to win an award, and it led to both of us becoming Apple distinguished educators.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. Prior to Presence Capital, he was the founder and CTO of MyMiniLife (acquired by Zynga) and the founder and CEO of Toro (acquired by Google). Prior to Spatial, he founded BumpTop, a pioneering 3D, multi-touch, physics desktop interface inspired by real desks that he presented at TED.

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