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Bank Of America Turns To VR For Soft Skills Training

VRScout

VR training designed to help Bank of America employees better understand the diverse needs of their customers. One of the largest financial institutions in the nation, Bank of America, has announced that it will soon begin using VR for soft skill training in almost 4,300 financial centers across North America.

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Spatial Beats: Microsoft Mesh, Niantic & VR Training

AR Insider

This week, we look at takeaways from Microsoft Ignite, Space X, Pokemon Go and VR training from Bank of America. Bank of America is bringing VR instruction to its 4,000 banks. Corporate America is slowly seeing the use cases of VR. Oculus has partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80.

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Ecuador Is Launching A VR Training Program Supported By The World Bank

VRScout

Immersive training has the potential to make a huge impact on Ecuador’s education system. “ActiVaR,” one of the first technical training programs in Latin America, was launched at an event in Quito, Ecuador where 150 participants experienced VR and AR training techniques–many of them for the first time.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. Dangerous: training firefighters.

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FundamentalVR Expands Surgical Training Platform Support to Oculus Quest

Peter Graham

British tech company FundamentalVR has been at the forefront of virtual reality (VR) training in the healthcare system, primarily focused on surgical education via its Fundamental Surgery platform. ” You won’t find @HomeVR on the Oculus Store. Together, they provide a more powerful education platform.

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Discover Latin America’s XR ecosystem with Oscar Cartagena

The Ghost Howls

One of these places is Latin America. For instance… do you know that there are many difficulties related to getting and using a VR headset in South America? A moment from the VR DAY 2022(Image by Oscar Cartagena) I would like to explore with you the problem of XR headsets in Latin America.

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Interview with Robert Scoble about Oculus Quest 2, Apple Glasses and more!

The Ghost Howls

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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