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

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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. We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now.

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Virtualware Inks Multi-Year VR Trainer Deal with US Energy Firm

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Virtualware , a Spanish virtual reality (VR) firm specialising in enterprise training solutions, has inked a massive multi-million dollar deal with a US energy firm. With its VR training platform, Virtualware will offer its services to the unnamed company to rapidly upskill its workforce for entering their on-side working environments.

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Virtualware: A History of 20 Years in Enterprise VR

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Multinational companies all over the globe rely on Virtualware and its innovative technologies to facilitate collaboration, creativity, training, and more. They build extended reality toolkits designed to address industrial and enterprise issues at scale, whether it’s transforming training, or unlocking innovation.

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Orlando is ‘The MetaCenter’: Pushing Boundaries in the Metaverse

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See Also: One of America’s Biggest VR/AR Centers Is… Orlando? Orlando has the most Unity licenses in the US, proving that the city is ready to be mapped in a 3D environment. The potential appears endless as the metaverse moves from games and entertainment to applications for business, training, conferences, events, and many others.

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Virtualware Appoints VRARA’s John A Cunningham to Advisory Board

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Cunningham currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer of the VR/AR Association (VRARA) and is the former Head of Government and Aerospace Business for Unity Technologies. Additionally, Virtualware aims to help Unity instructors and workforce development. Virtualware currently serves more than 40 institutions and firms.

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Varjo Promises “Human-Eye” Resolution With VR-1 Headset

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Varjo hopes these hyper realistic environments will serve as the perfect tool for fields such as architecture, construction, engineering, industry design, training simulations, and other industries where accuracy is paramount. Premium cars can only be made with premium tools.

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Immerse Lauds XR for Upskilling Anglo American Workers

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Major corporations like Accenture, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, and others have adopted immersive learning tools to train their staff at scale and on the fly. Symonds has worked in XR training for over ten years and focused on spaces where immersive technologies can empower learners.