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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. Or Unreal if that’s your language. Dangerous: training firefighters. I learned how to do the coding.

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

VRScout

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.

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Varjo Launches VR-1 with Retina-quality Fixed-foveated Display & Eye-tracking, Priced at $6,000

Road to VR

Varjo says their “industrial-grade” VR-1 headset is available starting today in 34 counties, across North America, Europe, and Hong Kong. At launch the company is promising support for 3D software tools and engines, including Unreal Engine, Unity, Autodesk VRED, PREPAR3D, ZeroLight, and VBS Blue IG.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.08): Microsoft launches Mesh, HTC and Pico tease new hardware, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Bank Of America to use VR training. VR training solutions are so successful that their adoption is not even news, but I think that this time I have to make an exception. All of this running thanks to the power of the Azure cloud. Be sure to use this use case in your next presentation about VR.

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Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

VRScout

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. Trimble XR10 w HoloLens 2 / Image Credit: Microsoft. CSA Z94.3,

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What Does the XR Industry Think about Apple’s Vision Pro?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Learning and training have probably become the biggest use case across industries. Enterprise users will be more likely to spend time in the headset, and this should even further accelerate training, learning, and development use cases for enterprises. This helps reduce errors, minimize training time, and enhance overall productivity.