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Haptic Solution to Support XR Accessibility for the Visually Impaired

XR Today - Virtual Reality

HaptX is leading the research alongside Old Dominion University (ODU) and Georgia Institute of Technology, which are also gaining investments from the funding round. This patent technology increases realism and immersion during an AR/VR/MR experience.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. image courtesy VR First. image courtesy VR First.

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Creating Immersive Learning Experiences

Tech Trends VR

The benefits of using immersive technologies as teaching tools have been widely documented and extensively discussed, specially in recent years with the rapid development of Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed reality hardware and applications. It has allowed our students from a small town in Georgia to tell our story to the world.”. “As

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XR Education in 2021

ARPost

VR is for games and AR is for industry, right? However, there are myriad other use cases and XR education is one of the most promising. Arthur and Georgia State University. That’s probably the biggest broad-strokes argument that a person could make about extended reality and remain arguably correct.

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Big XR News from Meta, HaptX, Siemens, and Apple

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

With Q1 reports incoming, XR firms are reflecting on success and failure to achieve a market lead by 2025. Reality Labs Again Records a Mixed Performance, Zuckerberg Banks on AR andAI Big week for Meta… Meta has released its Q1 earnings report , indicating a rise in general capital and operational growth.

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Varjo Demos XR Enterprise Use Cases in London

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

As the virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) industries continue to grow, the backbone of its success remains to build use cases. Varjo Technologies and its partners are leading the charge to develop novel immersive design, training, and collaboration approaches.

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