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Varjo Releases XR-3 Retooled for Training and Simulation

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Passthrough is turning VR companies into AR companies. Often, the AR view of the world offered via passthrough has less visual fidelity than the VR view. This poses a problem when an AR experience relies on fine details in the physical environment like in simulation and training. But, it isn’t perfect. Hands-On Review.

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How Cities Are Taking Advantage of AR Tech and How Apple’s Vision Pro Could Fuel Innovation

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How the Vision Pro Headset Can Strengthen Efforts to Transform Orlando Cities around the world are starting to apply new technologies to help improve their communities. City, University of London , for instance, has launched an initiative that will bring about the UK’s largest AR, VR, and metaverse training center.

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Real Pilot Battles Virtual Aircraft In “World’s First” AR Dogfight

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Could live-flight AR exercises be the future of air combat training? Labeled as the “world’s first” AR dogfight by Red 6 and EpiSci, this first test had a pilot stepping into a Freeflight Composites Berkut 560 experimental plane. For more information on this groundbreaking AR dogfight, visit here.

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Top 5 E-Commerce AR and VR Trends To Follow in 2023

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AR and VR are two of the most promising technologies of the modern era. While AR and VR have been around for decades, it wasn’t until recently that they offered a quality experience without being too limited by technological constraints or not being portable enough for widespread use. They are: 1. billion by 2024.

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Google Reportedly Killed Its AR Glasses, Will Focus On Android For Third Party Hardware

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Google reportedly killed its glasses hardware project. Business Insider's Hugh Langley cites "three people familiar with the matter" as saying the hardware, which resembled standard glasses, was canceled earlier this year amid the mass layoffs at Google and the departure of Google's AR/VR chief Clay Bavor.

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Facebook’s First Full AR Glasses are Code Named ‘Project Nazare’

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” In a short simulated concept, Zuckerberg narrates a typical scene where users message over Whatsapp and organize a game night. There’s a long ways to go to create the hardware’s desired form-factor, Zuckerberg says, hinting that the glasses will be about 5mm thick, or just over 3/16 inches.

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This HoloLens Childbirth Simulator Helps Train Medical Students

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The first childbirth AR simulator. Whether learning how to play the piano or training crews to fly an Airbus , industries are quickly figuring out different ways augmented reality can be used for training and education. The post This HoloLens Childbirth Simulator Helps Train Medical Students appeared first on VRScout.