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Breonna’s Garden: An AR Experience to Foster Healing

ARPost

Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American woman, was fatally shot by plainclothes police when she was hit by 6 of the 32 bullets that were fired into her Louisville, Kentucky home.

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New Meta Quest for Education Product Due this Year

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Over 2,000 Meta Quest Headsets Deployed in Kentucky Schools The news comes soon after the Kentucky Department of Education – under the leadership of Dr Shannon Putman, PhD – deployed roughly 2,450 Meta Quest 2 VR headsets across the region’s learning institutions.

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2020: The Year of AR and VR for Education and Training

EON Reality

Education and Global Innovation, Jamie Justice, is an expert in how AR and VR technologies are changing education. The times are changing rapidly and globally in how people interact with each other and with technology. AR and VR, Random Acts of Progress: A Personal Story. EON Reality’s Director for U.S

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Vodafone ‘Shifts the Paradigm’ from XR Headsets to AR Glasses

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Vodafone is bringing its computing connectivity capabilities to the Snapdragon-powered HyperRealityHub that it says “shifts the paradigm” from heavier XR headsets to more lightweight and affordable AR glasses. Alternatively, visitors can choose to interact with VEDA as a hologram-like projection without needing to wear the AR glasses.

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How the XR Community Celebrates Black History Month (Black Futures Month?)

ARPost

ROSE , a minority-owned New York-based digital agency focused on AR, worked with XR platform 8th Wall to create a digital model of the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge and augment every step with historically significant media and information regarding the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Surgery Training Platform ‘Osso VR’ Now Used by 1,000 Surgeons Monthly

Road to VR

The company says that leading hospitals using the platform include Brown University, Vanderbilt University, Hospital for Special Surgery, Marshall University, Newcastle Simulation Centre, The University of Hawaii, UCLA, University of Washington, Wake Forest Baptiste Health, University of Kentucky, University of Utah, and New York University.

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2020 – The Year of AR and VR for Education and Training

EON Reality

In my time at the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, I was first introduced to the concept of using virtual reality (3D stereographic presentation), as a means to change and improve the teaching and learning process. AR – Augmented reality will change the way we interact with the real and virtual world.