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

Road to VR

In fact, games only account for 35% of projects underway, as the rest are focused on fields like psychology and neuroscience (12%), education (7%), tourism (7% ), and architecture and real estate (6%). North Metropolitan TAFE, Australia. image courtesy VR First. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Oklahoma State University, USA.

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Can the Industrial Metaverse, XR Build Future Smart Cities?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

It showcased dozens of speakers and major global enterprises across industry verticals in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), extended reality (XR) and technology, film and media production, and many others. We were asked to create a hub-and-spoke system, just like we have here in the United States or Australia.

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

The Ghost Howls

Virtual Reality is becoming always more important in enterprise settings , for training, architectural visualization, prototyping, and more. This approach reminds me a lot the one that Microsoft is having with HoloLens 2 , and is understandable since they are selling devices worth $1000 each, that can’t interest small businesses.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. Pradeep has been a leader for IBM GBS Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ), He has over 30 years of executive & management experience across a number of industries. 25- Pankaj Raut.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

There’s a lot of, for example, architectural firms in town, and they aren’t as flashy as a virtual sports or something, but they’re all using VR for showing the buildings, or going to a client and saying, “hey, would you like this room moved over here? We’re not tied to Microsoft.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

There’s a lot of, for example, architectural firms in town, and they aren’t as flashy as a virtual sports or something, but they’re all using VR for showing the buildings, or going to a client and saying, “hey, would you like this room moved over here? We’re not tied to Microsoft.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?'s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

There's a lot of, for example, architectural firms in town, and they aren't as flashy as a virtual sports or something, but they're all using VR for showing the buildings, or going to a client and saying, "hey, would you like this room moved over here? We're not tied to Microsoft. Literally from Sydney, Australia to New York, L.A.,

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