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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

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). I am always fascinated when I speak with someone that is here before the Oculus Kickstarter campaign. One of the teams we work with is the Arkansas Razorbacks.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms’ Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

And I cannot wait until the day that I can take all my controllers and like run over them with my car, because– Alan: [laughs] We’re actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? Did this big group call, because they really wanted to do VR. ” because an Oculus Go costs $200.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms’ Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

And I cannot wait until the day that I can take all my controllers and like run over them with my car, because– Alan: [laughs] We’re actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? Did this big group call, because they really wanted to do VR. ” because an Oculus Go costs $200.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms' Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: [laughs] We're actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? So you need to use the controller to start the experience, because that's a function of Oculus, not anything we have control over. Did this big group call, because they really wanted to do VR. because an Oculus Go costs $200.

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

XR for Business Podcast

You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. One thing she’s trying to put together is something called the sensory design group. Oculus has sold a couple million. Amazon Sumerian. The tools are here. Now it’s a matter of, we need to get in and actually use it. million sold.

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

XR for Business Podcast

You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. One thing she’s trying to put together is something called the sensory design group. Oculus has sold a couple million. Amazon Sumerian. The tools are here. Now it’s a matter of, we need to get in and actually use it. million sold.

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

XR for Business Podcast

You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. One thing she's trying to put together is something called the sensory design group. Oculus has sold a couple million. there's just all these tools. Amazon Sumerian. The tools are here. Or better yet, maybe marketing. Alan: Well all right!

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