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The Knight Foundation launches $750,000 initiative for immersive technology for the arts

TechCrunch VR

Project lead: Shane Richey | Bentonville, Arkansas | @crystalbridges. Enabling audiences to share immediate feedback and reflections on art by designing hardware and software to test recording and sharing of audience thoughts. AR Enhanced Audio Tour – Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

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STRIVR Introduces VR Training On and Off the Field

Road to VR

Fast forward to 2016 and STRIVR Labs counts the likes of Texas Tech, Arkansas, Stanford, Dallas Cowboys, and Arizona Cardinals, among others, as clients using STRIVR’s VR solutions to enhance training. We try to be smart about what hardware we deploy and where.”. ” Photo courtesy ESPN.

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Spatial raises $14M more for a holographic 3D workspace app, a VR/AR version of Zoom or Hangouts

TechCrunch VR

The worlds of virtual and augmented reality have yet to land on the applications and hardware to truly spark mass-market, consumer interest in the space, but in the meantime, a startup building mixed reality services for business users has raised a round of funding, underscoring the opportunity in enterprise.

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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

I learned how to build hardware because back in the late ’90s, we weren’t using beautiful inside-out tracking systems. There was a lot of hardware work. You were really there building hardware and using very low frame, low-resolution headsets. One of the teams we work with is the Arkansas Razorbacks.

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Apple said to be working a high-priced standalone VR headset as debut mixed reality product

TechCrunch VR

Apple is reportedly working on developing a high-end virtual reality headset for a potential sales debut in 2022, per a new Bloomberg report.

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Augmented reality and the next century of the web

TechCrunch VR

Releasing the hardware will only be the start of a very messy transition from smartphone-first to glasses-first mobile computing. The company has already served up several iterations of their VR hardware through Oculus and has discussed publicly over the years how they view virtual reality and augmented reality hardware converging. .