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

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Developing forecasting software that enables cultural institutions to make data-centered decisions in planning their seasons and events. Project lead: Shane Richey | Bentonville, Arkansas | @crystalbridges. Here are the winners from the first $600,000 pool: ArtsESP – Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.

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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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Augmented reality and the next century of the web

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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. .