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Walmart and STRIVR Partner To Train Employees In VR

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Each will have an Oculus Rift and a VR ready PC to run it on. Walmart partnered with STRIVR Labs to create these experiences after one of the company’s executives saw the University of Arkansas football team training using VR too. Eventually, the company hopes to be rolling out the platform to its 5,000 retail locations too.

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Here’s How VR is Helping Athletes Prepare for Games

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The next wave of athletic training takes place in a computer simulation, as companies such as STRIVR Labs , EON Sports and Beyond Sports help players prepare for games through VR technology. Davis Webb, the quarterback of Stanford rival California, trusts his Oculus headset as much as his helmet when it comes to game preparation.

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Three Reasons Higher Education Has Embraced Virtual Reality

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Cameras like the Insta360 One X and headsets like the Oculus Go have made VR affordable/easy to use, while InstaVR has made editing and publishing VR accessible to non-technical people. see the Oculus Go “Release Channels” feature for a great new way to distribute VR apps).

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

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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. Or how does resolution or latency affect simulator sickness?

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How to Create a VR Soft Skills App Using InstaVR

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Our client, University of Arkansas – Pulaski Tech, for instance created a VR application to help students better engage in public speaking. For example, the best VR experiences are in higher-end headsets like the Oculus Quest , but consequently the Quest is a bit bulky and immersion can cause sickness/fatigue after excessive immersion.

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

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You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. We were talking about haptics, and how haptic vests and gloves can be used across enterprise for simulation of training, but also scent machines, and different spatial audio and things. Oculus has sold a couple million. Amazon Sumerian.

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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. We were talking about haptics, and how haptic vests and gloves can be used across enterprise for simulation of training, but also scent machines, and different spatial audio and things. Oculus has sold a couple million. Amazon Sumerian.

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