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Here’s How VR is Helping Athletes Prepare for Games

VRScout

STRIVR boasts clients such as the Dallas Cowboys, Arizona Cardinals, New York Jets, the University of Arkansas, Stanford University and the Washington Wizards. many teams find VR to be a great training tool. It helps players get extra reps in practice without the threat of injury.

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

TechCrunch VR

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

We were using VR not as a thing to study in and of itself, but we were using it as a tool to run more rigorous social psych studies. One of the teams we work with is the Arkansas Razorbacks. In Arkansas, there is the largest company in the world. Walmart headquarters are there.

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

XR for Business Podcast

Then you needed software, and the software didn’t exist yet, so you had to make it. Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. The tools are here.

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

XR for Business Podcast

Then you needed software, and the software didn’t exist yet, so you had to make it. Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. The tools are here.

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

XR for Business Podcast

Then you needed software, and the software didn't exist yet, so you had to make it. Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity. there's just all these tools. I think that the tools that they have are incredible.

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Augmented reality and the next century of the web

TechCrunch VR

Facebook’s hardware and software experiments have been experimentations in plain sight, an advantage afforded to a company that didn’t sell any hardware before they started selling VR headsets.