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You Can Now Donate Blood While Immersed In Mixed Reality

VRScout

To help quell this growing shortage, Abbot Laboratories, a medical device and healthcare company based out of Illinois, United States, has teamed up with Blood Centers of America to release a new mixed reality experience designed to attract younger donors while providing a fun and relaxing experience while in the chair.

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ARwall Expands with advisory team that includes Raymond Mosco

Cats and VR

ARwall’s cumulative new talent has helped paved the way for companies including Apple, Facebook, Oculus, Microsoft Hololens, Survios, Disney Studios Technology Group, Microsoft TV and more. She earned her MBA from Illinois Institute of Technology.

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Dissecting Virtual Frogs with VictoryXR’s Steve Grubbs

XR for Business Podcast

We’ve been working in XR Technologies — first virtual reality, and then augmented reality — since 2016. We had a nice big bump at the beginning of the year with Microsoft. Microsoft, in January paid us a sum of money so that they could distribute half of our content for free through their store.

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Dissecting Virtual Frogs with VictoryXR’s Steve Grubbs

XR for Business Podcast

We’ve been working in XR Technologies — first virtual reality, and then augmented reality — since 2016. We had a nice big bump at the beginning of the year with Microsoft. Microsoft, in January paid us a sum of money so that they could distribute half of our content for free through their store.

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Dissecting Virtual Frogs with VictoryXR's Steve Grubbs

XR for Business Podcast

We've been working in XR Technologies -- first virtual reality, and then augmented reality -- since 2016. We had a nice big bump at the beginning of the year with Microsoft. Microsoft, in January paid us a sum of money so that they could distribute half of our content for free through their store. I appreciate it.

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GigXR launches Insight Series in Partnership with ANIMA RES

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

ANIMA RES also has experience working with major technology partners, including Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Magic Leap. On the Gig Immersive Learning Platform, institutions and instructors can access the ANIMA RES content, alongside other immersive training content distributed by GigXR, as RT3D holographic augmented reality (AR) assets.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.28): Valve Index is now available immediately, Oculus and Magic Leap update their devices and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Valve was partnering with Flex to produce its headsets in Illinois, but now a source of mine says that only the base stations result made in USA. It is very interesting to discover that the Planetarium of Quebec is offering an augmented reality experience. Microsoft has released an OpenXR demo.