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AR Takes Center Stage At SXSW 2020

VRScout

The annual festival will debut new AR experiences from Magic Leap, Intel, and director Virginia Galloway. This new approach to immersive cinema uses spatial computing to tell a story about the special bond between a young woman named Kayah and her beloved grandmother. Magic Leap’s The Last Light. Magic Leap’s The Last Light.

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Journey to Freedom and Equality: How an AR Experience Makes History Come Alive

ARPost

The group was met with resistance in Virginia. The engaging and immersive experiences offered by technology, such as augmented reality, enable people to experience the past, to see first-hand the events that shaped the nation. Some Freedom Riders were arrested. Members of the group were beaten.

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Weather Channel Demonstrates Dangers Of Hurricane Florence Using Mixed Reality

VRScout

Even with mandatory evacuations of Virginia and the Carolina’s currently underway, officials expect heavy damage and casualties as a result of the deadly weather.

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Kai XR: Bringing VR To The Classroom, One Headset At A Time

VRScout

In 2017 she sealed her commitment to the cause when she sold almost all of her possessions and moved across the country to found Kai XR, an immersive “edtech” start-up focused on getting emerging technology into the hands of the next generation. Kai XR founder Kai Frazier. “[I] Image Credit: Kai XR.

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Moving Virtual Objects Like a Jedi

Tech Trends VR

In fact, I’m a bit surprised it took this long, but researchers at Virginia Tech have put their brains to good use and come up with a way for ordinary mortals to replicate the telekinetic powers of a Jedi in Virtual Reality. It was only a matter of time. VRScout (@VRScout) December 6, 2018.

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EON Reality Partners With Butte College for EON-XR Center

EON Reality

EON Reality and Butte College have partnered for the launch of an EON-XR Center across multiple disciplines at Butte College, enhancing programs and learning modalities with virtual and augmented reality software. ” Virginia Guleff Butte College Vice President, Office of Instruction.

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Five Universal Tasks of 3D User Interfaces with Doug Bowman

Road to VR

Virtual and augmented reality represent a new immersive computing paradigm where the equivalent 3D user interfaces are being continually refined as there is a burst of innovation with new input devices. For the last 48 years, the mouse and keyboard have remained the primary input devices for human-computer interaction.