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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.

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The XR Week Peek (2019.14.09): a new powerful Vive Focus appears, Facebook Connect is coming, and more!

The Ghost Howls

If you remember well, this platform is based on a modified version of the Snapdragon 865 (3 generations after the 835 of the Oculus Quest) and supports features like eye tracking, high-quality passthrough AR, and 5G. Oculus Connect is starting and a new Facebook AR/VR logo appears. Other relevant news. But let’s see in a few days….

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Apple Mum on AR/VR for iPhone 7, but Here’s How We Know They’re Still Working on It

Road to VR

.” Not a month later and the company was seeking four additional hires with immersive tech talent , including a ‘VR/AR Programmer’ Then there was Apple’s hiring of Doug Bowman , Director of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech, and an influential figure in the world of virtual reality academia.

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Attending Digital Concerts in XR with The Boolean’s Anne McKinnon

XR for Business Podcast

So I was at the FIVARS Festival, which is the Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Storytelling, and they had a band there and the band was playing in a small room and everybody kind of came in to watch. Alan: DAQRI, the augmented reality helmet, they raised enormous sums of capital.

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Attending Digital Concerts in XR with The Boolean’s Anne McKinnon

XR for Business Podcast

So I was at the FIVARS Festival, which is the Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Storytelling, and they had a band there and the band was playing in a small room and everybody kind of came in to watch. Alan: DAQRI, the augmented reality helmet, they raised enormous sums of capital.

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Attending Digital Concerts in XR with The Boolean's Anne McKinnon

XR for Business Podcast

So I was at the FIVARS Festival, which is the Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Storytelling, and they had a band there and the band was playing in a small room and everybody kind of came in to watch. Alan: DAQRI, the augmented reality helmet, they raised enormous sums of capital.

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