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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. North Metropolitan TAFE, Australia. image courtesy VR First. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

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Three Reasons Higher Education Has Embraced Virtual Reality

InstaVR

All a user needs to access Virtual Reality is a headset like the Samsung Gear VR or Oculus Go — or really even just an iOS or Android smartphone and a Google Cardboard. Students throughout the world, as far away as Asia and Australia, will have access to the same interactive VR learning materials as the students in Scotland.

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Women In VR spotlight: Lee and Jordan Brighton talk about Run Dorothy Run.

Cats and VR

We built one of the first content management systems in Australia; we were also one of the early application service providers (before it was known as SaaS), and we’re again bringing a platform or “engine” approach to how we build games. We’re proud of our systemized approach to leveraging new technologies. It involves a marshmallow shooter.

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InstaVR Interviews: Dr. Matthew Frew, Senior Lecturer in Enterprise, University of the West of Scotland – School of Business and Enterprise

InstaVR

The government has put millions and millions of pounds into. Similarly we’ve got a few Samsung cameras that, like the Theta V, are pretty good consumer cameras. You can have them from China, you can have them from Australia, you can have them from America. building the infrastructure, so that island is very popular.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

Pradeep has been a leader for IBM GBS Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ), He has over 30 years of executive & management experience across a number of industries. He is an Adjunct Professor/Visiting Faculty at number of institutions in Australia, Singapore & India. Advisor for Betting & Gaming vertical in Samsung Harman.

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The Three Cs of Success for AR with Zappar’s Caspar Thykier

XR for Business Podcast

Working with retailers across the world, be it here in the UK with Asda, Wal-Mart in the states and 7-Eleven, or Woolworth’s in Australia, et cetera. Because you can now connectively, I guess, access and scan QR codes on iOS devices, and more so with Samsung through Bixby and Glens, et cetera. Caspar: Well, you’re right.

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The Three Cs of Success for AR with Zappar’s Caspar Thykier

XR for Business Podcast

Working with retailers across the world, be it here in the UK with Asda, Wal-Mart in the states and 7-Eleven, or Woolworth’s in Australia, et cetera. Because you can now connectively, I guess, access and scan QR codes on iOS devices, and more so with Samsung through Bixby and Glens, et cetera. Caspar: Well, you’re right.

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