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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

The round was led by NetEase (NASDAQ:NTES), a leading internet technology company in China, and Dawn Patrol Ventures, and includes former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, and seeks to bring the company’s haptic textiles that simulate lifelike touch and enable users to feel real-world physical properties from the virtual world. VISUALIZE DATA IN VR.

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

The Ghost Howls

Honestly speaking, this research by IDC has been sponsored by Facebook, so it is a bit like if I published a survey organized by me saying that I’m sexier than Hugh Jackman and Henry Cavill… it is not much reliable. Focused on VR training, simulations, data visualization, or remote collaboration.

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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

I was lucky enough to get a job at UC Santa Barbara in a combination social psychology lab and computer science hub , where we were using VR to run experiments, to simulate the social world. Or how does resolution or latency affect simulator sickness? This is 1999. How does your particular type of avatar affect your well-being?

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