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Network Rail’s XR Training Pilot Reaches 1,000 UK Students

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Recently, Network Rail officially taught more than 1,000 students at the Trinity Academy in Thorne, Doncaster, a landmark number for immersive training programmes. The immersive learning units leveraged VR headsets to simulate rail lines and the dangers of such spaces and 360-degree presentations. Is Immersive Learning on the Uptick?

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NVIDIA Tricks Audience With Virtual CEO In Latest Keynote

VRScout

This past April, GPU manufacturer NVIDIA hosted its annual GTC (GPU Technology Conference), during which the company presented its GT21 keynote featuring NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. In a blog post released by NVIDIA earlier this week, the company revealed that a small portion of the virtual keynote was hosted by a digitized version of Huang.

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Talespin Building Virtual Human Tech to Train Interpersonal Skills in VR

Road to VR

With increasing demand among employers for employees with great interpersonal communication skills, VR training company Talespin is bringing ‘virtual human’ training scenarios to its platform. Unconscious Bias Training. Sensitivity Training. De-escalation Training. Image courtesy Talespin.

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MIT Researchers Build VR Testing Ground to Safely Train Autonomous Drones

Road to VR

Training autonomous drones to fly around complex indoor environments inevitably means crashes, not to mention a constant cycle of repair and replacement. To remedy this, MIT engineers created a VR training system that allows drones to “see” virtual imagery while flying around a physically empty test facility.

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The Unseen Side of Training: Turning a Negative into Positive with XR

Digitalnauts

The Unseen Side of Training: turning a negative into a positive with xr At Digitalnauts, we’re rewriting the training playbook, turning negatives into powerful learning tools. Join us as we pioneer a new era of training, empowering learners to embrace safety with a proactive mindset. Welcome to Digitalnauts.

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How To Transform Your Company with a VR Training Program

VRPlayin

In a fast-paced world, staying ahead of the curve requires a focus on employee training. We will explore how a VR training program can transform a company. The Power of VR Training When it comes to training, the traditional methods have their limitations. However, VR presents a unique solution to this issue.

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Anime VR: present and future of a new medium

The Ghost Howls

Today I feature a very interesting blog post about Virtual Reality anime by Fedotov Maxim. The disappointing bit is that while you are in VR… you watch those dialogues on a small screen inside this world , rather than being present with actual models. Mixed with those, are actual VR battles, which can be quite fun.

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