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5th International VR Awards Finalists Announced

ARPost

The “smell training” program has more uses than you might expect but is currently being used by individuals who temporarily lost their sense of smell due to COVID. Health Scholars for VR Pediatric Emergency Care training. for “Aseptic Technique VR” training with NHS Blood Transplant. VR Education and Training of the Year.

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Extended Reality In Education: Is it the Future of Instruction?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Companies such as Gamooz gamify reading books for children, significantly boosting engagement levels with 2D pop-up content, and offering more publishers and authors access to the technology for their books. This costs them much less than more widely-used gaming engines such as Unity or Unreal Engine. Reduced Educational Costs.

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Rethinking Reality With ThinkReality’s Nathan Pettyjohn and Lenovo’s Bill Adams

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They decided to base everything in the massively popular 3D development platform Unity. See Also: XR Technology for Industry According to Unity’s Andre Gauthier. One of the fastest-growing applications for XR technology is soft skills training. Not all applications are all about AEC and digital assets.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.16): Meta teases Cambria, Google shows new AR features, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. These huge losses have a similar origin to Meta’s ones: Apple’s new privacy policy on the stores has impacted the earnings through Unity ads. Unity is a very important company for many AR/VR creators, so this is not a good piece of news. Lenovo to launch a new MR headset.

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Spatial Beats: 8th Wall, Sam and Max, & Burning Man

AR Insider

Let’s dive in… Osso VR Raises $27 Million Series B to Expand Its VR Surgical Training Platform. This VR surgical training platform has been helping residents and introducing surgeons to new techniques since 2016. See his books here. Of course, they once said that about computers and mobile phones.

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How to use Action Mapping as a Framework for VR learning design?—?Motive.io

ARVR

Virtual reality needs learning design There are a lot of questions surrounding virtual reality for training. The promise of the technology to bring training to life and make a lasting impact on success is exciting. It is important to remember that without a thoughtful approach to the learning design, your VR training will fall flat.

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2021 Immersive Tech Trends

Tech Trends VR

Unity asked more than a dozen industry experts – including yours truly – to share their thoughts on how immersive technologies would be embraced for a report entitled Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR. You can access the e-book for free here.

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