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VR & AR Goes For Gold At 2018 Winter Olympic Games

VRScout

The VR Olympics is being delivered exclusively through the NBC Sports VR app on Samsung Gear VR, Google Daydream, Windows, Android and iOS devices. Not only is VR being used for the fans, but its playing a large part in training athletes prior to the Olympics as well. Back in 2016, Troy Taylor, U.S. Now STRIVR and the U.S.

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The Top VR Headset Vendors for 2024

XR Today - Virtual Reality

It can also be an effective way to boost productivity during collaborative sessions, enhance the quality of training courses, and increase creativity. Of course, leveraging the power of virtual reality starts with choosing the right headset capable of transporting each user into a new digital landscape.

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How Virtual Reality Can Close the Gender Pay Gap

ARPost

But California-based VR startup Variable Labs believes that virtual reality is the quickest way to close the gender pay gap. VR-based enterprise training company Vantage Point is also working on a similar idea. Samsung Gear VR supports Variable’s simulation. No one can fix pay discrimination overnight.

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Check out best VRFest video, game nominees—3 days left to vote

Hypergrid Business

California Platform Reefs. Get Barreled in Tahiti with Samsung Gear VR. Astronaut Training at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab. Nominees for Best Live Action Documentary Links. A History Of Cuban Dance. Anti-terror drill in Shanghai stereo VR. Aftershock: Nepal’s untold water story. Chernobyl 30 Years Later. Cut-Off VR.

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Exclusive: HP’s Next-gen VR Headset Aims to Raise the Bar on Clarity & Comfort

Road to VR

It was a seemingly fitting day—unusually dreary weather for California’s Bay Area—to find myself in the basement of HP’s Palo Alto headquarters, safe from the wind and rain. The first I recognize: Samsung’s recently launched Odyssey+.

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10 Industries Using VR in Marketing Strategies

VeeR VR

One example is the project created by Within and Defy Ventures, who partnered together to create a short film that documented the lives of people incarcerated in a California maximum security prison. Samsung VR Rollercoaster Samsung has partnered with Six Flags to create rollercoaster experiences. Stay tuned on veer.tv

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Kevin Williams: LBVR is not dead, it is rising again

The Ghost Howls

The market is at best 50% reopening , and we have seen the continued shutdown of California. Using the term LBVR has a danger of being confused with the Location-Based VR market that is a general term for training, and simulation , the definition of entertainment shows this specific focus.