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Mechanical Backpack Makes Jumping In VR More Fun

VRScout

” Pedro Lopes , an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Chicago who focuses on integrating interfaces with the human body by exploring the interface paradigm that supersedes wearables, wants to make jumping in VR a more enjoyable experience. “Jump up and down and move it all around.”

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Traveling Halo Fan Experience Will Feature Competitive Location-Based VR

VRScout

Available as part of the tour, Halo: Training Grounds puts visitors in the boots of a UNSC Spartan, an elite soldier enhanced by both mechanical and biological augmentations. They’ll then fight alongside two other teammates in a 3v3 combat training environment designed to hone your skills as Earth’s most badass fighting force.

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The 2019 VR Awards Winners Recognized for Outstanding VR Tech

ARPost

This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. The twisted puzzle adventure game beat out more recognizable titles including ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission , Vacation Simulator , and Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs.

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Become a Spartan in Halo Training Grounds’ Free-Roaming VR Multiplayer Starting This Weekend

Peter Graham

Called Halo: Outpost Discovery, the travelling live event experience will be heading to various US cities and as part of it VRstudios has created a free-roaming virtual reality (VR) multiplayer called Training Grounds. . Halo Training Grounds is an arena style competitive experience where two teams of three fight it out as Spartan drones.

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How VR Saves Lives in the OR

VRScout

VR is completely changing how doctors can train. Slight improvements in training, a slightly better test or tool, or a faster diagnosis, have the potential to save thousands of lives and billions of dollars. We see seven themes emerging from new VR and AR apps for health: Training. Physical training, health, and fitness.

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Dissecting Virtual Frogs with VictoryXR’s Steve Grubbs

XR for Business Podcast

Steve: By last summer — and my annual University of Iowa fraternity gathering — one of my fraternity brothers is a assistant superintendent of schools in the Chicago area, and he was a former science teacher. Do they want you to train them? Tell me how that came about. Are they looking for a complete solution?

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Dissecting Virtual Frogs with VictoryXR’s Steve Grubbs

XR for Business Podcast

Steve: By last summer — and my annual University of Iowa fraternity gathering — one of my fraternity brothers is a assistant superintendent of schools in the Chicago area, and he was a former science teacher. Do they want you to train them? Tell me how that came about. Are they looking for a complete solution?