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Social VR: Virtual Reality Headsets Eliminating the Distance Between Us

ARPost

More Personal Interaction With Virtual Reality Headsets. Aside from enabling real-time feedback and collaboration, virtual reality also creates a more realistic form of interaction. It uses holographic elements to place people together in the same virtual environment wherever they are in the world.

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How to Save Money on Business Travel with Virtual Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

How can virtual reality (VR) improve travel for business? The world of extended reality (XR) offers a new opportunity to go beyond video and share digital space with co-workers, wherever they might be. . The Benefits of Virtual Reality for Replacing Business Travel . VR Conference Rooms are Already on the Way .

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The New Age of Learning Science with Virtual Reality: A Literature Review

ARVR

Virtual Reality: A New Age of Learning Science Virtual reality is not a new, hot-off-the-press concept. The term “ virtual reality” was first used in 1987 by Jaron Lanier, who was researching goggles that could display digital creations (Lowood, 2018). n.d.). , n.d.).

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Distance Underestimation in Virtual Environments

Road to VR

Academic VR researchers have shown that “people typically underestimate egocentric distances in immersive virtual environments,” sometimes up to 20%. The post Distance Underestimation in Virtual Environments appeared first on Road to VR. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes.

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X-HOUR Virtual Reality Showcase Series Taking Place in Austin, Texas and Online During SXSW 2024, March 7th to 11th

Ryan Schultz

VenusSX, one of the participants, sent me a press release about this series showcasing the state of the art in VR, taking place on the sidelines of the actual SXSW 2024 conference taking place in Austin, Texas this week and weekend (I will assume that this series is not part of the official SXSW event). Registration is available at [link].

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Webex Meetings Gains Metaverse Tools

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Vection is introducing “3D Frame” to the Webex application by Cisco, a service for conducting business meetings in an immersive virtual reality (VR) environment. In June, Cisco officially announced the technology partnership ahead of its Cisco LIVE 2022 conference. Original Announcement.

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Virtual learning conference shorter, VR-focused

Hypergrid Business

This year’s Virtual World Best Practices in Education 2018 conference, which ended last week in Second Life, was shorter than last year — three days, instead of four — and attracted about 1,100 attendees, down from a high of around 4,500 in previous years. Gateway area of this years’s VWBPE.