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Google Launches Social Awareness VR Initiative ‘Daydream Impact’

VRScout

Google Daydream will provide organizations with VR training and equipment rentals. So to start, Google is providing training through a VR filmmaking course on Coursera , which anyone can take. When it comes to social change, awareness is the first step on a long journey to impact the causes and problems that we care about.

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Google’s Daydream Impact Project Aims to Bolster Philanthropic Efforts With VR

Road to VR

Google’s newly announced Daydream Impact program is a philanthropy project that provides organizations, nonprofits, and advocates for change with resources, tools, and training to create immersive VR content to support their cause. Eastern Congo Initiative displays the struggles of living in the Congo and the resilience of its people.

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The Right Displays for Challenging Tasks: XR on Oil Rigs, with Shell’s Michael Kaldenbach

XR for Business Podcast

So This isn’t like virtual reality, where you know you’re training in something — and then obviously, you can use that as well — But this is real-time. If] we can’t make a podcast recording work, what are we supposed to do in an oil site in the middle of the Congo? Alan: So this is real-time.

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The Right Displays for Challenging Tasks: XR on Oil Rigs, with Shell’s Michael Kaldenbach

XR for Business Podcast

So This isn’t like virtual reality, where you know you’re training in something — and then obviously, you can use that as well — But this is real-time. If] we can’t make a podcast recording work, what are we supposed to do in an oil site in the middle of the Congo? Alan: So this is real-time.

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Getting the ROI out of XR, with Sector 5 Digital's Cameron Ayres

XR for Business Podcast

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. You have the presence, for things like training, for things like real-time engineering.

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Getting the ROI out of XR, with Sector 5 Digital's Cameron Ayres

XR for Business Podcast

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. You have the presence, for things like training, for things like real-time engineering.

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Getting the ROI out of XR, with Sector 5 Digital's Cameron Ayres

XR for Business Podcast

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. You have the presence, for things like training, for things like real-time engineering.