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Google Opens Daydream App Submission to All and Publishes VR App “Quality Requirements”

Road to VR

The move was entirely understandable of course, but less in line with Android’s ‘open’ attitude to app submission for standard mobile platforms, more inline with a certain Cupertino based competitor perhaps.

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How Augmented Reality Is Enhancing the Value of Digital Personas

ARPost

Background Examples. Epic Games’ Fortnite famously made around $400 million over the course of 12 months mostly selling outfits and other in-game products to its players. They buy outfits for their characters to look cool for the same reason we used to buy Air Jordans (sneakerheads still buy and sport expensive shoes, of course).

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How Augmented Reality Is Enhancing the Value of Digital Personas

ARPost

Background Examples. Epic Games’ Fortnite famously made around $400 million over the course of 12 months mostly selling outfits and other in-game products to its players. They buy outfits for their characters to look cool for the same reason we used to buy Air Jordans (sneakerheads still buy and sport expensive shoes, of course).

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First look at HTC Vive Sync

Hypergrid Business

The head tracking and the hand-held controllers both feel real. In other headsets, the head tracking or the controllers would sometimes drift. But head tracking isn’t just about turning your head from one side to another. With the permission of all participants, of course.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

I spoke with him about many topics, like why VR is so good for training (and he told me that his company Strivr has trained more than ONE MILLION Walmart employees in VR ), if it is true that VR is the “ultimate empathy machine”, how much is graphical fidelity important for presence, and of course also about his encounter with Zuck.

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Space and Perspective in VR

Leapmotion

It’s important to note that head tracking moves the user’s head, but not the user’s virtual body. For this reason, an object mapped to the body frame of reference will not follow the head movement, and may disappear from the field of view when the user turns around. Head frame of reference.

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How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are Revolutionizing Healthcare

ARVR

For example, workers at Sheba Medical Center , located in Ramat Gan, Israel, have been using Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 as a method to train staff to operate on ventilators. A great example of a firm in this space is SentiAR , based out of St. 9 Must Have Skills To Become An AR/VR Developer (With Course Recommendations) 2.