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Enterprise Wearable & Immersive Tech 2018: Magic Leap, Exosuits and VR Training, Training, Training

EnterpriseWear

While wearable technologies, including wearable XR, didn’t exactly “blow up” this year, the technology did further entrench itself in enterprise—the number of companies in the evaluation stage rose significantly, several large deployments made headlines, and solution providers continued to partner and expand their products to more platforms.

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VR: Getting People to Take Safety Training Seriously, Retail Merchandising, and More

EnterpriseWear

Virtual reality is making inroads in the retail industry, at the same time as more and more companies are realizing the powerful potential of VR for training. The retailer is expanding its use of VR beyond employee training to the customer experience, making novel use of its 4,000+ physical stores.

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Excited about HoloLens 2? Looking back at groundbreaking use cases of HoloLens

EnterpriseWear

Indeed, over the last five Enterprise Wearable Technology Summits, we’ve followed Boeing’s and the rest’s stories from proof of concept through rollout. Learn more about how HoloLens and other wearables are employed at Ford when Randy Nunez and Marty Smets take the EWTS 2019 stage.). They speak at EWTS every year. Assembly at Boeing.

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Put the Car of Your Dreams in Your Living Room, with ZeroLight’s Barry Hoffman

XR for Business Podcast

We worked towards the next Dallas event that… I’m trying to think, what is it? The Passthrough cameras especially, because if you look at the whole AR thing, and especially the wearables, the headsets — think about Hololens and Magic Leap — I see the utility factor of where they are. BrainXchange? Alan: Oh yeah!

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Put the Car of Your Dreams in Your Living Room, with ZeroLight’s Barry Hoffman

XR for Business Podcast

We worked towards the next Dallas event that… I’m trying to think, what is it? The Passthrough cameras especially, because if you look at the whole AR thing, and especially the wearables, the headsets — think about Hololens and Magic Leap — I see the utility factor of where they are. BrainXchange? Alan: Oh yeah!

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Wearable and Immersive Tech and the Female Workforce

EnterpriseWear

This is problematic, as those sectors desperately need to find and train the next generation of workers and can’t afford to ignore half the population. Of course, such wearability issues with XR devices are not universal for women but it is a common pain point impacting women’s use of the technology.

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HR in XR, with BrainXchange’s Emily Friedman

XR for Business Podcast

Emily Friedman is a New York based enterprise immersive, wearable and emerging technology advocate, journalist and facilitator. — on the enterprise wearables world. Emily: Huge one is a shrinking workforce, that creates this need to train faster, better. And I think skilled trades training has dropped off a lot.