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Xenco Medical’s HoloMedX Brings Holograms to Surgical Education – No Headset Required

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These air controllers, equipped with three-axis accelerometers and gyroscopes, help to add an additional layer of understanding that wouldn’t be possible if users manipulated the models using controllers or even gesture controls. The software, the display, and the custom air controls together produce “ HoloMedX.”. “We

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AWE Day 3: The Most Wholesome Day in the History of XR Technology

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For example, how does someone with Parkinson’s navigate gesture controls? We have proven over and over again in education and medicine that VR can uplift us. Shortly after his call to “shun all violence in VR”, Furness announced a new partnership between the Virtual World Society and Educators in VR.

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Immersive Reality promotes inclusion amongst special needs pupils

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For many years, digital technologies have played an important role in reducing opportunity gaps, especially amongst members of disadvantaged and underrepresented communities – from assistive technologies that create independence for people with disabilities to learning platforms that provide access to educational opportunities.

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Top 5 Use Cases For Hand Eye Tracking Technology

XR Today - Virtual Reality

In the XR training and education landscape, for instance, hand and eye tracking technology can provide a behind-the-scenes insight into how users might engage with specific machines, technology, and processes. Already, we’re interacting with a range of artificially intelligent bots and automated tools through gestures, and voice.

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Dedicated AR and VR Accessories Manufacturers

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The most recent MANUS product is the SteamVR tracker for precise gesture controls and motion capture. “As However, the company is using models of its real surgical devices as hyper-realistic air controllers in their augmented reality education tool HolomedX. A Strange New World.

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The Number of VR Companies Grew 40 Percent in 2016

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Education, enterprise, health care, and journalism also experienced healthy growth in the non-games and non-entertainment categories. The dream of an all-in-one mobile headset with positional tracking and full gesture control is expected to arrive within the coming years, DeMiroz said.

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Massive XR Environments and Transforming Education with Alvin Wang Graylin

XR for Business Podcast

Mr. Graylin was born in China and educated in the US. About a year ago actually, at the last VEC, I had announced that we were going to bring gesture control to VIVE, using the existing cameras that are on both the VIVE and the VIVE Focus. Yes, so at the VEC – and at GDC – we actually announced our USDKs for hand tracking.