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The Virtual Arena: Educators Learn Their VR

Peter Graham

Moving from entertainment, he now covers the major developments VR is having in shaping the future Education Technology scene. Yet again, the biggest presence of VR at the show was from Avantis – the company had powered into VR and was one of the first to offer educators a dedicated package.

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An Overview of the VRARA’s VR/AR Global Summit on XR Technology

ARPost

Governments are realizing where the holes in the network actually are,” Shannon said in her talk The Year the Earth Stood Still. XR for Remote Collaboration and Education. A similar statement regarding XR technology adoption in education was discussed in the Immersive Learning Explosion panel discussion. “We

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Sinespace launches VR beta

Hypergrid Business

Sinespace , a virtual world platform from OpenSim co-founder Adam Frisby, launched its virtual reality beta last week and reports 20 percent weekly user growth. Previously, the Unity-based social virtual world was only available for desktop clients. Virtual meeting. Sean O’Callaghan. There is no mobile support yet.

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2018 Highlights: Award-winning VR gloves, global customers, and a growing team

HaptX

We were the first VR company to introduce a prototype at Sundance since Oculus unveiled an early version of their Rift in 2012. Engineers, educators, and researchers recognize that we’re solving hard problems, and that HaptX Gloves are a radical departure from what’s been done before,” said Andrew Mitrak, Director of Marketing.

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How Will AR Transform Advertising?

AR Insider

Advrty wants to offer a new avenue of monetization for virtual reality developers which doesn’t involve full field-of-view pop-up ads with a platform aimed at designing and incorporating nonintrusive product placement. Virtual humans are getting more and more real. Check out the example below of Mica , Magic Leap’s intelligent agent.

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