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T-Mobile, Prisms VR Extend Immersive STEM Learning Opportunities

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This Monday, immersive education solutions provider PrismsVR announced a partnership with T-Mobile and Lenawee Intermediary School District (LISD) to distribute its application across 11 Michigan school districts by leveraging 5G networking. Moreover, in early 2022 PrismsVR expanded its solution across Oklahoma District Schools.

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Prisms VR Secures $12.5 M, Following Consumer Launch

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This Monday, immersive maths education firm Prisms V.R. The move comes as Prisms aims to accelerate math literacy and immersive education across the U.S. immersive learning platform to accelerate maths and STEM learning. The firm aims its solution at K-12 STEM education. virtual reality) secured $12.5

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VR Training Program Teaches Underserved Population Soft Skills to Increase Their Employment Chances

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partnered with Link to VR , an XR media agency, to develop a VR training program, through the immersive learning platform Bodyswaps , that would help underserved people learn these valuable skills. To solve this issue, Viability.

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EON Reality and ORU Open Dedicated AR/VR Learning Facility

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Virtual reality offers near limitless virtual space to recreate almost anything you can imagine and immerses users into environments they may not be able to experience otherwise. If you combine both of those, you have a malleable palate for education and a new facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma will be taking advantage of this.

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Walmart Using Black Friday VR Simulator To Train Staff

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Walmart Academies have begun using various VR retail scenarios to educate new employees. The current trial curriculum, produced by immersive performance training platform Strivr , uses an Oculus Rift headset to immerse associates in education VR simulations. Working in retail is anything but easy.

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Explain VR Is Like An Encyclopedia Brought To Life

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It remains to be seen just how large a part education will play in the VR industry, but there have been interesting developments recently. For example, an entire facility has been fitted out for AR and VR education in Oklahoma. “Our long-term goal is to create educational tool for schools,” he says.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

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In fact, games only account for 35% of projects underway, as the rest are focused on fields like psychology and neuroscience (12%), education (7%), tourism (7% ), and architecture and real estate (6%). Dania Academy of Higher Education, Denmark. Oklahoma State University, USA. image courtesy VR First. HTW Berlin, Germany.

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