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10 “Metaversities” Are Opening Across The US This Fall

VRScout

VR technology company Engage XR today announced that it is partnering with VR education specialists VictoryXR to launch 10 virtual universities, aka “Metaversities,” across the United States. When you think about VR technology, the first thing that often comes to mind is gaming, and for good reason.

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Suffolk, Carnegie Mellon Universities Join Transatlantic VR Partnership

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

” Bodyswaps technologies were “one way of helping students become job ready,” she added. .” ” Bodyswaps technologies were “one way of helping students become job ready,” she added. It’s really a bit of a blend of career support and new technology which I think works really well.”

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Big XR News from Boeing, ENGAGE XR, Apple, and Meta

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Now the Metaverse is gaining newfound traction from enterprise clients, companies like Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are reinforcing XR as a serious technology for various use cases. Combining Boeing’s platforms, capabilities and knowledge with new and emerging companies like Red 6 creates better products and services for the warfighter.

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Meta Reveals US Education Partnership amid v57 Update

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

These institutions, currently actively engaging in immersive learning, are hosting classes in virtual reality (VR) to determine the efficacy of XR technologies in the educational curriculum. Additionally, Itaca Education has tapped Meta’s hardware and technologies for virtual learning in the natural sciences and physics.

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An oral history of competitive meditation

Mashable VR

Even the savage humor and hectoring of the MC served a communal purpose by entertaining, educating and challenging everyone in the room at once. The final between New Mexico lawyer Randy Knudson and Toronto student Fadi Kyle may be the single most tense game of competitive meditation I’ve ever witnessed.

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The AVR Platform and Classroom 3.0 Showcased at EduTECH Asia 2018

EON Reality

At EduTECH Asia 2018 this week in Singapore, EON Reality spent two full days speaking, promoting, and demonstrating the latest updates to the AVR Platform to the thousands of education and technology professionals in attendance. and the AVR Platform on both a regional and global level.

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Open House: Animation, Digital Art, and Computer Science Majors Invited to the Augmented & Virtual Reality Programme in Norway

EON Reality

These technologies are spreading far beyond the gaming world and into business and education, where its being used to train employees and better educate students. Auditorium 3 Between 11:00 – 14:00. Augmented and Virtual Reality are some of the fastest growing sectors of our economy.

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