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Yaw2 Motion Simulator Surpasses $1M On Kickstarter

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With 34 days left to go in the campaign, Yaw VR’s next-gen motion simulator/smart chair, the Yaw2, this week reached over $1M in funding on Kickstarter, absolutely demolishing its original goal of $100,000. There’s also built-in vibration haptics capable of simulating acceleration, speed, an engine’s RPM, and gunshots.

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PrecisionOS Brings VR Medical Training To Struggling Areas

VRScout

The VR medical company PrecisionOS along with support from Epic Games MegaGrant and Oculus , have launched a VR training module designed specifically for the global nonprofit humanitarian organization SIGN Fracture Care. VR training lets surgeons in low-resource countries go through the motions before performing on patients.

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7 Insightful XR Education Case Studies to Read in 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

One of the areas where XR is seeing the most significant and rapid adoption, is in the world of education and training. Today, we’re going to be looking at some of the most inspirational case studies from the educational landscape, highlighting the benefits of XR for training. Meta Oculus and Aptiv. Microsoft HoloLens and GE.

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NORD XR Launches Führerbunker VR Film for Meta Quest

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The firm offers VR simulations for research, planning, and education, with a growing portfolio of use cases. The partnership’s TIME & HISTORY initiative aims to educate people with a series of immersive documentaries as never seen before. TIME & HISTORY Hit VR Titles. XR and Immersive Documentaries.

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NORD XR Launches VR Film for Meta Quest

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The firm offers VR simulations for research, planning, and education, with a growing portfolio of use cases. The partnership’s TIME & HISTORY initiative aims to educate people with a series of immersive documentaries as never seen before. TIME & HISTORY Hit VR Titles. XR and Immersive Documentaries.

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Hands-on: NASA-backed ‘Mars 2030’ Launches Today – A Beautiful, Educational, & Buggy Trip to the Red Planet

Road to VR

The education-focused Mars 2030 launches today on SteamVR for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, soon to come to PSVR. As described in our first experience of Mars 2030 at GTC 2016 , the team went to great lengths to represent the martian terrain in the most realistic manner, using Unreal Engine 4’s physically-based rendering.

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From Racing Games to Impaired Driver Simulators in VR, with Talon Simulations’ Brandon Naids

XR for Business Podcast

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. We're going to dig into how these amazing simulators can push forward the reality behind virtual reality.