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Immersive Technology for Education: How Virtual Reality Will Change the Learning Process

ARPost

The rapid development of technology could not but affect the educational process. Although virtual reality technology is not that new, it is being used in education since relatively recently. There are several reasons for the spread of virtual reality technology in education: Reduced price of technical equipment. Visibility.

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Where is VR/AR and Education Now?

VRScout

While the public largely scoffed at the awkward goggles, industry pundits proclaimed VR/AR would one day replace our 2D screens, and highlighted education as one of the top applications in the years to come. Some analysts projected that education would be the 4th largest sector for VR/AR investment. 5 Teacher adoption still lags.

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Colorado State University Has Deployed a 100 Headset VR Lab for Biomedical Education

Road to VR

Colorado State University has deployed a new VR lab; designed to accommodate up to 100 students simultaneously, the lab’s headsets run custom software which allow students to visualize life-sized virtual cadavers and medical imagery in a shared virtual space. of Biomedical Sciences and one of the lab’s operators.

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Immersive Technology for Education: How Virtual Reality Will Change the Learning Process

ARPost

The rapid development of technology could not but affect the educational process. Although virtual reality technology is not that new, it is being used in education since relatively recently. There are several reasons for the spread of virtual reality technology in education: Reduced price of technical equipment. Visibility.

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Will these High-End VR Headsets Shift the Market?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The firm plans to debut the Light device in May 2024 and the Super headset in Q4 this year, just as other major vendors like LG and Samsung are looking to enter the headset market. Samsung is also poised to make a splash in the market soon. Many headsets that were previously available to them have now been discontinued.

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Meta, Qualcomm Enters Long-Term Chip Deal

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces platform provides an ecosystem to facilitate XR hardware and software development. The Snapdragon Spaces software development kit (SDK) provides locational tracking, image recognition, and hand tracking tools. The alliance’s vision is to bring new AR products and services to market.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.01.27): Samsung may be working on a new headset, Half-Life: Alyx will ship on time and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Samsung, taken from Upload VR). Samsung may launch a next-gen Samsung Odyssey. A recent filing at the Chinese IP offices makes us speculate on a new PC VR headset in the works by Samsung. That said, let’s have a look at this interesting week in AR and VR. Top news of the week. Learn more. Some XR fun. Funny link.

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