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We Tried Snap’s AR Glasses And Had Our Minds Blown

VRScout

Snap has opted instead to distribute hardware to a select group of creators familiar with Lens Studio , the company’s Lens-building software. Unlike existing AR headsets such as the Magic Leap 2 or Microsoft HoloLens, the Spectacles feature a discrete, light-weight design more akin to glasses than a headset.

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Educators make lemonade with Virtual Worlds

Hypergrid Business

Architecture students from Egypt and the United States meeting in Second Life. Those groups that still use these types of environments have a very definite purpose in mind, such as advancing ongoing research or building communities that support those activities. This is what Microsoft did in the 1980s with office automation.

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Augmented Birthday Parties and Virtual Reality Field Trips with Centertec's Bill Tustin

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: The whole idea of being able to take field trips really far -- going to the pyramids in Egypt -- that's not really something that most schools (or any schools), you know, "let's get a flight and fly halfway around the world to go see something." That type in a VR experience would be real exciting. That was a game-changer.

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Augmented Birthday Parties and Virtual Reality Field Trips with Centertec’s Bill Tustin

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: The whole idea of being able to take field trips really far — going to the pyramids in Egypt — that’s not really something that most schools (or any schools), you know, “let’s get a flight and fly halfway around the world to go see something.” That type in a VR experience would be real exciting.

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Augmented Birthday Parties and Virtual Reality Field Trips with Centertec’s Bill Tustin

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: The whole idea of being able to take field trips really far — going to the pyramids in Egypt — that’s not really something that most schools (or any schools), you know, “let’s get a flight and fly halfway around the world to go see something.” That type in a VR experience would be real exciting.

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

The Ghost Howls

By the summer of 2018, we were ready to unveil our work to the general public through the stores of Apple, Microsoft, Oculus, and Vive. And most important of all–and a great credit to our talented programmer and CEO Nathanael Tavares– we have not had a single bug report from the stores of Apple, Microsoft, Oculus, or Steam.