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Educators make lemonade with Virtual Worlds

Hypergrid Business

Architecture students from Egypt and the United States meeting in Second Life. The use of gaming, non-player characters, story arcs, simulation, and overall engagement for student learning is flourishing. This is what Microsoft did in the 1980s with office automation. Image courtesy Jon Brouchoud.).

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation. Of course it also has telepresence, so you could be virtually present in a place like Egypt – not in real time, but in space and simulation. That is its most powerful use. And it is quite effective at those things. Alan: That’s awesome.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation. Of course it also has telepresence, so you could be virtually present in a place like Egypt – not in real time, but in space and simulation. That is its most powerful use. And it is quite effective at those things. Alan: That’s awesome.

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

The Ghost Howls

7,000 building models making up the city simulation would have been enormous. For his dissertation, Mueller developed a simulation of Manhattan. 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. The task of cleaning up the ca.