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USC Launches $1bn XR, Generative AI Initiative

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Full Sail University and XR Education USC’s Frontiers of Computing Programme follows several key efforts from universities in the United States to develop the virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) industries. Founded in Dayton, Ohio in 1979, Full Sail University launched as an audio recording workshop.

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VR & AR 2018: A Year In Review

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While this past year may have seemed like a quiet one when compared to the more exciting releases featured in 2017 and 2016, these past 12 months have been crucial in the development of the immersive entertainment sector. Of course we can’t talk about standalone VR without bringing up the HTC Vive Focus. LOCATION-BASED VR.

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Leveraging the Medical Metaverse to Increase Patient Outcomes

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Moreover, Microsoft is resparking its stake in an Industrial Metaverse, with plans to debut products in 2024. The HTC VIVE representative also reinforced how immersive solutions could ease patients into stressful surgeries or operations. “This really makes the patient experience not so scary anymore,” Chen remarked.

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XR Training Offers Major Boost to Learner Outcomes, CWRU Exec Says

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Some of the world’s top institutions featured across the XR medical, defence, education, and entertainment sectors debuted and highlighted their latest immersive solutions. Farrow stated that her medical school, one of the top 25 institutions in the United States, developed a new facility in 2014.

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The Media and Entertainment Metaverse: What to Expect

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The media and entertainment metaverse , complete with 3D avatars, is no longer a distant prospect. A Closer Look at Metaverse Entertainment. In the entertainment industry, the Metaverse has and continues to connect audiences in shared virtual spaces via headsets and their respective or third-party virtual spaces. VR Theme Parks.

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VRLA 2018 Highlights

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The largest XR-focused conference in the United States returns for another year of VR & AR madness. Despite only having existed three short years, VRLA has already managed to cement itself as the one of, if not the most impactful annual immersive entertainment events in the United States.

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Top 10 AR/VR Stories of 2017

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The United States is well-known for instances where civil juries award massive damages to aggrieved parties in court matters. The latter did occur — with Oculus demoing a wireless prototype late in the year, and HTC announcing a wireless solution for their headset to start 2018. #5 5 – Oculus vs. HTC price war.

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