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The Benefits of Virtual Reality in Banking

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For example, it can be used to teach young adults about financial responsibility. Saatchi & Saatchi Sri Lanka , for example, made a virtual reality campaign for Hatton National Bank in 2015. Oculus Rift powered the virtual experience. VR is a young, emerging technology. They called it New World Banking.

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Oculus Chief Scientist Predicts the Next 5 Years of VR Technology

Road to VR

The annual presentation at Oculus Connect by Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, is always a highlight of the company’s annual developer event, projecting a forward-thinking and ever inspirational look at the future of virtual reality. Most significantly, at the high end, VR headsets will become wireless.

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Oculus Update Adds Room-scale ‘Guardian’ Feature, Async Spacewarp and User Reviews

Road to VR

In readiness for the imminent launch of Oculus’ ‘Touch’ motion controllers, the company have rolled out the new ‘Guardian’ feature, their version of SteamVR’s Chaperone VR boundary system for room-scale VR. SEE ALSO Oculus Touch Will Support 360 and Room-scale Tracking With Extra Cameras.

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Microsoft May Leapfrog Facebook and Google in VR With HoloLens Tracking

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Head tracking is an essential part of all mixed reality technology, both VR and AR, and the so-called inside-out variety in a VR headset makes set up dramatically easier. An example of the Windows Holographic user interface. The Santa Cruz inside-out tracking prototype from Oculus.

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A Hands-On Review of AltspaceVR

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ARPost has covered plenty of events in AltspaceVR before, from Burning Man being held virtually in the platform, to the XR Safety Week using it to make talks on immersive technology more… immersive. Although, because AltspaceVR avatars don’t have arms, sometimes hand tracking makes things a little more awkward. See You in VR!

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

” The technology served as a visually rich shorthand for dystopian cyberpunk fears in an age of rapidly accelerating technology. For decades, the technology has felt ahead of its time, beginning with Sensorama in 1962. It was, effectively, a version of the Sensorama designed to be worn on one’s head.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

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His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). I am always fascinated when I speak with someone that is here before the Oculus Kickstarter campaign. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life.

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