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US Fire Department Launches VR Training Programme

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The online resource for firefighters, FireRescue1, published an article explaining how the software could simulate various high-stress scenarios, such as protests, shootings, and even terrorist attacks, to help prepare first responders for the real thing.

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Walmart Using Black Friday VR Simulator To Train Staff

VRScout

Now thanks to the success of an early pilot program currently being tested at a handful of these locations, over 140,000 Walmart associates across all 200 training centers will feature virtual reality training simulators by the end of 2017. Both Lowes and Amazon are already taking their own unique approaches towards embracing VR as well.

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Explain VR Is Like An Encyclopedia Brought To Life

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

For example, an entire facility has been fitted out for AR and VR education in Oklahoma. As is, Explain VR includes over 50 different simulations and experiences and there are plans to add more over time. Once there were a few VR headset options, he decided it was a good time to develop a VR version of the app.

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Dissecting Virtual Frogs with VictoryXR’s Steve Grubbs

XR for Business Podcast

And that’s when Carolina Biological, the largest provider of animal specimens for dissection, contacted us because they had been looking for a digital product that could simulate what happens in real life. Or maybe, for example, like an oil leak at an underwater oil platform. For example, restaurant training.

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Dissecting Virtual Frogs with VictoryXR’s Steve Grubbs

XR for Business Podcast

And that’s when Carolina Biological, the largest provider of animal specimens for dissection, contacted us because they had been looking for a digital product that could simulate what happens in real life. Or maybe, for example, like an oil leak at an underwater oil platform. For example, restaurant training.

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Taming the Jungle of Ideas, with The Wild’s Gabe Paez

XR for Business Podcast

And it really took that process to key in for me on the insight that the real power of XR is not solely in the simulation itself. So, for example, via an iPad, could I pull up the people as well? Because I always had this feeling that it was more than just what I was seeing at the time. It is in the connected nature of it.

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Dissecting Virtual Frogs with VictoryXR's Steve Grubbs

XR for Business Podcast

And that's when Carolina Biological, the largest provider of animal specimens for dissection, contacted us because they had been looking for a digital product that could simulate what happens in real life. There's been a lot of studies: Oklahoma State, Pearson, HMH, UC Irvine -- they've all done different studies. So that's the "I." "D"