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Doghead Simulations CEO Turns VR Social Platform Into His Own Personal Gym

VRScout

Like many entrepreneurs, Chacon found his healthy balance of work, fun, and exercise taking a back seat to his business. I’m in Seattle. Some workouts required the tetherless 6DOF VR from headsets like the Quest, such as working out in 3D boxing ring ; more simplistic exercises, such as burpees , worked best with the Oculus Go.

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How Much is Facebook Investing in Spatial Computing?

AR Insider

Where it gets more interesting is panning back to a longer time period in which R&D efforts had time to gear up, including Oculus Reality Labs in Seattle, led by Michael Abrash. Compared to the above exercise, there are fewer assumptions required for the portion of the ramp-up that’s attributable to spatial. This is a $9.8

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New Oculus Rift and Gear VR Releases For The Week Of 05/07/17

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

It’s apparently a researched and proven method of claiming your mind using breathing exercises. Currently, you get soccer, dance, and an inside look into a Seattle artist studio. You’re meant to center your thoughts inside VR with this app, tracing shapes. Recommendation: Worth checking out. Space Battle, from Samsung.

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Meet & Greet in AR, with Spatial’s Jacob Loewenstein

XR for Business Podcast

For example, if I’m going through some sort of instruction or training exercise where my environment really matters, then we can understand why it might be important to jump into a VR headset and limit the distraction from the real environment around me, and replace it with an entirely virtual environment.

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Meet & Greet in AR, with Spatial’s Jacob Loewenstein

XR for Business Podcast

For example, if I’m going through some sort of instruction or training exercise where my environment really matters, then we can understand why it might be important to jump into a VR headset and limit the distraction from the real environment around me, and replace it with an entirely virtual environment.

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Meet & Greet in AR, with Spatial's Jacob Loewenstein

XR for Business Podcast

For example, if I'm going through some sort of instruction or training exercise where my environment really matters, then we can understand why it might be important to jump into a VR headset and limit the distraction from the real environment around me, and replace it with an entirely virtual environment.

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Project Caliper: the journey of prototyping optimal controllers for VR

The Ghost Howls

Becoming a licensee gave me access to the SteamVR Tracking HDK and Steam SDK, which also contained the original 2016 SteamVR training course documentation which was run for a couple of years in conjunction with Valve partner Synapse in Seattle. This training course cost about $3,000 and was mandatory for anyone wanting to use SteamVR.