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Why Smells Are So Difficult To Simulate For Virtual Reality

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Having served with the US military in Iraq, Kenya and Djibouti, one of his key research interests is getting former soldiers to don VR headsets so they can face up to, and overcome, their traumatic memories. So getting out the car the first thing we would smell was rose. That has stuck with me until today.”. The visual is dominant,” he says.

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How VR is Changing the Way We Think About Therapy

VRScout

If you’re at all familiar with VR, you’ve probably heard that VR is more than “just games” a time or two. Research regarding VR simulations to treat specific phobias was around as early as the nineties, but the technology simply wasn’t advanced enough for such treatment to be feasible. Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Ph.D.

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Digital Influencers and Marketing New Realities with Cathy Hackl

XR for Business Podcast

I mean, you have seen some amazing used cases of this, but we’ve got to talk about what just happened in the past weekend, and that’s the launch of Game of Thrones. Coachella just used AR, and Game of Thrones…where do we start? You know, Game of Thrones as well. Alan: Oh My God. Cathy: I don’t know!

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Digital Influencers and Marketing New Realities with Cathy Hackl

XR for Business Podcast

I mean, you have seen some amazing used cases of this, but we’ve got to talk about what just happened in the past weekend, and that’s the launch of Game of Thrones. Coachella just used AR, and Game of Thrones…where do we start? You know, Game of Thrones as well. Alan: Oh My God. Cathy: I don’t know!

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse’s James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

So we would be tying together people from somewhere — maybe even Kazakhstan, some oil and gas training that we did — with trainers that may be in Iraq, or in the UK, or wherever that might be. You can simulate the sounds. You can simulate the feeling of being there. And that was all done in a sort of virtual world.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse’s James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

So we would be tying together people from somewhere — maybe even Kazakhstan, some oil and gas training that we did — with trainers that may be in Iraq, or in the UK, or wherever that might be. You can simulate the sounds. You can simulate the feeling of being there. And that was all done in a sort of virtual world.

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VR Creates the Trainer That Never Retires, with Immerse’s James Watson & Justin Parry

XR for Business Podcast

So we would be tying together people from somewhere — maybe even Kazakhstan, some oil and gas training that we did — with trainers that may be in Iraq, or in the UK, or wherever that might be. You can simulate the sounds. You can simulate the feeling of being there. And that was all done in a sort of virtual world.