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VR Teaches Oregon Residents How To Pump Gas

VRScout

As more and more Oregon gas pumping jokes pour in, the VR industry takes its own light jab at the “game-changing” new law. If you’ve been paying any attention to the news lately, you’ve probably heard about a new law in Oregon allowing drivers to self-pump their vehicles for the first time in decades.

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AR in Sports: Moneyball Meets 3D

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Back to the present, we continue to see sports organizations use AR as a tool to market themselves. And let’s not forget that the NFL is one of the original AR adopters, given virtual first-down markers (that yellow line across the field) displayed on game broadcasts. Moneyball meets 3D. The next step is to combine the two.

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Here’s How VR is Reshaping the Criminal Justice System

VRScout

Although the most common use for VR is still gaming and entertainment, the medium is also completely changing the criminal justice system from top to bottom. And as more parties incorporate tools like VirTra , it’s safe to assume that the virtual impacts will be felt in a very real way.

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AltspaceVR Offers Social Reach For Organizers In VR

VRScout

I wasn’t so much into gaming, so a lot of things are intimidating when you first go into VR. Reggie Watts was supposed to come on, and he had somebody opening for him,” said Joshua Young, founder and CEO of Design Reality PDX , a monthly Portland, Oregon networking event that regularly hosts panelists from the VR community.

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Building The VR Experiences And Worlds of the Future

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Pretty soon, real life will be stranger than fiction when it comes to bringing the great inventions of science fiction and games into technology. Pallister leads Intel’s virtual reality (VR) project lab in Hillsboro, Oregon. From 1998 to 2005, he served as games technical strategist at Intel.

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Celebrating the 2023 Auggie Awards and XR Prize Challenge

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The group won over Mutienliao , Oregon Shakespeare Festival , and Ferryman Collective. The interactive game for a New Zealand Supermarket included social lenses, games, and recipes. “We Unfortunately, no one from Delta Reality was present to accept the award. The award went to Zappar for Countdown: Bricks Farm.

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

XR for Business Podcast

So this is a collaboration tool or a platform where people from around the world can go into a virtual space and experience design together. This is a magical thing, of course, for the gaming industry, but for me, sort of trying to solve this core business problem. What tools do I want to enable there? Gabe: [laughs] Exactly!

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