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Augmented Reality in Emergency Management: Enhancing Situational Awareness for Rescue Missions

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Personnel use Microsoft HoloLens for more realistic training in responding to seizures, respiratory distress, and trauma-related injuries during emergency situations. Using the First Response software, officers can track the movements of their incident commanders and personnel from the air.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

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VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. Ilia State University, Georgia. image courtesy VR First. Doña Ana Community College, USA.

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