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Volkswagen Group, One of the World’s Largest Companies, is Building VR Apps to Help Employees Collaborate Across the Globe

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Volkswagen Group, the multi-brand automotive company, has developed VR apps to make long-distance collaboration in production and logistics an easier task. image courtesy Volkswagen Group. “[E]xchanging knowledge is just as important as bundling knowledge.

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Take A Guided VR Tour Of Germany’s Last Industrial Coal Mine

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Photogrammetry and volumetric VR preserve every detail of this historic mining operation in Ruhr, Germany. DLC centers around the Prosper Haniel, the last active coal mine in all of Germany. DLC is available now for free on the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality via SteamVR. Now the Realities.io Realities Glückauf!

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Lumiere Award Winners Team Up To Create The Virtual Content Group

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We previously reported on a collective including HTC Vive, Sony, and many others that would work together to harness the potential of immersive technology. The group is looking to raise investment. Tagged with: 3D Content Hub , Cow Prod , INVR.SPACE , Lumiere Awards , VCG , Virtual Content Group , VR.

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Vive Cosmos Rated Least Accurate Among Top Headsets in Controller Tracking Test

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A research and engineering group called the Virtual Dimension Center (VDC) in Fellbach, Germany conducted a study recently that reveals just how accurate some of the top VR headset’s are when it comes to tracking their respective motion controllers. HTC Vive Cosmos lags behind by a wide margin with its 2-3 mm deviation.

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Volkswagen Launches Custom VR Exhibit At Historic Brand Tower

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Volkswagen Group is back again with yet another VR project that continues to prove just how much faith the German automaker truly has in the immersive medium. We’ve seen the company use the technology before on everything from collaborative group meetings between team members to a simulator that lets you drive an Audi in a sandbox track.

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Volkswagen Using VR For Team Member Collaboration

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Multinational auto giant Volkswagen Group is no stranger to virtual reality. The streamlined experience will combine all of the companies past immersive ventures, along with an interconnected workstation allowing Volkswagen Group’s brands such as Audi and SEAT SKODA Auto to work with one another in a VR space.

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Top XR Events in 2021 That Should Be on Your Must-Attend List

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A large adoption rate for augmented and virtual reality in 2020 has broadened the audience and age groups interested in the latest technologies. Dr. Rolf Drechsler from the University of Bremen, Germany. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how important immersive and interactive apps and games are in our everyday life.

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