Voices of VR

JULY 13, 2023

Liz Hyman President and the CEO of the XR Association (XRA), which is a non-profit, industry trade association representing 47 XR companies including major players like Meta, Google, Microsoft, HTC, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Unity, and HTC. Section 508 would only apply to XR experiences produced by the federal government.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

the simulator fans that want a headset with super-high resolution), no competitor could survive against a headset that is comfortable, affordable, has a great library of content, and has full body tracking and full RGB passthrough. Its resolution is impressive, for clarity that fans of simulator games would love. Have a nice read!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

This allows decision-makers to work on immersive visualizations as part of their daily operations, such as reviewing iterations of a product or viewing a digitized urban area to simulate smart city initiatives. Simulation and Training : XR technology enables realistic simulations based on digital twins.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For the past five months, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong demonstrators have taken to the streets in protest of the Fugitive Offenders amendment bill introduced by the Hong Kong government which would allow local law enforcement to extradite criminals wanted in territories outside Hong Kong, including mainland China as well as Taiwan.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 24, 2023

But companies including IBM, Amazon and Google already offer variations of quantum computing as-a-service , providing access to quantum resources via the cloud. How seriously is the threat being taken by governments and regulators? So, how likely is this doomsday scenario to come about?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I don’t want to give too much away, but essentially Jonas (our hero) is a computer hacker, and accesses a government database that acknowledges the existence of aliens. He’s a hacker and unwittingly accesses a government database. Much of what you see on screen is a simulation.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

In Taiwan, all western websites work and so you don’t need to set up a VPN just to use Google. The good news is that the Taiwanese local government has decided that VR is one of the key technologies for its future development (exactly as the central government of Beijing has done ). It felt like magic. VR is dangerous….

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). Representatives of the JianXi province and also the vice prime minister Liu He have visited the venue, and the Chinese Government has confirmed its strong interest in VR, that is seen as a strategic technology. Header image by Megadodo Simulation Games). Top news of the week.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 31, 2023

Lots of these involve scientific research – for example, if physicists want to build a simulation to model the behavior of sub-atomic particles, they need a computer capable of operating on quantum principles. billion by 2028. The post Debunking The Top 5 Quantum Computing Myths appeared first on Bernard Marr.

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InstaVR

JANUARY 23, 2019

All a user needs to access Virtual Reality is a headset like the Samsung Gear VR or Oculus Go — or really even just an iOS or Android smartphone and a Google Cardboard. Or Texas State University , which has used InstaVR to build interactive trainings for the state government’s ambulance buses.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2023

The government-backed programme aims to seek out and incubate talent. In particular, this includes a mid-to-long-term collaboration with leading partners like Google and Qualcomm. However, the US government significantly reduced the number of requested headsets due to soldier complaints.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. One is government. Alan: Hi, it’s Alan Smithson here.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. One is government. Alan: Hi, it’s Alan Smithson here.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

investment arm of Singapore’s government. ’s Google, which invested directly in the firm and put Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai on the board. Google was one of the first to invest. According to Bloomberg , one of the organizations that are most interested in investing is no other than Temasek Holdings Pte.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar's experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR -- they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. But obviously these people couldn't afford a $50-million simulator. One is government. So in the government sector we do something called interactive digital centers.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

I read a large range of books and papers on urban planning, technology, game design and gamification, locative media and governance. It is a speculative text that lays out the argument for “recolonization of the real world, computers becoming invisible, mobile, networked and location aware, the real world augmented rather than simulated.”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

The manager added, “The players at the biggest clubs tell us that it is more fun to go in football simulators at their clubs because that is more like playing football. Some provide simulation training and others offer wearables with heads-up displays (HUDs). Numerous companies offer motorsports training solutions.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 30, 2023

And as well as holding a back-and-forth conversation, it can simulate voices it hears, which could be used for voicing an AI avatar, for example. Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil has estimated we’ll get there around 2045, and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis also believes it will be done in the next few decades. So What Now?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Some days ago, the Chinese government has released a document that states how China really wants to commit to VR , how wants the ecosystem to grow well and fast and how also wants to lead the world for what concerns virtual reality. Langzou VR in education, VR Waibao in collaboration tools) and other on hardware (e.g. Introduction.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 19, 2023

You can simulate any scenario with just a headset in a portable manner. For situations that are hard or dangerous to simulate, like in healthcare, there is even more value. I’ve seen some people who still equate XR to Google cardboard and are blown away when they see how far the technology has come.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

The amount of money that they can save on having to physically do a build of a design — a first iteration of a car, what have you — I mean, that’s millions of dollars of time in labor that they can save if they can learn as much as they can through a VR simulation of the car. Bob: It was kind of a model simulator.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

The amount of money that they can save on having to physically do a build of a design — a first iteration of a car, what have you — I mean, that’s millions of dollars of time in labor that they can save if they can learn as much as they can through a VR simulation of the car. Bob: It was kind of a model simulator.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

And while these well-funded companies can only push the technology forward for its use as a medical devices today thanks to regulatory hoops governing implants and their relative safety today, eventually the technology will get to a point when it’s both safe and cheap enough to land into the brainpan’s of neurotypical consumers.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

The amount of money that they can save on having to physically do a build of a design -- a first iteration of a car, what have you -- I mean, that's millions of dollars of time in labor that they can save if they can learn as much as they can through a VR simulation of the car. Bob: It was kind of a model simulator. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

I think the seated motion simulators are pretty safe. It was a 6DOF simulation machine. Bob: Yeah, look, I think that there’s a lot of bad motion simulation out there in VR, which triggers motion sickness. If it’s not done well, it can actually exacerbate the simulator sickness that you get. It was wild.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And there are lawsuits being filed right and left and government regulators trying to figure out how to prevent the worst consequences, and columnists opining about all of this at length. According to VR visionary John Carmack, AI will soon be able to simulate the human brain — probably within this decade. More like, on Nov.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

I think the seated motion simulators are pretty safe. It was a 6DOF simulation machine. Bob: Yeah, look, I think that there’s a lot of bad motion simulation out there in VR, which triggers motion sickness. If it’s not done well, it can actually exacerbate the simulator sickness that you get. It was wild.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In Spain, ADIF, the government-owned company that manages the railway infrastructure, has created a modern training center in Valencia equipped with an immersive room in which the use of Augmented and Virtual Reality is used alongside with traditional training techniques.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The bad is that they are just audio smartglasses, that only provide audio directly to your ears and nothing more; Iristick has started offering its smart glasses that look like Google Glass. This Area 51 VR simulator shows you what the US government is hiding to us! Its peculiarity? It is the first device of this kind.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Will this Convergence lead us into the futuristic dystopia of our nightmares — the one where we are jacked into a simulated reality, a siloed and centralized network where we are constantly under surveillance by dark forces operating in the shadows, all the while being mined for our data like a natural resource?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

Rene has worked with — and advised some of — the world’s largest brands, spanning media conglomerates, telcos, media manufacturers, mobile manufacturers, governments, and major brands. So they were running a simulation inside of a digital twin of, “we want to move this object from here to here. Gabriel: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

Rene has worked with — and advised some of — the world’s largest brands, spanning media conglomerates, telcos, media manufacturers, mobile manufacturers, governments, and major brands. So they were running a simulation inside of a digital twin of, “we want to move this object from here to here. Gabriel: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

Rene has worked with -- and advised some of -- the world's largest brands, spanning media conglomerates, telcos, media manufacturers, mobile manufacturers, governments, and major brands. So they were running a simulation inside of a digital twin of, "we want to move this object from here to here. was it an oil plant or oil rig.

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Bernard Marr

MARCH 7, 2023

From searching Google for information, to taking pictures with our smartphones, to interacting with virtual assistants like Alexa or Siri, to shopping online, so much of what we do is already empowered by AI algorithms. If your business uses Google or Facebook advertising to target new customers, you’re using AI.

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