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Big XR News from Google, ChatGPT, Vodafone, and Seoul Metropolitan Government

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Google Parent Alphabet Lays Off 12,000 Jobs Late last week, Alphabet, Google’s parent firm, laid off roughly 12,000 individuals. The move accounts for around 6 percent of Google’s global workforce. Pichai also noted that workers in the United States would be the first affected.

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Holopatient Remote Uses AR Holograms For Hands-On Medical Training

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Key features of HoloPatient Remote according to GIGXR: Remote and/or socially distanced student groups connect with their instructor, who is wearing a Microsoft HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset, using their iOS or Android device. rangi in Australasia; University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. nanga o Awanui?rangi

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What to Expect from the Immerse Global Summit 2023

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Hosting virtual and in-person conferences across the United States and Europe, the event encapsulates the VR/AR Association’s quest to facilitate innovation in the immersive technology space. Produced by the VR/AR Association , the Immerse Global Summit is one of the world’s most exciting technology conference series.

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Educators make lemonade with Virtual Worlds

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Architecture students from Egypt and the United States meeting in Second Life. The use of gaming, non-player characters, story arcs, simulation, and overall engagement for student learning is flourishing. Image courtesy Google Expeditions.). This is what Microsoft did in the 1980s with office automation.

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VR Reader

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Furthermore, my involvement is primarily confined to one particular social VR platform, AltspaceVR, owned by Microsoft, making most of my experience the product of a niche within a niche within a niche. If you can’t be in a flight simulator, the next best thing would be video. until Google Cardboard showed it didn’t have to be.

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Best Places To Learn AR and VR Development Online in 2020

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Google VR SDK is popular for building virtual reality applications for Android and iOS. WebVR is also becoming a formidable force for those who love HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, in a web browser. He teaches yet another course on how to tackle different VR projects using Google VR for Android.

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Dissecting Virtual Frogs with VictoryXR’s Steve Grubbs

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Steve: Well, it was a MetaVRse product that I downloaded to my phone some time, in Google Cardboard. And that’s when Carolina Biological, the largest provider of animal specimens for dissection, contacted us because they had been looking for a digital product that could simulate what happens in real life. Alan: Excellent.