VRScout
MARCH 28, 2017
The New Zealand Fire Service has burned down an abandoned home to create a virtual reality experience called Escape My House , hoping VR immersion will help prepare homeowners for the worst. Escape My House runs on smartphones, computers, VR goggles and Google Cardboard. Image Credit: Murray Wilson / New Zealand Fire Service.
ARPost
JULY 22, 2019
The New Zealand Ministry of Education has recently taken this philosophy one step further to reach tech-savvy youths. Gen Z [students in school] today are part of the YouTube and Google generation where digital technology is integrated in their everyday lives,” said project manager Tama Kirikiri.
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VRScout
AUGUST 29, 2016
The New Zealand Fire Service is testing fireproof 360 camera rigs that could one day save lives. As part of initial testing, The New Zealand Fire Service teamed up with creative agency FCB NZ to hack together a three GoPro camera rig that could withstand heat of up to 250 degrees Celsius (482 degrees Fahrenheit).
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JANUARY 31, 2023
These include Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Caregility Joins Informa’s Arab Health Conference 2023 The news comes as the Eatontown, New Jersey-based company expands its operations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
VRScout
FEBRUARY 20, 2017
Birthed in New Zealand and raised in Los Angeles, CA, volumetric capture company 8i has announced a Series B round of $27M. The funding disclosure coincided with other big news: 8i will release a smartphone app called the Holo app later this year. GET YOUR FEELS IN VR: NEW HAPTIC VEST ABOUT TO LAUNCH ON KICKSTARTER.
VRScout
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
Those enterprise customers have enthusiastically been adopting Microsoft’s mixed reality technology in a variety of productivity, collaboration, training, and visualization use-cases; while Microsoft, in turn, have been satisfying the wish-list of those dedicated customers. Trimble XR10 w HoloLens 2 / Image Credit: Microsoft.
Tech Trends VR
AUGUST 8, 2018
It seemed an exciting proposition back then, sold mainly off the back of some very cool concept videos cooked up by New Zealand-based special effects company WETA (you know, the one from all the Lord of the Rings films). I first heard about this ridiculously well-funded start-up (investment clocked so far exceeds $2.3
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