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‘Google Earth VR’ Lets You Experience the Total Solar Eclipse Right Now

Road to VR

Whether or not you’re in the narrow band of ‘solar eclipse totality’ that’s making its way across the continental United States on Monday, August 21st, Google Earth VR has seen a recent update that will let you experience the rare event from the comfort of your own HTC Vive or Oculus Rift.

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Moth+Flame Raises $2.5M to Expand Its Immersive VR Work Training Tech

Road to VR

With the natural language processing and realistically simulated environments, the company’s VR training tech is said to actively engage users by letting them use their own voice in conversations with human actors. The US Air Force has also licensed suicide and sexual assault prevention curriculum from Moth + Flame.

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Location-Based VR Horror Experiences With DarkCorner

VRScout

I recently had a chance to visit one of the largest VR arcades in the United States, VRWorld , to check out the bloody spectacle myself. As you do, the chair will pushes you backwards and sideways, simulating the motion of twisting and turning that had me screaming and the staff giggling in the background.

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VR Reader

ARVR

Flight simulators are VR for some people, and military funding to train pilots better is deeply involved in the origin story, which goes back to the 1920s according to some sources. 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. Most are solo games.

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Best Places To Learn AR and VR Development Online in 2020

Hypergrid Business

Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. 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.

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Dissecting Virtual Frogs with VictoryXR’s Steve Grubbs

XR for Business Podcast

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. Steve: It is.

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Dissecting Virtual Frogs with VictoryXR’s Steve Grubbs

XR for Business Podcast

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. Steve: It is.