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Virtual Reality and Team Building: An Outlook

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These days, most folks have experienced virtual reality in some shape or form: it could be a Google cardboard, VR kiosk at a local mall, or an at-home VR headset from HTC or Oculus. Some industries and disciplines have found the medium useful, including designing cars, performing surgery, medical training, virtual team building , and more.

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Google Doodle honors the legacy of Black baseball legend Toni Stone

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In honor of Black History Month, Google has released an animated Google Doodle tribute to baseball legend Toni Stone — the first woman to play professional baseball in a men's league. Accompanied by a Google Arts & Culture biography , the Google Doodle highlights a story of passion and determination.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation Launches VR Experience To Teach Surveillance Awareness

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San Francisco’s Electronic Frontier Foundation (EEF) released their new educational VR experience, Spot the Surveillance, on November 5th aimed at helping citizens increase their awareness of police and government surveillance equipment on the street. . Journalism 360 boasts sponsors such as the John S. and James L.

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Top 6 Augmented Reality Trends to Watch Out for in 2022

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Google AR Live View walking directions for Google Maps have improved since it first entered beta in August 2019. In October 2020, Google announced several new features to improve the outdoor AR Live View experience. helping to ease the costs of training while lowering learning curves along the way.

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XRDC Interviews AR and VR Industry Experts in Healthcare Report

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Are you attending XRDC’s AR and VR conference in San Francisco on October 14-15? And recently, AR glasses like HoloLens are being used to train doctors and specialists. Creating new standalone headsets make sharing VR a social experience, which can aid in training and group activities. Healthcare affects everyone.

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Will M&A Accelerate AR?

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Google isn’t as acquisitive for AR cloud endeavors (“ Internet of Places “), which build from existing Google Images and Street View data. These are longstanding and extensive training sets for object recognition that feed right into its AR play. In fairness, that’s not always the case. Full-Stack Approach.

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This All-Female Founders Pitch Event Was Held in VR

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San Francisco, CA) – creates magical pets for XR, like pet dragons or unicorns, that will become your faithful digital companions. Spandana Govindgari // ARAD (San Francisco, CA) – easy-to-integrate advertising platform for developers and advertisers to deliver AR ads to better target users and gain insights.