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Epic Games, Oakland University Launch Augmented Reality Center

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Epic Games has launched an Augmented Reality Center (ARC) at Oakland University in Michigan. It will work jointly to build and implement cutting-edge AR technologies for the future of the immersive industry. These will develop tools such as haptic gloves, new immersive headsets, extended reality (XR) projectors, and other solutions.

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Suffolk, Carnegie Mellon Universities Join Transatlantic VR Partnership

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Set to take place over five years’ time, the programme will provide voice, spatial context, and gestures for groups to detect while in meetings to enhance non-verbal communication. Finally, Epic Games kicked off its Augmented Reality Center (ARC) with Oakland University Michigan.

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The Future of Play: How Intel And The ESL Are Helping Bring Virtual Reality To ESports

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

At Katowice, the included a first-person virtual eSports stadium experience delivering an immersive 360 VR space that includes live stats, replays, and scores in real-time. More than 130,000 unique viewers tuned into the IEM Oakland VR streams. How fast it gets to that depends a lot on the fan base and how immersive it is.

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Exposing Homelessness Through Eviction With ‘These Sleepless Nights’ Mixed Reality Mini-Doc

VRScout

To shed a light on this issue, The Next Amendment , an anti-homelessness group dedicated to establishing universal housing for the underprivileged, is looking to spearhead a national conversation on the right to shelter through a 4-part AR-powered mini-documentary entitled These Sleepless Nights. Many of these U.S. Constitution.

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Christopher Lafayette: Let’s build together an inclusive XR community

The Ghost Howls

How many stages have I spoken on, in front of groups of hundreds and even thousands of people with barely any black people in the audience. We speak more on hardware capabilities, financial possibilities , and who’s launched the so-called latest and greatest technology more so than on the actual intangible immersive experiences themselves.

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Prepping for Virtual Surgery, with 8Chili’s Aravind Upadhyaya

XR for Business Podcast

Today, we're speaking with Aravind Upadhyaya, co-founder and CEO of 8chili, an Oakland, California based startup, bringing the dream of telesurgery to the real world. So this, what we want to do, is take the platform to a very immersive collaborative experience. Alan: Hey, everyone, Alan Smithson, host of the XR for Business podcast.

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Prepping for Virtual Surgery, with 8Chili’s Aravind Upadhyaya

XR for Business Podcast

Today, we're speaking with Aravind Upadhyaya, co-founder and CEO of 8chili, an Oakland, California based startup, bringing the dream of telesurgery to the real world. So this, what we want to do, is take the platform to a very immersive collaborative experience. Alan: Hey, everyone, Alan Smithson, host of the XR for Business podcast.