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VR Training Program Teaches Underserved Population Soft Skills to Increase Their Employment Chances

ARPost

However, an initiative by Viability, funded by the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC), promises to make things easier for the underserved, thanks to an innovative VR training program. Project (VR)2 is a simulator of everyday interactions, from the first job interview to accepting an employment offer.

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How Do Virtual Reality Healthcare Clinics Work?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Immersive Healthcare as an Emerging Technology VR solutions allow healthcare professionals to engage patients with bespoke, simulated environments to provide medical education. Hatsumi The UK-based solution offers a safe space for patients with mental health issues to communicate their experiences to doctors and groups.

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AR 101?—?A brief summary (Part 1)

ARVR

70s : Group of researchers at different organizations, such as NASA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of North Carolina, continued research in computer graphics and virtual reality (Krevelen, 2010). 2000s : First outdoor mobile AR game ARQuake.

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MIT Accelerator Play Labs Announces Class of 13 AR/VR Startups

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Play Labs , a summer accelerator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), announced its first batch of 13 startups that are developing augmented reality and virtual reality technology. I’m personally inspired to help the next group of MIT startups go on to great success.”.

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Magic Leap’s John Gaeta talks about the future of cinema, storytelling and mixed reality

The Ghost Howls

At the same time I was living in Greenwich Village and I had some talented friends working in the advertising sector, making things like stop-motion animation for advertising… and these friends told me that a new studio was being built in Massachusetts by Douglas Trumbull. This is the story.

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Imagine XR Tomorrow; Build for XR Today, with PTC’s Mike Campbell

XR for Business Podcast

So PTC is a billion-dollar plus software company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. So I think we’re– as a collective group, we need to take a step back from trying to invent the future of the future of the future, and say “Hey, the tools we have right now are driving real ROI value. What is PTC? What is PTC?

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Imagine XR Tomorrow; Build for XR Today, with PTC’s Mike Campbell

XR for Business Podcast

So PTC is a billion-dollar plus software company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. So I think we’re– as a collective group, we need to take a step back from trying to invent the future of the future of the future, and say “Hey, the tools we have right now are driving real ROI value. What is PTC? What is PTC?