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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: TheWaveVR Raises $4M, Pluto.

AllThingsVR

The Austin, Texas-based startup has created a social VR music platform where performers can create music while wearing a HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headset and spectators can watch the whole experience. Weekly Funding & People Roundup: TheWaveVR Raises $4M, Pluto VR raises $13.9M, Avegant Raises $13.7, Read more on GeekWire.

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Training to Craning in 60 Minutes: Putting My VR-learned Skills to the Test with a Real 22 Ton Crane

Road to VR

Last week, I traveled to the Houston Area Safety Council in Pasadena, Texas, to put Industrial Training International VR’s new crane simulator through its paces. While ITI has been training crane operators, riggers, and signallers for 30 years, the inclusion of VR in their training programs is a recent development.

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Top 26 VR/AR Events, Expos and Conferences to Attend in 2018

VeeR VR

& 13-15, 2018 Venue: To be announced South by Southwest is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. FIVARS is a presentation of VRTO – Toronto’s virtual reality meetup group and think tank.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). I am always fascinated when I speak with someone that is here before the Oculus Kickstarter campaign. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life.

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Getting 110% Out of Training in 360° Video, with VR Vision Inc’s Lorne Fade

XR for Business Podcast

Lorne: That’s definitely a great concern that enterprise groups need to be aware of. We’re seeing the brands like HTC and Oculus start to catch up with their business solutions that are going to start to offer enterprise management. Things like the Oculus Quest, Oculus Go make it really easy for adoption.

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Getting 110% Out of Training in 360° Video, with VR Vision Inc’s Lorne Fade

XR for Business Podcast

Lorne: That’s definitely a great concern that enterprise groups need to be aware of. We’re seeing the brands like HTC and Oculus start to catch up with their business solutions that are going to start to offer enterprise management. Things like the Oculus Quest, Oculus Go make it really easy for adoption.

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Getting 110% Out of Training in 360° Video, with VR Vision Inc's Lorne Fade

XR for Business Podcast

Lorne: That's definitely a great concern that enterprise groups need to be aware of. We're seeing the brands like HTC and Oculus start to catch up with their business solutions that are going to start to offer enterprise management. Things like the Oculus Quest, Oculus Go make it really easy for adoption.