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How Researchers Use AR Spiders To Cure Arachnophobia

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To help combat the dramatic effects brought on by this traumatic condition, researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland have developed a new smartphone app called Phobys. The participants in the group using Phobys showed a significant reduction of fear and disgust of spiders – both in the real-life situation and the questionnaires!

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The HoloLens 2 AR Headset Can Now Be Used While Driving

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“We think mixed reality information is the most intuitive information we could provide to enhance our customers’ user experience,” said Dr. Andro Kleen, head of the data science team at Volkswagen Group Innovation in an official blog post. It’s not so abstract.”. They presented their use cases and what they were hoping to enable.

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Quest’s Hand-tracking is Making It Possible to Learn Basic Sign Language in VR

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Cédric Girardin, an apprentice at the Switzerland-based university’s Computer Perception and Virtual Reality research group ( cpvrLab ), created a basic Quest app that can recognize and teach users up to 23 hand signs from the German fingerspelling alphabet.

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TapID Uses Bone Conduction To Deliver A Better Typing Experience In VR

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To bring a more organic and natural typing experience into VR, a group of researchers from the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zürich , Switzerland have developed a set of wristbands called TapID that—when combined with hand tracking—allows you to “feel” the keys of your virtual keyboard as you type.

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Parisian Hospital Begins Testing VR As A Pain Relief Alternative

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Healthy Mind is testing out both methods at Saint-Joseph and other hospitals in the APHP (Paris’s largest hospital group), and the young company is also in talks with hospitals across France, Switzerland and the U.S.

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Oculus Acquires Computer Vision Company Zurich EyeLate last week.

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Oculus Acquires Computer Vision Company Zurich Eye Late last week German site Handeszeitung reported that Oculus parent company Facebook had acquired Zurich Eye, a Switzerland-based group formed of members of the University of Zurich and another university, EMT Zurich.

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Report: Oculus Acquires Computer Vision Company Zurich Eye

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Late last week German site Handeszeitung reported that Oculus parent company Facebook had acquired Zurich Eye, a Switzerland-based group formed of members of the University of Zurich and another university, EMT Zurich. But the company is making big moves across the globe.

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