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AR Takes Center Stage At SXSW 2020

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The annual festival will debut new AR experiences from Magic Leap, Intel, and director Virginia Galloway. News AR glasses Augmented Reality Intel Magic Leap NCT 127 Superhuman AR SXSW 2020 The Last Light Virginia Galloway Virtual Cinema Program Hiraeth Here are just a few of the wild experiences festival-goers can expect!

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10 “Metaversities” Are Opening Across The US This Fall

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Participating universities include West Virginia University, the University of Maryland, and Morehouse College just to name a few. VR technology company Engage XR today announced that it is partnering with VR education specialists VictoryXR to launch 10 virtual universities, aka “Metaversities,” across the United States.

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HaptX Secures $1.5M Grant to Build Full-body Haptics for VR & Telepresence Robots

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The company behind the force feedback haptic gloves HaptX and research teams from Virginia Tech and University of Florida have secured a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), something the group says will allow them to build full-body haptic and force feedback tech for VR and robotics. Image courtesy HaptX.

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Journey to Freedom and Equality: How an AR Experience Makes History Come Alive

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The Freedom Riders were a group of white and Black American civil rights activists who joined the Freedom Rides in 1961. The group was met with resistance in Virginia. Members of the group were beaten. Hank Thomas and the Freedom Riders. Some Freedom Riders were arrested. This event then gained widespread media attention.

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Virtual Reality Creeps Into Virginia Commonwealth University

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Virginia Commonwealth University , or VCU for short, is the latest educational facility to install a Virtual Reality lab on their premises. This lab is known as the MHRG VR Lab (Modern Heuristics Research Group Virtual Reality Lab), and on Friday they opened their doors for the first tour of the lab by students and other university personnel.

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Sandbox VR and Netflix Preparing Squid Game VR Experience

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According to the company, “all Sandbox VR experiences are developed by an in-house AAA gaming studio led by game industry veterans and are specifically designed for groups to play as social experiences.” Sandbox VR – San Francisco, CA More locations are set to open in the near future in Kentucky, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

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Report: Apple Using VR to Test Self-Driving System

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The self-driving platform simulation group now includes VR expert Doug Bowman who joined Apple in January. The computer tech professor from Virginia Tech literally wrote the book on 3D interfaces.

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