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MIT Researchers Test Autonomous Drones Using VR Training Grounds

VRScout

Thankfully, a handful of brilliant minds over at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have begun developing a new process of VR-based testing that could save manufacturers hundreds of thousands in shattered hardware.

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The Best University Courses To Learn Metaverse Skills

Bernard Marr

But beyond it being a term for the digital, persistent, and highly immersive virtual worlds we will become used to, what it actually is – or will be – is up for debate! A computer science degree will teach you programming, as well as the fundamentals of data and database management, how hardware works, and networking.

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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. He was obsessed with Virtual Reality.

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On the Hunt for VR’s Killer App with Sony’s Head of PlayStation Magic Lab, Richard Marks

Road to VR

He received a Bachelor of Science in avionics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate in the field of underwater robotics from Stanford University. Most recently, Marks and his team have been involved with PlayStation VR, experiments with eye tracking technology, and other innovations.