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Looking at VR in Senior Living Communities for Alzheimer’s Awareness Month

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The company helps these facilities deploy hardware pre-baked with a growing library of content either created or curated for use by seniors. However, a novel deployment case recently rolled out in a community in North Carolina – not a senior living community, just a community. Access Rendever … at Your Local Library?

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‘Brilliant Sole’ Wants to Put a VR Controller in Your Shoes

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Enter Brilliant Sole , a North Carolina-based VR startup working to bring VR controllers to the soles of your feet. SEE ALSO Hands-on: 3DHaptics Achieves Compelling Directional Haptics with Simple Hardware. Moving around in VR environments usually means you’ll need to press down on a thumbstick or a touchpad.

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Where is VR/AR and Education Now?

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In March 2014 Facebook bought Oculus and the current wave of interest in VR and AR was reborn. Research studies conducted by North Carolina State University show “significant improvement” in children’s (sixth to eighth grade) learning after using zSpace’s VR platform. #2 Image Credit: Samsung.

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How Is Virtual Reality in Online Education Used?

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hardware and software. Hardware Most of the VR systems available today incorporate a headset or a visor that takes up the user’s whole field of view, as well as optional accessories, such as controllers, gloves, and distance sensors. Thus, the hardware is made by tech companies and the software by developers.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

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VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. North Carolina State University, USA. North Metropolitan TAFE, Australia.

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