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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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WorldViz VR solutions help university research

Hypergrid Business

WorldViz virtual reality solutions are being used in a variety of ways in learning institutions, from enhancing virtual learning and collaboration, boosting academic research, studying human and behavioral interactions, to enhancing student language and culture. Eric Hodgson. The university is now using Unity heavily.

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Meet Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR

VRScout

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. In college, I studied a lot of things, including biomedical engineering. Read on for the full interview.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.04.20): Oculus Quest goes AR, Oculus Jedi may be like Valve Knuckles and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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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

I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. Or Unreal if that’s your language.

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From Racing Games to Impaired Driver Simulators in VR, with Talon Simulations’ Brandon Naids

XR for Business Podcast

We've put together a comprehensive turnkey, fully automated virtual reality arcade cabinet that we put together all the hardware and the software. Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And now we launched last year.

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From Racing Games to Impaired Driver Simulators in VR, with Talon Simulations’ Brandon Naids

XR for Business Podcast

We've put together a comprehensive turnkey, fully automated virtual reality arcade cabinet that we put together all the hardware and the software. Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And now we launched last year.