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Demystifying Media

Tech Trends VR

In the University of Oregon School of Journalism & Communication, those postgraduate courses are based in Portland, where they had recently opened their Reality Lab, a state-of-the art immersive facility for students, housed in a lovely historic building in the heart of the town.

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AltspaceVR Offers Social Reach For Organizers In VR

VRScout

Reggie Watts was supposed to come on, and he had somebody opening for him,” said Joshua Young, founder and CEO of Design Reality PDX , a monthly Portland, Oregon networking event that regularly hosts panelists from the VR community. It was the first time they did a large live show in a way that tested the multi-room ability.

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Developing the Future of Mixed Reality

Tech Trends VR

And while Portland is by no means a backwater, it’s still not a major tech or immersive content hub like LA or San Francisco either. The main question they’re asking themselves now is whether CIOs at Fortune 100 companies will want to invest in a start-up’s hardware solution Click To Tweet. “No

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This HoloLens App Can Help The Visually Impaired Navigate

VRScout

Now one Portland-based HoloLens developer, Javier Davalos, is showing us what the mixed reality hardware can do to help the visually impaired. From exploring the use of VR for medical training to discovering new ways immersive technology can impact prosthetic patients , exciting progress is being made on a daily basis.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. Obviously, most of my most crazy experiences have been around that tech in particular, just because we used a bunch of different hardware and stuff. To be fair to everyone else, Apple’s very tightly coupled to the hardware.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. Obviously, most of my most crazy experiences have been around that tech in particular, just because we used a bunch of different hardware and stuff. To be fair to everyone else, Apple’s very tightly coupled to the hardware.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH's Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. Obviously, most of my most crazy experiences have been around that tech in particular, just because we used a bunch of different hardware and stuff. To be fair to everyone else, Apple's very tightly coupled to the hardware. the books--.

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