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USA Today Premieres Season Two of ‘VRtually There’

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On board one of the last flights of Goodyear’s GZ-20 model blimp or hang gliding in Hawaii, you can now experience season two of USA Today’s “VRtually There” series. Launched bak in October 2016, “VRtually There” is USA Today’s ongoing commitment to publish immersive stories using VR.

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Surgery Training Platform ‘Osso VR’ Now Used by 1,000 Surgeons Monthly

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The platform, which was created to provide surgeons with an immersive, repeatable environment to safely practice their craft, is now used by more than 20 teaching hospitals and eight top medical device companies across 11 countries.

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Award-winning Mobile Meditation App ‘Calm’ Comes to Oculus Go & Gear VR

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Once you’ve selected a meditation, which addresses a number of subjects such as grief, gratitude, and creativity, users can then choose from a few locations: a mountain lake, a redwood forest, or a white sand beach in Hawaii. “We It has the ability to easily transport and immerse anyone into another reality from anywhere.

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#1063: Indigenous Poet’s Journey from Doc Subject to Co-Writer on Award-Winning VR Story “On the Morning You Wake (To the End of the World)”

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It's an amazingly well-told story about how the false ballistic missile alarm in Hawaii on January 13, 2018 catalyzed a larger discussion about nuclear disarmament within Hawaii and around the world. (UPDATE 3/24: It's now been released and can be found here.) UPDATE 3/24: It's now been released and can be found here.)

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Sketchfab Hosts 1 Million Online Scenes While Matterport Posts 250K Virtual Spaces

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Sketchfab models can be viewed in VR with the appropriate headset, which effectively makes this platform the most varied immersive content provider on the Internet. Founded in 2011, Matterport is an immersive technology company built on mapping real places as 3D models. ” Charles Singletary contributed to this report.

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 to Improve AR/VR Rendering & Reduce Power Consumption “by 30%”

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Qualcomm introduced it’s new Snapdragon 845 mobile processor at the company’s tech summit in Hawaii this week, which Qualcomm says improves mobile AR/VR headset (branded to as ‘XR’, or ‘eXtended reality’) performance up to 30 percent in comparison to its predecessor, Snapdragon 835.

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USA Today’s VRtually There Gets A Full Second Season

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Such a thing hopefully signals that the teams making the calls for immersive content truly value the medium. As companies maneuver through content plans that include VR and AR, it is encouraging to see renewed interest with a doubling-down of efforts.

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