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A Complete Guide to Virtual Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Of all of the various forms of extended reality (XR), virtual reality (VR), is the most familiar. The technology allows people to create ‘virtual’ landscapes and environments that simulate the real world. Achieving Virtual Reality: Use Cases. What’s Next?

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Acer and Starbreeze Announce First Shipment of StarVR Head-Mounted Displays

Cats and VR

Acer and Starbreeze AB today announced at a global press conference in Berlin that they have started to ship StarVR® Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Displays (HMD) to IMAX Corporation in preparation for the highly anticipated opening of the IMAX VR® Center in Los Angeles, expected later this year, and others in the near future.

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Training employees is 4 times quicker with VR

Hypergrid Business

Training in virtual reality. It is four times faster to train employees soft skills when using virtual reality than when using traditional in-person classroom or online training, according to a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Training modality cost per learner. Image courtesy PwC.).

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How Can Mixed Reality Help Your Small Business?

ARPost

Mixed reality (MR) technology merges real life and virtual reality in real time. Like virtual reality , MR uses headsets or head-mounted displays (HMDs) to display virtual elements in 3D. But unlike VR, mixed reality simulations bring virtual creations to life in a physical space.

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Top 10 Movies that Got Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Right

ARVR

Here are some of our team’s picks for great movies that feature augmented reality and virtual reality in their stories and include great examples of use cases for AR/VR (by order of release): 1. Predator | 1987 | Action/Sci-fi | 1h 47m Heat scanners and weapon systems as part of a helmet-mounted display (HMD)?

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Elon Musk-Backed Company Using VR To Train Robots

VRScout

OpenAI is directing robots on how to move using references created in virtual reality. Another day, another exciting use for the versatile technology that is virtual reality. The post Elon Musk-Backed Company Using VR To Train Robots appeared first on VRScout.

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Full Sail University to Create Virtual Production Studio

ARPost

The earliest VR experiences predate head-mounted displays and instead used projectors to turn a room into a virtual environment without the aid of a head-mounted display. Still, they found use cases in military and enterprise training, professional athletic training, and film production.