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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 spoke with him about many topics, like why VR is so good for training (and he told me that his company Strivr has trained more than ONE MILLION Walmart employees in VR ), if it is true that VR is the “ultimate empathy machine”, how much is graphical fidelity important for presence, and of course also about his encounter with Zuck.

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uSens Grabs $20 Million Series A Investment for ‘Inside-out’ Tracking Tech

Road to VR

Usens is one of the early developers of hand and head tracking tech; according to the announcement from the company this investment will help launch new and improved non-controller hand and head tracking tools. A render of a camera-based tracking module like those used by uSens.

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HR in XR, with BrainXchange’s Emily Friedman

XR for Business Podcast

Emily Friedman is a New York based enterprise immersive, wearable and emerging technology advocate, journalist and facilitator. She’s Head of Content and the lead writer at BrainXchange, lead journalist and senior editor at Enterprisewear Blog, and head of marketing and communications for Augmented World Expo USA and AWE EU.

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HR in XR, with BrainXchange’s Emily Friedman

XR for Business Podcast

Emily Friedman is a New York based enterprise immersive, wearable and emerging technology advocate, journalist and facilitator. She’s Head of Content and the lead writer at BrainXchange, lead journalist and senior editor at Enterprisewear Blog, and head of marketing and communications for Augmented World Expo USA and AWE EU.

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HR in XR, with BrainXchange's Emily Friedman

XR for Business Podcast

Emily Friedman is a New York based enterprise immersive, wearable and emerging technology advocate, journalist and facilitator. She's Head of Content and the lead writer at BrainXchange, lead journalist and senior editor at Enterprisewear Blog, and head of marketing and communications for Augmented World Expo USA and AWE EU.

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Cinematic VR: 10 Avoidable Rookie Mistakes

Headjack

However, one underserved, yet fascinating niche with massive potential is cinematic VR ; high quality, immersive video experiences which place the viewer in the middle of the action. We at Purple Pill learned a lot from Jaunt, and have developed our own VR camera system and workflow. This was possibly the most painful lesson to learn.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

Many other topics are touched on in this episode – virtual writing spaces, remote assistance, spatial learning, his own XR makerspace, and more. And when you start to see 25 to 35 to 40 percent reductions in times it takes for people to learn, but also reduction of error rates across the enterprise? Pretty good. How are you?

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