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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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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Regarding what components have been opensourced, Google states that “The open source project provides APIs for head tracking, lens distortion rendering, and input handling. The first one is called Almalence and is a Unity plug-in (already available on the store) that should improve the clarity of images inside the Vive Pro Eye.

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OSVR Co-founder on the Future of Open Source Virtual Reality

Road to VR

For example, head tracking can come from optical trackers or inertial ones. Many game engines—such as Unity, Unreal, and SteamVR—immediately support it. If developers use an API from one peripheral vendor, they need to learn a new API for each new device. See Also: OSVR HDK 2160×1200 Screen Upgrade Kit Now Available.

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Design Sprints at Leap Motion: A Playground of 3D User Interfaces

Leapmotion

With our Interaction Engine Unity package, prototyping these kinds of physically inspired interfaces is easier than ever. Click To Tweet Since this project was designed to run on mobile VR headsets, we designed knowing that it might be experienced with only 3 degree-of-freedom (3DoF) head tracking. Ending contact.

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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? Unity is always my top one.

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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? Unity is always my top one.

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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? Unity is always my top one.

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