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Funding Roundup: Merge VR Raises $10M & uSens Raises.

AllThingsVR

Funding Roundup: Merge VR Raises $10M & uSens Raises $20M Merge Labs funding came from a whole community of investors in gaming, software, hardware and retail sectors across the nation. retail competitor called GAME.“ retail competitor called GAME.“ Usens’ tracking leverages machine learning and computer vision techniques.

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New Pimax Artisan Headset to Include Optional NOLO VR Tracking & Controllers

Road to VR

SEE ALSO Oculus Quest Sells Out at Major Retailers, Availability Slips into Late February. Nolo VR Tracking. Nolo VR does this wirelessly by way of its PolarTraq technology, which is based on an optic-acoustic-radio-signal tracking technology developed by the company.

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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

We were using VR not as a thing to study in and of itself, but we were using it as a tool to run more rigorous social psych studies. It’s leveraging head tracking in VR and allowing them to look at patterns and practice their decision-making skills. Let it roll means he’s going to keep the original play.

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Qualcomm releases XR2 5G reference design, paving the way for the headsets of the future

The Ghost Howls

It features two internal cameras, one for each eye to support eye tracking. It also includes four external cameras, two RGB cameras for MR experiences and two for head tracking which can also be used to generate accurate depth maps. Implementation of the 5G XR solution for retail (Image by Qualcomm).

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

XR for Business Podcast

One example is retail employees. Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. I think that the tools that they have are incredible. There’s so many.

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

XR for Business Podcast

One example is retail employees. Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. I think that the tools that they have are incredible. There’s so many.

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

XR for Business Podcast

One example is retail employees. just in this very short, six-minute conversation that we've been in here, you've talked about VR being used for design, and for previsualization, and for training in retail. there's just all these tools. I think that the tools that they have are incredible. Michael: Yeah, exactly.

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