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Houston Fire Department on VR’s Potential to Enhance Firefighter Training

Road to VR

Patrick Hagan is a technical specialist for the Houston Fire Department who had an opportunity to try out a VR demo by HTX Labs featuring an active shooter critical response training scenario. SEE ALSO Training to Craning in 60 Minutes: Putting My VR-learned Skills to the Test with a Real 22 Ton Crane. Support Voices of VR.

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Eerie NASA photo shows intense training for dark moon missions

Mashable VR

NASA is preparing to train its future moon explorers in these eerie conditions. The training is happening in the agency's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston, a huge pool (it's 40 feet deep) designed to simulate conditions in lower gravity. "As The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory is often a brightly lit training space.

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The Most Important Upcoming AR/VR Events This Year

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The event aims to discuss the impact and opportunities for XR across a number of industries including architecture, design, medicine, education, training, science, art, and entertainment. Augmented Enterprise Summit When: October 24-26 Where: Houston, TX; virtual As its name suggests, this AR/VR event is aimed at enterprises.

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Training to Craning in 60 Minutes: Putting My VR-learned Skills to the Test with a Real 22 Ton Crane

Road to VR

Last week, I traveled to the Houston Area Safety Council in Pasadena, Texas, to put Industrial Training International VR’s new crane simulator through its paces. While ITI has been training crane operators, riggers, and signallers for 30 years, the inclusion of VR in their training programs is a recent development.

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Traveling Halo Fan Experience Will Feature Competitive Location-Based VR

VRScout

Available as part of the tour, Halo: Training Grounds puts visitors in the boots of a UNSC Spartan, an elite soldier enhanced by both mechanical and biological augmentations. They’ll then fight alongside two other teammates in a 3v3 combat training environment designed to hone your skills as Earth’s most badass fighting force.

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Houston’s ITC Expo to Showcase Business-focused VR/AR Solutions, November 6th–7th

Road to VR

The Immersive Technology Conference (ITC) , soon to be hosted at the University of Houston on November 6th & 7th, is an event built around a paradox. The Immersive Technology Conference runs from November 6th-7th at the University of Houston, in Houston, Texas. Image courtesy ITC and Jason Chang: JTC Pictures.

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‘Halo’ VR Multiplayer Shooter Coming to Location-based Halo Event

Road to VR

Dubbed the ‘Outpost Discovery Training Grounds’, event-goers can team up in the 3v3 multiplayer shooter, giving you a free-roaming, wireless VR environment to run around while you shoot your plasma pistol and heal via the series’ shield generator. August 16-18 – Houston, Texas. Image courtesy 343 Industries.