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Virtual Reality Creeps Into Virginia Commonwealth University

VRWorld

Virginia Commonwealth University , or VCU for short, is the latest educational facility to install a Virtual Reality lab on their premises. While not every VR Lab out there will offer setups as advanced as Virginia Commonwealth University, but these labs are becoming much more commonplace. Comment below and let us know!

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The Media and Entertainment Metaverse: What to Expect

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Theme and amusement parks have begun incorporating VR technologies from HTC VIVE for novel attractions. Busch Gardens Virginia , one of the United States’ top theme parks, created an immersive roller coaster ‘The Battle for Eire’ featuring emerald mask VR headsets from the Taiwanese tech giant. VR Theme Parks.

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Tobii, HeadVantage To Offer Sports Fans ‘First Look’

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The Arlington, Virginia-based firm was picked to join Comcast’s NBCUniversal Sports Accelerator, leading to the deal with NBC Sports and allowing the firm to showcase its capabilities at the Professional Golfers Association’s (PGA) Korn Ferry Tour golf tournament.

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The XR Week Peek (2019.14.09): a new powerful Vive Focus appears, Facebook Connect is coming, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Geekbench has just published the scores for a new Vive Focus headset , indicating that a new standalone headset by HTC is coming. But for sure HTC wants Oculus to feel the competition, if this “leak” on the new Focus has “casually” happened some days before the launch of the new Quest…. Facebook works on Diminished Reality.

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How Climbing Mt. Everest in VR Helped Me Treat My Crippling Fear of Heights

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

It was one of our many family trips up the Eastern Seaboard after we had moved from Boise, Idaho to Alexandria, Virginia. Everest on the HTC Vive – minus the limited air and intense cold. I can recall exactly – at the tender age of 6 – when my fear of heights came to be. Climbing to the Peak of the World.

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Attending Digital Concerts in XR with The Boolean’s Anne McKinnon

XR for Business Podcast

So Miro Shot is a band and we’re touring a virtual reality live concert around the world. Anne: Yeah, we have a 16 year old, who is part of our collective in Virginia, who’s taken some amazing drone footage that we used in our music videos. But a lot of it is independent.

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Attending Digital Concerts in XR with The Boolean’s Anne McKinnon

XR for Business Podcast

So Miro Shot is a band and we’re touring a virtual reality live concert around the world. Anne: Yeah, we have a 16 year old, who is part of our collective in Virginia, who’s taken some amazing drone footage that we used in our music videos. But a lot of it is independent.