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Water Treatment Specialist Ixom Employs Immersive Training Solution From DXC

Peter Graham

Working in the water treatment and chemical distribution sector across Australia and New Zealand, Ixom asked DXC Technologies to develop a custom application to cover those aforementioned needs. The added benefit being the reduced exposure to hazardous materials during training at treatment facilities.

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StretchSense built an actually comfortable hand-motion capture glove

TechCrunch VR

New Zealand-based StretchSense, a maker of hand motion capture technology, believes virtual and augmented reality are going to replace the smartphone as the dominant way we interact with digital worlds and each other. In fact, it was recently used to make Snoop Dogg’s ‘ Crip Ya Enthusiasm ‘ music video.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Researchers at the National University of Singapore first showed us how face electrodes can simulate food in virtual reality– and now they are bringing wind and heat to your virtual world. Birthed in New Zealand and raised in Los Angeles, CA, volumetric capture company 8i has announced a Series B round of $27M.

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Frontier VR Is A Wonderful Adventure Into The Wilderness Available Now

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Frontier VR is a collection of three spaces designed by New Zealand-based Gaugepunk Games. These are some of the most memorable and, yes, immersive locations I’ve seen in VR, reminding me of the kiddish joy I experienced the very first time I put on a headset and found myself in a virtual world.

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What is a Virtual Tour in 2021? Types, Feature­­s, Development

ARVR

Amazingly, these tours can even be created for fictional and long-destroyed locations Virtual Reality Tour 3D virtual reality tours are the closest you can get to visiting a place in person without actually being there. They offer an unprecedented level of immersion, realism, and user control.

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Breaking the Mold – How VR Can Help Teachers

Veative

Thus, even though there is a recurrent misconception that immersive learning in VR can make teachers irrelevant in the classroom, reality paints a different picture. These steps would lead to the creation of a well planned immersive experience for students, motivating and engaging them simultaneously. Norton & Company, 2018.

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Magic Leap’s LEAP Con 2018 round-up: all the major announcements in only one place

The Ghost Howls

It is a set of very high-quality headphones that are able to offer truly immersive and spatial audio, with a unique feature that lets you blend the audio of the AR experience and of your real world in an optimized way. This is made through the filtering of some particular frequencies of the outside world, while letting pass other ones.