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Epic Games, Oakland University Launch Augmented Reality Center

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Epic Games has launched an Augmented Reality Center (ARC) at Oakland University in Michigan. It will work jointly to build and implement cutting-edge AR technologies for the future of the immersive industry. Students, companies, faculty, and industry experts will join forces to create real-time tools the XR manufacturing sector.

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Artist’s AR Exhibit Shows Two Sides Of The Same Reality

VRScout

Growing up as a Chinese immigrant in Oakland, California, Estella Tse recalls her struggle having to navigate between her strict, traditional heritage – and her more liberal American upbringing, which encouraged individualism and freedom of expression.

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Creating Two Sides of the Same Reality

Tech Trends VR

Immersive Technology turns out to be the perfect medium for ARtistic expression and exploring identity. Estella Tse explores the intersection between art, technology, and impactful storytelling using immersive technologies such as VR and AR Click To Tweet.

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Suffolk, Carnegie Mellon Universities Join Transatlantic VR Partnership

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Via its Virtual Immersive Teaching and Learning (VITaL) centre, SDSU will teach its students how to implement, learn, and develop XR tools for their future vocations. Finally, Epic Games kicked off its Augmented Reality Center (ARC) with Oakland University Michigan.

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This Saturday Magik Gallery will curate some of the most innovative art in VR and AR at its SF event.

Cats and VR

From games and movies, to experiences and tools—we’re just beginning to see what’s possible. The event features artists such as Oakland, CA very own Tilt Brush Artist In Residence Steve Teeps who has worked with prominent artists like Flying Lotus and Future. Virtual reality has changed how we create.

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Oculus Launches VR For Good in High Schools

VRScout

We have all seen how virtual reality can change gaming and entertainment forever with this immersive technology. Both VR experiences are extremely powerful stories and helped raise higher than projected donations, showing the impact VR can have as a tool to raise awareness for causes in need of a voice.

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Prepping for Virtual Surgery, with 8Chili’s Aravind Upadhyaya

XR for Business Podcast

Today, we're speaking with Aravind Upadhyaya, co-founder and CEO of 8chili, an Oakland, California based startup, bringing the dream of telesurgery to the real world. So this, what we want to do, is take the platform to a very immersive collaborative experience. And there's a nurse who's next to the surgeon, and then there are tools.