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52 NBA Games This Season Will Be Streamed In Immersive 180-Degrees To Quest For Free

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52 NBA games this season will be streamed in immersive 180-degrees to Quest headsets in the US for free. 0:00 / 0:13 1× NBA games in Xtadium in immersive 180° The free NBA games come by way of an ongoing multi-year partnership between Meta and the NBA, which sees Quest continue to be "the official VR headset of the NBA".

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NBA is Broadcasting a Ton of Games This Season in VR on Quest

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The NBA announced it’s expanding the number of games it’s recording for Quest headsets by a wide margin, bringing a ton of 180-degree immersive games to NBA League Pass holders. You’ll even be able to buy your avatar NBA or WNBA team apparel, which you can wear in VR as well as on Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram.

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VR Training Program Teaches Underserved Population Soft Skills to Increase Their Employment Chances

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partnered with Link to VR , an XR media agency, to develop a VR training program, through the immersive learning platform Bodyswaps , that would help underserved people learn these valuable skills. To solve this issue, Viability.

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EON Reality and ORU Open Dedicated AR/VR Learning Facility

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Virtual reality offers near limitless virtual space to recreate almost anything you can imagine and immerses users into environments they may not be able to experience otherwise. If you combine both of those, you have a malleable palate for education and a new facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma will be taking advantage of this.

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Walmart Using Black Friday VR Simulator To Train Staff

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The current trial curriculum, produced by immersive performance training platform Strivr , uses an Oculus Rift headset to immerse associates in education VR simulations. When they said we were going to be using VR for training, I thought it was brilliant,” said Sean Gough, Academy facilitator at the Broken Arrow, Oklahoma store.

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The NBA and TNT Partner With Intel For Biggest VR Push Yet

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The NBA on TNT VR app is intended to change the viewing experience from, “passive to immersive’” said David Aufhauser, Managing Director, Strategy and Product for Intel Sports, during an interview with VRScout. The NBA seems to be making a concerted effort to embrace immersive viewing. It’s different,” he said.

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Blame NextVR and Drake for Kevin Durant going to the Warriors.

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NextVR is able to capture and transmit live HD, 3D VR content over the internet, delivering an immersive and life-like experience. It could have been that the Bay Area is more lucrative than Oklahoma or that Durant is friends with Draymond Green but I would like to give credit where credit is due. It switched over to VR in 2012.

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