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How to Compare Immersive Training Solutions in 2024

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Immersive training solutions are becoming increasingly commonplace in the business environment as companies rapidly adopt XR technologies, the metaverse, and the future of work. As a result, immersive learning tools, platforms, and software are being adopted in every industry.

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University of Miami Builds an Educational Metaverse with ENGAGE

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The University of Miami has implemented ENGAGE’s spatial computing technology to bolster immersive learning experiences across the university. Therefore, we chose to provide a remote participation option using virtual reality, diverging from traditional video conferencing to offer a more immersive experience.

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Your Guide to Comparing Immersive Training Tech in 2024

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Immersive training solutions have become increasingly popular in recent years. With immersive learning, companies can embed employees in realistic, authentic training scenarios. Studies show that immersive learning experiences can deliver results faster and more cost-effectively than traditional training initiatives.

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Hands-on: HaptX’s VR Glove is the Closest I’ve Come to Touching the Virtual World

Road to VR

I wrote in greater detail about how the HaptX glove works in my first hands-on with the device —but there’s two major pieces that make it capable of those brief moments of magical immersion: First is haptic feedback, which aims to create subtle sensations of objects touching the user. Photo by Road to VR. Continued on Page 2 ».

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Microsoft Mesh for Teams is now Available on Meta Quest Headsets

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Today, Microsoft is making its long—awaited Mesh for Teams immersive VR meeting platform available for enterprise end users. The service is now available for clients, allowing them to access Microsoft’s dynamic virtual remote meeting solution via desktop or Meta Quest headsets.

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How Sound Design Can Add Texture To A Virtual World

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Sound is essential for truly immersive VR. For this reason, sound is more than just an immersive tool – how (and where) objects around you sound has an enormous effect on your understanding of where they are, especially when you’re not looking at them. Tip it over. Presence and Realism in 3D Space. But it’s not perfect.

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Glossary: The Metaverse and its Key Components

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Bloktopia is a 21-level Metaverse platform styled like a skyscraper and is a hat tip to Satoshi Nakamoto’s hard cap of 21 million Bitcoin. Immersive Experience. Immersive Media. Virtual Reality (VR) refers to the technology that permits interactions with virtual worlds. Meta Horizons. The Metaverse.