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NASA Needs Your Help Building A VR Mars Simulator

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Earn money helping NASA build a next-gen simulator for researchers and astronauts. Built using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5, the Mars XR Operations Support System is a virtual environment developed by NASA in collaboration with Buendea that simulates life on the planet Mars. ” Credit: HeroX. ” Credit: HeroX.

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Yaw2 Motion Simulator Surpasses $1M On Kickstarter

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With 34 days left to go in the campaign, Yaw VR’s next-gen motion simulator/smart chair, the Yaw2, this week reached over $1M in funding on Kickstarter, absolutely demolishing its original goal of $100,000. There’s also built-in vibration haptics capable of simulating acceleration, speed, an engine’s RPM, and gunshots.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.04.10): Epic releases Unreal Engine 5, Meta cancels F8, and more!

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Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 5. Epic Games has finally released the latest iteration of its popular game engine: Unreal Engine 5. This means that while great, Unreal Engine 5 is not disruptive for us VR users and developers, yet. It’s hard to be a developer of the simulation of the world Funny link. Learn more.

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This Japanese VR Headset Is Meant To Be Used In Bed

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For an extra sense of immersion, the headset also features a vibration feedback system capable of simulating everything from gunshots and footsteps to a variety of other environmental noises. The company also references a unique wire-based force feedback module capable of simulating resistance, though the information is scarce at the moment.

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NVIDIA announces Unity connector for Omniverse at GTC 2022

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It’s been written by me, on a topic I had an interest in, and trying to convey useful information to the community, so I hope you’ll like it]. Omniverse is the collaborative and simulation tool by NVIDIA. E.g. you can have a module to perform a complex physics simulation on the scene that the team has shaped.

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HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition Launches Next Month

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According to HP, these new features can be used by developers working in both Unreal Engine and Unity to create “hyper-personalized” training solutions for various types of professional enterprises. For more information on the Omnicept platform visit HP.com/Omnicept. ” Image Credit: HP. Feature Image Credit: HP.

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PrecisionOS Brings VR Medical Training To Struggling Areas

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As an end-to-end road map for success, the Fusion Model can inform change from initial conversations about adoption through to establishing a new norm within organizational culture.”. “It Financial assistance to launch the program was provided by Epic MegaGrants, aiding in the development of the Unreal Engine-powered VR training solution.

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