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Iowa State Athletics Will Use A Concussion-Detecting VR Headset

VRScout

In fact the technology is so promising that Iowa State University has already announced plans to integrate the technology into their popular sports program. Iowa State University will begin by bringing the technology into their football and wrestling programs with plans to adopt it into other sports programs as well as include it in the University’s concussion management protocol. The post Iowa State Athletics Will Use A Concussion-Detecting VR Headset appeared first on VRScout.

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This Week’s Derecho Screwed Iowa’s Farmers

GizModo VR

But the impacts were most severe in Iowa where winds cranked to 112 mph and torrential rain fell. Earlier this week, the Midwest got absolutely pummeled by a powerful derecho.

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Iowa's Former Nuclear Plant Could Soon Be a Solar Farm

GizModo VR

Last summer, powerful winds from a derecho took Iowa’s only nuclear power plant out of commission. Because it was already slated for closure just two months later, the facility’s owners decided not to bring it back online , and it’s been sitting idle since last August.

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EON Reality and Eastern Iowa Community Colleges (EICC) Open Interactive Digital Center in Davenport, Iowa

EON Reality

IRVINE, CA, June 11, 2018 – EON Reality, the world leader in Virtual Reality based knowledge transfer for industry and education, and Eastern Iowa Community Colleges (EICC) announce the opening of an Interactive Digital Center (IDC) in Davenport, Iowa. The post EON Reality and Eastern Iowa Community Colleges (EICC) Open Interactive Digital Center in Davenport, Iowa appeared first on EON Reality

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Eastern Iowa Community Colleges grand opening of EON Reality Interactive Digital Center

EON Reality

Eastern Iowa Community Colleges invites the public to the grand opening of its EON Reality Interactive Digital Center on Tuesday. The post Eastern Iowa Community Colleges grand opening of EON Reality Interactive Digital Center appeared first on EON Reality. The center will be available to local manufacturers and businesses developing virtual and augmented reality training for their employees.

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Upcoming Open House & Recruitment Series for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Course at Eastern Iowa Community College (EICC)

EON Reality

One of only four in the USA, the EON Innovation Academy at Eastern Iowa Community College (EICC) teaches the skills needed to create Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality applications for industry and education covering many diverse fields, including: architecture, product visualization, game creation, multimedia design, and broadcast media. Iowa SchoolAugmented and Virtual Reality are some of the fastest growing sectors of our economy.

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Tyson Managers Allegedly Made Cash Bets on How Many Workers Would Get Covid-19

GizModo VR

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FuboTV gets into the betting game with its first sportsbook

Digital Trends

Fubo Sportsbook is now live in Iowa and available online or on iPhones and iPads. Home Theater fubo sportsbook FuboTV Gambling sportsbook

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Google Briefly Nuked the Internet Last Night

GizModo VR

Though Google has since resolved the outage issues, new reports suggest the disruptions may be tied to an “electrical incident” at a Council Bluffs, Iowa data center that left at… Read more. Large swaths of U.S.

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A Bizarre Coal Industry Propaganda Program Is Infiltrating K-12 Classrooms

GizModo VR

Next week, dozens of teachers from North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, South Dakota, and Iowa will descend on Bismarck State College in North Dakota for the annual three-day Lignite Energy Council Teacher’s Seminar.

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The Worst Charlatans of the Covid-19 Pandemic

GizModo VR

For some people, crisis is an opportunity. More specifically, an opportunity to blow up their own profile by preying on people’s fears, making baseless claims, grabbing resources intended for others, and being generally dishonest, disingenuous, or greedy. Read more.

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VR Innovation Academy at EICC Now Recruiting

EON Reality

Eastern Iowa Community College (EICC) teaches the skills needed to create Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality applications for enterprise and education. Iowa School 3D training academy AR Augmented Reality curriculum Virtual Reality VRAugmented and Virtual Reality are some of the fastest growing sectors of our economy. These technologies are spreading far beyond the gaming world and into business and education, where its being used to train employees and better educate students.

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Modul University Vienna Adopts Digital Twin Campus

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The Iowa-based enterprise provides an immersive K-12 curriculum on several headsets, including HTC VIVE, Meta Quest, and Pico devices. Last Tuesday, Modul University teamed up with VictoryXR to create a digital twin of its campus.

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Chuck Grassley Tweets That Cable Companies Have Gotten 'To [Sic] Big Like Goggle [Sic]'

GizModo VR

Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa has always used Twitter in a rather bizarre way. After all, who can forget Grassley classics like “PantsBurnLegWood” of 2009 and “WH:ANSWER MY LETTER” of 2017 ?

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Woman With Rare Skull Condition Leaked Spinal Fluid After Covid-19 Nasal Swab, Doctors Say

GizModo VR

A Iowa woman’s nasal swab test for covid-19 caused her to leak spinal fluid, her doctors report, in what seems to be the first recorded injury of its kind related to the novel coronavirus.

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Striking John Deere Workers Reject Second Contract Offer, Hold the Line

GizModo VR

That means nearly 10,000 workers at plants in Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas will remain on the picket line, telling their employer they’re fed up and… Read more. John Deere workers who have been striking in protest of the company’s contract offers since Oct.

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Cryptocurrencies and ICO Under Increasing Scrutiny While Stars Move In

VRWorld

The American rapper ‘The Game’ has teamed up with Jess VerSteeg, an entrepreneur and Miss Iowa 2014, to kick start a “cannabis revolution.” Asia Pacific (APAC) Breaking Business Global Politics News startups Technology Security China Floyd Mayweather hong kong ICO Jess VerSteeg Julia Leung LydianCoin marijuana Miss Iowa Paragon Paris Hilton SEC Securities and Exchange Comission The Game

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Trump Facebook Ads With 'Real People' Actually Feature GOP Political Operatives

GizModo VR

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The ASUS ROG Strix G15 (G513QY) Review: Embracing AMD's Advantage

Anand Tech

“If you build it, he will come” was, of course, a reference to a baseball diamond in Iowa, but for AMD, this same quote (gender removed) also succeeds in defining AMD’s success over the last couple of generations.

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Samsung is Developing VR Tools to Help Diagnose Mental Health

Road to VR

The system, called Eye Sync, is already in use at the athletic divisions of University of Texas and Iowa State University. Samsung Electronics has recently signed a partnership with Korean VR studio FNI and Gangnam Severance Hospital, one of South Korea’s largest hospitals, to develop VR-based mental health diagnosis programs for Samsung Gear VR.

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‘Google Earth VR’ Lets You Experience the Total Solar Eclipse Right Now

Road to VR

Released in an August 12th update, Google has added a new menu function that lets you activate Monday’s total solar eclipse, which can be seen as it passed through 14 US states: Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wyoming.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.28): GDC, GTC, Snap’s acquisition of NextMind, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I think it was only me that had this problem, but a new article published by the Iowa State University shows that this is a common situation: people doing the test had a perceived distance to virtual objects that was 75% of the real one. Happy Spring, ladies, and gentlemen of VR!

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Microsoft Now Hosts Free HoloLens Demos Across US & Canada

Road to VR

Haven’t been able to make it to any of the big gaming expos (or you don’t know anyone with the $3,000 AR headset)? Microsoft Stores across the US and Canada are now hosting free HoloLens demos, so you can finally see what the hubbub is all about.

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Is Training VR’s Killer App? Ask Forklift Drivers

Charlie Fink

Iowa State University researchers studied VR training in welding simulations showed a 41.6% Using a forklift efficiently in a busy warehouse takes a skilled worker with steady hands, no fear of heights, and spatial awareness. These are not skills we have in abundance. They are won through practice. It’s not easy, nor is it safe, to take rolling stock into a live environment for training. Lifts are heavy and dangerous and can do a lot of damage if not operated with care.

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Your Gas Will Likely Be Cheaper and Dirtier This Summer

GizModo VR

President Joe Biden is taking a trip to the Corn Belt today, specifically Menlo, Iowa , where he’ll announce that E15 gasoline can be used all summer long.

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EON Reality Presents at Nordic VR Forum

EON Reality

At the 2018 edition of the Nordic VR Forum, EON Reality Norway didn’t just attend Hamar’s distinguished virtual reality conference but also presented the “ Jesper on Wheels ” project to an eager crowd. With hundreds of attendees from 10 different nations and even more viewers following along with the event’s livestreams online, the annual event proved successful in every way.

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I drank Hard Mountain Dew and felt like I was staring at God

Mashable VR

Right now, Hard Mountain Dew is only on sale in three states which I’m calling “The Dew Triumvirate”: Tennessee, Florida, and Iowa.

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Apple's digital ID is finally here, and so are the privacy concerns

Mashable VR

Up next, according to Apple, are Colorado, Hawaii, Mississippi, Ohio, Puerto Rico, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Utah. Apple just took another step on its one device quest.

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Smart Nations Powered By Augmented Virtual Reality

EON Reality

Advances in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are reshaping the way we learn and interact with our world. Workers with access to real-time contextual information, displayed when and where they need it will reshape the workplace and dramatically improve the efficiency, productivity, and safety of the average worker. The future is here, with EON Reality’s Augmented Virtual Reality (AVR) technology. CONTACT US. Name *. First. Job Title * Email *.

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Scale Learning and Teaching for the Online Classroom

EON Reality

At EON Reality, we are working at lightning speed to help classrooms around the world transition safely and effectively to an online classroom. As we shift towards preparing for tomorrow it is now more important than ever to build resilience into our online classrooms.

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Ouverture des inscriptions à EON Entrepreneur School

EON Reality

Vous rêvez de créer les nouvelles applications en Réalité Virtuelle et Augmentée ? Saisissez cette opportunité avec EON ENTREPRENEUR SCHOOL. Cette formation est le fruit d’un partenariat entre EON Reality, le leader mondial de la Réalité Virtuelle et Augmentée, et l’IMIE, école de la filière numérique présente sur 7 campus (Nantes, Angers, Rennes, Le Mans, Caen, Paris et Laval).

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Watching live sports online is a pain, but these 4 apps make it easy

Mashable VR

Sometimes I just have to watch Michigan and Iowa play the most boring football on the planet on the way to a 10-3 final score.

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The AVR Platform and Classroom 3.0 Showcased at EduTECH Asia 2018

EON Reality

At EduTECH Asia 2018 this week in Singapore, EON Reality spent two full days speaking, promoting, and demonstrating the latest updates to the AVR Platform to the thousands of education and technology professionals in attendance.

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Now Recruiting: Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Enthusiasts of Dubai, UAE

EON Reality

EON Reality and EAIT (Emirates Advanced Investments Trading) have partnered to form EON Reality UAE LLC , an Interactive Digital Center (IDC) focused on vocational skills training and higher education utilizing Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. The IDC houses an Entrepreneur School, which teaches the skills needed to be successful in creating Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality content and applications for industry and training.

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Open House: Animation, Digital Art, and Computer Science Majors Invited to the Augmented & Virtual Reality Programme in Norway

EON Reality

Join the Open House March 22nd at Hamar Campus. Auditorium 3 Between 11:00 – 14:00. Augmented and Virtual Reality are some of the fastest growing sectors of our economy. These technologies are spreading far beyond the gaming world and into business and education, where its being used to train employees and better educate students.

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TECHINNOVATION Singapore 2018

EON Reality

TECHINNOVATION , organized by IPI (Intellectual Property Intermediary), a non-profit organization established under Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry, aims to bring together international and Singapore technology providers and seekers to explore technology and business collaboration opportunities through open innovation.

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Manchester’s VR Innovation Academy – Apply To Learn

EON Reality

Budding coder? Immersed in the latest engines? Obsessed with great 3D design? The Academy. It’s not too late to apply – the Academy team is still accepting applications for the 2017-2018 (starting on 4th September) term. Prospective students so far have arrived from across Europe as well as the UK North region – all you need is this link , a cover letter and your latest CV. Welcoming.