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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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Dissecting Virtual Frogs with VictoryXR’s Steve Grubbs

XR for Business Podcast

If you think about it, for decades — I used to serve in the Iowa legislature, and I was chairman of the Education Committee, and we spent a lot of time addressing, how do we improve education? Steve: I would love to be able to stand in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg, and experience it in true, simulated VR.

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Dissecting Virtual Frogs with VictoryXR’s Steve Grubbs

XR for Business Podcast

If you think about it, for decades — I used to serve in the Iowa legislature, and I was chairman of the Education Committee, and we spent a lot of time addressing, how do we improve education? Steve: I would love to be able to stand in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg, and experience it in true, simulated VR.

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Dissecting Virtual Frogs with VictoryXR's Steve Grubbs

XR for Business Podcast

If you think about it, for decades -- I used to serve in the Iowa legislature, and I was chairman of the Education Committee, and we spent a lot of time addressing, how do we improve education? Steve: I would love to be able to stand in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg, and experience it in true, simulated VR.

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Big XR News from Boeing, ENGAGE XR, Apple, and Meta

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

In the exercises, the companies used a Boeing TA-4J aircraft to simulate scenarios during air combat, setting the stage for integrating and trialling the system on a T-7 advanced trainer. Daniel Robinson, Founder and Chief Executive of Red 6 , said, “the future is now” when discussing the T-7, powered with ATARS.

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Meta Reveals US Education Partnership amid v57 Update

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The EWG and ISTE recently surveyed over 500 educators on their opinions of immersive tools in the classroom just before the former opened its doors to XRA member organisations. Launched last year in June, the partnership hopes to rally US schools, universities, and other institutions to create best practices for educational environments.