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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. The ability to quickly detect any trauma makes this a perfect tool for clinicians to use on the sidelines.

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Samsung is Developing VR Tools to Help Diagnose Mental Health

Road to VR

The ZDNet report maintains that the app will focus on cognitive behavior therapies for suicide prevention, and include psychological assessment tools using the Samsung’s Bixby AI assistant. Besides Gear VR and Bixby, the diagnostic tool will also incorporate data retrieved from the Gear S3 smartwatch and the S Health app.

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Modul University Vienna Adopts Digital Twin Campus

XR Today - Virtual Reality

By integrating modern solutions such as augmented or virtual reality, we see the potential in meaningfully supplementing and further developing conventional teaching rather than replacing it” The collaboration will continue to enhance conventional teaching by introducing augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) classroom tools.

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Suffolk, Carnegie Mellon Universities Join Transatlantic VR Partnership

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Other universities such as Arizona State University, New Mexico State University, Purdue Global, University of Iowa, and many more have entered strategic partnerships for the programme. Bodyswaps has begun providing its solutions to Stanford University and the latter’s business school to teach soft skills.

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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

This is incredible and will help the development of better AI algorithms (also for AR and VR) Omniverse is going to add new tools for developers so that development teams can work together in the creation of games using the integration provided by Omniverse, which merges the work of everyone out of the box. New opportunities for VR creators.

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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? But you really get this amazing teaching tool through AR. Describe your company, the products, and the platform that’s being used.