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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 center will be available to local manufacturers and businesses developing virtual and augmented reality training for their employees. For more information, visit www.eicc.edu/eonopening.

Iowa 60
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Is Training VR’s Killer App? Ask Forklift Drivers

Charlie Fink

It’s not easy, nor is it safe, to take rolling stock into a live environment for training. As the team studied flight simulations, crane simulations, welding, and medical training, the benefits became clear. Iowa State University researchers studied VR training in welding simulations showed a 41.6% VR is best used, in.

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EON Reality VR Innovation Academy Graduates Attend National Science Foundation Event

EON Reality

Two of EON Reality’s top VR Innovation Academy graduates from Eastern Iowa Community College presented and demonstrated their latest project at the National Science Foundation’s most recent Advanced Technological Education event in Washington, D.C. It was a big jump for our team to go from the Vive headset to a small screen,” Burke said. “We

Iowa 106
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Suffolk, Carnegie Mellon Universities Join Transatlantic VR Partnership

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Aimed at building soft skills for young learners, Carnegie Mellon University and VR soft skills training firm Bodyswaps have launched the programme. 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.

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VR Innovation Academy at EICC Now Recruiting

EON Reality

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. Eastern Iowa Community College (EICC) teaches the skills needed to create Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality applications for enterprise and education. Certificate.

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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? Do they want you to train them? These things are impossible to train for. Tell me how that came about. With software?

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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? Do they want you to train them? These things are impossible to train for. Tell me how that came about. With software?