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MIT Researchers Test Autonomous Drones Using VR Training Grounds

VRScout

Thankfully, a handful of brilliant minds over at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have begun developing a new process of VR-based testing that could save manufacturers hundreds of thousands in shattered hardware. It’s something we programmed it to do in the virtual environment, by making mistakes, falling apart, and learning.

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AR 101?—?A brief summary (Part 1)

ARVR

70s : Group of researchers at different organizations, such as NASA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of North Carolina, continued research in computer graphics and virtual reality (Krevelen, 2010). Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments , 6(4):355–385, 1997. O’Reilly Media, Inc.,

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HTC Enables Wireless Vive VR Design, New Features for 2017

VRWorld

Using HTC Vive immerses you in a virtual environment, but you can still feel the wire, ravel and worse. Pay attention to a MoVR prototype, concept design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This restricts the user and reduces immersion. Wireless VR is imposed by nature of things and such solution is to be expected.

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Changing direction

Hypergrid Business

But a quarter of our time was spent covering business and education aspects of virtual environments. I’ll take the smog and asphalt any day over all these trees and fresh air here in Western Massachusetts. But a quarter of our time was spent. Hypergrid Business articles published in 2016. Google Analytics data.).