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XR Training Offers Major Boost to Learner Outcomes, CWRU Exec Says

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The Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 Miami continues to showcase enterprises across the virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) space. She educates medical schools and universities around the world about her institution’s immersive application, which runs on Microsoft’s HoloLens platform.

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Sony Acquires Beyond Sports to Expand Metaverse Solutions

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Players can use the novel tools to buy and sell in-game content and identify metadata, ownership, and other key details for immersive content. ” Rival firm Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard to expand its portfolio of solutions in a historic $68 billion deal.

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Metaverse Standards Forum Incorporates as Independent Consortium

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The latter allows members to participate in hackathons, open-source tools, plugfests, and other events. Some of the top members of the Forum include IKEA, Alibaba, rooom , Adobe, Huawei, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Sony, Unity, and many others.

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7 Insightful XR Education Case Studies to Read in 2022

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We’ve discovered how valuable the right XR tools can be in collaboration and communication, and how they can help innovators to build new products and ideas. According to Penn State , immersive technologies are a powerful tool in delivering the right level of training and guidance to students in today’s modern world.

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The Knight Foundation launches $750,000 initiative for immersive technology for the arts

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Through a partnership with Microsoft the foundation is offering a share of a $750,00 pool of cash and the option of technical support from Microsoft, including mentoring in mixed-reality technologies and access to the company’s suite of mixed reality technologies. . Project lead: Nicole Keating | Miami | @ArshtCenter.

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Agora Updates Spatial Audio with AI Noise Suppression

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The new tool eliminates background noise, allowing users to hear their voice at meetings. Technologies such as noise suppression are commonly used on platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and others. This provides streamlined, distraction-free conversations with others while operating in immersive spaces.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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In the fall of 2016, Microsoft announced a partnership with a handful of hardware manufacturers to make developer headsets implementing the inside-out tracking technology seen on the HoloLens. schools are already using Nearpod’s interactive learning tools, and the added cash will help grow their virtual reality offerings.