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You Can Take a Free Coursera Course on XR from the University of Michigan

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The University of Michigan has an ambitious XR program that is both incorporating extended reality into education within the University and trying to create the next generation of creators through education and outreach. As part of an exercise within the University of Michigan, he was asked to create a “two-week focused learning” course.

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GigXR Continues Content Rollouts and Partnerships

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Through partnerships with some of the world’s best educational institutions and the world’s most innovative technology companies, the company is helping to bring medical education into the 21st century. The trainees must then not only diagnose the condition, but interact with holographic medical tools to stabilize their virtual patient.

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How Will Copps Uses AR Technology to Produce Spatial Music

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That’s something that musician and AR technology advocate, Will Copps , is looking to change. AR Technology and Spatial Sound. “I This has led him to AR technology. For a while, he tried to do it using GPS technology. In Copps’ work with AR technology, musical elements are pegged to different areas.

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University of Michigan to launch interdisciplinary VR program

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The University of Michigan this week announced plans to launch an augmented, virtual and mixed reality (AVMR) graduate certificate. We’ve got an entertainment venue, Michigan Stadium, where we can play to live audiences of 100,000 seven times a year ,” said Thomas A. “ We have the health sciences.

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VRARA Holds Annual Education Forum

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Headsets as a Learning Tool. Retention can be improved when focus is improved, which headsets can also help with, according to Esther Tang, a graduate student in UX studying XR at the University of Michigan. “[In See Also: You Can Take a Free Coursera Course on XR from the University of Michigan. Headsets as a Barrier.

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

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Knight Foundation is looking for pitches on how to enhance and augment traditional creative arts through immersive technologies. We’ve seen how immersive technologies can reach new audiences and engage existing audiences in new ways,” said Chris Barr, director for arts and technology innovation at Knight Foundation, in a statement.

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Epic Games, Oakland University Launch Augmented Reality Center

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Epic Games has launched an Augmented Reality Center (ARC) at Oakland University in Michigan. It will work jointly to build and implement cutting-edge AR technologies for the future of the immersive industry. Students, companies, faculty, and industry experts will join forces to create real-time tools the XR manufacturing sector.

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