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How to Save Money on Business Travel with Virtual Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Team members can share a virtual room with their colleagues and clients by putting on a headset and loading up the right software. VR Headsets for Tourism. Meta is also moving into the immersive tourism and live event sector. billion meeting minutes in Microsoft Teams alone in one day. .

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Cooperation of Deep Tech SMEs and Global Giants Drive Opportunities in the Metaverse

ARPost

Nokia , the Finnish telecom giant, has been focusing on telecommunication infrastructure development after selling its mobile phone business to Microsoft in 2014. The opportunities for partnering were identified in trending markets and technologies, for example in remote assistance , cloud software, and 5G.

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VRdirect to Bring Competition in Training and Virtual Tours

ARPost

The software itself is supposed to be as easy as PowerPoint,” said Illenberger. There is also potential in education and virtual tourism. The company also has some big-name partners including Oculus , Microsoft , and Telekom. The storyboarding tool was really the starting point of the software development.”.

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Top XR Vendors Majoring in Travel for 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

With endless flights grounded, tourism put on hold, and opportunities to connect with customers diminished, confidence in the landscape has dwindled. To strengthen connections with an uncertain audience, travel and tourism companies are being forced to explore new technologies as a solution for innovation.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. image courtesy VR First.

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VRTUOLUO talks about its FBEC event and the VR ecosystem in China

The Ghost Howls

With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area. Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry. Screengrab of the VRTUOLUO website.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. What kind of devices and software will we need to participate in this AR Cloud? Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic).