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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

A developer out of Portland, OR named Javier Davalos has made an Hololens app that utilizes audio feedback for real-world navigation help for the visually impaired. VIRTUAL TRAINING PUT TO THE REAL WORLD TEST – ON A CRANE. A startup out of Oxford, OxSight is building AR glasses that described as “hearing aids for the blind.”

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This HoloLens App Can Help The Visually Impaired Navigate

VRScout

From exploring the use of VR for medical training to discovering new ways immersive technology can impact prosthetic patients , exciting progress is being made on a daily basis. Now one Portland-based HoloLens developer, Javier Davalos, is showing us what the mixed reality hardware can do to help the visually impaired.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. Microsoft’s got a great product around it. That’s not factoring in one dollar of value created for engineers, doctors, hospitals, designers, retailers, training, education. He worked for Microsoft last year.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. Microsoft’s got a great product around it. That’s not factoring in one dollar of value created for engineers, doctors, hospitals, designers, retailers, training, education. He worked for Microsoft last year.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH's Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. Microsoft's got a great product around it. That's not factoring in one dollar of value created for engineers, doctors, hospitals, designers, retailers, training, education. He worked for Microsoft last year. Paul: Yeah.

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