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Spatial Beats: Zoom, Looking Glass & AR Funding

AR Insider

Zoom rolls out new features, including Immersive View. Immersive view hopes to simulate an in-person office meeting by building upon the immersive backgrounds feature by placing meeting participants in a realistic location, such as a board room or auditorium. M contract to provide VR training at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.

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Boeing's troubled Starliner makes it to the space station after second try

Mashable VR

The spacecraft spent two days in space before landing at the Army's White Sands missile range in New Mexico. The purpose of the human simulator was to collect data on cabin conditions during the journey. It's expected to land in New Mexico next Wednesday. It was apparently the first time a U.S.-made

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10 Wikipedia rabbit holes to fall down instead of doomscrolling

Mashable VR

UFO sitings in Roswell, New Mexico are the stuff of urban legend. Whether, it's the interplanetary exploration of "Aerican Empire" or the student-led political simulation of "Reunion," there's lots to learn about the origins of society. Credit: Wikipedia / Commons. The official flag of micronation "Aerica".

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He found a Milky Way black hole 50 years ago, and finally got to see it

Mashable VR

They were all vying for time on the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Green Bank interferometry system in the West Virginia mountains, which linked three radio dishes and an antenna 20 miles away to simulate a larger telescope. The expansion of the antenna in Huntersville, W.V., Dennis Downes and W. Credit: Woodruff T.

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Big XR News from Boeing, ENGAGE XR, Apple, and Meta

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

In the exercises, the companies used a Boeing TA-4J aircraft to simulate scenarios during air combat, setting the stage for integrating and trialling the system on a T-7 advanced trainer. Daniel Robinson, Founder and Chief Executive of Red 6 , said, “the future is now” when discussing the T-7, powered with ATARS.

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Meta Reveals US Education Partnership amid v57 Update

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The programme will include the following universities and their respective programmes: Stanford University and its Business School partnership with BodySwaps to learn soft skills Arizona State University to teach language skills in virtual environments New Mexico State University , who has applied VR to criminal justice for crime scene evaluations (..)

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EON Reality recognized as Top 100 Company Supporting Education Excellence by OCBJ and IPSF

EON Reality

EON Reality combines Virtual Reality Simulation Based Learning, Augmented Reality Knowledge Injection, and an Enterprise Platform that allows for rapid development, deployment, and adoption.