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Spatial Beats: Zoom, Looking Glass & AR Funding

AR Insider

This new contract hopes to help with the ongoing military service member suicide epidemic. M contract to provide VR training at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. The Air Force has purchased 43 VR units to kick off the training program, which will put student pilots inside a virtual MQ-9 ground base station. .

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Suffolk, Carnegie Mellon Universities Join Transatlantic VR Partnership

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Aimed at building soft skills for young learners, Carnegie Mellon University and VR soft skills training firm Bodyswaps have launched the programme. Other universities such as Arizona State University, New Mexico State University, Purdue Global, University of Iowa, and many more have entered strategic partnerships for the programme.

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10 Wikipedia rabbit holes to fall down instead of doomscrolling

Mashable VR

Bonus: the "See Also" section includes a movie called The Day of the Dolphin , which is about, wait for it, a dolphin trained to assassinate the president. UFO sitings in Roswell, New Mexico are the stuff of urban legend. Brb, watching "The Day of the Dolphin.". Credit: Wikipedia Commons / Pierre G. Credit: Wikipedia / Commons.

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

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

This unique combination will usher in a new paradigm in training, directly impacting readiness and lethality. This unique combination will usher in a new paradigm in training, directly impacting readiness and lethality. The future is now the T-7, powered with ATARS. The future is now 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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Virtual Reality Training Academy and Development Lab at Lehman College (CUNY): Now Recruiting!

EON Reality

These technologies are spreading far beyond the gaming world and into business and education, where its being used to train employees and better educate students. In this fast-track program, students receive 11 months of training, including 7 months working directly on real-life projects in different market segments.

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Now Recruiting: Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Enthusiasts of Dubai, UAE

EON Reality

EON Reality and EAIT (Emirates Advanced Investments Trading) have partnered to form EON Reality UAE LLC , an Interactive Digital Center (IDC) focused on vocational skills training and higher education utilizing Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. Please register by filling out the form below. King Tut VR: Mobile app for tourism.

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