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New York City Invests in AR/VR Incubator to Bolster City’s Jobs, Tech Talent

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New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development, Alicia Glen, recently announced the selection of NYU Tandon School of Engineering to “develop and operate” the “first government-funded” VR/AR hub for education, training, research, investment and business creation at a 15,000 square foot space in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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New York City Mayor Wants To Be The “Global Hub” For VR/AR With Newly Funded Lab

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The project received $6 million in funding from both the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, with Mayor Bill de Blasio sharing a few words in the press release for the development. Tagged with: new york city Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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Moth+Flame Address Workplace Mental Health with VR Training

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Moth+Flame , a provider of immersive training technologies, has joined the global commemoration of Mental Health Awareness Month with a novel VR mental health solution. The New York City-based company has released a specialised immersive training category to address workplace-related mental health issues.

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NYPD Uses Location-Based VR For Active Shooter Training

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The next generation of police training arrives in Brooklyn, NY. When it comes to the NYPD’s Counterterrorism Bureau—New York Cities primary local resource to guard against international and domestic terrorism—there’s no such thing as being overly prepared. “It adds another whole component.

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Moth+Flame Addresses Workplace Mental Health with VR Training

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Moth+Flame , a provider of immersive training technologies, has joined the global commemoration of Mental Health Awareness Month with a novel VR mental health solution. The New York City-based company has released a specialised immersive training category to address workplace-related mental health issues.

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HaptX Gloves Will Help Transform VR Training and Design

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Instead the HaptX Gloves are targeted to larger industrial corporate clients looking to deploy virtual training solutions that require force feedback and sub-millimeter precision. The HaptX Gloves Development Kit makes its worldwide debut October 3, 2018 at the Future of Storytelling Summit in New York City and the GeekWire Summit in Seattle.

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Report: Apple Vision Pro on Track to Launch as Early as January

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Training is reportedly slated to take place in mid-January, with launch said to be internally expected to take place the same month. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that staff training is being scheduled for mid-January, which would see select employees travel to the company’s Cupertino headquarters for a two-day seminar.

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