Road to VR

JUNE 23, 2021

million in seed funding to expand the scale of its workplace VR training technology. With the natural language processing and realistically simulated environments, the company’s VR training tech is said to actively engage users by letting them use their own voice in conversations with human actors.

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2020

The medical simulation company has collaborated with Imperial College to train the skills to ventilate COVID-19 patients. This remote system is also currently live at Imperial College London and a dozen @HomeVR headsets have been sent at the request of a New York teaching hospital. Canada, and U.K. UCLH in the U.K.

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VRScout

AUGUST 25, 2019

Simulating at-bats against professional MLB pitchers using VR. . 2019 marks the first season in which the Los Angeles Dodgers are fully integrating VR technology into their official training curriculum, signaling a new era in professional-level athletic training. Image Credit: Mark Potts, Los Angeles Times.

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VRScout

MAY 4, 2019

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. The next generation of police training arrives in Brooklyn, NY. “It adds another whole component. Image Credit: ABC7.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The news comes weeks after the Menlo Park-based tech giant listed several jobs on LinkedIn to hire in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park hub. The firm also listed positions at other US tech hubs, including New York, San Francisco, and Austin. billion in operating losses in the second fiscal quarter.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Lightship VPS for Web promises to catapult web-based AR technology into a brand new era. This first-of-its-kind browser-based technology will connect the real world with the virtual world by anchoring WebAR (browser-based augmented reality) content to locations and enabling virtual objects to interact with the physical world.

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ARPost

AUGUST 28, 2021

When you think about American VR/AR technology centers, where do you think of first? Defense, simulation, education, and entertainment come together in South Florida like they do no place else. While Orlando has been a technology center for decades, it might also be a VR/AR technology center. California?

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ARPost

MARCH 16, 2020

As someone who studies the psychology and ergonomics of virtual and augmented technologies, I’ve long known the key to mass adoption lies in a positive user experience, which virtual reality is now poised to deliver. However, that did not stop the continued development of flight simulators and other stationary uses.

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ARPost

AUGUST 5, 2022

The explosion in XR technology and applications in the last few years means that there are a lot of new terms gaining prevalence. One top-of-mind example is “Memorial to a Marriage” – a three-ton marble sculpture in New York with a 3D scan serving as the centerpiece of the LGBTQ+ VR Museum. What Is a Digital Twin?

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AR Insider

JUNE 7, 2021

For More USAF VR Simulations. technology and could pit it against software from Apple and Google. China is not going to rely on a platform created by a non-Chinese company for a technology this important. Virtual Reality Therapy Can Cure PTSD (The New York Times). Specular Theory Awarded $4.5M Avatour Raises $2.9

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AR Insider

MAY 3, 2021

The XR section of the venerated New York film festival introduced its offering on Tuesday: a mix of VR in the Museum of Other Realities, some limited in-person events at the Tribeca Hub downtown, and location-based mobile AR experiences around New York. Zoom rolls out new features, including Immersive View.

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Road to VR

JULY 22, 2019

The company says that leading hospitals using the platform include Brown University, Vanderbilt University, Hospital for Special Surgery, Marshall University, Newcastle Simulation Centre, The University of Hawaii, UCLA, University of Washington, Wake Forest Baptiste Health, University of Kentucky, University of Utah, and New York University.

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AR Insider

JULY 19, 2021

Two New Harry Potter VR Experiences Coming to New York Store. I had a chance to try “Chaos at Hogwarts,” an amazing free roam experience, made by Wevr (”The Blu”), which wrote, created, and produced the experience using Dreamscape’s free roam VR technology. A new book, An Ugly Truth , tells the whole sordid story.

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2019

While visual fidelity will take a hit due to the limited capabilities of the Quest’s hardware, providing a more seamless way to instantly immerse an employee in an interactive simulation is a game-changer in terms of convenience. Image Credit: Oculus.

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ARPost

AUGUST 25, 2020

Virtual reality is one of those technologies that has been hyped for several years. Especially with a host of low-cost VR devices such as the Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear headset, it’s already speculated that marketers will take advantage of this new messaging channel. However, some firms are hesitant to embrace VR.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 3, 2018

This is the promise of HaptX , a haptic technology company, that has unveiled their HaptX Gloves Development Kit. I was able to get an early preview of the industrial-grade product that is looking to empower VR developers to create simulations with realistic touch feedback and natural interaction.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2018

The advanced VR simulation expands to new medical institutions as Oculus & CHLA continue their push towards experiential education. For the past year, medical students and staff at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) have been utilizing VR technology to simulate various high-stakes pediatric emergencies.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Specifically, MAC Cosmetics’ New York concept store delivers virtual try-ons via smart mirrors. Executed with the help of creative agency Valtech, its “pick & try” feature employs mirrors that virtually apply cosmetics to shoppers’ faces to simulate the real thing. AR will play a key role in its road map.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Despite this, most companies may not consider how compliance will affect their businesses when adopting emerging technologies such as XR. XR can actually facilitate enterprise compliance, and many companies are already investing in the technology for critical employee training to do so. Moth+Flame.

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ARPost

AUGUST 2, 2019

For years the world has had a front seat view of the amazing things this technology can do. Now in 2019 some functions of AR, that may have been only fantasy in the past, are quickly becoming our new reality. Though not alien-sensing, AR glasses have been at the top of emerging technology discussions. Back to the Future II.

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VRScout

AUGUST 5, 2017

Developed by The Future Group and FreemantleMedia (the company responsible for American Idol and X Factor ), Lost In Time is a Norwegian game show that uses interactive mixed reality technology combined with a customized green screen studio to transport contestants to different landscapes scattered across time and space.

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VRScout

MARCH 10, 2018

Now available at Los Angeles, New York and Toronto VR centers. Nickelodeon launched its SlimeZone multi-player VR experience at IMAX VR centers in Los Angeles, New York and Toronto Friday, with further plans to bring the social experience to locations in Shanghai, Bangkok and Manchester (UK) soon.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 20, 2023

Moth+Flame, a New York City-based provider of virtual reality (VR) immersive learning, launched an artificial intelligence (AI) generative content authoring tool for VR content this week. The efforts aim to boost skills for salespeople by overcoming objections with virtually simulated conversations.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The next wave of athletic training takes place in a computer simulation, as companies such as STRIVR Labs , EON Sports and Beyond Sports help players prepare for games through VR technology. He’s gone through this specific scenario hundreds of times. Not just in practice, but in virtual reality.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 12, 2021

These are skills that you can’t read in a book – they have to be practiced through lived experience, or increasingly, through immersive learning experiences that simulate real-world situations. The program was rolled out in a New York City high school, a St. A growing body of research shows that we need “soft skills” too.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In a recent segment of Conan on TBS, the television host and comedian visited the YouTube Space in New York to get a taste of VR and mixed reality with the HTC Vive. Next up, Conan jumps into the mundane shoes of an office worker in Job Simulator by Owlchemy Labs. He mostly wanted to know about virtual porn.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The IMAX VR Experience features a unique combination of premium technology and world-class content that lets users see, feel, move and play in new worlds in a powerfully immersive and realistic way, much like IMAX® theatres offer moviegoers a differentiated and best-in-class film experience.

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VRScout

JULY 15, 2018

Originally released April of last year, Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-alit y has pleased fans of both the adult-themed animated show and VR technology with a refreshing combination of comedic storytelling and unique VR gameplay. The Rick And Morty episode “Pickle Rick” has also been nominated for Outstanding Animated Program.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Prolific YouTuber Tom Scott recently visited the Mixed Reality Lab at the YouTube Space studio in New York in order to showcase mixed reality capture. One of the persistent hurdles when explaining or promoting augmented and virtual reality technology is the need to convey the experience when viewed on a conventional display.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

This week, thanks to The New York Times, we got to know the reason , and it is pretty interesting. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. Ultimately, Dr. Bautista said, the company felt it was just too difficult to answer the many questions surrounding the technology.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The New York, NY-based firm leverages cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) for its immersive training solutions, offering hands-on experiences for the workplace. Such technologies are key for businesses to reach crucial learning targets and teach best practices, it explained.

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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2016

The Void are one of the first mixed reality experience specialists and their first big experience opens to the public July 1st at Madame Tussauds New York. Tomorrow, the team behind The Void are celebrating their first major publicly available experience built on their technology.

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Tech Trends VR

APRIL 22, 2020

This remote system is also currently live at Imperial College London and a dozen @HomeVR headsets have been sent at the request of a New York teaching hospital. Their hardware-agnostic software solution fuses Cutaneous (tactile vibration) and Kinesthetics (force feedback & position) haptic technologies. UCLH in the U.K.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Organized by the Advanced Imaging Society (AIS), the Lumiere Awards have been recognizing and enabling the creation of cutting edge entertainment and storytelling using emerging technologies since James Cameron first set the bar with Avatar. Best VR Game: Job Simulator. Best Journalism Experience: Take Flight.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 4, 2023

Following the successes of its EOS VR system, Canon USA has joined the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023 to demo its technologies with a novel immersive movie for attendees of the conference, it was announced on Monday. Such technologies have permitted teams to collaborate on group investigations from events in the Knock at the Cabin demo.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

2016 could be considered the official introduction of virtual reality to the world and many industries have either embraced the technology at varying levels or simply started paying attention to movements within the industry. Experiential Technology Conference & Expo (XTechExpo) // March 14th – March 15th. New York, New York.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2019

Neurable setup: as you can see there is a game that you play with a modified version of the Vive including an EEG (Image by Christie Hemm Klok for The New York Times). When the technology will be ready, we will have other non-technical problems haunting BCIs, like various social concerns that we will have to address.

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