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US Navy Using Magic Leap Headsets To Keep Soldiers Combat-Ready At Sea

VRScout

A new AR training tool developed by Magic Leap Horizons will use Magic Leap One AR headset to deliver various AR military training scenarios to the US Navy. The Magic Leap One AR headset enters the US Military training program.

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Epic Games Joins O3DF as Premier Member

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Epic Games joined the Foundation to promote the interoperability and transfer of visuals, assets, media scripting, and other tools to provide content creators with open-source platforms. It received a massive upgrade in May to improve performance, usability, and other features of the engine, allowing 3D simulations for top-tier games.

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‘Google Earth VR’ Lets You Experience the Total Solar Eclipse Right Now

Road to VR

Released in an August 12th update, Google has added a new menu function that lets you activate Monday’s total solar eclipse, which can be seen as it passed through 14 US states: Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wyoming.

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AR 101?—?A brief summary (Part 1)

ARVR

Advantages AR’s advantages are the tools it provides for various tasks in scientific, industrial, and entertainment areas (Peddie, 2017). 80s : American Air Force developed a high-cost Super Cockpit plane simulator that mixed virtual and physical elements through an optical vision helmet (Krevelen, 2010). Read more here: AR 101?—?Augmented

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4 Ways Governments May Adopt (Or Respond To) The Metaverse

Bernard Marr

In other words, digital twins can be a valuable tool for city planning, allowing officials to precisely map city services – based on data gathered in the real world – and enhance public services.

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Digital Twins: XR Today Expert Roundtable

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

This allows decision-makers to work on immersive visualizations as part of their daily operations, such as reviewing iterations of a product or viewing a digitized urban area to simulate smart city initiatives. Moreover, digital twins are an incredibly valuable tool for training scenarios.

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. So where this lower layer of software comes as a bunch of tools. Again, think of it of a simulated world. You put new tools in place.

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