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The Virtual Arena: Educators Learn Their VR

Peter Graham

Proving successful with its ‘ClassVR’, comprising a 3DoF mobileVR headset, combined with its software package – Avantis was celebrating over 1 million students having used the company’s ClassVR platform to-date – with over 30,000 classrooms operating the system across some 60 countries.

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Project Caliper: the journey of prototyping optimal controllers for VR

The Ghost Howls

People had not been wrong about hardware being expensive and difficult to develop; console manufacturers often claw back hardware costs through software sales, when they own the storefronts and take a cut of everything sold digitally (often 30%). . Image by Rob Cole). I considered the Valve Index controllers a very reasonable price at £129.50