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VR Technology Being Used In De-Escalation Training For Police

VRScout

Police officers operating out of the Strasburg Police Department in Strasburg, Virginia have begun receiving supplemental VR training centered specifically around crisis de-escalation. Lonnie Conner according to The Northern Virginia Daily. Officers are given a chance to experience confrontations from the civilians perspective.

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Classic Point-And-Click Game ‘Shadowgate’ Coming To VR

VRScout

The legendary fantasy-adventure franchise has been reimagined for Oculus Quest headsets. Available this October on Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets, Shadowgate VR: The Mines of Mythrok aims to bring that same nerve-wracking dungeon crawler experience to VR. ” Image Credit: Zojoi. For more information visit here.

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U.S. Olympic And Paralympic Committee’s Launch VR Concussion Education Series ‘CrashCourse’

VRScout

According to research conducted by West Virginia’s Brain Injury Research Institute , an estimated 1.6 – 3.8 CrashCourse Brain Fly-Through and CrashCourse Football are available free on the Oculus Rift/Rift S , Oculus Go , and YouTube.

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This Tech Lets You Move Virtual Objects Like A Jedi

VRScout

In fact, I’m a bit surprised it took this long, but researchers at Virginia Tech have put their brains to good use and come up with a way for ordinary mortals to replicate the telekinetic powers of a Jedi in VR. . To test the feature, the team used an Oculus Rift CV1 for display and a Leap Motion was applied for hand tracking.

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Moving Virtual Objects Like a Jedi

Tech Trends VR

In fact, I’m a bit surprised it took this long, but researchers at Virginia Tech have put their brains to good use and come up with a way for ordinary mortals to replicate the telekinetic powers of a Jedi in Virtual Reality. To test the feature, the team used an Oculus Rift CV1 for display and a Leap Motion was applied for hand tracking.

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Oculus Story Studio Co-founder Roundtable + Top 50 VR Storytelling Interviews

Road to VR

I had a chance to talk about storytelling in VR with three of the co-founders of Oculus Story Studio during Oculus Connect 3. Some of the key discoveries that Oculus Story Studio made with Dear Angelica are first of all that changing scale as an effective way to evoke different emotional reactions.

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The XR Week Peek (2019.14.09): a new powerful Vive Focus appears, Facebook Connect is coming, and more!

The Ghost Howls

If you remember well, this platform is based on a modified version of the Snapdragon 865 (3 generations after the 835 of the Oculus Quest) and supports features like eye tracking, high-quality passthrough AR, and 5G. Oculus Connect is starting and a new Facebook AR/VR logo appears. Other relevant news. But let’s see in a few days….

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