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VR Connects Incarcerated Parents With Their Children

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Immersive technology has also proven to be an effective tool when it comes to education and training. The DOC’s pilot program is being conducted using the Wrap Technologies VR training platform and is focused on helping families improve their relationships. Credit: Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.

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Training Against Bias with VR

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Recent events in Philadelphia show why Starbucks should use immersive technologies like Virtual Reality to train employees on empathy skills. On Thursday April 12, 2018 two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks while waiting for a colleague. They are about what we “do”, “how” we do it, and our “intent”.

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This Restaurant is Using Google Daydream to Train Employees

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The manager sits you down in some store room, wheels in a TV and makes you watch a training video that’s about as immersive as watching paint dry. Check out a preview of honeygrow’s 360 training video below. The post This Restaurant is Using Google Daydream to Train Employees appeared first on Road to VR.

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Traveling Halo Fan Experience Will Feature Competitive Location-Based VR

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Available as part of the tour, Halo: Training Grounds puts visitors in the boots of a UNSC Spartan, an elite soldier enhanced by both mechanical and biological augmentations. They’ll then fight alongside two other teammates in a 3v3 combat training environment designed to hone your skills as Earth’s most badass fighting force.

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‘Halo’ VR Multiplayer Shooter Coming to Location-based Halo Event

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Dubbed the ‘Outpost Discovery Training Grounds’, event-goers can team up in the 3v3 multiplayer shooter, giving you a free-roaming, wireless VR environment to run around while you shoot your plasma pistol and heal via the series’ shield generator. July 19-21 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Become a Spartan in Halo Training Grounds’ Free-Roaming VR Multiplayer Starting This Weekend

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Called Halo: Outpost Discovery, the travelling live event experience will be heading to various US cities and as part of it VRstudios has created a free-roaming virtual reality (VR) multiplayer called Training Grounds. . Halo Training Grounds is an arena style competitive experience where two teams of three fight it out as Spartan drones.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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The collaboration platform is device agnostic (so you could use a Microsoft Hololens while communicating with someone wearing an Oculus Rift), and the B2B company is focusing on the training and education space. The round was from SRI Capital, which is a seed stage venture fund in Philadelphia. AUGMENT YOUR CLIMBING WALL.