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PIXO VR demos new emergency responder training platform

VRWorld

The platform was demonstrated during the Emerging Technologies Symposium for Emergency Solutions at Concordia University Portland, Oregon, earlier this month. According to the company, virtual reality simulations of this type has many advantages over conventional field training techniques, in terms of safety, repeatability and cost.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Researchers at the National University of Singapore first showed us how face electrodes can simulate food in virtual reality– and now they are bringing wind and heat to your virtual world. It’s too bad this just exists in a lab and we can’t play with it.

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Taming the Jungle of Ideas, with The Wild’s Gabe Paez

XR for Business Podcast

And it really took that process to key in for me on the insight that the real power of XR is not solely in the simulation itself. A lot of us are here in Portland, Oregon, but our product manager’s remote. Because I always had this feeling that it was more than just what I was seeing at the time. Gabe: [laughs] Exactly!

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Taming the Jungle of Ideas, with The Wild's Gabe Paez

XR for Business Podcast

And it really took that process to key in for me on the insight that the real power of XR is not solely in the simulation itself. A lot of us are here in Portland, Oregon, but our product manager's remote. Because I always had this feeling that it was more than just what I was seeing at the time. It is in the connected nature of it.

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Taming the Jungle of Ideas, with The Wild’s Gabe Paez

XR for Business Podcast

And it really took that process to key in for me on the insight that the real power of XR is not solely in the simulation itself. A lot of us are here in Portland, Oregon, but our product manager’s remote. Because I always had this feeling that it was more than just what I was seeing at the time. Gabe: [laughs] Exactly!

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12 Explosive Sci-Fi Games

Leapmotion

SPACEHIKER is the creation of Portland, OR indie game developer Matthew Cheifetz ( @matteumayo ). In 2035, artificial intelligences compete in a battle simulation known as TVRD to spur the next stage of digital evolution. SPACEHIKER: A Zero-G Adventure puts you in the spacesuit of an astronaut trying to escape a dying space station.