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COVID-19 VR Training With Virus-Free Headsets

VRScout

Two women-founded XR companies have partnered to provide free COVID-19 training. This prompted the Shift team to adapt their technology – originally developed for training teachers to recognize and mitigate implicit bias in the classroom – to help with the COVID-19 crisis.

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Virus-Free Virtual Training for Healthcare Workers

Tech Trends VR

Two women-founded XR companies have partnered to provide free COVID-19 training. The immersive training consists of sessions lasting between 15 and 20 minutes in VR which will be used to teach key skills such as choice and use of PPE, patient personal care and hygiene, and COVID-19 test procedures Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet.

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PIXO VR demos new emergency responder training platform

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PIXO VR, a virtual reality safety training company, has unveiled their new training platform for emergency response personnel. The platform was demonstrated during the Emerging Technologies Symposium for Emergency Solutions at Concordia University Portland, Oregon, earlier this month.

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Planar Studios Initiative: Creating Innovative Solutions for VP and XR

ARPost

Now, a company based in Portland (OR), Planar , promises to expand the range of applicability of this exciting technology through a comprehensive range of display solutions for VP and XR. Planar Studios Initiative: Setting the Stage for Virtual Production.

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Spatial Beats: Apple, Magic Leap & Oculus

AR Insider

It is available in cities like Seattle, Chicago, Tokyo, London, and most recently, San Diego and Portland. Immerse , the enterprise VR training company out of the UK is expanding to the US following a year in which the company reportedly grew 300 percent.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

A developer out of Portland, OR named Javier Davalos has made an Hololens app that utilizes audio feedback for real-world navigation help for the visually impaired. VIRTUAL TRAINING PUT TO THE REAL WORLD TEST – ON A CRANE. A startup out of Oxford, OxSight is building AR glasses that described as “hearing aids for the blind.”

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Check out best VRFest video, game nominees—3 days left to vote

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Astronaut Training at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab. Welcome to Portland! Cherry Creek EXTREME Class 5 PLUS White Water Rafting. Mr Robot VR Experience. Project Orpheus VR. Provoke Horror VR. Rock The Park: Yosemite Falls. Nominees for Best Live Action Educational Project. Google Arts & Culture. Nearpod VR. Visit Houston.

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