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Oculus Connect 3 Registration Now Open, Early Bird Passes from $199

Road to VR

Held in San Jose, CA between October 5th and 7th, Oculus Connect returns once again and, as before, promises to become a Mecca for virtual reality developers around the world. Learn about breakthroughs for FPS in VR, how to design games with hand presence for Touch, and best practices for cross-platform compatibility.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time. They found medical companies that were more interested in how precise those hand controllers could be, so they started doing demos, like a virtual catheter insertion and other kinds of medical training demos. And that was with controllers. Have you had a chance to try those?

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time. They found medical companies that were more interested in how precise those hand controllers could be, so they started doing demos, like a virtual catheter insertion and other kinds of medical training demos. And that was with controllers. Have you had a chance to try those?

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time. They found medical companies that were more interested in how precise those hand controllers could be, so they started doing demos, like a virtual catheter insertion and other kinds of medical training demos. Dean: I've trained theirs, but I haven't tried that particular demo.

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Mark Zuckerberg and I are confusing the market about VR and AR and the future of all computing: here’s why we need to stop doing that

Robert Scoble

It “felt” like to me that I was on Everest with him, and not in the San Jose Convention Center. One of the most successful VR developers and that show this demarkation between AR developers and VR ones is STRIVR , who makes VR training for Walmart. Notice how VR is used and why immersion is so important to training.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time. They found medical companies that were more interested in how precise those hand controllers could be, so they started doing demos, like a virtual catheter insertion and other kinds of medical training demos. And that was with controllers. Have you had a chance to try those?

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

At a Fortune magazine technology conference in Aspen, CMO Brian Wallace and CEO Rony Abovitz (who sold his surgical robot company for $1.65B in 2013) got on stage to fuel the fire on the hype train. Unity Technologies, developer of the massively popular Unity cross-platform game engine, raised $181M in their Series C round.