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A Bizarre Coal Industry Propaganda Program Is Infiltrating K-12 Classrooms

GizModo VR

Next week, dozens of teachers from North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, South Dakota, and Iowa will descend on Bismarck State College in North Dakota for the annual three-day Lignite Energy Council Teacher’s Seminar.

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It’s Tax Day - What’s The Best Way to E-file Or Get A Tax Extension

GizModo VR

Why do the IRS’ informational’s feel like a throwback to those old, low-quality and low-res ‘90s workplace harassment seminars?

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‘Virtual Taekwondo’ Could Be The Next Big Olympic-Level Sport

VRScout

Virtual Taekwondo combines full-body motion-tracking and video games to offer the next generation of competitive virtual sports.

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Top Climate Scientist Blasts Government Lab After Denier Invited to Speak

GizModo VR

Ben Santer, one of the nation’s leading climate scientists, said he is cutting ties with a prestigious government-funded laboratory over its plans to invite a scientist who has spread climate denial to speak in a seminar.

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Taste With Your Face: Japanese Food Industry Wants to Sell More With VR

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Food and VR don’t seem like like two things that go together, but industry trade publication The Japan Food Journal is hosting a virtual reality-themed seminar on August 9th, in Tokyo’s Akihabara neighborhood. The seminar will feature three virtual reality and food related lectures: Deliciousness and Cross-Modality will focus on using VR technology to simulate food. According to the seminar’s program, “There is more to food than just taste.

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5 Reasons Why Virtual Events are still more Profitable than Offline Events!

ARVR

People can attend webinars, seminars, product launches, concerts, exhibitions, anything from their space doing anything at any time. Via mela.melzo .com com “Virtual” or “Online events” the term widely became popular during the pandemic.

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How Did These Millionaires Find Their Opportunity in the Metaverse NFTs?

ARVR

Renowned businesses and brands are also using metaverse events to keep their consumers engaged by bringing them together to meet, interact, attend seminars, workshops, and panels, and even take part in entertainment activities.

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Education’s Next Big Leap: Immersive VR Education For Better Learning

VRScout

While current training programs may include a seminar presentation, role-playing, and a list of scenarios, very few offer hands-on education. Immersive education presents a safer, more effective alternative to conventional learning.

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10 VR Games & Apps Perfect For Newcomers

VRScout

You can meet up with friends and strangers in virtual hangout spaces, compete in full-fledged PvP games, attend live events, participate in educational seminars, work on your dance moves in custom nightclubs with real DJs, and more.

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How To Optimize Your CV For A Career In VR & AR

VRScout

Visit your local freelance hub or look for seminars and conferences which focus on VR and AR industries. Set yourself up for success within the immersive industry.

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5 Ways Virtual Reality Technology Will Improve Business Meetings

ARPost

Though video conferencing is certainly a great way to host seminars, events, or communicate with your team, it lacks the ability to offer an office-like setting.

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How To Shoot And Edit VR180 Like A Pro

VRScout

Over the course of these multiple seminars, we’ve amassed a sizable collection of VR180 educational resources and in the process developed a comprehensive outline for the production of professional-grade VR180 content. Learn the ins and outs of immersive video production with our new VR180 tutorial series! If you’re looking to add an extra sense of presence or immersion to your next video without going a full 360-degrees, VR180 is definitely a format worth checking out.

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Upload LA Event: How to Tell Your VR Start-up’s Story

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Eve Weston — journalist, content creator, and storyteller extraordinaire — will be providing an in-depth seminar on the best ways for virtual reality entrepreneurs to tell their stories. You’ll walk away from this seminar not only with a deep understanding of how to tell your company’s story to different stakeholders, but also with: The story of your company.

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The “War of Words” Taking Place in XR Technology

ARPost

I’ve been fortunate enough to attend a number of seminars, and of course I go in there with a notebook. The title of this article uses the term “XR technology,” but, what is “XR”?

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Data Dive: How Effective is VR Training?

AR Insider

— Nestlé Purina Petcare saved more than $100,000 on travel and lost productivity by implementing VR training in place of onsite training seminars. O ne of the branches of VR that sees the most attention and investment from enterprises is training.

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VRX 2019 Announces Speakers from HTC Vive, Oculus, Snap & More

ARPost

Press release.

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The VR Society’s ‘On The Lot’ is Back—and Fully Augmented

VRScout

The new addition will include AR seminars for ARKit and ARCore developers and a slate of speakers who will share expertise in AR technology, creative, and investing. “We ‘On The Lot’ is back—and now featuring AR—October 13 and 14 at The Lot in West Hollywood. Last year, the inaugural VR On The Lot brought together major players from Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Europe, and China for a two-day exploration of the intersection between entertainment and technology.

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EON Reality and GARC Unveil Strengthened AEC XR Partnership

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The new update also allows for the possibility of jointly organizing informational seminars, workshops and conferences for the benefit of their respective customers. The continued synergy will enable the AEC sector to use existing XR solutions.

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Bubiko Foodtour’s Unusual Guide to Augmented Reality: An Approachable Introduction to AR Technology

ARPost

“ I’ve been fortunate enough to attend a number of seminars and of course I go in there with a notebook. You’ve probably already experienced AR technology. But, have you ever wondered how it works? There’s a great ebook out there that’ll introduce you to all the jargon you need. Whether you want to understand an article better, contribute more to a conversation, or start developing with AR technology, this is a good place to start.

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Data Dive: How Effective is VR Training?

ARVR

Nestlé Purina Petcare saved more than $100,000 on travel and lost productivity by implementing VR training in place of onsite training seminars. One of the branches of VR that sees the most attention and investment from enterprises is training.

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VR Experiences Designed for VIVEPORT with Bjorn Book-Larsson

ARPost

This is the GDC Replacement Seminar that we’re holding. Thanks to coronavirus we obviously can’t meet at GDC as we usually would every year,” Bjorn Book-Larsson, President of VIVEPORT, said introducing the seminar. “So

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Why Web VR/AR Experiences are Still Better than Native Apps?

ARVR

For organizing exceptional and interactive 3D Virtual events, expos, seminars, product launches, meetings everything, for all different purposes check out mela.melzo.com ! Via envato elements People are going crazy with Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality.

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‘Lucky’s Tale’ Studio Reveals ‘Wonderland’, An Experiment in Room-Scale, Social VR

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Today, during a seminar at VRDC in San Francisco Paul Bettner, Playful’s CEO, and Dan Hurd, it’s lead designer announced at least one of their previously undisclosed projects. Playful Corp is the developer behind one of virtual reality’s first, and most beloved video games: Lucky’s Tale. This Oculus Rift title is a love letter to the 3D platforming era of Super Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie.

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HTC Vive, GE, Paramount, ExxonMobil and More Set to Join World’s Premier Extended Reality Event

ARPost

With 8 new deep dive seminars into core market growth areas, attendees will have the chance to hear from leading end users in each of these segments and debate with like-minded individuals, on top of the usual thought-leading topics around the latest hardware, software, content and market disruptors. Press release.

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Vancouver Emerging As Top Five VR and AR Hub

VRScout

Visiting Metro Vancouver for the first time two months ago for the Women in Tech seminar, he’s now looking to make an investment in the region. “My Why Silicon Valley is looking north for new investment opportunities. Surrounded by towering mountains, picturesque lakes, and urban beaches, it’s easy to forget that Vancouver hosts a booming technology industry. For those in the know, that’s starting to change.

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Vive Group Edition Bundles 10 Headsets in China

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For the former, it could be used for location-based arcade and multiplayer experiences, while the latter markets could use the setup for individual sessions like classes or business seminars. HTC is constantly exploring new ways to get its Vive VR headset out to as many people as possible, be it through traditional transactions, payment plans, or location-based VR. It’s latest initiative, though, ships the device in bulk.

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Veative at India Skills East Bhubaneswar 2018

Veative

The three-day event witnessed a camp by professional counselors, over 50 exhibitions by sector skill councils, Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras and other technology partners, along with conference and seminars with different stakeholders in the skills ecosystem. Veative presented an exclusive 360 VR video at a workshop organized by NSDC on the construction of Twin Pit toilets in rural areas.

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Demystifying Media

Tech Trends VR

Over several days I visited both the Eugene and Portland campuses and was a guest in several classes and seminars where budding journalists (as well as people looking to career paths in PR, Advertising and other communication and media industries) asked insightful questions and engaged in thoughtful debate around the many difficult issues that face us in a world rocked by disruption of every kind.

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Samsung’s Creator Program and Launch of Gear 360 in U.S.

VRScout

Samsung Creators, as its called, will include a series of seminars and classes, putting VR capabilities in the hands of filmmakers and influencers to further accelerating this new immersive medium. Samsung Creators is a new initiative for filmmakers to empower VR storytelling and Gear 360 goes on sale in US on ‘limited basis’. The Gear 360 is slowly making its way to America and Samsung is hoping to show everyday creators what’s possible with Samsung VR technology.

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HTC Announces Vive Ecosystem Conference

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The second day of the event looks to be a more educational experience with seminars about the best practices for VR. HTC might not have a big western developers conference like Oculus does with Connect, but it’s planning a big show for China in just over a weeks’ time. The Vive Ecosystem Conference 2017 is set to take place from March 27th – 28th in Shenzhen, China.

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How Is Virtual Reality in Online Education Used?

ARVR

With the help of virtual reality, you can put on a headset and find yourself at a seminar or school assembly with other students. 2020 is shaping up to be a very momentous year, with major events and changes taking place all over the world?—?some some good, some bad.

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Exclusive: First-Ever Impact Reality Summit Announces 2020 Lineup

VRScout

The Art of XR Fundraising : This seminar with Kaleidoscope’s René J. Vulcan Productions has teamed up with Kaleidoscope to launch the Impact Reality Summit, a two-day event celebrating the very best in “XR for Good” storytelling.

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How VR helped one student learn German

Hypergrid Business

In my case I knew I had to give a lot of seminars at university so I practiced — over practiced, probably — giving a talk in front of a few “virtual” persons. When I first arrived in Austria I was extremely happy because I was finally ready to pursue an international degree.

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Vidcon: Introducing VR to the Next Generation of Creators

VRScout

The program will include a series of seminars and classes, putting VR capabilities in the hands of filmmakers and influencers to further accelerating this new immersive medium. Over 25,000 attendees flocked to Anaheim last week for VidCon , the three-day annual gathering of video creators and their screaming fans.

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'Prospect' filmmakers to launch NFT collection to fund sci-fi movie franchise

Mashable VR

They also will get a front row seat to the filmmaking process, access to our team of artists, and participate in seminars around worldbuilding elements from spaceship design to asteroid mining methodology."

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Developer Spaces Dedicated to AR And VR Are Becoming More Popular Than Ever

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Moving forward, we will be hosting workshops and seminars on a variety of topics, as well as lectures and tutorials both for those aiming to enhance their development skills or inexperienced people looking to get started,” said Realities Centre’s Gere. We’ve seen a steady stream of physical spaces devoted to virtual reality and augmented reality popping up recently — hubs where VR and AR developers can share resources, experiment, and network.

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Samsung announces Samsung Creators program to help VR / 360 content growth.

Cats and VR

At VidCon—and, beyond—Samsung Creators will provide seminars and classes, putting VR capabilities in the hands of filmmakers and influencers, further accelerating this new medium. Today Samsung Electronics America, Inc. launched Samsung Creators, a new initiative that empowers storytellers, partnering with them to generate content across a variety of audiences and channels to show everyday creators what’s possible with Samsung VR technology. “We

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