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How USA Hockey Is Using VR Tech To Train Its Players

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Sense Arena, a VR training platform popular among professional sports teams, is now the official VR training tool of USA Hockey. As part of the partnership, the Sense Arena logo was featured on Team USA helmets during the IIHF Under-18 Men’s World Championship this past month in Switzerland.

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VR Full-Motion Helicopter Flight Simulators Have Arrived

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Can immersive technology help address the rising global pilot shortage? Loft Dynamics, previously referred to as VRM Switzerland, has unveiled what the company claims is the “world’s first” VR full-motion helicopter flight simulator qualified for use by an official national aviation regulator.

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Hologram Voicemails Are Here Thanks To Asynchronous Reality

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Mute the real world and revisit interactions you may have missed using this mind-bending technology. To help unravel all of this and take a deeper dive into what Asynchronous Reality is, VRScout talked with researcher Christian Holz, who explained more about the mind-bending technology. Then there is of course the hardware involved.

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Celebrate The Women’s World Cup With New Snapchat AR Lenses

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The partnership offers fans a variety of new immersive experiences and creative tools created by female artists and developers for what many would argue is the greatest game in the world. USWNT Jersey Try-On Lens: Try on the official 2023 USWNT jersey using Snap’s Live Garment Transfer technology. Credit : Snap Inc. Credit: Snap Inc.

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Using XR to Manage and Collaborate Over 2D/3D Data Formats

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The industrial metaverse and its related technologies, such as digital twins, shared virtual collaboration tools, and smart glasses, are set to revolutionize business operations with immersive tools providing real-time, interactive, persistent, 3D, and synchronous collaboration between the working world.

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TapID Uses Bone Conduction To Deliver A Better Typing Experience In VR

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To bring a more organic and natural typing experience into VR, a group of researchers from the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zürich , Switzerland have developed a set of wristbands called TapID that—when combined with hand tracking—allows you to “feel” the keys of your virtual keyboard as you type.

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Precision OS Secures $2.3M Series A to Further VR Orthopedic Surgical Software

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The funding round was led by Davos, Switzerland-based AO Invest , and includes other undisclosed investors. “Precision OS technology is working to create a virtual language able to add depth of understanding that simply cannot be achieved using current simulation tools. million in Series A financing.

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