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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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HoloLens 2 Sales Expanding to 15 More Countries, ‘Development Edition’ Launches in the US

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Now Microsoft is expanding the regions where it will sell HoloLens 2 to 15 new countries: Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The company says South Korea will be added to the list “later this fall.” Value (MSRP; in $USD).

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VR Full-Motion Helicopter Flight Simulators Have Arrived

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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. Can immersive technology help address the rising global pilot shortage?

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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. For more information on all of the new Lenses and creative tools check out Snap Inc.’s Credit : Snap Inc. Credit: Snap Inc. Credit: Snap Inc.

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Taking Action Against Serious Crimes In The Metaverse

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During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Omar Sultan Al Olama, a Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence in the United Arab Emirates, talked about some of these concerns. They also have built-in tools that you can easily access to create your own virtual safe space.

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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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Quest’s Hand-tracking is Making It Possible to Learn Basic Sign Language in VR

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Cédric Girardin, an apprentice at the Switzerland-based university’s Computer Perception and Virtual Reality research group ( cpvrLab ), created a basic Quest app that can recognize and teach users up to 23 hand signs from the German fingerspelling alphabet. .” More Robust Sign Language in VR?