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Homeland Security Releasing VR School Shooting Training Simulator

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In response to the rising number of mass shootings in the United States, the Department of Homeland Security developed and released a WebVR training simulator last year called EDGE (Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environment), which helped prepare first responders for the stressful moments of responding to an active shooter scene.

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7 Tips for Powering Up Your Sales Enablement Using a Virtual Reality Platform

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Transform the familiarity of 2D training into a 3D experience Virtual reality platforms are great for interacting with customers, but they’re also great for your employees too. However, VR is also great at training employees soft skills like communication, teamwork, and leadership. faster than e-learning.

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These Are The VR Sessions Taking Place At Steam Dev Days Next Week

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Epic Games is heavily invested in VR thanks to deep integration with its Unreal Engine 4 and its own tech demos like Bullet Train. Given that The Lab is still one of the best-received VR experiences, there’s bound to be tips and tricks shared here that will be useful to just about anybody working with the tech.

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The 300th XR Week Peek (2023.04.10): Meta innovates image segmentation, Chrome implements WebGPU, and more!

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I hope that we can arrive together to the 400th episode in two years… let’s see If you want to give me a tip for all these hard years at work, you can join my Patreon. This research work is disruptive because it can detect whatever kind of objects, even the ones it has never seen during training.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.16): Meta teases Cambria, Google shows new AR features, and more!

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Thanks to Ivan for the tip!). in a training scenario when the environment is full of smoke, the system closes a valve and makes you breathe more difficultly). Thanks Mathew Olson for the tip). Meta provides tips to optimize content for Quest by using the Showdown app as a showcase. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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Hands-On With Rewind’s Eye-Tracking Shooter, ‘Project Falcon’ for FOVE 0

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Its war-torn city wouldn’t be out of place in a Gears of War game (it’s built inside developer Epic’s Unreal Engine 4), and it’s quite unlike anything else the studio has made thus far. So how did this unexpected partnership come about?

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

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And apart from being “cool”, it also serves the purpose of making mixed reality training and design solutions more efficient. This is overly important for training sessions where posture is important. This means that now with Unity you can create visually stunning VR experiences that before you could obtain just by using Unreal.