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Oculus Go Pre-order Page Hits Amazon, Best Buy Stocks Shelves

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Oculus Go, the company’s upcoming standalone VR headset, may already be waiting in the wings at Amazon distribution centers—they’re certainly already on Best Buy shelves, as both retailers are gearing up for what appears to be an imminent launch.

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Walmart Brings Tricked Out ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ VR Experience to Select Stores

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SEE ALSO Walmart to Launch Nation-wide VR Training Program with Over 17,000 Oculus Headsets. Rogers, Arkansas (4208 S Pleasant Crossing Boulevard) – April 5-6. Bentonville, Arkansas (406 S Walton Boulevard) – April 7-9. Merchandise includes plush toys, action figures, franchise DVDs, and video games.

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Walmart and STRIVR Partner To Train Employees In VR

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Each will have an Oculus Rift and a VR ready PC to run it on. Walmart partnered with STRIVR Labs to create these experiences after one of the company’s executives saw the University of Arkansas football team training using VR too. Eventually, the company hopes to be rolling out the platform to its 5,000 retail locations too.

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Here’s How VR is Helping Athletes Prepare for Games

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STRIVR boasts clients such as the Dallas Cowboys, Arizona Cardinals, New York Jets, the University of Arkansas, Stanford University and the Washington Wizards. Davis Webb, the quarterback of Stanford rival California, trusts his Oculus headset as much as his helmet when it comes to game preparation.

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Three Reasons Higher Education Has Embraced Virtual Reality

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Cameras like the Insta360 One X and headsets like the Oculus Go have made VR affordable/easy to use, while InstaVR has made editing and publishing VR accessible to non-technical people. see the Oculus Go “Release Channels” feature for a great new way to distribute VR apps).

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STRIVR Introduces VR Training On and Off the Field

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Fast forward to 2016 and STRIVR Labs counts the likes of Texas Tech, Arkansas, Stanford, Dallas Cowboys, and Arizona Cardinals, among others, as clients using STRIVR’s VR solutions to enhance training. STRIVR has used HTC Vive, Samsung Gear, the Oculus CV1 and Oculus DK2 headsets. ” Photo courtesy ESPN.

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Using VR Revolutionize Sports Training with STRIVR Labs

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Fast-forward six years, with Oculus Rift VR development kits readily available, Belch started a master’s thesis project with Bailenson to study how to use VR to train quarterbacks. Belch asked Bailenson if it was possible to use VR to train football players, but the technology wasn’t ready yet back in 2004.

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