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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

I spoke with him about many topics, like why VR is so good for training (and he told me that his company Strivr has trained more than ONE MILLION Walmart employees in VR ), if it is true that VR is the “ultimate empathy machine”, how much is graphical fidelity important for presence, and of course also about his encounter with Zuck.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.20): Oculus ready to manufacture the Quest S, Pico doubles-down on 3DOF, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This new standard evolves the previous H265 compression format for videos, reducing data requirement up to 50% while providing visually the same quality. The standard will prove especially efficient for 4K and 8K video and it works with high dynamic range video and omnidirectional 360° video. More info.

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

The Ghost Howls

Honestly speaking, we have no idea what is happening, and we don’t even know if this has to do something with the recent lawsuit by Magic Leap or the one from Unreal… are these moves being made to slow the lawsuit or are these just an internal re-organization? Who knows…. More info (nReal teases new headset) More info (nReal changes name).

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

How did you get involved in VR and learning? It is transforming education by experiential learning. And again, that is to help students learn faster, retain information longer, and make better decisions. The biggest one is a dissemination machine to up to 7-10,000 users. Alan: I’m really, really excited.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

How did you get involved in VR and learning? It is transforming education by experiential learning. And again, that is to help students learn faster, retain information longer, and make better decisions. The biggest one is a dissemination machine to up to 7-10,000 users. Alan: I’m really, really excited.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality's Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

How did you get involved in VR and learning? It is transforming education by experiential learning. And again, that is to help students learn faster, retain information longer, and make better decisions. The biggest one is a dissemination machine to up to 7-10,000 users. Alan: I'm really, really excited. What is in that?

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The Jetset with Headsets: How XR Will Revolutionize Air Travel, with Neutral Digital’s Greg Caterer

XR for Business Podcast

I’m really excited to learn about the stuff you’re doing. I’ve seen some of the videos, I’ve seen what you guys are doing; holy crap. We prefer the Unreal Engine to build all of our expenses of this kind. You mentioned Unreal Engine. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity.