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I would like to say that this has been an exciting week for XR, but it wouldnt be true: actually, probably also because of the vacations for the 1st of May, it has been one of the most boring weeks of the year in our field. But Im excited anyway since Im going to have a couple of interesting trips waiting for me You will discover it all in tomorrows article!
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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
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Last week I spoke by phone and then transferred the call to headset where I went face to face with the developer of CubicLayer. Contacting me initially via Bluesky, and asking to be identified by his first name Sean, the developer lists themselves as Industrial Volumetrics on the Apple App Store. In headset, the dev showed me inside the file system on his Mac where I watched intriguing videos, including one showing a virtual fishing pole near the physical ocean, another with a wrist-based virtua
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Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor
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Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning
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