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The Knight Foundation launches $750,000 initiative for immersive technology for the arts

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Knight Foundation is looking for pitches on how to enhance and augment traditional creative arts through immersive technologies. We’ve seen how immersive technologies can reach new audiences and engage existing audiences in new ways,” said Chris Barr, director for arts and technology innovation at Knight Foundation, in a statement.

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Spatial raises $14M more for a holographic 3D workspace app, a VR/AR version of Zoom or Hangouts

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That in itself is also a sign of how immersive, three-dimensional media is possibly, finally approaching a breakout moment. Given its position with developers, if Amazon is getting into the mix, you know something is up, he added. That will also be buffered by a raft of new hardware, Agarawala said.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

Amazon Sumerian. One of my previous jobs — the one where I was building those immersive trainings — we were using Adobe Captivate, which is a pretty standard training software, where you make essentially interactive power points that save quiz data and such to a swarm database. Most definitely.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

Amazon Sumerian. One of my previous jobs — the one where I was building those immersive trainings — we were using Adobe Captivate, which is a pretty standard training software, where you make essentially interactive power points that save quiz data and such to a swarm database. Most definitely.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms’ Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

And also we keep people immersed as much as possible. So the idea is, you don’t break the immersion. You use voice or gaze or other natural ways to move the story forward, move the narrative forward, move the training forward, so that you’re not jerking people in and out of the immersion all the time.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms’ Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

And also we keep people immersed as much as possible. So the idea is, you don’t break the immersion. You use voice or gaze or other natural ways to move the story forward, move the narrative forward, move the training forward, so that you’re not jerking people in and out of the immersion all the time.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?'s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

Amazon Sumerian. One of my previous jobs -- the one where I was building those immersive trainings -- we were using Adobe Captivate, which is a pretty standard training software, where you make essentially interactive power points that save quiz data and such to a swarm database. there's just all these tools. Most definitely.

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