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Samsung XR and EarthX Debut Environmentally-focused 360 Short Films

Road to VR

“We get to show audiences not only the beauty of nature but inspire support for pressing current issues, like firefighters taking on wildfires and Indigenous communities in the Amazon protecting their land from deforestation.”. The Amazon rainforest gives us air we need to survive and is our best hope in this time of climate change.

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Big News from Altspace VR, Apple, Disney, Lloyd’s, and the US Justice Department

XR Today - Big XR News tag

Regarding the intentions behind the lawsuit, Colorado AG Phil Weiser said: We are taking action by filing this lawsuit to unwind Google’s monopoly and restore competition to the digital advertising business. Recently, Microsoft and Amazon cut back roughly 10,000 employees, and Meta dismissed approximately 11,000 people.

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ISC 2017 is over, what did you miss?

VRWorld

After all, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft – all use liquid cooled data centers. All in all, a good warm up for the SC 2017, which will be held later this year in Denver, Colorado. The post ISC 2017 is over, what did you miss? appeared first on VR World.

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

He’s currently a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Media X program at Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab and the Director of Technology Strategy at the University of Colorado National Mental Health Institute Center. But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon.

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford's Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

He's currently a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford University's Media X program at Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab and the Director of Technology Strategy at the University of Colorado National Mental Health Institute Center. But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. It's just amazing.

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

He’s currently a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Media X program at Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab and the Director of Technology Strategy at the University of Colorado National Mental Health Institute Center. But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon.

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Practicing Soft Skills by Firing Barry in VR, with Talespin’s Kyle Jackson

XR for Business Podcast

Amazon did $750-million. Alan: PWC just announced that they’re earmarking $3-billion to reskill and retrain their staff. Kyle: Yeah. And we’re seeing those pop up. You know, I mean, AT&T did a billion dollars last year. I mean, this is a topic that is obviously, I think, near-and-dear to any large employer.