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VR Surgery Training Might Be More Effective Than We Thought

VRScout

Researchers working out of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland recently conducted a study detailing how VR could be a more effective tool for surgical training compared to conventional reading and video methods as well as a practical alternative to physical simulation.

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An Official NFL Game is Coming to Quest & PSVR

Road to VR

” “Virtual reality gaming is rapidly expanding and our partnership with StatusPRO allows us to explore a new immersive version of NFL gaming with support of the two largest VR platforms within this emerging space,” said Joe Ruggiero, SVP, Consumer Products at the NFL.

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XR Training & Gaming Startup Touts $5.2M Investment and Lamar Jackson Partnership

Road to VR

million , building on a partnership with NFL quarterback Lamar Jackson to create the Lamar Jackson Experience , which the company describes as “a suite of first-person virtual reality products that include an at-home virtual reality game, arcade games, and live activation.”

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John Hopkins Adds VR & AR To University Curriculum

VRScout

Designed and organized by veteran VR/AR filmmaker Gabo Arora, ISET will focus entirely on creative cinematic storytelling in the digital medium including virtual reality, augmented reality and even artificial intelligence. VR and AR can tell and teach with a depth that is unattainable in most other creative media,” said Arora.

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Watch Kansas City Royals at Baltimore Orioles tonight (7:05p ET) with Intel’s True VR app.

AllThingsVR

Watch Kansas City Royals at Baltimore Orioles tonight (7:05p ET) with Intel’s True VR app here: [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 1, 2017.

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Christopher Lafayette: Let’s build together an inclusive XR community

The Ghost Howls

I want companies to hire people that look like me that come from cities countries like east Oakland, Baltimore, Compton, Atlanta, Brazil, Detroit, Brooklyn, Nairobi, Zimbabwe, Johannesburg, New Orleans, and more. The singular greatest feature of extended reality is connectivity. It’s already helping.

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Mozart meets Virtual Reality

VRGuy

Once a year, I take a week off to play with the wonderful musicians of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra shared an open rehearsal. Virtual reality is already used today to help overcome fear of public speaking. I'm a VR professional. I'm also an amateur violinist.