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FundamentalVR Partners With Mayo Clinic To Develop Haptic VR Surgery Simulations

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Mayo Clinic brings their massive body of research to FundamentalVR’s simulation platform. of the world’s surgeons have access to quality training simulations. This agreement will see the two parties collaborating on a range of simulations with an initial focus on the General Surgery area. In the U.S.

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Celebrate Valentine’s Day With This Alien Makeout Simulator

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Originally developed in just 48 hours for the Boston VR Jam competition , Alien Makeout Simulator is a room-scale virtual reality game where players enter a space cantina and are tasked with locking lips with a ridiculous 10-mouthed space alien that looks straight out of Futurama.

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FundamentalVR Is Offering A Free Ventilator Course For Health Professionals

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The medical simulation company has collaborated with Imperial College to train the skills to ventilate COVID-19 patients. With non-urgent surgeries cancelled, the company, based out of London and Boston, recently made its Fundamental Surgery platform multiuser. Canada, and U.K.

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Spend Valentine’s Day The Right Way With Alien Makeout Simulator

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Oculus Rift DK2 owners may well remember Alien Makeout Simulator, a bizarre and hilarious little demo that released on the now-defunct Oculus Share platform back in 2014. Tagged with: Alien Makeout Simulator , Valentine's Day. In a way this is almost a piece of VR history, then.

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Capcom Cup to Host VR Version of Iconic ‘Street Fighter II’ Bonus Stage

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The Street Fighter franchise isn’t actually in VR yet—not unless you count playing the retro ROMS in New Retro Arcade — but the attendees at this year’s Capcom Cup at Red Bull Battle Grounds in Boston will get a chance to relive the iconic car-smashing bonus stage from Street Fighter II (1991). That’s it.

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Banishing Your Nightmares With The Help Of VR

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Center for Mind and Culture cofounders Dr. Patrick McNamara (neurology professor and researcher at Boston University) and Wesley J.

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Cutting Edge VR

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Fundamental VR is partnering with the Mayo Clinic to democratize the next generation of haptic surgical training simulation tools. of the world’s surgeons have access to simulations. of the world’s surgeons have access to simulations Click To Tweet. In the U.S. Reusable, synthetic cadaver cost in excess of $40,000.