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Inmates Use VR To Prepare For Life On The Outside

VRScout

A new early-release program in Colorado helps prisoners convicted as teenagers adjust to the world they missed 20-plus years ago. Thankfully, things are beginning to look up for these forgotten “lost boys” of sorts thanks to a new early-release program in Colorado designed to rehabilitate those convicted as juveniles.

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Interview With Joseph Johnson, Owner of a Colorado Springs VR Arcade

VRWorld

After looking into local VR arcades in my area, I found one- Epic VR – based in the nearby Citadel Mall of Colorado Springs. The interview went amicably, and I walked out with a pretty decent idea of how much it costs to start up a VR arcade, as well as how successful they can be, even in mountain towns like Colorado Springs.

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Harvest Space Slugs With Real Plungers in This Bizarre VR Experience

VRScout

Developed as part of this year’s Global Game Jam at the University of Colorado, the bizarre VR experience tasks users with harvesting adorable space slugs on a desolate planet in order to power their fuel harvester. I’m talking about Space Plunge , a new VR experience so insane I’m convinced it was the product of an intense fever dream.

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How VR Saves Lives in the OR

VRScout

University of California, San Franciso, medical school is using Organon for the HTC Vive. In early 2017, Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Department of Biomedical Sciences created its own VR app to visualize and manipulate magnified models of the human brain and nervous system in all dimensions.

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Zambezi Co-Founder Jenna Seiden Partners Up with Jimmy Fallon and Captain Marvel to Showcase Hit VR Game

XR for Business Podcast

She’s the former head of content acquisition and partnerships for VIVE Port at HTC VIVE, and she used to be the V.P. And that machine at Dave & Busters in Denver, Colorado, was back-to-back booked, and families were playing. When I was at HTC, yes, my job was a quote/unquote, “sit behind a desk” kind of thing.

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Zambezi Co-Founder Jenna Seiden Partners Up with Jimmy Fallon and Captain Marvel to Showcase Hit VR Game

XR for Business Podcast

She’s the former head of content acquisition and partnerships for VIVE Port at HTC VIVE, and she used to be the V.P. And that machine at Dave & Busters in Denver, Colorado, was back-to-back booked, and families were playing. When I was at HTC, yes, my job was a quote/unquote, “sit behind a desk” kind of thing.

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Zambezi Partners Co-Founder Jenna Seiden Partners Up with Jimmy Fallon and Captain Marvel to Showcase Hit VR Game

XR for Business Podcast

She's the former head of content acquisition and partnerships for VIVE Port at HTC VIVE, and she used to be the V.P. And that machine at Dave & Busters in Denver, Colorado, was back-to-back booked, and families were playing. When I was at HTC, yes, my job was a quote/unquote, "sit behind a desk" kind of thing. Jenna: Yep.

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