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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
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Holoride goes back a few years now. But, as a company bringing XR technology into moving vehicles, they’re uniquely positioned today to leverage the convergence of XR, 5G, blockchain, and other emerging technologies. After the company passed a $12M funding round and announced that they would be teaming up with Elrond to employ non-fungible tokens in their content production plans, ARPost had a chat with Holoride CEO and Co-founder Nils Wollny.
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Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor
With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.
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Facebook has a sort of reverse Midas’ touch where everything it touches gets stained by its own stigmas. Every product it buys or gets close to eventually gets involved in its privacy issues or, at the very least, its advertising businesses. It was the latter surprised, shocked, and even disgusted Oculus users last week when the social networking giant announced … Continue reading.
Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning
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Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers
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