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Big XR News from Samsung, Pimax, ThinkAR, Avantis Education

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Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones already incorporate powerful AR hardware and software, and most users experience augmented reality more frequently on their mobile devices than on head-mounted displays. Second, its extensive Galaxy ecosystem provides a supporting infrastructure, even in the absence of a dedicated XR hardware solution.

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MeetKai, ThinkAR Partner to Scale AI-Powered Professional Immersive Platforms

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From NVIDIA to Meta, AI and XR could become equally growing technologies, with the growing AI space helping XR hardware and software reach its full potential. Notably, the firms worked with Florida State University to debut an AI-powered immersive education platform and Charlamagne tha God to produce an immersive entertainment experience.

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Mass Virtual, RAVE Computer Showcase Powerhouse Collaboration at I/ITSEC ’24

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The firms are using the upcoming Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in Orlando, Florida, this December 2-5 to highlight the working relationship. This collaboration highlights how our expertise in hardware optimization and supply chain management complements their revolutionary training software.

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Orlando Mayor Offers 2,500 Open Positions to Build Metaverse in the MetaCenter

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This was further supported by the founding of the University of Central Florida (UCF) to create a workforce capable of supporting the US space program. See Also: One of America’s Biggest VR/AR Centers Is… Orlando? Orlando then became the epicenter of experiential entertainment when Walt Disney came to town.

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Magic Leap 2 Gains Certification so Doctors Can Use AR During Surgery

Road to VR

By and large, this gives software developers a non-inconsequential inroad into gaining FDA certification for apps that could be used during surgery, and not just for pre-surgical training.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. University of Florida, USA. image courtesy VR First. Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia.

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Report: VR in Retail and Marketing to Generate US$1.8 billion in 2022

Tech Trends VR

Walmart’s recent acquisition of VR software company Spatialand is another indicator of VR deployment as a retail solution in the future, as is their use of HoloLens for helping better manage their warehouse logistics. “There is high consumer interest in using VR for making purchase decisions while shopping online or in-store. billion 2022.

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