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WEART, MAIZE Partner to Drive Immersive Training Adoption and Innovation

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Leading into the new year, virtual reality training is growing as the broader XR market also emerges as a tool for work and everyday life. Virtual training can save time, money, and lives by allowing workers from dangerous or demanding environments to learn without risking themselves and their working space or disrupting on-site workflows.

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Top NFL QB Credits VR Training as a Big Part of His Success, Calling It a “flight simulator” for Football

Road to VR

The Washington Commanders’ offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury is all-in on VR training, something the team’s star quarterback Jayden Daniels credits for accelerating his development, the New York Times reports. A former quarterback for Texas Tech himself, the intense realism was clear to Kingsbury from the snap.

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Learn How to Train Your Dragon in Pet Simulator ‘Eggy’, Coming to Quest 3 Next Month

Road to VR

Spunge Games, the studio behind VR action-shooter Dead Second (2022), announced a mixed reality pet simulator called Eggy, letting you take care of your very own pet dragon. In Eggy , a glowing egg and an ancient Book of Lore appearsessentially a manual on how to train your dragon (no relation).

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PrecisionOS Brings VR Medical Training To Struggling Areas

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VR training lets surgeons in low-resource countries go through the motions before performing on patients. The VR medical company PrecisionOS along with support from Epic Games MegaGrant and Oculus , have launched a VR training module designed specifically for the global nonprofit humanitarian organization SIGN Fracture Care.

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Everyone Wins! How Games Can Improve Learning Outcomes Across Multiple Generations

Speaker: Stephen Baer, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of The Game Agency

Nearly 70% of American adults play video games. Because games provide a fun, motivational, and risk-free medium to compete, collaborate, and conquer. More and more instructional designers are asking what games they should use to increase the effectiveness of their training and to engage their target audience.

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‘Train Sim World’ Arrives on Quest, Letting You Take on the Mean Rails of New York City

Road to VR

Train Sim World is finally here on Quest, bringing its realistic train driving experience to VR for first time. There’s also a Journey Mode, where you can hop out of your train and visit all the stations along the Harlem Line, letting you explore for collectables, and interact with the environment.

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Mixed Reality Trains For Quest 2 Look Incredibly Fun

VRScout

In a video shared on Reddit earlier this week, independent game studio Foggy Box ( Startenders, Brunch Club ) shared footage of a prototype VR game called Infinite Trainset which uses the Meta Quest 2’s Passthrough technology to bring virtual train sets to life in the real world. What do you think, anyone like trains?

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