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How VR Video is Being Used to Help Kids Conquer Fear of Swimming

Road to VR

One fifth of children in Sweden are unable to swim, according to a new initiative launched by the Swedish Swimming Federation, a significant number considering that the country’s beautiful landscape is littered with lakes and bordered by the Baltic sea.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Also remember: we’re soon going to have a Gear VR controller (it’ll be similar to Google Daydream’s controller, which operates like a laser pointer). Brands have customized Google Cardboards for… well, as long as “marketing” and “virtual reality” have been in the same sentence (a year and a half, really).

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Social VR Research Alert: Participate in a Research Study on Identity Construction in Virtual Environments, at Lund University in Sweden

Ryan Schultz

Filippa and Lina are two Master’s students in the International Marketing and Brand Management program at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. If you are interested in participating in this research, please fill out this Google Docs form. Each interview will be around 30 minutes, and conducted online.

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Looking Back at Virtual Reality Over the Last 5 Years

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

They even became “Christmas present of the year” here in Sweden in 2016! Google, Valve, Facebook, Sony, Samsung and an enormous amount of other companies are trying to do their part in bringing the tech forward, and the sense of enthusiast development that sparked this new revolution is still here, in all of us. It’s that easy.

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Metaverse needs to solve problems, not be the problem

ARVR

COVID also helped professional implementation of VR which is closer to the real experience than Zoom, Google Meet or Teams. Therapist of the psykologpartners clinic from Sweden treat their patients by using VR and the remote management system. Content ?—?that’s that’s the most important part.

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The VRScout Report – Altspace Shuts Down & Disney Resorts Get The Void

VRScout

It looks like regional points of concentration are the UK, France, Sweden, and Germany– and rising areas of focus are user input and enterprise solutions (like Improbable, which recently raised $500M), while gaming is the most competitive and saturated vertical. WILL GOOGLE LET YOU ANIMATE YOUR SCENES MADE WITH BLOCKS SOON?

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McDonald's Is Making Happy Meal Boxes That Transform into VR Headsets

Next Reality VR

The resulting headset is a lot like Google Cardboard, with the lingering scent of fry grease. Before you go running out to your local McDonald's to pick up a Happy Meal for your "little brother," you should know that the promotion is only running at 14 locations in Sweden, on the. These "Happy Goggles" look anything but.

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