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Meta Opens Project Aria to Researchers Tackling All-day AR Challenges

Road to VR

Notably, Meta is still accepting applications , which gives approved teams access to Meta’s Aria Research Kit (ARK), which includes the Project Aria hardware and SDK. The company says it also hopes to spark a variety of research topics such as embodied AI, contextualized AI, human-computer interaction (HCI), and robotics.

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Meta Doubles Down on AI-Ready Ray Ban AR Smart Glasses Following EU Sales Success

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Meanwhile, the University of Iowa is utilizing the Aria framework to develop healthcare services for individuals with hearing loss. Using the Aria environmental data, researchers at Iowa can create devices that translate the direction from which sounds originate.

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Modul University Vienna Adopts Digital Twin Campus

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The Iowa-based enterprise provides an immersive K-12 curriculum on several headsets, including HTC VIVE, Meta Quest, and Pico devices. Additionally, VictoryXR is expanding its influence onto new Qualcomm-powered hardware.

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Suffolk, Carnegie Mellon Universities Join Transatlantic VR Partnership

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Other universities such as Arizona State University, New Mexico State University, Purdue Global, University of Iowa, and many more have entered strategic partnerships for the programme. Bodyswaps has begun providing its solutions to Stanford University and the latter’s business school to teach soft skills.

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Meta Reveals US Education Partnership amid v57 Update

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Additionally, Itaca Education has tapped Meta’s hardware and technologies for virtual learning in the natural sciences and physics. The nation’s University of Camerino has hosted its first course based fully on the Metaverse, the next step for spatial communications and the Internet.

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Dissecting Virtual Frogs with VictoryXR’s Steve Grubbs

XR for Business Podcast

If you think about it, for decades — I used to serve in the Iowa legislature, and I was chairman of the Education Committee, and we spent a lot of time addressing, how do we improve education? Or do they want you to come in with the hardware? But, schools that come to us want both a hardware, software, and platform solution.

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Dissecting Virtual Frogs with VictoryXR’s Steve Grubbs

XR for Business Podcast

If you think about it, for decades — I used to serve in the Iowa legislature, and I was chairman of the Education Committee, and we spent a lot of time addressing, how do we improve education? Or do they want you to come in with the hardware? But, schools that come to us want both a hardware, software, and platform solution.