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‘Google Earth VR’ Lets You Experience the Total Solar Eclipse Right Now

Road to VR

Whether or not you’re in the narrow band of ‘solar eclipse totality’ that’s making its way across the continental United States on Monday, August 21st, Google Earth VR has seen a recent update that will let you experience the rare event from the comfort of your own HTC Vive or Oculus Rift. image courtesy NASA.

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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. The firm works with institutions like Carolina Biological and Oxford University to provide a VR-based educational content library.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.28): GDC, GTC, Snap’s acquisition of NextMind, and more!

The Ghost Howls

HTC adds more parental control tools to its headsets. But actually, HTC , once the biggest competitor Oculus had, added these functionalities to its devices one month before Meta , but the news was not reported by the main VR magazines. Last week I praised Meta for finally taking action adding parental control tools to its device.

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Is Training VR’s Killer App? Ask Forklift Drivers

Charlie Fink

They settled on an exclusive partner, FreeRangeXR, of Sausalito, CA, and decided to use the HTC Vive because of its enterprise offering and extended support option. Iowa State University researchers studied VR training in welding simulations showed a 41.6% increase in certifications and a 23% decrease in overall training time.

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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? I’ve seen some things coming out of China with HTC VIVE, and they’re really focusing on bringing these systems into the schools.

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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? I’ve seen some things coming out of China with HTC VIVE, and they’re really focusing on bringing these systems into the schools.

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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? I've seen some things coming out of China with HTC VIVE, and they're really focusing on bringing these systems into the schools.