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Facebook Purchases Echo VR Developer Ready At Dawn

VRScout

Oculus Studios announces yet another addition to their team of veteran developers. In an official Oculus blog post published earlier today, the company revealed its acquisition of Ready at Dawn Studios , the team behind hit VR titles including Lone Echo , Echo Arena , and Echo Combat. We’re thrilled to welcome them to the family.”

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COVID-19 VR Training With Virus-Free Headsets

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The company, which is based in the small town of Bend, Oregon, quickly partnered with Lane Workforce Partnership and got support from the Facebook Foundation through the East Cascade Workforce Improvement Board. This got the attention of the Oregon COVID-19 task force as they were looking for training solutions during the crisis.

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Virus-Free Virtual Training for Healthcare Workers

Tech Trends VR

The immersive training consists of sessions lasting between 15 and 20 minutes in VR which will be used to teach key skills such as choice and use of PPE, patient personal care and hygiene, and COVID-19 test procedures Click To Tweet. The curriculum content and scenarios have been supplied by the University of Portland School of Nursing.

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AltspaceVR Offers Social Reach For Organizers In VR

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It also boasts 3D audio attenuation which makes conversations sound and feel real when immersed. “It Reggie Watts was supposed to come on, and he had somebody opening for him,” said Joshua Young, founder and CEO of Design Reality PDX , a monthly Portland, Oregon networking event that regularly hosts panelists from the VR community.

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Samsung XR and EarthX Debut Environmentally-focused 360 Short Films

Road to VR

Samsung has partnered with EarthX to debut a dozen immersive short films on the Samsung XR video platform from environmentally-focused filmmakers. Samsung XR is Samsung’s immersive video platform, and home to more than 10,000 videos. Ghost Fleet VR immerses viewers in the true story of slavery in the Thai fishing industry.

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Taming the Jungle of Ideas, with The Wild’s Gabe Paez

XR for Business Podcast

He’s the founder and CEO of The Wild, and immersive collaboration platform for teams to experience their work together, from anywhere in augmented and virtual reality. By creating a fully immersive live space, your ability to design at the speed of thought is realized. And today’s guest is Gabe Paez. Gabe: [laughs] Exactly!

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Taming the Jungle of Ideas, with The Wild's Gabe Paez

XR for Business Podcast

He's the founder and CEO of The Wild, and immersive collaboration platform for teams to experience their work together, from anywhere in augmented and virtual reality. By creating a fully immersive live space, your ability to design at the speed of thought is realized. And today's guest is Gabe Paez. Gabe, welcome to the show.