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Combining VR With Esports To Train The Next Big Soccer Star

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Competitive gaming is now considered a full-fledged sport, meanwhile professional, amateur, and school athletes have already begun incorporating VR and other virtual simulators as part of their training. The entire virtual simulation will lean heavily on the idea of esports, which will blend VR and gaming into a data-rich experience.

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How Vendetta Forever Cuts Straight To The Action With Minimalist VR Design

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Zander Dejah describes one of the Star Wars VR games he worked on as a high fidelity "walking simulator". One Indiana Jones-esque level involved making a VR whip "that didn't feel terrible or too hard to use," while Vendetta Forever's skydiving level uses no geometry at all. He calls it "LO-KILL-MOTION". I needed to do it."

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Atlas Meditech Taps NVIDIA Omniverse for VR Neurosurgery

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VR medical surgery training firm Atlas Meditech is training brain surgeons with greater depth and realism, using artificial intelligence (AI) and photorealistic, accurate simulations. Atlas Meditech and the New OR Atlas views advanced simulations as alternatives to costly brain surgeries on cadavers.

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A rocket will crash into the moon. It'll leave way more than a scar.

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The public kind of gets it, but we haven't yet seen thinking about this in terms of an environmental movement," said Scott Shackelford, an Indiana University professor of business and ethics, working on a framework for addressing space junk. The closest probably was Wall-E , and frankly, that's pretty dated at this point. (In

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The Future Group Raises $20 Million to Blend Real-world Video With Virtual Worlds

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Or you could have game show contestants drive in a motion simulator for kart racing and then drive through a virtual environment. You could, theoretically, combine a game like Temple Run, with an animated landscape, with an Indiana Jones-like live video actor running from a giant rock rolling down a hill.

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Damon Dominique on aliens, building a business, and the importance of saying 'Um'

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I'm from Indiana where you're just Christian your entire life, and the one question I always had was, “How do you know you're Christian if you don't know anything about the other religions? This video makes you question if our reality is really a simulation, and I think it could be possible.

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Five Incredible ‘Dreams’ VR Games You Can Play Right Now On PSVR

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Okay, with that out of the way here are our top five favorite Dreams VR games available now on PSVR: Up first we have Disneyland Resort’s Indiana Jones Adventure Temple of the Forbidden Eye. Plus, you can never have a enough VR ninja simulators if you ask me. Players begin in the outdoor queue area.

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