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Meta Partners with UK Immersive Learning Start-Up Amidst Cambridge Analytica Legal Battle

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The beta launch introduced Meta’s new educational solution to colleges and universities in the US and UK.

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Meta For Education Beta Brings VR & Mixed Reality To Colleges & Universities

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Students are engaging with the technology in meaningful ways,” notes Houston Community College Reality CoLab Director Rubén Durán. We’ve been very fortunate to beta test a lot of the early prototypes of these programs,” says New Mexico State University Director of Microcredentials Instructional Design Andrew Sedillo.

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Meta Brings VR/MR Headsets and the Metaverse to US/UK Education Institutions

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Rubén Durán, Houston Community College Reality CoLab Director , said: Students are engaging with the technology in meaningful ways. This also follows the launch of Meat Quest 3S at Connect a few months ago, a device that aims to be an accessible gateway for integrating MR in various sectors.

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Spatial Beats: Zoom, Looking Glass & AR Funding

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This new contract hopes to help with the ongoing military service member suicide epidemic. M contract to provide VR training at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. The Air Force has purchased 43 VR units to kick off the training program, which will put student pilots inside a virtual MQ-9 ground base station. .

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USA Today’s VR News Show Premieres With 3 High-Flying Adventures

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USA Today revealed that they have taken to the skies in the debut episode of their virtual reality news show, VRtually There. The new show is the product of a collaboration between USA Today’s parent company Gannett and YouTube, whom will have the rights to stream the show exclusively for the first 60 days of each episode.

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Art Collective Supported By George R.R. Martin Gets Into VR

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million in renovations for the space that Meow Wolf occupies in New Mexico, as detailed on NPR. In the trailer teasing Meow Wolf’s new VR initiative, a few thoughts were shared on why they do what they do and how virtual reality will be integrated into their future projects.

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Suffolk, Carnegie Mellon Universities Join Transatlantic VR Partnership

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The University of Suffolk is set to join a massive transatlantic research project in virtual reality (VR), it announced on Monday. 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.

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