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VR Technology Being Used In De-Escalation Training For Police

VRScout

Police officers operating out of the Strasburg Police Department in Strasburg, Virginia have begun receiving supplemental VR training centered specifically around crisis de-escalation. Lonnie Conner according to The Northern Virginia Daily. Officers are given a chance to experience confrontations from the civilians perspective.

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Classic Point-And-Click Game ‘Shadowgate’ Coming To VR

VRScout

The legendary fantasy-adventure franchise has been reimagined for Oculus Quest headsets. Available this October on Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets, Shadowgate VR: The Mines of Mythrok aims to bring that same nerve-wracking dungeon crawler experience to VR. ” Image Credit: Zojoi. For more information visit here.

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U.S. Olympic And Paralympic Committee’s Launch VR Concussion Education Series ‘CrashCourse’

VRScout

According to research conducted by West Virginia’s Brain Injury Research Institute , an estimated 1.6 – 3.8 CrashCourse Brain Fly-Through and CrashCourse Football are available free on the Oculus Rift/Rift S , Oculus Go , and YouTube.

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The XR Week Peek (2019.14.09): a new powerful Vive Focus appears, Facebook Connect is coming, and more!

The Ghost Howls

If you remember well, this platform is based on a modified version of the Snapdragon 865 (3 generations after the 835 of the Oculus Quest) and supports features like eye tracking, high-quality passthrough AR, and 5G. Oculus Connect is starting and a new Facebook AR/VR logo appears. Other relevant news. But let’s see in a few days….

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Oculus Story Studio Co-founder Roundtable + Top 50 VR Storytelling Interviews

Road to VR

I had a chance to talk about storytelling in VR with three of the co-founders of Oculus Story Studio during Oculus Connect 3. Some of the key discoveries that Oculus Story Studio made with Dear Angelica are first of all that changing scale as an effective way to evoke different emotional reactions.

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Exclusive: First-Ever Impact Reality Summit Announces 2020 Lineup

VRScout

Some of the biggest names in social impact will be in attendance, including: Participant Media, Conservation International, the Rainforest Alliance, Connect for Climate/World Bank, and the Milken Institute, as well as tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Oculus. ” Tree USA | 2017 | 9 Min | Creator: Milica Zec, Winslow Porter.

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Facebook steps into cloud gaming — and another feud with Apple

TechCrunch VR

Rubin, who co-founded the game development studio Naughty Dog in 1994 before it was acquired by Sony in 2001, has been at Facebook since he joined Oculus months after its 2014 acquisition was announced. Virginia and West Virginia. .” Facebook VP of Play Jason Rubin. Image via Facebook.

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