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Andy Higgs of AVRT on VR Training for UK Law Enforcement and the Military. Andy discusses several applications and their effectiveness and results, location-based VR experiences, new headset developments, XR experts and companies to follow, and his involvement in the pursuit to break the world's land speed record.

Andy Higgs

AVRT

AVRT YouTube Channel

John Gladman of AVRT

Zero Latency Site

The Void

Meta Quest Pro

HTC Vive Focus 3

Pico

Anthony Vitillo 

Ruddy Nice 

Teslasuit 

SenseGlove

Tom Ffiske

Kyle Hardcastle London Policing College

Paul Speight - Fire Service College

Bloodhound Land Speed Record

Spirit of America

Lorne Fade of VR Vision discusses, VR for Enterprise Training, the Merits and Drawbacks of 360 Video and Measuring the ROI of VR Training Applications

VR Vision

VR Vision Clients:

Avangrid Renewables

Oculus Avangrid Renewables Case Study

Siemens

Toyota

Connect:

Lorne Fade, Co-Founder & COO at VR Vision

Roni Cerga, CEO at VR Vision | CRO at Reality Well

Antony Vitillo (Skarred Ghost), AR/VR developer, entrepreneur, consultant, blogger;  Ghost Howls Blog

VRM, Virtual Reality Marketing

RIN, Reality Innovators Network for Metaverse, VR, AR & XR (Virtual, Augmented & Extended Reality) 

Ori Inbar, Founder at Super Ventures and AWE

Thom Buchanan, Contact CI Chief of Product (see Episode 14)

Events:

TechLearn 2022 Conference September 20-22, Austin TX

HackMIT 2022 (MIT Hackathon) October 01-02, Cambridge MA

DevLearn Conference and Expo October October 26-28, Las Vegas NV

AWE

Tech:

Google Cardboard

HTC Vive

Tilt Brush

Haptics, SenseGlove

Meta Quest Pro/Project Cambria - ‘Meta Quest Pro: everything we know so far’ - Tom’s Guide

Project Cambria Video Leak Article from Road to VR

Pico 4 Release Info Article from Upload VR

Deborah Worrell discusses how to get started in the Metaverse from a business perspective. We discuss the hardware and software needs, where to start, how to plan for a business presence in the Metaverse, and what exactly a VR experience is.

Deborah Worrell

Virtual Reality Marketing

Reality Innovators Network

Goldman Sachs Metaverse/Crypto

Facebook Meta Announcement

Disney and the Metaverse 

Oculus 2 

Pico Neo 3

HTC Vive

AltSpace

Ashley Crowder/VNTANA

Daniel Sisson/XR TERRA

Decentraland Fashion Week

Unity

Unreal

GC1 Solutions Reality Hub

EPISODE 021 SHOW NOTES:

Edwin Rivera of CG1 Solutions discusses challenges and opportunities in developing and deploying XR training content for Healthcare, the importance of being platform agnostic, how he was inspired to enter the AR space, and the emergence of the Miami area as a tech innovation center.

Edwin Rivera

CG1 Solutions

Total Immersion (Former AR Co.)

Metaio

Markerless AR

Walmart AR Avengers App

Hololens

PTC

ScopeAR

Cathy Hackyl

Tom Emrich

ARPost Newsletter

VRARA

VRARA  Miami Chapter

Immerse Global Summit

AWE

Deborah Worrell of Virtual Reality Marketing recommends VR collaboration and networking platforms, and discusses the Reality Innovators Network, Digital Twins and IoT, NFTs and virtual goods, and the best sources for keeping up with all things Metaverse.

Deborah Worrell

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Virtual Reality Marketing

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Reality Innovators Network

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AltSpace

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Oculus

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Roblox

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Fortnite

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Spatial

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Glue

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Pico Neo 3

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Internet of Things

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Digital Twins

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Internet of Industrial Things

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Decentraland

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Virtual Fashion and Collectibles

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Inside Newsletters

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ARTillery

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Mike Boland

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Shelly Palmer

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Mathew Olson/Reality Check

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Benedict Evans

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VRARA

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Charlie Fink

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AWE

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Ted Schilowitz/This Week in XR

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The Metaverse, Why It Matters, How’s It Going to Revolutionize Everything - Matthew Ball

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Gabriel Rene - The Spatial Web

Episode No. 19. features former Disney Imagineer Brian Collins of The Brainstorm Institute and Magic Bytes on transforming education with XR, VR platforms AltspaceVR and Engage, and advice and insight on presenting in VR.

Brian Collins

Magic Bytes

Brainstorm Institute

FB The Mouse and the Imagineer

Educators Who Love Disney

Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge

Haunted Mansion Pepper’s Ghost Effect 

AltSpace VR

VRAR Global Summit

Engage

Victory XR

Dr. Martin Rayala - Enso Education Institute

Educators in VR

Acknowledgements:

Call Recording: Zoom

Podcasting: Anchor

Editing: Logic Pro X

Music: "Are You There" by DR. MARS

Steve Grubbs, founder and CEO of VictoryXR, discusses building a Virtual Reality Classroom Environment,  engaging a team to  develop and present a Standards-Based VR Curriculum, choosing the ENGAGE platform as VictoryXR's virtual campus, how hardware development is accelerating adoption of VR education, and some of his favorite educational VR experiences.

VictoryXR 

Steve Grubbs

Pico Neo 2

Engage

Rene Gadelha

Daniel Coyle

The DAVE School

Award-Winning VR Frog Dissection 

SideQuest

Vive Focus Pro

ChalkBites VR Corporate Training

Kai Liang

EduLearn20

AWE

Anne Frank House in Virtual Reality

1943 Berlin Blitz

In Episode No. 17 Rene Pinnell of Kaleidoscope VR discusses Cannes XR 2020, The VR Museum of Other Realities, and how he and his wife have built Kaleidoscope and a community-funded grant model that helps artists migrate into the new medium of XR.

Rene Pinnell

Kaleidoscope

Cannes XR - June 22-26 2020

Elie Levasseur - XR program Leader - Cannes XR / Le Marché du Film & Head of NewImages XR Market

AltSpaceVR 

VRChat

The Museum of Other Realities

Tribeca Film Festival

VEER Premium VR Experiences

VHRAM! - Virtual Reality in Hamburg Virtual Festival 2020

Oculus Rift

Titans of Space VR Game

Wired Magazine

BattleScar Immersive Film

Acknowledgements:

​Call Recording: Skype

Podcasting: Anchor

Recording: Logic Pro X ​

Music: "Are You There" by DR. MARS

EPISODE 016 SHOW NOTES:

​Featuring an interview with Bernard Francois, founder of Preview Labs, who discusses the unique challenges and benefits of rapid prototyping for XR, his company’s VR and AR projects for the National Institutes for Health and Yale University, and his experience presenting and networking at the online AWE 2020 Conference in May 2020.

Preview Labs

​Global Game Jam

​Oculus DK1 Retrospective from Road to VR

​HTC Vive

​XR Health

​National Institutes of Health

​Yale University -  Play for Real Lab - Invite Only VR Vaping Prevention Game

​AWE 2020 Conference

​Preview Labs Blog

​Physics in Games and VR Simulations Presentation by Bernard Francois at NYU

​Game Developers Conference - August 4-6 2020 (Online)

​Boston Virtual Reality Meetup

​VRAR Global Summit

​Acknowledgements:

​Call Recording: Skype

Podcasting: Anchor

Recording: Logic Pro X ​

Music: "Are You There" by DR. MARS

EPISODE 015 SHOW NOTES:

Featuring an interview with Kai Liang of MEL Science and Smart Stone Technology. Kai discusses how he got his start in Virtual Reality for Education, the role quality content plays in the adoption of VR for K-12 use, subjects that VR excels at, and his recommendations of VR education content providers.

Kai Liang

MEL Science

Smart Stone

Autostereoscopic 3D

Dimenco

Vassilli Philippov (MEL)

Bernard Frischer (Virtual Rome)

​The Body VR

​CoSpaces

​Wild Immersion

​Catherine D. Henry

​Alan Smithson

​Alvin Wang Gralin HTC

​Leland Hedges PICO

​Acknowledgements:

​Call Recording: Zoom

Podcasting: Anchor

Recording: Logic Pro X ​

Music: "Are You There" by DR. MARS