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Surgeons, carpenters and workers handling hazardous chemicalsare likely to be trained using virtual reality sets eventually, Ofcom has predicted, as it said people remember around 90 per cent of what they learn using the technology.

The media regulator said improvements in VR headsets meant they would become an effective way to let people train for dangerous professions before attempting the work in real life.

The predictions came as part of a report into how technology is due to evolve and transform Britain in the coming years.

Virtual reality is a form of technology where people wear headsets or goggles that then project an alternate digital reality. The sets, which are already widely used by video gamers, can also be linked to handheld sensors that allow people to perform tasks in their virtual reality.

However, Ofcom noted the headsets are increasingly being used in schools as a more interactive and absorbing way to teach pupils visual subjects.

The report said: There is consensus that [virtual reality] is an effective way of providing differentiated and personalised learning experiences for students that increases the effectiveness of the teaching process.

While on average, a regular student can remember 30 per cent of what they hear and 20 per cent of what they see, statistics indicate that students remember 90 per cent of the material if taught using [VR].

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MIDDLETOWN, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Reality Interactive, a leading retail technology design firm and digital agency in Middletown, Connecticut, wasnt going to let COVID-19 ruin their Holiday-20 fun.

A creative and tech savvy group by trade, they were determined to use the very expertise they offer their clients to host a safe, fun and innovative holiday party for their own staff.

In fact, whats been a tough year for many businesses has been a productive year for Reality, as many companies have enlisted them to digitally solve for their pandemic business struggles.

When an employee asked what are we doing for our holiday gathering this year?, this creative crew did what they do with every challenge quickly analyze, brainstorm, develop and launch a progressive solution in a months time.

Like many other companies, the Reality team has been working remotely since March 2020. Were a small but mighty crew, and the truth is that weve missed the human connection that we had pre-pandemic, said Jeremy Brazeal, Executive Creative Director for Reality. It didnt take us long to figure out that we need to be creative not only for our clients, but for ourselves, too.

In the spirit of celebration and safety, Reality took every day videoconferencing to the next level. They sent Oculus virtual reality headsets to their 46 employees as holiday gifts. On December 23, they used those headsets to go holiday office party mode direct from their homes. Together, employees virtually walked and talked through a snowy winter evening, played a few games of hoops and watched some holiday fireworks.

It wasnt what we were used to, but it was both safe and fun and definitely scored points for the cool factor, said Jessica Amenta, Reality Account Director. Its important that we as a team feel connected if we want to also feel connected with our clients. And this years holiday celebration showed us that management believes in that, too.

Because Reality typically uses their own staff when testing newer technology, theyve been able to stay fluent in new technologies and applications, and offer their ever-evolving learnings to their clients.

Weve been doing remote team building activities in an effort to stay connected, but we wanted to use technology to its fullest and get the most out of our remote experience, especially at this time. Employees now want to try conducting meetings this way, too, so I guess our experiment can be considered a success. We plan to continue finding new ways to use VR to bring teams togetherthe holiday party was just the beginning, said Jeremy Brazeal.

About Reality Interactive

Reality Interactive is a multi-award winning, retail technology and design agency. The firm specializes in creating and managing innovative retail experiences using touchscreen displays, digital signage, digital media and a full suite of interactive and creative technologies.

Over the past 16 years, Reality has created hundreds of dynamic in-store experiences partnering with some of the world's biggest brands and their agencies.

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How One Company Is Using Virtual Reality to Create a Real Connection for Its Employees - Business Wire

[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.]- 13.1.2021 - Oulu, Finland -

The Finnish game publisher VRKiwi revealed that they are working on a new PC virtual reality game called Crystal Raiders VR with the Lithuanian virtual and augmented reality studio Nieko. The game is planned to be released on Steam this year and other VR platforms are reported to be in the plans as well. Crystal Raiders VR will take part in the Steam Game Festival in February, where players can try out demos, chat with developers, watch live streams, and learn about upcoming games on Steam.

Crystal Raiders VR is an action adventure game where you can explore your way together with other players or solo through the many levels of an ancient castle combining a peaceful medieval-like environment with steampunk elements. Adventures full of action await the ones who dare to enter a maze-like fortification filled with crystal guardians, traps and puzzles. Players will discover great treasures, artifacts, and weapons to aid them in their castle challenge, and to unravel the mysteries of the forgotten Wizard Lord.

What makes Crystal Raiders VR unique from a typical cookie cutter VR game is that it emphasizes multiplayer virtual reality experience that incorporates a peaceful social platform, known as Camp Square, where players are able to chat with other currently online players. Players from around the world can socialize and compete on the leaderboard in specific activities.

The castle environment of the game, where the first challenge takes place, is planned to be the first of many subsequent, later to-be-released play challenges. Additionally, all challenge content is suitable also for smaller players of families due to the game's focus on cruelty-free combat.

Crystal Raiders VR Steam page is online so players can already go follow it for updates and wishlist it. The game also has a Discord community on https://discord.gg/JuRdcj4YKS.

Key Features

About VRKiwiVRKiwi is the game publisher brand of MeKiwi, a full-stack digital agency based in Oulu, Finland. Their first game Cave Digger was released on Steam back in 2018. Cave Digger evolved with the talented developers and player community into a solid game spanning many platforms, encouraging the indie studio to continue for a sequel, which is currently in development. VRKiwi has also released their second VR game, ArtPulse, and more games are coming through their publishing pipeline. Read more at VRKiwi.org.

About NiekoAt Nieko we are a team of 9. We have been working in the field for over 10 years and started to specialize in VR with the first Oculus DK2 Kit. We have in-house programmers, 3D modelers, texture artists, concept artists. We work on our own projects as well as provide services for customers, and sub-contracting for game companies. Read more about Nieko at Niekoplay.com.

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HONG KONG, Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Speaking of the current hottest AR/VR technology, people are probably most familiar with their applications in the field of games and entertainment. However, these two technologies are slowly changing the sports industry that we are familiar with. We will talk about the innovation and experience of sports brought by the development of AR technology.

There is a pair of holographic exercise glasses that can project a holographic image, that is, a virtual partner, which can accompany you to run and exercise together. Not only will you no longer be lonely, but it can also stimulate your potential.

The glasses are connected to your mobile device through a matching APP. You can set the distance between the avatar and you, as well as the speed at which he runs. The system will also automatically adjust according to the user's running speed, to always keep a certain distance from the user.At the same time, the device is also equipped with GPS and a proprietary IMU, which makes it more convenient to know the running time and running speed in real-time, and the navigation route can be easily understood.

Ghost Pacer is compatible with more than 60 smartwatches, and it also has a heart rate sensor that can understand your body energy consumption in time. Therefore, this technology product can integrate various indicators to formulate exercise plans for users, so that users will become more and more healthy while exercising.

The charm of technology is everywhere. With the help of AR technology, runners no longer worry about the boring indoor running, instead, the experience is improved by the introduction of real scenes.Runners can also use AR technology to share more running content, experience races that cannot be participated in, and truly experience various running scenes, with the beauty of the track, the company of running partners, the transcendence and competition of the race, and the more intuitive data interaction.

In fact, there are precedents for AR products that focus on sports, such as AR glasses that focus on swimming. These products are aimed at professional athletes. Although the audience is small, the potential penetrationrate in the industry will be high.Similarly, running plus technology can transform a person's exercise into a richer multi-person collaboration. The collaboration between people and technology, whether it is sports experience or industry development model, will bring infinite possibilities.

The revolutionary changes that AR brings to running are just one aspect of the innovation in sports experience brought by AR. With the popularity of virtual reality and augmented reality, the number of participants in the field of AR holographic technology is also increasing. Some entrants have begun to apply AR to the sports field. For example, Apple is studying how to enhance live sports by allowing viewers to choose their camera angles and pick out the elements that they want more information about.

Holographic AR is full of science fiction elements. In addition to sports, holographic AR has broad development space in many fields in the future. Technology giants have all deployed in the AR field.

WIMI utilizes its strong technical capabilities and infrastructure to provide excellent products and services.The core of WIMI's business is holographic AR technology, which is used in software engineering, content production, as well as cloud and big data. The AR holographic related patent products applied by WIMI have fully covered multiple virtual reality scenes, such as sports performance, education, games, film, and television. Over the years of technologicalefforts, there are currently more than 4654 holographic content IP in technical reserves.

WIMI's leading holographic AR content production function is built around image acquisition, object recognition, automatic image processing, and computer vision technology. WIMI's software engineering team and visualization design team work closely to advance these visualization-related technologies and use them to design and produce innovative holographic AR content.

The so-called augmented reality is to display virtual information at the same time while displaying the real world, and completely change the way and efficiency of information transmission through the combination of the virtual and real world. Regardless of more accurately identifying the real scene, perceiving the environment, or adding user interaction through gesture recognition, AR applications will also have a demand for professional equipment.

WIMI Hologram Cloud is a holographic cloud comprehensive technical solution provider. Its business covers multiple links of the Hologram AR technology, including Hologram computer visual AI synthesis, Hologram visual presentation, Hologram interactive software development, Hologram AR online and offline advertising, Hologram ARSDK payment, as well as 5G Hologram communication software development. WIMI's commercial application scenarios are mainly concentrated in five professional fields, including home entertainment, light field theater, performing arts system, commercial publishing system, and advertising display system.

Data from a third party shows that by 2024, the market size of AR products will reach 165 billion U.S. dollars, with a rapid growth rate of 80%. The layouts of tycoonsin this market fully demonstrate that they are optimistic about the prospects of this new technology. With the unlimited prospects of the AR industry, WIMI plans to continue to improve and strengthen the existing technology and continue to develop in the AR field.

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Flipclutch Research: AR/VR virtual escort starts a new revolution in sports, WIMI keeps up with the new changes in the industry - PRNewswire

Cai Guo-Qiang world-famous for his firework displays and gunpowder paintings recently unveiled his first-ever virtual reality artwork, Sleepwalking in the Forbidden City.

The project is currently on display only at Beijings Palace Museum for now as part of his new, 800-piece plus retrospective, Odyssey and Homecoming. The expansive show coincides with the 600th anniversary of the historical Forbidden City.

Watch the one-minute trailer here:

Though Cai is perhaps best known for works that blend painting and pyrotechnics, this is seemingly the first time that he has used VR for a public project. My instinct is that since VR can represent the surreal and the invisible, it should be incorporated into my work in a more unique way a way that gives it its own distinct artistic language, Cai toldThe Art Newspaper of Sleepwalking in the Forbidden City.

In the exhibition, accompanying the five-minute VR film is a gunpowder drawing and a massive alabaster model of the Forbidden City, which Cai used to set the stage for the colorful, digitized fireworks display.

Born in the city of Quanzhou in southeastern Chinas Fujian province, Cai was based in the US until recently, but relocated to Beijing last November.

In September last year, he livestreamed an explosive daytime fireworks show entitled The Birth of Tragedy, intended as an artistic response to the pandemic, at Frances Charente River.

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Chinese Artist Cai Guo-Qiang to Livestream Massive Firework Display from France

Theres sadly no news yet on whether the full film will be available for viewing outside of China anytime soon. For readers in Beijing, Sleepwalking in the Forbidden City is on display until February 5, 2021, at the Palace Museum.

All images: Stills from Sleepwalking in the Forbidden City (2020), courtesy Cai Studio

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Regional workforce to benefit from cutting edge technology applications

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (January 11, 2021)Kirkwood Community College has created an augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) certificate course that has potential to dramatically impact regional workforce training and conferencing capabilities as well as how employees complete tasks remotely. The new offering will be a mixture of lecture, hands-on exercises, and lab experiences, and will begin January 25.

As AR and VR become more affordable, the technologies have become more feasible and widely used across multiple sectors. From manufacturing to healthcare to hospitality, as well as many other industries, businesses and organizations are beginning to realize the promising possibilities of implementing the technologies for a variety of uses. As 5G networks continue to grow across the world, the number of ways AR and VR are used will also become more prevalent.

To Kirkwood Program Developer Erin Brokel, with the explosion of remote working due to the pandemic, now is the right time to invest in these exciting and emerging technologies.

The new certificate course is all about advancing the future of the region through the opportunities that AR and VR are going to continue to provide, said Brokel. As more and more industries realize the limitless potential of this technology, its use will spread into areas we never thought possible. Its really going to be a driver of the growing automation and digitization of the workforce. This certificate will prepare someone to be an integral part of that transformation.

Students will be able to explore the different immersive reality options, including augmented, virtual and 360 virtual video. Using the latest development tools, learners will discover coding techniques specific to creating AR and VR projects. In addition, those in the course will be able to take projects from beginning to end and share them through multiple mediums including mobile and wearable devices.

For those that need it, tuition assistance is available and may fund up to 100 percent of the cost of the program. According to Brokel, that kind of support is just another example of Kirkwoods commitment to the regional workforce and the people it serves in the institutions seven-county area.

Kirkwood has always done everything it can to eliminate the barriers to getting an education, said Brokel. Cost is obviously a major obstacle for some people. Tuition assistance ensures that everyone has access to the technology and the ability to learn how to make an impact with these groundbreaking tools.

To learn more about the AR and VR certificate, call 319-398-5529, or email ceadvising@kirkwood.edu. To register, go to http://www.kirkwood.edu/arvr.

*****Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Certificate Course*****

When: January 25 May 26, Mondays & Wednesdays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.Where: Linn County Regional Center, Room 216Cost: $2,695

Tuition assistance may fund up to 100 percent of registration costs for this program.

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