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How to Make a Body or Object in VR (Virtual Reality)?

The Crazy Programmer

If you’ve enjoyed gaming using an Oculus Rift S or Sony PlayStation headset, then you’ve had a hands-on experience of VR. Nowadays, the concept of virtual reality or VR is finding across-the-board applications, including healthcare, defense, aerospace, and many other industries. 1 st Step: Putting Together a VR Model.

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Loft Dynamics raises $20M to tackle pilot shortage with VR training

TechCrunch

Loft Dynamics , a Swiss startup creating virtual reality (VR) simulation technology for helicopter pilots, has raised $20 million in funding from U.S. H125 VR simulator. Other companies are using VR simulation to tackle similar workforce shortage problems or otherwise enhance existing training programs.

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Nanome raises $3 million to help scientists get up close with molecular structures in VR

TechCrunch

The idea for Nanome came out of CEO and Founder Steve McCloskey’s time in the nanoengineering program at UC San Diego, where he saw a need for a better understanding of three-dimensional molecular structures. San Diego-based startup Nanome uses virtual reality to solve that problem.

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Transfr raises $12M Series A to bring virtual reality to manufacturing-plant floors

TechCrunch

Transfr started as a mentor-based VR training programming play. Labster, which offers schools VR simulations of science class, had product usage grow 15 times since March. 7 investors discuss augmented reality and VR startup opportunities in 2020. The company raised money in August to expand to Asia.

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

TechCrunch

XRHealth Virtual Clinic – Integrates VR/AR, licensed clinicians and real-time data analytics. echo3D – Cloud platform for 3D/AR/VR that provides tools and network infrastructure to help quickly build and deploy 3D/metaverse apps, games and content. The Metaverse.

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The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet

Coding Horror

My take on VR is far more pessimistic. VR just… isn't going to happen, in any "changing the world" form, in our lifetimes. And while I have you, we're still looking for code contributions in our project to update the most famous programming book of the BASIC era. Prove me wrong!

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Daily Crunch: Meta’s upcoming VR headset will track eye movements and capture facial expressions

TechCrunch

TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. But I knew I could start again if I was willing to learn from my mistakes and apply those lessons smartly.” ” Learning from my failures: Lessons from a 2-time founder. You can sign up here.). Big Tech Inc.

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