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Virtual Reality Bites: 6 Ways Industry Is Harnessing The Power Of VR And AR
The future’s made of virtual insanity, warned Jay Kay, the lead singer of Jamiroquai, in a 1996 megahit. The song “Virtual Insanity” imagined a bleak world where we’d all live underground in a simulacrum of reality afforded by “useless technology.” But there’s no sign of this subterranean dystopia in 2019: Humans are still an aboveground species, and virtual and augmented reality technology (VR and AR, respectively) is seriously funky.
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Practice Makes Perfect: Kevin And The Art Of VR Maintenance
The unit was a goner, but there was no screaming or hand-wringing, and no money was lost. That’s because the entire scene played out inside virtual-reality goggles.
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Game On: Virtual Reality Does The Heavy Lifting For Grid Technicians In Training
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Software, Please: Doctors Are Looking To AI To Speed Up Diagnosis
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That’s Powerful: GE Is Using Virtual Reality To Train Nuclear Engineers
Few places in the world are more secure than a nuclear power plant in France. Anyone who doesn’t work there full time, including maintenance engineers and field technicians, needs to get a security clearance and to complete rigorous safety training before they can step inside.
This arduous process creates a unique challenge: How do you train new maintenance crews when simply getting access is so difficult? One clever answer is virtual reality.
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Call Of Duty: This Woman's VR Simulation Makes Factories Work Better
Virtual reality became domesticated last year — at least in America — when the VR viewer Google Cardboard arrived for the first time with the Sunday New York Times. Today, you could use it to explore Pluto’s frigid heart or climb to the top of 1 World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan.
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Playing Doctor: This VR Could Walk Physicians Through The Patient’s Body
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Cutting the Cord: The Future Of VR Headsets Has To Be Wireless
Cordless virtual reality head-mounted displays may be the key to bringing VR to the masses, not just for households and especially for enterprise use. But companies will need technological innovation in battery life and other components before this can happen.
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What's Holding Back VR?
Despite major publicity and significant corporate investments in virtual reality platforms, the prevalence of VR systems has a long way to go. Still, Christian Talmage, a VR consultant, explains why he's still all aboard the VR growth train.
