VR News: We have seen VR used for all sorts of training purposes in the past, even teaching railway platform attendants! But did you know this area is one of the fastest growing areas of VR! Sure, the VR games industry might be slowing down, but when it comes to skill training it is leaping ahead as many businesses have discovered its benefits. Michael Field from industryweek.com finds out just how widespread VR job trailing really is!
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VR News: It’s not just on the plane that VR is taking over the aircraft industry, its also in the departure lounges! JFK Airport in New York, USA has just announced the opening of their “virtual reality suite” for travellers to spend some time in VR. While this is little more than a pop-up VR arcade its still something that might help spread VR into the more mainstream public.
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VR News: This case study by PLOS One put people into VR and asked them to walk across a plank which was 2.5 cm off the ground. They then did the same without a headset some they came to the conclusion VR not only makes your balance worse, it also caused increased mental exertion! But is there something else going on here?
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VR News: This is the story of a couple (David and Sandra Whelan) from Waterford (a City in the Republic of Ireland). The two of them made the business based on immersive home VR Education. 6 months ago their business was merely a seed of an idea, but in less than half a year it has been given an estimated worth of almost €30 million! But how and why? Find out by reading the article.
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VR News: MTR Crossrail (The “MTR stands for “Mass Transit Railway”) has created its own training program in VR for staff to spot possible dangers and problems before they happen. Things like suicide attempts at the train station or possible terrorists attacks. This is the first time VR has been used in this way in the transport sector anywhere in the world (as far as I know of anyway).
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VR News: Personally, I am not a fan of wired.com I find their articles too one-sided. But now and again they do strike gold and this article titled “The Wired Guide to Virtual Reality” is one of those moments. Written by Peter Rubin it’s a great article that goes through the history of VR to its future and it has a lot of well researched and written points making it well worth a look, even if you skip to the end to discover what wired.com thinks VR’s future is.
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VR News: In this article, Jen Booton from sporttechie.com takes a look at the surprising growth of sports stars, teams and even managers using VR as a learning tool! While sales of VR headsets are falling it seems one area that VR might thrive is in sports development and learning. But could future VR technology go a step further and make a real difference to sports as a whole?
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VR News: Talking a trip to Syria doesn’t sound like something you should do at the moment, but that hasn’t stopped Paris’s Arab World Institute from making a VR tour of the ancient Semitic city of Palmyra which is located right in the middle of the country! If you haven’t heard of Palmyra before you are not alone, but it was considered to be one of the most important cultural centres in the ancient world and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1980. While they have since…
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VR News: While several airlines have said they might be considering using VR for in-flight entertainment it seems Small Planet Airlines have jumped ahead and done it! With thanks going to Inflight VR (they create virtual reality ecosystem for the aviation industry) this in-flight VR will be Airbus A320s flying from Amsterdam to several destinations in southern Europe. While its service will have to also be pretty good I can easily see this giving this giving Small Planet Airlines a nice little publicity boost.
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VR News: GQ’s Scott Meslow gets to experience a movie in VR and starts to understand its possibilities. With apps like Oculus Events now showing us what is possible it’s not so much “if” a VR movie app will appear featuring the latest cinema films, it’s more…”when”! But unlike Scott, I have known this for quite a while!
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