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...The company is also looking at other ways VR can be used in the aviation industry, including in soft skills development, onboarding, interviewing and staff training....
...An immersive VR experience, ‘Tonight with the Impressionists: Paris 1874’, runs alongside it....
...France’s SNCF, Finland’s VR Group and Norwegian rolling stock company Norske have also outlined plans to order or refurbish trains....
...But I am dubious about the whole VR craze, which seems far too much like hard work to me....
...been desperate to bring workers back to the office, especially for regulatory-sensitive roles such as trading, but surges in coronavirus infection rates have meant many staff are wary about using public transport...
...Zipline International, a medical product delivery company, used drones to transport treatments for Covid-19 and other conditions in Rwanda (below), and test samples in Ghana, and provide contactless delivery...
...“VR goggles allowed prospective buyers and tenants to experience the space without having to visit,” Angel explains....
...But the duke believes sustainable transport offers the UK a second chance at becoming a volume carmaker....
...Stare deeply into tech's eyes Eye-tracking cameras in new VR headsets and smart glasses make concerns about facial recognition technology look almost trivial, comments Tim Bradshaw....
...Still, some early adopters wearing VR headsets (Facebook just launched the Oculus Go, costing $199) will be able to transport themselves to Russian stadiums....
...The Vision Fund holds a $502m stake in UK start-up Improbable, which makes large-scale VR and augmented reality worlds for gaming and training....
...The cash payment and acquihire end those concerns for Google and provide a lifeline for HTC to reinvent itself as a VR player....
...It’s VR for Vendetta Replay. Endless ones. Crash, bang, thwack, spurt, slump; over and over; to a factor of go-and-put-the-kettle-on-love-it’ll-still-be-happening-when-you-get-back....
...Playing VR games is not just distraction — it can reduce activity in parts of the brain associated with feeling pain, tricking your senses into believing the computer-generated environments are real....
...The UN-backed documentary Clouds over Sidra transports its audience to the Za’atari camp in Jordan, where Sidra, a real 12-year-old Syrian refugee, tells her story....
...Transport Venture capitalists at Founders Fund once complained: “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.”...
...Reinventing the wheel Goodyear has unveiled a spherical “concept tyre”— the Eagle 360 — which it says will shape all transport in years to come....
...With VR and related sectors thrown in, the total comes to $674bn....
...I think VR can really transport us in a way that a trip can or going to a movie can, and I believe it’ll be a really important part of storytelling in the future.”...
...Hollywood turns to VR Movie studios say virtual reality is a new platform that could become a fresh form of media for them to exploit....
...Tim Bradshaw’s Personal Technology column highlights Alexa among transport, virtual reality and wearable trends at the Las Vegas show....
...These ranged from radical solutions for how to link urban services such as public transport in smart cities to simple gadgets that let help people fish or walk their pets....
...Why shouldn’t Liverpool be the VR capital of the future?” Liverpool’s tech scene is doing well....
...VR really can transport you to new worlds. When Cardboard was announced by Google at its annual developer conference in the summer, it seemed like a bit of a joke....
...Alexandre Jenny, Kolor chief executive, said these videos can “transport an audience to another time and space”....
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