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Medical simulation platform FundamentalVR raises $20M to help surgeons learn through VR

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FundamentalVR , an immersive simulation platform for medical and health care professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to “accelerate skill-transfer and surgical proficiency” through virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) applications. Big impact. “This makes the solutions highly scalable and affordable.”

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The Role of Assistive Technology in Education and Training for Seizure Disabilities

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In the realm of education and training, inclusivity stands as a cornerstone for empowering individuals with diverse needs. Among the various challenges that educators address, catering to students with seizure disabilities requires a specialized approach.

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Power Immersive, Engaging, Impactful Learning Experiences with AR/VR

Trigent

The education sector, like many others, has been hugely impacted owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. But with Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) coming into the picture, things have changed radically for the education sector. We are treading into an era of experiential learning driven by AR/VR.

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Quality Assurance Approach towards Virtual Reality (VR)

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Virtual Reality Virtual Reality (VR) is an immersive media experience replicating either a real or imagined environment and allowing users to interact with the environment. Unlike the conventional user interface of displaying content on a screen, VR immerses a person to interact in a digital 3D environment.

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Tech Trends Driving Higher Education in 2021 and Beyond

Trigent

Here are the top trending technologies that have got the education industry’s attention and are sure to have a long-standing impact on the education industry and system. AI’s impact on the education sector or specifically in higher learning institutes can be manifold.

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Why Adopting New Technologies like AR and VR are Essential for Your Business?

Trigent

In that case, it is essential to understand why companies consider adopting new technologies or digital transformations like Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) to meet customer needs. While AR and VR offer many revolutionary experiences, XR is based on the same technologies. million VR users and 110.1

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Go1 nabs $100M at a $2B+ valuation to upgrade its curated enterprise learning platform

TechCrunch

Online education continues to get a lot of attention in the wake of COVID-19 and the shift it brought to how people can learn. “Internally, we are considering how to provide education to everyone without pricing them out. If we do something in consumer, we would want to make that a target. It would be quite a different product.”