XR for Business

Tired of waiting for the US treasury to put a female face on the $20? (Because you’ll probably be waiting a while yet!) Google’s got you covered, or rather, your cash: they’ve developed an AR app to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. That’s just one of the interesting bits of XR news Alan has in store for this week’s news update. A white paper published by Microsoft found that test scores among students using immersive technologies improved by as much as 22 percent, with the effect maintained over a period of weeks, including increased performance on skills-based tasks and gains in knowledge, abstract reasoning, and critical thinking.In a new survey of 900 developers working on VR/AR, 33 percent of them were focusing on education, and 27 percent were focusing on training Google puts women on US currency with an AR workaroundNew 8-minute galactic primer “Clio’s Cosmic Quest” is the future of AR educationFortum nuclear power plant uses VR for control room t