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Startup Yarviss: Online shopping meets virtual reality
The young Hamburg-based company Yarviss wants to bring online shops and websites into the VR world.
May 23, 2019
Virtual reality tour through your own brain
When a person is diagnosed with a brain tumour, it helps to know as much as possible about the disease and the treatment options....
May 21, 2019
Sports consumption of the future: Couch becomes stadium, pub and betting parlour
Thanks to voice control and virtual reality, viewers will in future be able to decide for themselves from which perspective they want to...
May 19, 2019
As a harpy through the rainforest
From tropical birds of prey to black caiman: the installation "Inside Tumucumaque" transports visitors to the Amazon as animals.
May 17, 2019
VR offers New York police completely new training opportunities
Shots fired at the World Trade Center: What sounds like a horrific re-enactment of 9/11 is actually a...
May 9, 2019
How Shutterstock is experimenting with augmented reality
Augmented reality has long since ceased to be just a technology that integrates virtual elements into real-life environments for entertainment or...
May 5, 2019
Medical students train disinfection in VR
At the University of Siegen, a system is being developed for a master's thesis that will support future doctors in surgical hand disinfection.
April 27, 2019
Digital carnival as a cultural asset
How can immaterial facets of customs be experienced digitally and communicated interactively? This is what the carnival museums Narrenschopf and...
April 23, 2019
Lufthansa trains flight attendants with data glasses and VR
Lufthansa Aviation is now using virtual reality for staff training. Flight attendants are put into dangerous situations with data goggles.
April 19, 2019
Impression Depression - A Virtual Reality Experience
Giving people an impression of how a depressive illness affects their own psyche is the aim of the...
April 17, 2019