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Virtual and hybrid learning works. Here’s how to get it right.

CIO Business Intelligence

In part, this shift is driven by students, who increasingly demand virtual and hybrid learning experiences that better match the ways they like to consume content at home. Meanwhile, virtual education has become an essential element of resilience for educational institutions by ensuring that students don’t fall behind during closures.

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Oculus' New Experimental API Blends Virtual Reality With Your Real-World Surroundings

Gizmodo

An update for Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality system will let developers incorporate real-life video from the VR headset’s sensors into their games to create “mixed reality experiences.” Read more.

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Video conferencing trends for 2021

Spearline Testing

Video conferencing has become a core facet of the year 2020, enabling organizations to communicate, family and friends to stay connected, and even for medical practitioners to assess their patients. By 2024 , research projects that the video conferencing industry will be worth US$20 billion. Departure from in-person meetings.

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Aflac virtualizes the customer enrollment experience

CIO Business Intelligence

The traditional in-person process of insurance agents meeting with prospective customers to discuss policies, sign paperwork, and load it into the company’s client/server system came to a complete halt. Virtualizing policy enrollment. At the outset of the pandemic, Aflac’s independent agent/franchise business looked to be a dead duck.

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Amazon starts offering virtual classes and sightseeing tours via new Explore platform

The Verge

It works via a video stream, with tour guides, instructors, and personal shoppers providing one-on-one sessions. Amazon says the video is one-way, meaning only the host is on camera during the virtual experience, but the audio is two-way so you can ask questions and make requests. Screenshot: Amazon.com.

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Microsoft will power virtual fan experience at NFL games with Teams, following NBA deal

GeekWire

Microsoft is becoming the de-facto virtual fan enabler for sports leagues. The tech giant revealed today that it is working with the NFL to host a virtual fan experience for games during the 2020-21 season, which kicks off tonight. For each NFL game, the home team will invite fans to the virtual experience. Microsoft Image).

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Virtual Reality Operating Simulators: Gamification in Training Surgeons

CTOvision

Young surgeons, who had played video games, had better eye-hand coordination than surgeons who had never played the games. To make the simulators possible, researchers make virtual maps of the brain, the thorax and other areas of the body. Research has exploded with the current trend toward laparoscopic and robotic surgeries.

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