Vuzix told shareholders that the company now holds an exclusive license of the French-based company Atomistic's muLED display technology. The product will allow Vuzix to market and scale the compact, color-integrated, high-performance, and low-power displays. More: - Atomistic's muLED displays, or "micro light-emitting diode" displays, solve color integration problems faced by many VR display companies.
- For example, Atomistic's muLED uses "emitters for red, green and blue spectral wavelengths based on a single epitaxial structure transferred to a CMOS backplane; high brightness; and greater efficiency at small pixel pitches."
- Vuzix has also been granted a custom backplane.
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 Half of Premier League clubs are using some form of VR to train or rehab players. Analysts believe that that number will near or reach 100% of clubs by the end of 2022. How VR technologies are being used across clubs differs. Still, perhaps one of its most significant advantages is allowing players to practice drills or prepare for matches without posing any threat to their heads, thus reducing the risk of brain injuries. More: - Players practice drills wearing a VR headset, holding hand controllers, and using HTC5 trackers to track their feet.
- The drills have been designed with Uefo Pro License coaches and players to create the best possible and most realistic VR experience.
- During recovery or offseason, playing soccer in VR reduces brain risk while encouraging regular play.
- Many players, coaches, and doctors highlight VR simulators' importance to cognitive growth and development.
- One Austrian rehabilitation doctor, Christian Fink, uses VR on Manchester City players during recovery periods to keep players' minds sharp and practice "scanning the pitch, passing, dealing with pressure and receiving the ball."
- World Cup winner Cesc Fabregas said about the technology, "In all of my years, I have never seen technology that allows players to develop their cognitive skills in a virtual reality world without the risk of injuries."
- The technology helps prepare new or young players for big matches, acclimating them to a raucous crowd and players running directly at them.
- Well-known teams such as Leicester City, Everton, and Manchester City, to name a few, are using VR technologies.
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 Vermont-based Olfactory Virtual Reality's (OVR) custom Bluetooth-enabled cartridge can be attached to a VR headset so users can smell their virtual surroundings. The San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design's current "Living with Scents" exhibit highlights OVR's headset cartridge, which releases smell in time with digitally programmed cues. The company is one of a small few bringing scents into VR. More: - OCR's "snap-n-scent" cartridge is filled with lab-created vials that release smells according to what the viewer is experiencing in VR.
- The hardware is filled with nine vials that produce countless distinctive smells.
- According to a reporter who visited OCR's lab, wearers can, for example, lean in to smell a rose, and then the second the rose disappears from view, so does the smell.
- OCR's hardware is being tested at numerous health facilities, such as a New York City recovery center and a PTSD lab in Los Angeles.
- In New York, patients are immersed in a relaxing, meditative experience while smelling calming scents.
- The meditative experience is part of OCR's burgeoning "Inhale" program.
- In L.A., researchers at the University of Southern California use OCR's technology for PTSD-related exposure therapies.
- The program acclimates PTSD suffers to familiar if disturbing smells like gunpowder, blood, and feces.
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The VR therapeutic company AppliedVR and the noninvasive neuroimaging startup Kernel are partnering to study VR's effectiveness in treating chronic pain. The companies will measure the effects of AppliedVR's FDA-authorized RelieVRx by comparing those findings with a control group (not using the VR program to treat chronic pain). The study will consider how the intervention affects patients before, during, and after their treatments. More: - Patients will wear Kernel's FlowVR headsets to access the RelieVRx treatment suite.
- Kernel's specially headset uses TD-fNIRS to measure brain activity, allowing the companies to trace and examine biomarkers associated with chronic pain.
- The 20-person study will also track changes in pain perception.
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The K-12 educational VR company zSpace announced plans to go public. The company will first merge with SPAC EdtechX Holdings Acquisition Corp. to become zSpace Technologies Inc. (ZSPX). The merger will cut the company's valuation by $165M. More: - The deal is expected to close in Q4 2022.
- Founded in 2007, zSpace alleges it serves over 2,400 U.S. schools and more than 1 million students annually.
- The merger and public trade announcements signal the company's intentions to enter global markets, especially in China.
- Students using zSpace can work on group projects, manipulate objects in virtual space, and engage with the class via their stylus.
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 MeetinVR 2.0 is the latest update to the coworking metaverse. The newest edition introduces new tools, higher-quality visuals, two new meeting spaces, and a more intuitive XR experience. In MeetinVR, colleagues can collaborate, shake hands, share documents, and host meetings, workshops, and training. More: - Users navigate the metaverse as avatars based on uploaded photographs of themselves.
- Visitors do not need to use a VR headset to join the virtual workplace, but the UX is catered to headset users.
- MeetinVR features 3D pens, virtual screens, whiteboards, isolated voice "zones," document sharing, scheduling tools, a calendar system, and supports 360-degree files, images, and videos.
- The Copenhagen-based company began in 2016 and, after debuting on Meta's Quest Store, quickly rose the ranks to become one of the Meta store's top VR apps of 2021.
- MeetinVR offers both free and paid subscriptions.
- Paid subscribers can interact in customizable, "digital twin" offices.
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 |  | Courtney Rawlings is an Inside Research Analyst living in Los Angeles, California. She has returned to her hometown of LA after spending several years working at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she is completing a Ph.D. in Art and Architectural History. While working toward her Ph.D., Courtney has developed an interest in the language and history of the tech industry, especially regarding metaverse technologies, streaming, and podcasting. In fact, she hosted her own podcast Low Culture Boil! You can find her on Twitter: @ckayerawlings Email: courtney@inside.com |  | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 Ford. | |
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