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VR and AI App Founder, And Current Georgia Tech Student, Finds A Successful Path To Acquisition

VR and AI App Founder, And Current Georgia Tech Student, Finds A Successful Path To Acquisition

Parth Arora doesn’t yet have his college diploma. But he does have something that most entrepreneurs envy: A successful startup exit. Arora founded the fitness app Third Dimension Fitness as a student in Georgia Tech’s undergraduate computer science department. The virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality startup is

Atlanta’s Foundry 45 Heads To The Pacific Northwest For Mass Transit Virtual Trainings

Atlanta’s Foundry 45 Heads To The Pacific Northwest For Mass Transit Virtual Trainings

TriMet, a mass transit company based out of Oregon, recently collaborated with Atlanta innovators at Foundry 45 to develop a new virtual training method for light rail operators. “We put out an RFP and had a lot of interest in this project,” said Todd Mattson, TriMet’s Manager of Training

V Air

Student-Entrepreneur Breezes Into the VR Space With An Airy New Sensory Dimension

Monroe Ramsey is pushing the boundaries of immersive technologies - this time, with a breeze. Fascinated by art, film and media, the Georgia State Creative Media Industries Institute (CMII) student was eager to explore how non-traditional sensory experiences — anything beyond audio and visual — could be incorporated into digital entertainment. “It’

Jak Wilmot

This Young Studio Owner Is Pioneering the Mixed Reality-Film Medium

Though virtual reality is taking the gaming industry by storm, the technology is also being explored by filmmakers who are interested in this emerging medium. One Atlanta-based studio, Disrupt!, is pioneering the field with its immersive, free VR experiences. The concept was inspired by Oculus Story Studio, the VR

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Virtual Reality: How It's Reshaping the Face of Retail

When examining e-commerce trends for 2018, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) top just about every single list — so much so that experts are beginning to call this “the year of VR.” Just a few months in, we can already tell that retailers are hopping on the VR

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Can VR Be Cost-Effective for the Classroom? This Startup Says Yes

A survey of more than 1,000 U.S. K-12 teachers showed that 86 percent feel it is a challenge to keep students engaged in the curriculum. When asked specifically about what technologies could help engage kids, 93 percent said their students would be excited to use virtual reality,

SCAD President Paula Wallace On Nurturing Gaming Talent for Georgia's Booming eSports Industry

SCAD President Paula Wallace On Nurturing Gaming Talent for Georgia's Booming eSports Industry

"We’re in a new, dynamic era for Georgia’s media industries. We’ve seen the tremendous results of state tax incentives already for film and television establishing Georgia as the number one destination for film production, and now we see the gaming industry primed for the same growth,