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by mattnewport 3339 days ago
We have paying customers for our VR surgical training - ossovr.com - I left the games industry in 2014 to work on non games VR applications because I believed (and still believe) that commercial applications of VR will be more profitable in the near term than games. Architecture is another field that is seeing rapid adoption of VR as a real business tool and not just a gimmick.
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strictnein 3339 days ago
Interesting, I pitched VR training as part of a hackathon at [my very large employer] who offers platforms for employee training and onboarding. One of the studies I cited during my presentation was on VR surgical training [0], showing that it decreased surgeon error. I lost to a multiuser wiki document editor (think Google Docs, but less exciting). Because that's a huge market for a multi billion dollar company. No, I'm not bitter... sigh

Another was how Siemens was able to reduce training times for oil rigs by significant periods [1] using VR tech.

> "Architecture is another field that is seeing rapid adoption of VR"

My architect is going to bring over a SketchUp model of the work he has planned on our house and I'll be loading it up with some software for the Vive [2]. He doesn't usually do that final step, but he's very interested in trying it out.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1422600/

[1] https://www.siemens.com/innovation/en/home/pictures-of-the-f...

[2] https://www.kubity.com/

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mattnewport 3339 days ago
Cool, we're in discussions with a major medical school to run a study to compare performance after training with one of our modules vs traditional training materials.

Even outside of studies that specifically look at VR there is a lot of research into general learning, training and education that tends to support the hypothesis that VR will be a powerful tool for this type of application.

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AlwaysRock 3339 days ago
Not quite architecture but I'd love to have a interior designer be able to see a vr version of my apartment or be able to see a VR version of a apartment instead of having to go apartment shopping. I believe stuff like this is out in the world but just not widespread enough yet.
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gautamb0 3338 days ago
Have you guys experimented with LeapMotion?
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BatFastard 3338 days ago
I love LeapMotion, just wish more apps supported it.

When I use LeapMotion I dont get motion sickness. Huge win!

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