Posts Tagged ‘virtual’
Crosswater Awarded
Pictured at Baycrest’s Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation’s award ceremony, Crosswater’s founders are proud to have been recognized with their partners; PrimaCare Living Solutions, and Western University’s Dr. Karen Campbell. We are collaborating on a Virtual Reality research project to help improve the quality of life for moderate to severe dementia patients in…
Read MoreCrosswater at Award Ceremony
Pictured at Baycrest‘s Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation’s award ceremony, Crosswater’s founders are proud to have been recognized with their partners by the Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Canada’s Federal Minister of Health. Crosswater, Primacare Living Solutions and Western University‘s Dr. Karen Campbell are collaborating on a Virtual Reality research project to help improve…
Read MoreVR Storytelling
VR is revolutionizing the future of media content and how it is consumed. “There’s a really powerful emotional, low-hanging fruit piece here,” said Michael Ludden, the Director of Product for Watson Developer Labs & AR/VR Labs at IBM, in regards to immersive VR/360 media content as a vehicle for storytelling. Take a look at the…
Read MoreVR Creating Empathy
Over history, emerging forms of media have taught us how to be more empathetic by delivering messages in increasingly effective ways. VR is no exception to that trend. The immersion experienced by VR users gives them more insight into the struggles of their fellow humans, and it also gives more insight to content creators about…
Read MoreUB VR/360
In case you haven’t had the opportunity to see the University at Buffalo new medical campus, here is an immersive VR/360 view from inside the breathtaking lobby of the UB Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Crosswater’s VR team is thrilled at how UB’s campuses come to life with our immersive VR/360 media content.…
Read MoreGoogle Expeditions
Google Expeditions is an educational VR program for young students. The immersion offered by VR opens kids up to new perspectives & experiences, and jumpstarts their imaginations! Crosswater is a provider of Google Expeditions. Contact us at (716) 884-8486, crosswater@crosswater.net, Facebook Messenger, or LinkedIn to learn more about what this service could offer to your…
Read MoreVR Conference Call
The ways in which VR innovates mundane tasks are seemingly endless. Take a took at this article and video about a Dublin-based start-up called MeetingRoom, who are bringing a whole new tool box to businesses. They are using VR to revolutionize outdated conference calls with a virtual room equipped with interactive capabilities. They will provide…
Read MoreVR/360 at UB
Crosswater is the sole VR Production company used by the University at Buffalo to usher in a new era of immersive learning and marketing. In this picture, our VR producers Dan and Lauren are prepping the James Platt White Conference Room for its VR/360 debut. This seldom-recognized room is located in the UB Library, and is a…
Read MoreVR: Top 5 Education Tools
EdTech put together a Top 5 list of budding technologies in Higher Education that are innovating the way that students learn. Virtual Reality made the list, and the content that Crosswater has been creating with the University at Buffalo was referenced in their explanation! We are always honored when our VR/360 content helps to push…
Read MoreVR and Driverless Cars
Looking ahead, we see a world filled with new inventions. Currently, all signs point to the future prominence of self-driving vehicles, and with that, another opportunity for VR. Apple has applied for a patent for their VR application, which they claim could reduce motion sickness in cars as we move into a new era of…
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