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Import Records Reveal Sony Has Shipped Thousands of Dev Kits, Possibly PSVR 2

Road to VR

United States import records from late 2021 onward show that Sony Interactive Entertainment has shipped thousands of boxes containing developer kits from Asia to the US. December 2021 – 980 CTN, 8712 kg, Japan -> Oakland, CA. November 2021 – 480 CTN, 5218 kg, Japan -> Oakland, CA.

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Epic Games Awarded Grants to 31 XR Projects in 2021 Through the $100M MegaGrants Fund

Road to VR

Art Reality Studio – IVR 6 (United States). North Carolina State University (NCSU) – transVRse (United States). Tribe XR – DJ in VR (United States). University of North Carolina at Asheville – Interfacing Unreal with Physical Computing & New Media VR Pedagogy (United States).

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Heart-wrenching photos from 2022 March For Our Lives

Mashable VR

Following the devastating elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas — just one in a string of mass shootings that recently occurred in the United States — thousands of people marched throughout the country in support of gun control on Saturday. Enough is enough' in Anaheim, California.

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Suffolk, Carnegie Mellon Universities Join Transatlantic VR Partnership

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The news comes after Carnegie Mellon University selected 25 institutions to participate in the trial across the United States and the United Kingdom. Finally, Epic Games kicked off its Augmented Reality Center (ARC) with Oakland University Michigan. It will last six months and kick off at the end of November.

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These Sleepless Nights Highlights America’s Eviction Crisis Using Mixed Reality

Peter Graham

Immersive technology can be a powerful medium when used correctly to draw attention to particular issues, such as when the United Nations (UN) and Here Be Dragons created Ground Beneath Her. Currently, the United States is going through a housing crisis with eviction cases on the rise.

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Exposing Homelessness Through Eviction With ‘These Sleepless Nights’ Mixed Reality Mini-Doc

VRScout

In the United States alone, it is estimated that approximately 553,000 Americans were experiencing homelessness on a single night in 2018, this according to data accumulated by a Point-in-Time (PIT) count , also known as a “street counts” or “homeless counts”. The Magic Leap-powered AR exhibit premiers at the Venice Film Festival.