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Former Salesforce exec Bret Taylor is teaming up with Google AR/VR vet Clay Bavor on mystery startup

TechCrunch VR

He wanted to go build again — and today he and long time Google engineering veteran Clay Bavor announced they were teaming up on a new mystery project. Until then, I’ll be focusing on transitioning my teams and projects, and wrapping things up properly at Google.” Well, guess what?

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Preserving Historical Landmarks In VR Should Be A Priority

VRScout

Following the destruction of the Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan back in 2001, Ben Kacyra began digitally capturing historical landmarks for preservation using laser-scanning technology, going on to launch the non-profit company CyArk in 2003. Image Credit: Google Inc.

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My Presentation on Virtual World Building in Second Life (Delivered to a University Course on Virtual World Building and Design)

Ryan Schultz

I also put out a circa-2003 house side-by-side with a circa-2023 house, so the students could see how far that art has come in 20 years!) I’m gonna have my hands full supporting an entire class; I don’t have time to support all of you, too! So, anyway, back to the graduate class.

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The VRScout Report – AR Magazines, NFL Refs in VR, & Eye Implants

VRScout

The STRIVR company was born out of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford back in 2015 (founded in 2003 by Jeremy Bailenson, who founded STRIVR with ex-Stanford kicker Derek Belch). NFL REFS GET THE VIRTUAL TRAINING TREATMENT.

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New LSL Editor released

Hypergrid Business

It works for Windows platforms including Windows 2K, 2003, XP, Vista, 7, and 8 and is available download at the Source Forge page and the manual is available from this Google Doc page.

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There's no need to freak out over Elon Musk buying Twitter. He's all hype.

Mashable VR

Except he isn't a founder at all , joining well after Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning created Tesla in 2003. Even if all this happens, Musk's Twitter will still be beholden to other big tech companies, such as Apple and Google, that it depends on to distribute its services.

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Two Recent Video Essays on the Metaverse: Straszfilms Looks at There.com, and Dan Olson Dissects Decentraland

Ryan Schultz

There has to go down as one of the worst possible names for a virtual world—something which becomes rapidly apparent when you try to search on Google for it. But in 2003, it absolutely was. And, as a fellow virtual worlds nerd myself, I really enjoyed it! Almost bizarrely so.

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