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Waveguide Maker DigiLens Secures Additional Investment by Samsung Ventures

Road to VR

DigiLens , the Silicon Valley-based waveguide maker, today announced that Samsung’s venture capital group Samsung Ventures is increasing its stake in the company. Samsung Ventures is a partner who fully understands all the different challenges of the XR ecosystem.

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VR Tour App ‘MasterWorks’ Uses Photogrammetry to Bring You to 4 Fully Explorable Heritage Sites

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Founded in 2003, the non-profit company’s mission, CyArk CEO John Ristevski told Tested, is to capture, share and archive the world’s cultural heritage. You can download MasterWorks: Journey Through History for Rift here , and for Gear VR here.

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

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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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Facebook CEO Asks for Investor Patience on VR, ‘it’s not going to be really profitable for us for quite a while’

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The analogy I always use, the first Smartphones came out in 2013—sorry, 2003—the Blackberry and Palm Treo. And while he did nod to the delayed rollout of the Rift and Touch controllers in 2016, he believes the company’s efforts in kickstarting VR content is “coming at a reasonable clip.”

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The 10 Best Examples Of The Metaverse Everyone Should Know About

Bernard Marr

Second Life was created by Linden Labs back in 2003, before Facebook (let alone Meta) even existed. It’s governed by a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) and is an online home to some of the world’s biggest superstars and brands, including Morgan Stanley, Coca-Cola, Adidas, Samsung, and Snoop Dogg. Second Life.

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The World of Mobile VR After Pokemon Go

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With the introduction of Google Cardboard and the Daydream VR platform, Oculus and HTC discrete VR headsets and GearVR headsets for even smartphones like the Samsung’s Galaxy S7, the first tentative steps towards virtual reality gaming are being taken. Virtual Reality Gaming isn’t coming, it’s already here.

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What VR Headset Makers (not analysts) Have Actually Said About Sales Expectations

Road to VR

. “But just to put that in perspective and compare it to the development of previous computing platforms, like phones and computers, I think the first smartphones came out in 2003, and in the first year, I think BlackBerry and Palm Treo were the initial smartphones that came out. Samsung – Gear VR. Photo courtesy Mark Zuckerberg.

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