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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Founded in 2006, UK-based independent virtual reality gaming development studio nDreams has raised £2.0M (just under $2.5M) in funding. TREAT LAZY EYE WITH VIRTUAL REALITY. NOKIA AND SONY GET TOGETHER FOR 360 VIDEO. Traditional treatment consists of an eye patch, contact lenses, or even surgery.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). When you’re “wearing” in Vernor Vinge’s 2006 book Rainbow’s End, contact lenses and computers woven into clothing serve up an assortment of competing realities and overlays.

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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

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Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. They recently closed a $22M round co-led by Sony and Foxconn. Writer Christopher Grayson is an augmented reality, virtual reality and smart glasses expert market analyst represented by Gerson Lehrman Group.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. BigscreenVR has partnered with many of the major movie studios including Paramount Pictures and Funimation (Sony Pictures). In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm.

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This is How Fake News Happens: The Reporting of Palmer Luckey and Nimble America

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s shitposting on 4chan in 2006 are today’s silicon valley billionaires buying elections for lulz. 12:26 PM @the_rami ✔: The whole situation with Oculus and Luckey just makes me so sad that I want to escape into some sort of HTC Vive-powered virtual reality. The ugly reality of an Oculus founder’s politics.

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