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Apple Reportedly In Talks To Purchase VR Live Streaming Platform NextVR

VRScout

According to a new report by 9to5Mac , Apple is currently in the process of acquiring VR/AR live streaming platform NextVR for a modest $100M. Founded in 2009 by D.J. With the potential financial backing of Apple, however, there’s no limit to how this technology could be used. Image Credit: NextVR.

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How Will Spatial Computing Fare in a Post-Covid World?

AR Insider

Demand grew in 2020 along with Covid-inflections in gaming, leaving Oculus Quest and Valve index sold out part of the year. In fact, this is what happened to search circa-2003 and social advertising circa-2009. That’s the power of Apple’s proven halo effect and ability to mainstream emerging consumer tech categories.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s remarks on China cast shadow over Meta’s VR quest

TechCrunch VR

According to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, Meta is preparing to re-enter China by selling the Oculus Quest VR headset in China. If Tesla can sell cars and Apple can sell phones in China, why isn’t Meta present there? In 2019 , the Californian gaming platform Roblox teamed up with Tencent to enter China.

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‘Mythica VR': VR LARP With D&D-style World Building Hits Kickstarter

Road to VR

Arrowstorm Entertainment is what you might call ‘serial Kickstarters’, as they’ve successfully completed 13 different campaigns on the crowdfunding site—mostly focusing on small budget sword and sorcery flicks starring the likes of Kevin Sorbo from Hercules (1995) and Kristian Nairn (aka Hodor) from Game of Thrones (2011).

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7Invensun is a Chinese company that wants to disrupt the VR eye tracking sector

The Ghost Howls

It is mostly unknown here in the West because its target market is mostly the one of its home country, but actually, it’s working on eye tracking since 2009 , so it has a deep expertise with this technology. I’ve read on your website about eye-tracking games. How can eye-tracking improve VR gaming?

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8 key virtual world features moving to VR

Hypergrid Business

Virtual worlds and video games do create the feeling that you’ve gone somewhere else. They’re games, or videos, that people sit back and enjoy. There are also app stores for the Oculus Rift , the Gear VR , the HTC Vive , and on Steam for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. A virtual meeting.

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Off to Digital Market We Go, with InContext Solutions’ Tracey Wiedmeyer

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: The Oculus Quest is coming out next week at [Facebook] F8, and it’s full six degrees of freedom. We started in 2009 before really headsets were hitting the market. So standardizing the 3D models that everybody uses; There’s OBJ, there’s glTF, there’s FDX, there’s now USDZ with Apple.

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