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VR & AR Goes For Gold At 2018 Winter Olympic Games

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You can experience the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in entirely new ways. The 2018 Winter Olympic Games is getting a big technology boost when it opens on February 9th in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The 2018 Winter Olympic Games will have a “different approach,” according to Blake Rowe, Implementation Manager for Intel Sports.

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Xbox Game Studios Has (inadvertently?) Acquired Heaps of VR Development Talent

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A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its first-party game development talent under the Xbox Game Studios banner.

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Roblox buys digital avatar startup Loom.ai

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Purchasing a company that has focused singularly on creating more realistic human avatars is an interesting play for a gaming platform that has made such an impact by building experiences that tend to cast realism to the wayside. The startup’s investors include Y Combinator, Samsung Ventures, Anorak Ventures and Zach Coelius.

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Baobab Studios Raises $25 Million in New Funding Round

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Original investors included Comcast Ventures, HTC and Samsung, but now join Horizons Ventures, Twentieth Century Fox, Evolution Media Partners (backed by TPG and CAA), China’s Shanghai Media Group, Youku Global Media Fund and LDV Partners. SEE ALSO Comcast, Samsung, and HTC Join $6 Million Investment in VR Animation Studio 'Baobab'.

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These Are The Stocks You Could Buy To Invest In The VR Industry

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VR investments have broken into the billions of dollars with reports showing as high as $4-5 billion since 2010 and $2 billion in the last 12 months alone. Starbreeze Games – NASDAQ OMX Stockholm: STAR – VR headset & VR games. Sony – NYSE: SNE – VR Console, VR Games & VR Headset.

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Another Google Glass Failure: What Happened to Google Iris?

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In 2010, the Google “X Development” initiative started looking for ways to improve life and everyday experiences for users in the digital world. Is Google Officially Out of the AR Game? In February, Google, Samsung, and Qualcomm announced a vague partnership on a mixed-reality platform. Let’s look at the facts. Not necessarily.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.