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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy.

AllThingsVR

Owlchemy Labs, founded in 2010, has raised $5 million in seed funding from Capital Factory, Qualcomm Ventures, Colopl VR Fund, HTC and The Venture Reality Fund. Read more here.

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‘Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter’ Is Fast, Frenetic, and Fun FPS Action With Full Locomotion

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The most accurate comparisons you could draw would be to that of the Duke Nukem, Unreal, and Quake franchises. The First Encounter and The Second Encounter each got remastered in HD in 2009 and 2010, respectively, before the release of Serious Sam 3: BFE in 2011.

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Delivering Digital Meatballs in AR, with IKEA’s Martin Enthed

XR for Business Podcast

Martin: The exploration stuff internally started already in 2010, when we made some things that was running in a browser, and then we sent off a small little file that's told how that scene was set up and then rendered with an offline rendering and sending it back again in 10 seconds. What's kind of on the roadmap there? It's still out there.

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Delivering Digital Meatballs in AR, with IKEA’s Martin Enthed

XR for Business Podcast

Martin: The exploration stuff internally started already in 2010, when we made some things that was running in a browser, and then we sent off a small little file that's told how that scene was set up and then rendered with an offline rendering and sending it back again in 10 seconds. What's kind of on the roadmap there? It's still out there.

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Delivering Digital Meatballs in AR, with IKEA’s Martin Enthed

XR for Business Podcast

Martin: The exploration stuff internally started already in 2010, when we made some things that was running in a browser, and then we sent off a small little file that's told how that scene was set up and then rendered with an offline rendering and sending it back again in 10 seconds. What's kind of on the roadmap there? It's still out there.

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10 Recent VR and AR Investments You Should Know About

VRScout

The Series A was led by Qualcomm Ventures, and also involved The VR Fund (contributors to The Wave’s round as well), Colopl Next, Capital Factory, HTC, and more. HTC FUNDS STEEL WOOL, SOLO. Earlier this year, Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code named “Moss.”

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

XROM

Alvin is the China President at #HTC leading all aspects of HTC’s business in the region (Vive/VR, phone, Viveport content platform, partnerships and investments). The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War.