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Leap Motion Raises $50 Million For Its Finger Tracking Technology

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

VR and AR headsets are heading to market from Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others that have a wide range of capabilities. What’s unclear is just how you’ll be able to interact with the virtual worlds and objects produced inside these headsets. Finger tracking is an incredibly difficult problem to solve.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.11): new Quest is in the works, Magic Leap may pivot to healthcare, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The company switched to an enterprise model , but apart from a rebranding and an assistance service it is not clear what it actually means, especially if compared with the enormous enterprise offering that Microsoft is giving with HoloLens (Azure services, integration with Teams, etc…). CTRL+C in the real world, CTRL+V in the virtual one.

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Welcome to CadaVR: A Living Cadaver Laboratory on the Web

Leapmotion

You can reach out into the virtual world and grab objects with your hands. Ryan James is a PhD student studying Biomedical and Health Informatics at the University of Washington, a software developer with 4 years of industry experience at Microsoft, and an entrepreneur with one year of experience running a small company in 2010.

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

He’s the founder and managing partner for Super Ventures and the CEO of AugmentedReality.org, a nonprofit that produces Augmented World Expo, the top industry conference for AR since 2010. Ori: Actually, if you take it back 10 years to 2010, when we did our first AWE, you had a lot of passionate people in the room.

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

XROM

Just for Context the worlds current population is 7 Billion, India & China's Collective population is 2.7 Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. 25- Pankaj Raut.

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

He’s the founder and managing partner for Super Ventures and the CEO of AugmentedReality.org, a nonprofit that produces Augmented World Expo, the top industry conference for AR since 2010. Ori: Actually, if you take it back 10 years to 2010, when we did our first AWE, you had a lot of passionate people in the room.

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