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VR & AR Goes For Gold At 2018 Winter Olympic Games

VRScout

The VR Olympics is being delivered exclusively through the NBC Sports VR app on Samsung Gear VR, Google Daydream, Windows, Android and iOS devices. STRIVR primarily uses an Oculus Rift for their training, as well as Samsung Gear VR for the times when the team is on the road.

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Spatial raises $14M more for a holographic 3D workspace app, a VR/AR version of Zoom or Hangouts

TechCrunch VR

Other investors include Expa, Lerer Hippeau, Leaders Fund, Samsung NEXT and Andy Hertzfeld (of Macintosh fame). They’re taking us beyond everyday tools like Zoom and Slack and pointing the way towards what conferencing and collaboration can be like if they were invented today and I’m excited to support the journey.”.

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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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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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Reaching for the Clouds with 6D.ai’s Matt Miesnieks

XR for Business Podcast

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. The tools are pretty [new], and Unity and things, you need to invest a fair bit of time and effort to build something. firm investing in AR solutions.

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Reaching for the Clouds with 6D.ai’s Matt Miesnieks

XR for Business Podcast

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. The tools are pretty [new], and Unity and things, you need to invest a fair bit of time and effort to build something. firm investing in AR solutions.

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Reaching for the Clouds with 6D.ai’s Matt Miesnieks

XR for Business Podcast

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. The tools are pretty [new], and Unity and things, you need to invest a fair bit of time and effort to build something. firm investing in AR solutions.

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