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Ultrahaptics Acquires Leap Motion for a Reported $30M

Road to VR

Since its founding in 2011, Leap Motion has garnered over $94 million in outside funding. It seemed Leap Motion was on a continuous upward trajectory, however it was reported late last year that Apple was actually on the verge of acquiring Leap Motion , but the deal fell through days before it was expected to close.

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Retrospective: How LEGO Augments Our World

VRScout

Life of George (2011) . In 2011, LEGO unveiled their first fully integrated digital-to-physical gaming experience, Life of George. LEGO Augmented Entertainment – Viewing & Gaming Experiences. . Who Phone Box , or H. LEGO Nexo Knights (2015). In 2015, LEGO announced LEGO Nexo Knights.

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Report Predicts AR and VR Headsets Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021

Road to VR

At the same time, despite the general focus on VR’s entertainment prospects, IDC sees the technology’s wider appeal to other verticals as key to its growth predictions. However, 2017 will see a glut of new devices hit the market from new vendors , increasing choice for consumers and introducing competition. billion in 2021.

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The 10 most streamed TV shows of the week: The good, the bad, and the meh

Mashable VR

— Adam Rosenberg, Senior Entertainment Reporter/Weekend Editor How to watch: Halo is currently streaming on Paramount Plus. — Belen Edwards, Entertainment Fellow. Credit: Apple TV+. The Apple TV+ series features stellar cinematography, supercuts, and special effects that help speed up and animate the drawn-out saga.

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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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OpenSim active users hit all-time-high for the holidays

Hypergrid Business

We are keeping the mobile app purely for gameplay, roleplay, and entertainment. The team will continue to build for Apple Vision Pro and other immersive VR devices in the future once the mobile app is complete and shows traction. . “We are working with them to make this possible,” he told Hypergrid Business.

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The YouTube of 3D Models, with Sketchfab CEO Alban Denoyel

XR for Business Podcast

My– So, Sketchfab is built on top of WebGL, which is the first web-based framework to display 3D graphics in the browser and WebGL was initiated by Mozilla back in 2011. Alban: Cedric started in 2011, I met him early 2012, and we officially launched in March 2012. Alan: Incredible. I mean, you guys have come a long, long way.