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Q&A With Matt Bell: How Matterport Started Capturing The Real Estate Market In VR

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Matt Bell founded Matterport after the release of Microsoft Kinect and seeing it’s potential to create 3D environments to give someone that immersive feeling in a space. MB: Back in 2011, my co-founder Dave [Gausebeck] and I were very interested in the idea of creating the 3D equivalent of the camera. How did Matterport come to be?

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The AR Space Race, Part VIII: Startups

AR Insider

It was acquired by Facebook in 2011, then mostly faded away. After reinventing itself as a B2B data powerhouse, it still spins out innovative consumer-facing software in its Labs division. That could be focused consumer experiences like GoWalla, or critical data and developer tools like Foursquare and ARWay.

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How science fiction precedes science fact and what it means for the metaverse

Hypergrid Business

Jules Verne-inspired space tourism is now a thing, video calls are de rigueur, and we all walk around with powerful computers in our pockets that connect to an infinite web of data and information — and yet we use this incredible computing power to play diverting games like Candy Crush and Wordle. Still from 2018 film Ready Player One.

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

Road to VR

In a new report from IDC (International Data Corporation), the market research firm predicts a near 10 fold increase in the shipments of augmented and virtual reality headsets in the next 4 years, bolstered by a plethora of new devices and “expanding array of content for both consumer and enterprise users.”

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The AR Space Race, Part VIII: Startups

ARVR

It was acquired by Facebook in 2011, then mostly faded away. After reinventing itself as a B2B data powerhouse, it still spins out innovative consumer-facing software in its Labs division. Google Cloud Anchors , Apple GeoAnchors , Microsoft Spatial Anchors ?—?that But now it’s back for more SoLoMo action….this

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Does SEO have a place in the Metaverse?

AIXR

In 2011 American author Ernest Cline reimagined the term in his debut novel Ready Player One. Meta SEO With Meta (formerly Facebook) committing to the Metaverse, all eyes are on fellow digital juggernauts such as Google, Bing, and Microsoft to see which – if any – becomes the next to buy into the Metaverse in a big way.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. There’s one, you need to get data in somehow, right? First of all, we’re getting data in. But if you do that, you lose a lot of data. So it’s– or scan data.

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