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Funding Roundup: Unity Raises $181M, Matterport Acquires Virtual.

AllThingsVR

Funding Roundup: Unity Raises $181M, Matterport Acquires Virtual Walkthrough, ScopeAR Raises $2M, Pixie Raises $18.5M Unity Technologies announced that it has closed a $181 million Series C round of funding led by DFJ Growth. AR has been seen as a more distant opportunity than virtual reality, which has been boosted by gaming.

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How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

VRScout

IBM predicts that AI will unlock the next generation of interactivity for XR experiences, describing in the 2021 Unity Technology Trends Report that the maturity of AI will play a key role beyond hand tracking, and into the world of voice. Star Trek: Bridge Crew VR game // Image credit: Ubisoft. RICHER ENVIRONMENTS.

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Game Cooks Are Using Their Mobile Experience To Create ‘HOVR’ And Other VR Games

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Game Cooks is an independent games studio founded in Beirut by two Lebanese brothers – Arz and Lebnan Nader. Since 2011, they’ve released over a dozen successful mobile games on iTunes and Google Play, but HOVR for Gear VR is their first foray into virtual reality. The real ‘Eureka!’

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Game Cooks Are Using Their Mobile Experience To Create ‘HOVR’ And Other VR Games

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Game Cooks is an independent Games studio founded in Beirut by two Lebanese brothers – Arz and Lebnan Nader. Since 2011 they’ve released over a dozen successful mobile games on iTunes and Google Play, but HOVR for Gear VR is their first foray into virtual reality. The real ‘Eureka!’

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Becoming a Butterfly?—?Part 2: Flight

ARVR

Part 2: Flight In the last post , I covered the creation of the monarch butterfly avatar that players will embody in this VR game/simulation. In this post, I’ll be discussing the development of our avatar’s flight capabilities, using the Nvidia PhysX engine in Unity. and other butterflies? Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.

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Inspirit launches to bring Minecraft creativity to biology class

TechCrunch VR

These students are coming from TikTok and playing Roblox games [that are] highly interactive and highly engaging,” he said. The core technology is a 3D platform built atop Unity, a game engine used for editing games and creating interactive content.

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Digital humans evolve

Life at the Feeding Edge

Way back in the dim and distant era of 2009 I was exploring a lot of tools to help me build virtual environments with avatars and characters that could be animated, typically in Unity. At the time I was exploring Evolver , which in the end was bought by Autodesk in 2011. However there was a bit of a leaning curve.

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