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

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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.

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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. The open-sourced Watson Unity SDK can be found on GitHub.

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Investors Poured a Record $2 Billion into VR/AR in 2017, But Early Stage Funding Slowed

Road to VR

The total number of companies raising venture capital during 2017 outpaced 2016, but the average deal size declined sharply by 35%, according to Greenlight Insights’ annual year-end analysis of individual venture capital deals dating back to 2011.

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Becoming a Butterfly?—?Part 2: Flight

ARVR

In this post, I’ll be discussing the development of our avatar’s flight capabilities, using the Nvidia PhysX engine in Unity. Building our butterfly avatar’s flight capabilities in Unity based on our simplified flight model A note to readers: as before, I’m embedding some short video clips of the avatar’s flight capabilities in action?—?but

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Metaverse Mozart t-shirts for invisible people

Life at the Feeding Edge

He said (slightly paraphrased): “It’s Unity with an oculus looking at a t-shirt its Nvidia?” As on my TV showreel page with the opensim conversation, added here from 2011 for completeness. Virtual worlds in 2011. Also… its not all about NFTs either ! Cmon people lets do this thing !

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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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DreamGlass is an interesting Augmented Reality glass that costs only $399

The Ghost Howls

Unity-based SDK supporting Windows and Android. Its SDK is compatible with Unity, so us developers can use a game engine we already know well to create AR apps. in physiological optics in 2011, I later worked for General Electrics and Meta AR. HTC: 10, U11. The accessory is sold separately.). iPhone/iPad support in development).