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Google Buying HTC’s Pixel Team for $1.1 Billion

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Google has announced a $1.1 billion cooperation agreement under which certain HTC employees – many of whom are already working with Google to develop Pixel smartphones – will join Google. Separately, Google will receive a non-exclusive license for HTC intellectual property (IP). Google VR & HTC.

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Cloudhead Games CEO: Apple Vision Pro is an AR Headset Wearing VR Clothes

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Cloudhead Games is one of the most successful and senior VR studios in the industry. Guest Article by Denny Unger Denny Unger is CEO and CCO at Cloudhead Games. Based in British Columbia and founded in 2012 Cloudhead’s pioneering approach to VR gave rise to broadly adopted movement standards including Snap Turns and Teleportation.

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Battle Aliens on a Map as Big as Earth in First-person Superhero Game ‘Megaton Rainfall’ Coming to PSVR

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Del Cerro describes the main character as “an indestructible superbeing” in a recent entry on the PlayStation Blog , who gains abilities as the game progresses. The player can only roam the entire Earth at the beginning of the game, but your powers will increase, letting you “fly to the Moon or walk across the surface of the Sun.”

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Immersive Technology for Education: How Virtual Reality Will Change the Learning Process

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This figure has been growing steadily since 2012 and does not plan to significantly stop its growth soon. Virtual reality has long ceased to be just a game story and is actively being implemented in all areas of human activity. Others believe that virtual reality is a technology exclusively for games. Google Earth VR.

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FORM’s Premium Goggles Introduce AR To The Swimming Pool

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I competed in two Olympic Games: 2004 and 2012,” added Scott Dickens, Director of Strategic Partnerships at FORM. “At Having access to real-time metrics in your goggles is an absolute game-changer. Image Credit: FORM. “I At the elite level, everything is measured down to the hundredth of a second. Featured Image Credit: FORM.

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‘Twisted Metal’ Developer Eat Sleep Play Joins CastAR To Make AR Games

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The company announced that Eat Sleep Play, the developer of 2012’s Twisted Metal reboot on PlayStation 3, joined its new office in Salt Lake City, where the team was already based. Heydari, Lead Recruiter for Technical Operations at Google; and Arnie Sen Senior Director of Hardware at Activision.

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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy.

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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. months away!

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