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The Apple Effect: Magic Leap Founder’s Previous Company Launches App on Vision Pro

Road to VR

.” With the entrance of Apple Vision Pro, one such entity to follow suit is Stryker’s Mako , a robotic surgery group initially founded as a standalone company by Rony Abovitz, the founder and first CEO of AR unicorn Magic Leap. billion in 2013, or just around three years after Magic Leap was founded by Abovitz in stealth mode.

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AltspaceVR CEO Eric Romo Joins Facebook’s Social VR Team

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Following financial difficulties , which almost saw the complete shut down of the social VR app, AltspaceVR found new life when it was acquired by Microsoft back in October. I can’t wait to see what they’ll do next, and wish them all the best.”

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Another One Bites the Dust: AltspaceVR to Permanently Close on March 10th, 2023

Ryan Schultz

Screen capture of the official announcement that AltspaceVR is shutting down Well, it’s official: Microsoft has decided to shutter (or “sunset”, to use their corporate-speak) the social VR platform AltspaceVR. (I To learn more about what is next for Microsoft Mesh, visit Mesh.com and sign up for updates here.

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AR 101?—?A brief summary (Part 1)

ARVR

70s : Group of researchers at different organizations, such as NASA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of North Carolina, continued research in computer graphics and virtual reality (Krevelen, 2010). Evolution of Augmented Reality (Craig, 2013) by fernanda rodríguez. Elsevier Science, 2013.

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Former Altspace CEO Eric Romo joins Facebook as Director of Product for Social VR.

Cats and VR

Eric Romo, who founded AltspaceVR in January 2013, will be moving to the role of Director of Product at Facebooks’s Social VR team, the group behind Facebook Spaces. Romo is joining Facebook as a product director, according to a post by Facebook’s social VR team leader Rachel Rubin Franklin.

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Korean 3D spatial data tool startup Urbanbase closes $11.1M Series B+ round

TechCrunch VR

Urbanbase, founded in 2013 by chief executive officer and a former architect Jinu Ha, has now raised $20 million (approximately 23 billion won) in total. Big tech corporations, ranging from Facebook, Intel to Microsoft, are targeting to move in the area. million (13 billion won) in a Series B+ round as it scales up.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Made from high-res satellite imagery, aerial photography, and Street View data, Google Earth VR is surprisingly meditative when alone and fun when with a group. GE USES AR TO TALK TO MACHINES IN MICROSOFT PARTNERSHIP. You zoom in, closer and closer, until you are effortlessly flying down a city street.