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Unity Vision VR/AR Summit 2017: Courtside for the Convergence of Realities

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Building on the fact that 91% of all HoloLens applications built in Unity, Brandon Bray, Principal Group Manager of Microsoft, announced that mixed reality will soon be available for Unity developers. Google Tango with Unity. ” 360 Video. Mixed Reality Goes Big League. ” Parisi brought Unity Sr.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Watch YouTube in VR with your friends, Google pours resources into shared social VR experiences, upcoming standalone headsets will be wireless, the Snapchat vs. Facebook continues, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: WATCH YOUTUBE IN VR… WITH YOUR FRIENDS! WEIRD OR AWESOME?

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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To make matters murkier, there’s also the recently-announced partnership between Google and HTC Vive to create new standalone mobile headsets for all Google Daydream-ready Android phones. Air New Zealand is one airlines provider that is testing how the Microsoft Hololens can help improve in-flight customer service.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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In 2014, Snapchat paid $15M for Vergence Labs, a company experimenting with augmented reality and whose notable product was Epiphany Eyewear – a stylish pair of smartglasses that could possibly lay the groundwork for an eventual Snapchat augmented reality device. Facebook Enables Native 360 Photos.

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VR Reader

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Furthermore, my involvement is primarily confined to one particular social VR platform, AltspaceVR, owned by Microsoft, making most of my experience the product of a niche within a niche within a niche. If you can’t be in a flight simulator, the next best thing would be video. until Google Cardboard showed it didn’t have to be.

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Investing in XR with GFR Fund’s Teppei Tsutsui

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And we look at something like Altspace — which is a direct competitor to VRChat — and it doesn’t seem like it’s moved or changed since it was released in 2014, 2015. I’ve known them for quite a while and they’re more of a distribution platform for VR videos and content. So talk to us about them.

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Investing in XR with GFR Fund’s Teppei Tsutsui

XR for Business Podcast

And we look at something like Altspace — which is a direct competitor to VRChat — and it doesn’t seem like it’s moved or changed since it was released in 2014, 2015. I’ve known them for quite a while and they’re more of a distribution platform for VR videos and content. So talk to us about them.