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Applied Materials Outlines Next-Gen Tools for 3nm and GAA Transistor Era

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Last month Samsung Foundry quietly announced that it was set to begin producing chips using its 3GAE (3 nm-class, gate-all-around transistors, early) process technology in the second quarter. Gate-All-Around Transistors: Solving Many Problems at Once. But Manufacturing Is Challenging.

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New Estimate Suggests Samsung Approaching 10 Million Gear VRs Sold By 2018

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The manufacturers have released only limited data points — with Samsung coming out with the largest number to date revealing the technology giant sold 5 million Gear VRs through the beginning of the year. The firm projects the overall mobile VR king this year will be Samsung approaching 10 million units total. percent from 4.56

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Google’s New 3D Compression Tool Could Be Big For VR On The Web

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2016 rounded off with a string of major announcements for the standard, which allows VR experiences to run in web browsers and giving you instant access to them. Draco is a 3D graphics compression tool developed by the Chrome Media team. You can grab the tool from GitHub. WebVR, however, stands to have a much bigger year.

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‘Virtual Desktop’ Arrives On Oculus Go & Gear VR This Week

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Released back in March of 2016, Virtual Desktop is a handy utility application that allows users the ability to view and access their desktop computer from the comfort of their Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or WMR headset. Virtual Desktop launches on Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR November 29th for $9.99.

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Where is VR/AR and Education Now?

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1 VR/AR is proving to be an effective learning tool. 2 – The number of interactive teaching tools for K-12 teachers has exploded. Several companies including MergeVR, Curiscope, zSpace, Google Expeditions , QuiverVision and others couple these teacher resources with physical hardware or tactile tools to further engage learning.

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Google’s Most Experienced VR Studio Changes Leadership

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Eiche joined Owlchemy in late 2015 as a producer before the 2016 launch of Job Simulator, one of VR’s most well-known and highest selling titles. All our tech is insanely re-usable,” co-founder Alex Schwartz told us in 2016 of the hundreds of hours needed to build the simulation subsystems in their games. “We

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Google Releases ARCore for Android, The Company’s Answer to Apple ARKit

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In an answer to Apple’s recently released ARKit , a developer tool used for making augmented reality apps and games that run on newer iPad and iPhones, Google today released a preview of a new Android-compatible software development kit (SDK) called ARCore. Nougat and above. Nougat and above.

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