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‘NFL Pro Era’ Studio Raises $20M From Google to Grow VR Sport Game Catalog

Road to VR

StatusPRO , the studio behind NFL Pro Era (2022) , announced it has secured $20 million in Series A funding, led by Google Ventures. Founded in 2020 by former football players Troy Jones and Andrew Hawkins, StatusPRO says it aims to elevate the sports experience for coaches, players, and fans through XR technology.

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Spatial Beats: Apple VR, Google Poly & LBVR Hangs On

AR Insider

Finally, why in the name of the geek gods is Google shutting down Poly? Google’s own Tilt Brush, an important content creation tool, relies on Poly. Tilt Brush co-creator Patrick Hackett just left Google, too. Digital games closed out 2020 with $12.0B Not a good sign. Tickets are $30-45 and are available on omegamart.com.

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Spatial Beats: 2020’s Top Ten

AR Insider

This week, we dive into the top-ten tech stories of 2020. B from Google, Disney, AT&T, Alibaba Group, JP Morgan, Kleiner Perkins, Qualcomm, and other brand name investors to make see-through AR glasses, and the content, optics, chips, and AI that go in them. 2020 showed us a future still arriving, and unevenly distributed.

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Study by “Compare The Market” Finds Surging Interest in “Virtual Travel”

ARPost

Australian financial service provider and consumer protection group Compare The Market used Google Trends and SEMRush to look at how internet users are searching terms like “virtual travel”, “virtual tourism”, “VR travel”, “virtual reality tours”, and “virtual reality travel.” About the Study. Source: Compare The Market. “By

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AR Copy Paste Lets You Digitize Real-World Objects Using Your Smartphone

VRScout

arcopypaste.app (Link in bio) #ML #AR #AI #AIUX #AugmentedReality #MachineLearning #CreativeCoding #InteractionDesign #Adobe #Photoshop A post shared by Cyril Diagne (@cyril.diagne) on May 3, 2020 at 7:10am PDT. Those interested in copying and pasting reality can request access to the app here.

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Exclusive: First-Ever Impact Reality Summit Announces 2020 Lineup

VRScout

Some of the biggest names in social impact will be in attendance, including: Participant Media, Conservation International, the Rainforest Alliance, Connect for Climate/World Bank, and the Milken Institute, as well as tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Oculus. ” Feature Image Credit: Kaleidoscope, Vulcan.

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Amazon Targets Google, Meta Ad Spending with AR Shopping Update

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The additions aim to challenge firms like Google, Pinterest, and others dominating the eCommerce search sector. Google previously debuted its own multisearch tool via its Google Lens platform, with Lens initially debuting in October 2017. The company also launched the multisearch tool last year.

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