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Weekly Funding Roundup: GeoCV secures 1.8 million, Logon Olson.

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million, Logon Olson joins Google, and Anna Sweet leaves Oculus. GeoCV, a New York-based 3D capture startup, secured $1.8 Founded in 2014 by 3D computer vision experts, GeoCV scans interior space using a 3D camera and smartphone. Weekly Funding Roundup: GeoCV secures 1.8

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Q&A With Matt Bell: How Matterport Started Capturing The Real Estate Market In VR

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Matt Bell founded Matterport after the release of Microsoft Kinect and seeing it’s potential to create 3D environments to give someone that immersive feeling in a space. Bell and I discuss what it was like founding the company, building the prototype and looking forward to Google Project Tango. How did Matterport come to be?

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GDC 2017: Hands-On With Microsoft’s First Windows Holographic VR Headset

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I used an Xbox controller to select apps and teleport from place to place inside a virtual house. It’s an important feature that makes getting in and out of VR a lot easier, and one Facebook and Google would love to match. It was brief, and unclear if related to tracking specifically. I didn’t note any discomfort when it happened.

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SIGGRAPH 2017 In Los Angeles Showcases The Latest In VR and AR

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Control software with your mind. The AR system adds a 3D-captured section of Harbin’s cathedral on a fragment of plan printed on postcards, and a postcard set can be assembled to show the whole building. Move in zero gravity using Oculus Touch controllers. The Making of Google Earth VR. AR Mail From Harbin.

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Apple Brings Spatial Computing to iOS

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It allows users to interact with the virtual screen in various ways, such as using hand gestures to control the cursor or their voice to dictate commands – very similar to the Vision Pro promise. Earlier this month, reports highlighted how Google and Samsung face a “ great fear ” when Apple releases new products.

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AR will mean dystopia if we don’t act today

TechCrunch VR

The martial arts actor Jet Li turned down a role in the Matrix and has been invisible on our screens because he does not want his fighting moves 3D-captured and owned by someone else. Soon everyone will be wearing 3D-capable cameras to support augmented reality (often referred to as mixed reality) applications. Google, etc.)

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The YouTube of 3D Models, with Sketchfab CEO Alban Denoyel

XR for Business Podcast

When we started, most of it was pure CG; made with advanced CAD programs or 3D software like 3ds Max and so on. And now a lot of the content is made with 3D capture technologies like photogrammetry. It’s probably around 50 percent, now, of uploads are 3D captures. What are your thoughts on that?