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Sony Acquires Beyond Sports to Expand Metaverse Solutions

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Kenichiro Yoshida, Sony Group Chief Executive , said in a recent statement the Metaverse was “simultaneously a social environment, as well as a live networking space where gaming, music, films and anime intersect.”

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Spatial Beats: Facebook, Snap & TikTok

AR Insider

The seed round was led by KB Partners and TitletownTech, with participation from Greycroft, Verizon Ventures, Haslam Sports Group, 49ers Enterprises, and SC Holdings, and “additional strategic celebrity investors.”. Ball is a former Amazon strategy executive turned investor.

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XR Talks: Notes From an AR Legend

AR Insider

But it also includes Disney, Google Earth, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple. He first got the attention of Microsoft when blogging about the detriments of 3D immersive universes like Second Life. Secretly working on something similar, Microsoft brought him in to help. Nobody really knew what AR was.

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Big News XR from BMW, Meta, Apple, Campfire, Nreal, and Cannes XR

XR Today - Big XR News tag

BMW Group Taps Meta for XR Car Gaming System BMW Group USA and Meta Platform’s Reality Labs division have announced a partnership to develop an automotive VR/MR solution. Passengers can use the system to watch films, play video games, meditate, and send messages on social media.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.01): HoloLens 2 may come in September, Oculus may commercialize a multiplayer LBVR solution, HP Reverb is back and much more!

The Ghost Howls

(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. It is not on sale on US HP Store and will be on Amazon US next month.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). Augmented vision is commonplace in futuristic films, from Minority Report to Iron Man. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic).

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Adding VR to a Filmmaker's Toolbox, with XR filmmaker Kevin Kunze

XR for Business Podcast

So, over the past couple years, we've done a lot of different VR work, ranging from filming the 49ers -- Colin Kaepernick's last season with them -- to the San Jose Sharks. Kevin: I always thought about doing this as a narrative film, actually. So we filmed some AR videos with Will.i.am. Kevin: Sure. Can you talk about them?