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Which Startups Are Hiring for Augmented Reality Jobs?

ARPost

billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. As of November 2020, they’re hiring for both New York and San Francisco positions. Venture capital investment in augmented reality and virtual reality hit $4.1

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Tech Giants Prime AR’s Headworn Era

AR Insider

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Companies like Ikea, Target, and Amazon have already used ARKit, mostly for placing virtual furniture in a room to see if it fits. Google’s approach was significantly lighter and simpler than what’s come since.

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Mike Boland (ARtillery Intelligence) on the Motivations and Machinations of the Major Players in AR

The AR Show

Mike Boland is the Founder & Chief Analyst of ARtillery Intelligence, Editor of AR Insider, Lead Analyst of Street Fight, and the President of the San Francisco chapter of the VR/AR Association. That becomes clear in this conversation too. Here we explore the markets and market forecasts for mobile AR and smartglasses.

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59% of VR Developers Use Unity, But Devs Make More Money With Unreal

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based based Epic Games, this week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”. More people build an Apple with Unity than anyone else.

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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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VRX 2017 Conference Brings an All Star Cast

VRWorld

The conference takes place on December 7th and 8th in San Francisco Marriott Marquis. It is surprising not to see major players from Amazon, Facebook, Google or Valve. Dan Ferguson, Co-Founder / EVP Digital Interactive Strategy, Groove Jones.

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As UploadVR Turns 2 We Reflect On The First Full Year of Consumer VR

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. With over 40 member companies in San Francisco, The Upload Collective has quickly grown both in size and in scope. November 2015. March 2016.