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HoloLight Earns $12m in Funding amid XR Streaming Push

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

It has also secured massive partnerships with key industrial heavyweights such as Amazon Web Services, NVIDIA, Verizon, Qualcomm, and many more. Doing so would help fast-track growth across the United States after opening a new US office at North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park location in Durham.

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Snap Earns $20m Grant to Back California Tech Industry

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Snap and the Corporate Flight from California California’s latest initiative aims to attract investors and jobs amid a massive migration of companies to other states like Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, and others. For example, the company has struck a massive partnership with Amazon to pilot online shopping integrations.

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Epic Games Joins O3DF as Premier Member

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The Open 3D Foundation (O3DF) has accepted Epic Games as a Premier member to join numerous companies such as Intel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Adobe, LightSpeed Studios, Niantic, Huawei Technologies, Niantic, and others, it was announced on Wednesday. Learn more: [link] pic.twitter.com/2dJJ3IyKQF. O3DE (@o3dengine) July 20, 2022.

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The best home security systems (and the one company you'll want to avoid)

Mashable VR

Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant compatibility are pretty standard nowadays, while Apple HomeKit options are fewer and far between.) Yet 60 percent of burglars surveyed for a frequently cited University of North Carolina survey several years prior would find a different target if they saw an alarm on-site.

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Digital Twins: XR Today Expert Roundtable

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Ericsson uses Omniverse to create digital twins of cities to decide where to place 5G towers and virtually fix problems before deploying crews on the ground. Here are a few more examples: Amazon has over 200 robotics facilities that handle millions of packages each day. Canada, and Mexico.

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Disney, Netflix, and More Studios Move to Provide Abortion Care Access After Roe v. Wade Decision

GizModo VR

Although indicated for weeks following the unprecedent leak of Supreme Court documents in May, today’s official ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade —the landmark 1973 case that granted constitutionally protected access to reproductive healthcare—has caused an outpouring of fury. Across the… Read more.

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

You could be firing up Unreal Engine in Toronto, I'm in Carey, North Carolina. It's a bunch of sourcing right now on Amazon, it doesn't cost us much. But that multi-user capability, which is not very common in desktop software. Today as we speak, you can fire up Unreal Engine. People do film scouting. They do design reviews.

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