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XR Chipmaker GravityXR Completes pre-A Fundraiser

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The San Jose, California-based company’s chips are used for bionic visualisations in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) kit and offer multi-sensor interfaces, high resolution and frame rate displays as well as enhancement technologies.

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Williams-Sonoma Acquires Outward for $112 Million to Expand 3D, AR, and VR Retail Visualization

Road to VR

The headquarters will remain in San Jose, CA (Williams-Sonoma is headquartered in San Francisco, CA), and will be managed by Outward’s current leadership team. Both companies expressed positive enthusiasm with regards to the acquisition.

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Is Personal Computing’s Next Conquest Your Face?

AR Insider

Why Facebook and Amazon have joined the race to bring computing to your face. — Facebook and Amazon each discussed computer glasses at launch events this week. — Amazon’s approach is to get a lightweight product out now, while Facebook is promising advanced technology in a few years. A first step for Amazon.

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NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference Officially Announced

VRWorld

and deep learning, virtual reality and self driving vehicles. NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), a world leader in AI computing technology, will host its eighth annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on May 8-11, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. The expectations for the conference are quite big, with the focus on A.I.

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Is Oculus Touch Priced at USD 199?

VRWorld

While Oculus was pretty quiet about the controllers’ launch date and price, other etailers such as Amazon, Newegg or GAME didn’t even mention the controllers. In comparison, HTC Vive has a dedicated “Accessories” page that lets you buy just about everything – from spare controllers to extra trackers and nose pieces.

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Mark Zuckerberg and I are confusing the market about VR and AR and the future of all computing: here’s why we need to stop doing that

Robert Scoble

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. At its recent Oculus Connect conference, where it was speaking to virtual reality fans and developers, Facebook made it very clear during its keynote “we are building AR glasses.”

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‘We Created a Processor for the Generative AI Era,’ NVIDIA CEO Says

NVidia VR

Huang spoke in front of massive images on a 40-foot tall, 8K screen the size of a tennis court to a crowd packed with CEOs and developers, AI enthusiasts and entrepreneurs, who walked together 20 minutes to the arena from the San Jose Convention Center on a dazzling spring day. The industry has already embraced Blackwell.

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