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Qualcomm Reveals Plan to Help Commercialize Lightweight, 5G-enabled AR & VR Headsets

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Today, at an online version of this year’s Augmented World Expo (AWE), Qualcomm announced that it’s partnered with a number of global telecoms, smartphone companies, and AR/VR headset manufacturers to deliver 5G-enabled, smartphone-driven headsets to consumers and enterprise customers. It plans to do so within the next year.

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Librestream Secures $24M Series D Funding to Expand Its AR-powered Worker Platform

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Librestream , an enterprise-focused AR company, today announced it’s raised a $24 million Series D financing round. The Winnipeg, Canada-based company says the funds will be used to expand its ‘Augmented Worker’ services into Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

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Brainstorm Grows VR Enterprise in the US

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Brainstorm is headquartered in Madrid and Valencia in Spain, and it has subsidiaries in the US, Latin America and Asia. Previously, Gonzalo served as the lead and chief engineer for broadcast graphics in a number of news and production pieces. What is Brainstorm?

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Nreal Announced Cinedigm Partnership in Most Recent App Update

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AR headsets need to present a lot of content to keep up with the frankly unrealistic expectations of the mass market. Nreal , currently the only real AR glasses available to American consumers, just announced a major partnership with streaming media company Cinedigm that should guarantee quality content to users.

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Investors Poured a Record $2 Billion into VR/AR in 2017, But Early Stage Funding Slowed

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In 2017, venture funding of VR/AR companies reached at least $1.9B, ending slightly above 2016. Each year, Greenlight Insights compiles and qualifies data from private and public sources across North America, Europe, and Asia in order to assess the global venture funding landscape surrounding the VR/AR industry.

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HTC Now Accepting Applications for Its Fifth Vive X Accelerator

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HTC has now opened applications to its latest Vive X accelerator, the company’s $100 million program which aims to help grow the global AR/VR ecosystem by providing both software and hardware developers the right tools, expertise, and investment. SEE ALSO Valve VR Dev is "Dying to share all the exciting things" in Development.

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A Closer Look at the HP Reverb G2

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While it lacked the pizzazz of an AltSpace event, Popper again presented the Reverb G2 at the VR/AR Global Summit the following week. All of this was to hype the launch of preorders in North America on May 28. Don’t worry – preorders open across Europe and Asia on July 6.