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‘Horizon Worlds’ is Finally Opening Its Doors to New Regions Outside of North America

Road to VR

The company says it also plans to roll out Horizon Worlds to more countries in Europe later this summer. The company will likely continue its refinement of social tools and features, as it no doubt wants to avoid being known for the sort of unregulated free-for-all behavior seen on other social VR platforms.

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Europe Wants to Ban Facial Recognition—Take Note, America

GizModo VR

The European Parliament has called for EU lawmakers to institute a ban on law enforcement’s use of facial recognition, as well as other surveillance tools commonly used in the course of algorithm-driven predictive policing. Read more.

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Report: Google’s ‘Tilt Brush’ is Coming to PSVR Soon

Road to VR

PSN data obtained by Gamstat indicates that a listing for Tilt Brush has been recently created for America, Europe and Japan regions. Gamstat has recovered the following store identifiers for Tilt Brush: America – CUSA18125_00. Europe – CUSA18231_00. Japan – CUSA18283_00.

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VR Training Company Gemba Secures $18M Series A to Expand Enterprise Metaverse

Road to VR

Gemba, the corporate VR learning platform, announced it’s closed an $18 million Series A funding round, which the company says will be used to continue expansion into Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America. The latest funding round was led by Parkway Venture Capital, now valuing the UK-based company at $60 million.

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Sales of Fab Tools Surge to Over $71 Billion in 2020

Anand Tech

SEMI, an organization representing chipmakers and producers of semiconductor production tools, published this week that sales of wafer processing equipment has surged to an all-time record of $71.19 Thirdly, next-generation lithography equipment (both DUV and EUV) is getting more expensive, so are other tools used in clean rooms.

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Snapdragon Spaces Redefines XR at IGS Europe 2022

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Qualcomm’s extended reality (XR) software development ecosystem, Snapdragon Spaces, is gaining significant traction as a tool for professional-grade immersive content creation. The firm is also scaling its internal XR team in regions such as North America, Europe, India, and China.

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HTC Now Accepting Applications for Its Fifth Vive X Accelerator

Road to VR

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.

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