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A decade later, this VR treadmill is finally ready to ship

TechCrunch VR

Early versions of the Austin, Texas hardware startup’s product were on writer Ernest Cline’s radar well before the film’s pre-production began. Funnily enough, [he] lives in Austin,” says Goetgeluk. “As And then we did a small event in Austin with Cline signing the books. The price, meanwhile, is substantial, at $2,595.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.13): AltspaceVR shuts down, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Hello everyone from Austin, Texas, where I am attending the SXSW! First of all, it seems that the headset is not a new product, but that Apple has been working on it for 7 years. It seems anyway that for the first time ever at Apple, Cook has this time now given priority to the operations team.

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Walkabout Mini Golf iPhone Pocket Edition Coming Soon

Upload VR

The game turns the phone itself into a kind of AR putter and features full cross-play against Walkabout players on Quest, Steam VR, PSVR 2, Pico, and HTC Viveport. Walkabout Mini Golf: Pocket Edition is planned for launch in Q2 of 2023 on iPhones first this summer.

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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: TheWaveVR Raises $4M, Pluto.

AllThingsVR

The Austin, Texas-based startup has created a social VR music platform where performers can create music while wearing a HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headset and spectators can watch the whole experience. Weekly Funding & People Roundup: TheWaveVR Raises $4M, Pluto VR raises $13.9M, Avegant Raises $13.7, Read more on Financial Times. ,

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

PlayStation looks to an arcade rollout, Shazam goes augmented, AMD wants to go wireless, HTC Viveport’s new subscription service, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: IT’S NOW WAY EASIER TO COMBINE 360 VIDEO AND ANIMATION. APPLE HIRES AUGMENTED REALITY EXPERT FROM NASA.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

PlayStation looks to an arcade rollout, Shazam goes augmented, AMD wants to go wireless, HTC Viveport’s new subscription service, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: HTC Vive’s Viveport Launches Subscription Service. APPLE SAYS VR IS WHY NEXT MAC PRO NEEDS MORE POWER.

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Making Holograms a Reality Through Volumetric Capture, with Intel’s Raj Puran

XR for Business Podcast

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development. ” Right?