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Cooperation of Deep Tech SMEs and Global Giants Drive Opportunities in the Metaverse

ARPost

In 2021 Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg was quoted saying that AR glasses are “one of the hardest technical challenges of the decade.” In Finland, the opportunities for cooperation between deep tech SMEs and large corporations have been proactively created by both the XR companies themselves and by private and public accelerators.

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Hands-On: Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs Reinvents the Franchise for Mobile, but Smartglasses Are Its Destiny

Next Reality AR

Finland-based Rovio, one of the pioneers of mobile gaming, is now ready to break new ground in augmented reality with its Angry Birds franchise. Don't Miss: In a Major Hit to Apple, Rovio to Launch Angry Birds in AR for Magic Leap Next Reality recently had the opportunity to hit the.

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Valo Motion Officially Launches Mixed Reality Playground ValoArena in the US

ARPost

When people turned to the virtual world to connect with each other at the height of the pandemic, MMOs and other multiplayer games got a boost in popularity. Multiplayer XR games also began growing as a new genre of immersive cooperative play. Players engage in these games together in the same room.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. Currently VR First is boasting more than 50 projects in development at the labs, and not just games.

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Made in Europe: 5 European XR startups at the service of art that you should know about.

ARVR

Many museums around the world are already taking advantage of its potential, such as the Louvre Museum. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Scripting Javascript Promise In Spark AR For Beginners 3. Emissive studio (France) Founded in 2005, the Paris-based Emissive studio produces AR and VR experiences.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.12.14): Facebook gets sued for alleged monopolization, Medal Of Honor is a mediocre game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond is a mediocre game. We have been waiting for “Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond” for years : it had been announced as an AAA game, made in collaboration with a great studio like Respawn Entertainment, with realistic recreation of war in virtual reality. Other relevant news. Well, we were wrong.

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Augmented Reality Top 8 of 2018

VRScout

As a new communications medium, Augmented Reality (AR) is changing the way we consume and share knowledge and how we express ourselves creatively. This year AR included a range of experiences from contemporary art to currency to close-captioning. VISUALIZATION: AR is a powerful visualization tool. Big Ben Snapchat AR Lens.