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Apple Manufacturer Quanta Signs Deal to Mass Produce Lumus AR Display Modules

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Quanta, a Fortune 500 company and one of the world’s largest original design manufacturers, has signed an agreement to mass produce AR display modules from Lumus , a company specializing in AR displays based on ‘waveguide’ optical technology. Lumus OE50 AR display module | Image courtesy Lumus.

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ViveX Demo Day Batch 2 Featured 26 VR And AR Companies

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Today at an event in San Francisco HTC hosted a Vive X Demo Day for its second batch of funded company demos. To date Vive X has funded over 60 different companies with over $100 million and aims to continue its expansion into Israel soon in addition to locations in the U.S., China, and more. China, and more.

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UploadVR’s 2016 CES Party Brings All The VR Goodness To Vegas

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This will include: Over 20 VR demo experiences across the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, PS VR, Samsung Gear VR, and Daydream by Google. Network with VR/AR Industry Influencers, Executives, and Investors. The Fourth Transformation Book Signing with Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. An HTC Vive VR headset.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. DISNEY USES VR FOR RESEARCH WHILE CEO SAYS WE’LL SEE AR AT THEME PARKS.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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As the two premiere VR hardware manufacturers, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive both recognize this impediment to adoption and are lowering the price to play, albeit in different ways. DOES APPLE HAVE 1000+ ENGINEERS WORKING ON AR IN ISRAEL? MIT USES AR AND LEGOS TO PLAN CITIES. NYC LAUNCHES VR/AR LAB.

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Meta raises $50M more as it gears up for the next version of its.

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Meta raises $50M more as it gears up for the next version of its AR headset, and China The market for augmented and virtual reality technology continues to heat up, and now one of the more promising startups making both AR hardware and software has raised a $50 million round to keep up the pace. Read more here.

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Weekly Funding Roundup: Lightform gets $26 million, Vive X is investing in 30 startups, Facebook.

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HTC’s Vive X accelerator program is welcoming more than 30 new VR and AR startups to the fold with investments in North America and Asia. HTC Vive’s investment group also said it planned to open another accelerator in Israel soon.