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Watch The President Of Ukraine Deliver A Speech In AR

VRScout

With the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia putting a strain on Ukrainian resources, President Volodymyr Zelensky has begun reaching out to the global technology community for support in rebuilding the county’s digital infrastructure. Here’s hoping this is just the first of many AR addresses from President Zelensky.

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10 Recent VR and AR Investments You Should Know About

VRScout

has been invested in the VR/AR industry according to Digi-Capital. Despite the fact that a mere 6% of Americans will own a VR headset in 2016, future-looking venture capital firms have invested $500M in the VR/AR industry in Q3 of 2016 , with an average investment of $9.3M. Moscow-based VR/AR game developer Luden.io

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.12): Quest 2 is launching, dogs use AR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This is great news for the customers of the Quest 2, but it poses some doubts about the retro compatibility of the Quest ecosystem that Zuck promised at OC6: if the Quest 2 is much more powerful than the Quest 1 and the Quest 1 is discontinued, has sense for developers to keep producing software that is compatible with Quest 1?

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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

The Ghost Howls

When I interviewed Kevin Williams , an expert in the LBVR market, he said that there are also some experiments with location-based augmented reality and he mentioned a Japanese arcade AR game called HADO. university, I started as a software engineer for a small Internet Service Provider in Osaka City in the mid-nineties.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Remember, HTC is the Taiwanese-based hardware manufacturer and the HTC Vive Tech Corporation is a subsidiary that partners with American-based software company Valve for content via their huge Steam library. Russia-based company Antilatency has raised a $2.1M THE STANDALONE MOBILE HEADSET THAT HTC IS KEEPING IN JAPAN.

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Staking Claim to a Digital Plot in AR, with SuperWorld’s Hrish Lotlikar

XR for Business Podcast

He’s also the co-founder of SuperWorld — superworldapp.com — which is Foursquare meets Pokemon Go meets Monopoly in the real world, building a community in AR, powered by the blockchain. Hrish: The VR/AR Conference? Alan: Yeah.The VR/AR Association Conference. You do a lot in this space. Hrish: Yeah.

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Staking Claim to a Digital Plot in AR, with SuperWorld’s Hrish Lotlikar

XR for Business Podcast

He’s also the co-founder of SuperWorld — superworldapp.com — which is Foursquare meets Pokemon Go meets Monopoly in the real world, building a community in AR, powered by the blockchain. Hrish: The VR/AR Conference? Alan: Yeah.The VR/AR Association Conference. You do a lot in this space. Hrish: Yeah.

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