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The Knight Foundation launches $750,000 initiative for immersive technology for the arts

TechCrunch VR

Through a partnership with Microsoft the foundation is offering a share of a $750,00 pool of cash and the option of technical support from Microsoft, including mentoring in mixed-reality technologies and access to the company’s suite of mixed reality technologies. . Project lead: Nicole Keating | Miami | @ArshtCenter.

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AR will mean dystopia if we don’t act today

TechCrunch VR

Tim Cook has warned the industry about “the data industrial complex” and advocated for privacy as a human right. ” The industry has made data-capture mistakes while building today’s tech platforms, and it shouldn’t repeat them. This data set is entirely separate to the content and user data used by AR apps (e.g.

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Augmented reality and the next century of the web

TechCrunch VR

I think there’s a convincing argument that early AR glasses applications will be dominated by first-party tech and may eschew full third-party native apps in favor of tightly controlled data integrations more similar to how Apple has approached developer integrations inside Siri. Xbox raises Live prices. ” More.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

And now, the data coming back is way better than anybody could have ever imagined. I think just something so simple as a 360 video — which is very easy to capture now, the cameras are under $5,000, and that’s for 8k cameras — and then being able to overlay the data that you need. We’re not tied to Microsoft.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

And now, the data coming back is way better than anybody could have ever imagined. I think just something so simple as a 360 video — which is very easy to capture now, the cameras are under $5,000, and that’s for 8k cameras — and then being able to overlay the data that you need. We’re not tied to Microsoft.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?'s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

And now, the data coming back is way better than anybody could have ever imagined. I think just something so simple as a 360 video -- which is very easy to capture now, the cameras are under $5,000, and that's for 8k cameras -- and then being able to overlay the data that you need. We're not tied to Microsoft.

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