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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. .

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Spatial raises $14M more for a holographic 3D workspace app, a VR/AR version of Zoom or Hangouts

TechCrunch VR

Niche in consumer, however, can speak to major opportunity in enterprise, and that is where Spatial is operating, with technology that it has built to be interoperable with any headset or AR glasses — currently including Microsoft HoloLens, Oculus Quest, Magic Leap One, Qualcomm XR2 or an Android/iPhone mobile device — or even a basic PC, (..)

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Apple and Snap partner JigSpace, the ‘Canva for 3D,’ raises a $4.7M Series A

TechCrunch VR

He referenced products like Microsoft Powerpoint and Canva , which make it easy for the average user to create presentations and graphics that communicate their ideas. . “Right at the center of it is knowledge transfer. It’s about one person giving knowledge to another person in a really effective way,” Duff told TechCrunch.

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AR will mean dystopia if we don’t act today

TechCrunch VR

Matt Miesnieks. Contributor. Matt Miesnieks is CEO and co-founder of 6D.ai. More posts by this contributor. Why the YouTube of AR won’t be YouTube. The product design challenges of AR on smartphones.

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Augmented reality and the next century of the web

TechCrunch VR

I’m not sure how this stacks in importance relative to what else is listed here, but I’m personally pissed that Microsoft is hiking the price of their streaming subscription Xbox Live Gold. It was a surprising end to one of the more dramatic big tech lawsuits in recent years. Xbox raises Live prices.

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

XR for Business Podcast

I worked at a steel mill one time, and that was the backend of the IT wave was hitting that place, and that was an industrial complex in the middle of nowhere, Arkansas. We’re not tied to Microsoft. I see XR right now as the IT revolution that hit businesses in the last couple of decades. We’re not tied to Magic Leap.

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

XR for Business Podcast

I worked at a steel mill one time, and that was the backend of the IT wave was hitting that place, and that was an industrial complex in the middle of nowhere, Arkansas. We’re not tied to Microsoft. I see XR right now as the IT revolution that hit businesses in the last couple of decades. We’re not tied to Magic Leap.

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