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Facebook to Restrict Content From Myanmar's Military Government Following Coup

GizModo VR

Facebook has pledged to restrict the widespread distribution of content from Myanmar’s military regime following a successful coup that toppled the democratically elected government on Feb. The pledge comes from a new blog post at Facebook’s website that seems to implicitly acknowledge the potential for… Read more.

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Metaverse to Contribute 2.8% to Global GDP in 10 Years, says Meta

XR Today - Virtual Reality

This Tuesday, a report from leading immersive firm Meta Platforms, produced by Deloitte, analysed the economic forecast of Metaverse services across the US, Canada, the Middle East, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey, and Asia. trillion in Asia, and $20-38 billion in the KSA by 2035.

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Discover Latin America’s XR ecosystem with Oscar Cartagena

The Ghost Howls

Among many things, we collaborate with government entities, other trade union associations (in and out of Chile), academics, and scientists to figure out ways to reap more benefits than problems for our society through the use of these technologies. I think that governments in Latin America are interested but they face bigger issues.

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China shows its masterplan to lead Virtual Reality in 2025

The Ghost Howls

The Chinese VR ecosystem is very active and it is evolving pretty fast: this summer I have been in China and I met some cool startups that are working on software (e.g. If VR will take too much to become successful, maybe in 2020 the Chinese government will drastically reduce its investments in VR. 7invensun for eye tracking addons).

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JioGlass Demos XR Enterprise Smart Glasses at IMC 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

” JioGlass: 360-Degree Tools for the Enterprise Consisting of three specialised apps — XR Train, XR Learn, and XR Cockpit — Tesseract’s software offerings will lead developers with a novel immersive set of tools for the enterprise. This includes app data access controls, 256-bit encryption, and user and device analytics.

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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. development at Carleton University, image courtesy VR First.

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On the Hunt for VR’s Killer App with Vive’s China President, Alvin Wang Graylin

Road to VR

But it seems most of the industry is in agreement that the Killer App—a single, platform-defining piece of software that compels buyers—has not yet arrived. It will likely happen first in Asia where governments and parents prioritize their children’s education over all else.

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