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Top XR Events in 2021 That Should Be on Your Must-Attend List

ARPost

AWE Asia 2021. We start our list of XR events in 2021 with AWE Asia because of the sheer size of the opportunities to explore and network. If you can’t travel to China for AWE Asia, you can attend the event at home, in sunny California. Our Top Recommendations: Must Attend XR Events in 2021. When: September 2 – September 3.

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Varjo Promises “Human-Eye” Resolution With VR-1 Headset

VRScout

Alongside its proprietary 20/20 eye tracker and 60-PPD Bionic Display with “human-eye” resolution, the VR-1 also features support for a large helping of photorealistic virtual workflows, including Unreal Engine, Unity, Autodesk, VRRED, PREPAR3D, ZeroLight, and VBS Blue.

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Spatial Beats: Fortnite, Nvidia & Snapchat

AR Insider

The maker of the mega-hit game and Unreal Engine game development platform has landed another cool billion in a new round of funding. The headset will be released outside of Asia sometime during the summer. This week we look at Fortnite’s billion-dollar metaverse, surgical robots, XR art, immersive concerts and Nvidia’s latest.

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Oculus Education Launches Pilot Programs In Taiwan, Japan, Seattle

VRScout

Powered by Unreal Engine 4, Hoover Dam: IndustrialVR is a virtual documentary experience giving users an unbelievable behind-the-scenes look of Nevada’s massive structure. HOOVER DAM: INDUSTRIAL VR. Users can choose to fly over the jaw-dropping piece of engineering genius, or head deep into dam and explore its inner-workings.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.15): Facebook keeps working on its masterplan, WebXR arrives on iOS, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This time the news comes from Nikkei Asia, which reveals that “Apple is working with TSMC to develop ultra-thin and energy-efficient micro OLED displays for its upcoming augmented reality devices”. More info (News on The Verge) More info (Original News on Nikkei Asia) More info (A cool render of the Apple XR glasses).

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ByteDance-owned VR startup Pico strengthens ties with Qualcomm

TechCrunch VR

” It also includes handy developer kits for mainstream 3D engines, including Unity and Epic Games’ Unreal. According to Qualcomm, Snapdragon Spaces is the “first headworn AR platform optimized for AR Glasses tethered to smartphones with an OpenXR conformant runtime.”

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Refract raises $8.5M SGD funding, announces new game development division 

TechCrunch VR

To make it accessible to game developers and content creators, Refract’s software suite is compatible with platforms like OpenVR, OpenXR, Unity and Unreal engines, and existing VR systems and applications. AXIS can also work with popular VR headsets like the Oculus Quest 2, Chng said.