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VR Highlights at San Diego Comic-Con 2017 Include Ready Player One And Marvel

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San Diego Comic-Con is this week and VR is poised to have its strongest presence ever. The Futurism & Tech Pavilion: A number of VR and AR experiences will be on display throughout the week at the Omni San Diego Hotel, Grand Ballroom, 4th Floor. Hours are Wed., 7/19: Developer & Public Preview, 6:00–9:00 pm; Thu.–Sat.,

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US Navy Testing Gunnery Augmented Reality Helmet Next Month

VRScout

Navy is turning to augmented reality to boost the precision and speed of its gunners. Unified Gunnery System Augmented Reality — GunnAR for short — feeds commands from a gunnery liaison officer alongside weapons system data right into a sailor’s eyes. Image Credit: Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command.

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Save the Date for the Most Important XR Events in Q3 and Q4 2022

ARPost

Augmented Enterprise Summit (AES). Where: San Diego, California, the US. As the weather turns cold elsewhere, the sun never stops shining in San Diego, CA. Some of the previous TECHSPO attendees include Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Twitter, and Verizon. When: October 18-20, 2022. AWE EU 2022. When: October 20-21, 2022.

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Spatial Beats: Oculus, Snapchat and new XR Funding

AR Insider

San Diego-based VR company Nanome raises $3M in funding. A Rec Room employee, Shawn Whiting, used the free social game’s download data to project Quest 2 sales could be as high as 3M since its October 2020 launch. The strategic investments follow Librestream’s raise of $25M in venture investment in the fall of 2020.

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Using augmented reality, Altoida is identifying the likely onset of neurodegenerative diseases

TechCrunch VR

For the past 19 years, Ioannis Tarnanas, the founder and chief scientific officer at Altoida , has been developing virtual and augmented reality tools to offer predictions about the onset of mental illness in older patients. With passive biomarkers you collect data from sensors,” says Tarnanas.

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The VR Job Hub: Holovis, Google, Qualcomm & More

Peter Graham

When it comes to jobs in the virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) industries there’s one position you’ll see repeated over and over again, Engineer. Virtual and Augmented Reality Engineer. Data Systems Engineer. San Diego, CA. San Diego, CA. Orlando, FL.

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Erik Murphy-Chutorian of 8th Wall

Everything VR & AR

Erik Murphy-Chutorian is the founder and CEO of 8th Wall, which is building a cross-platform solution for developers to build augmented reality applications on all mobile devices. Erik has deep expertise in computer vision, imaging infrastructure, data analysis and full-stack/mobile product development. 8th Wall, Inc.