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WayRay AR Tech Turns The Tesla Into A Game Console

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WayRay, a deep-tech company specializing in holographic augmented reality (AR) displays for vehicles, is bringing its technology to Tesla cars for the first time, according to an official release. There’s even gaming content for drivers designed to keep their attention on the road.

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Epic Games Awarded Grants to 31 XR Projects in 2021 Through the $100M MegaGrants Fund

Road to VR

Since 2019 Epic Games (well known as the creators of Unreal Engine & Fortnite ) has run the Epic MegaGrants program, a $100 million fund to financially support projects built with Unreal Engine. The projects range widely from games to simulation to education and more. Art Reality Studio – IVR 6 (United States).

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Celebrate The Women’s World Cup With New Snapchat AR Lenses

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To commemorate the occasion celebrated by sports fans all around the world, Snapchat is introducing brand new ways for you to immerse yourself in the excitement via a handful of new augmented reality (AR) experiences. The first two games alone had an attendance of 117,921 people. To help bring you closer to the game and the U.S.

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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. “In this field there are two major waves. .”

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JigSpace, Alfa Romeo Showcase AR ‘Art Car’ at Dutch Gran Prix

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Using augmented reality (AR) solutions from JigSpace, the partnership saw Sauber Motorsport’s Yan Lefort, Commercial Director , and Christian Dautenheimer, Head of Brand Management , collaborate to realise the project. The phygital art car will later auction for the Save the Children fundraiser.

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Hologram Voicemails Are Here Thanks To Asynchronous Reality

VRScout

It sounds like weird science from a Hollywood movie, but it is in fact real and it’s called “Asynchronous Reality.” But in order for the game to be completed by the required deadline, Joe turns on “Focus Mode” and mutes the real world so he can work the task in VR without being interrupted by any real-world elements.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.09): PS5 doesn’t improve PSVR, VRChat reaches 24,000 concurrent users, and more!

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And both the journalists of Road To VR and Upload VR agree on the fact tha t it doesn’t represent an improvement for VR gaming yet. The PS5 is a big step forward for console gaming , and being paired with a next-gen controller like the DualSense, that provides realistic haptic sensations, it can give its players countless hours of fun.

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