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Vancouver Emerging As Top Five VR and AR Hub

VRScout

Creating everything from veterinary education software to search-and-rescue robots operating in VR, developers are helping the city become a world leader in content production. Seattle, and Austin. Seattle, or Portland, because you’re going up against giants like Google or Microsoft. Now, there are over 180.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.01.04): New Year’s Eve parties go virtual, Tundra to offer a Vive Tracker competitor, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Talking about a purely digital event, the digital CGI show around the Space Needle in Seattle was surely beautiful. It was a long animation that augmented the building with colored 3D elements and beautiful shapes. A reality check on AR in 2020. Tom Emrich is one of the biggest personalities in the augmented reality ecosystem.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

This latest acquisition is another piece in a secretive strategy: over the past few years Snapchat has quietly acquired a couple of other potentially augmented reality-related companies as well as talent. Augmented Reality Gets Its First Smartphone-Powered Headset and a BIG Partnership Between Hollywood-Backed Giants.

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How Much is Facebook Investing in Spatial Computing?

AR Insider

We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. From the episode: “Because augmented reality smart glasses represent the next transformational shift in personal computing. billion, annualized at $4.4

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The Best University Courses To Learn Metaverse Skills

Bernard Marr

Basically, if the metaverse is the new internet, then everyone wants to be the new Google - holding the keys to the huge amounts of money to be made from selling advertising there. At the most fundamental level, the metaverse will be built by software engineers. Degree in Virtual/ Augmented/ Extended Reality.

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Tesla’s data advantage. Can Apple, or others, keep up?

Robert Scoble

I do too, and go even further than she does in studying this industry (I had the first ride in the first Tesla with Elon Musk and had the first video on YouTube of Google’s self-driving car, and have interviewed many in the industry, and also have a Twitter list of people and companies building autonomous cars ). More on that in a bit.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.30): Niantic launches VPS, Pico launches Neo 3 Link, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Using the algorithms acquired with 6D.ai, Niantic can so finally let developers offer augmented reality experiences that are shared and persistent in a location, that is exactly what we need for our mixed reality future. San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for