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AR Takes Center Stage At SXSW 2020

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SXSW will also feature the debut of a new AR performance that will bring the very popular South Korea-based boy group NCT 127 to Austin, TX through an amazing experience called Superhuman AR , offering fans of the band and music, in general, a sneak peek at the potential future of live musical performances.

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Korean 3D spatial data tool startup Urbanbase closes $11.1M Series B+ round

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million in 2017 and its first Series B round in April 2020, from backers that included South Korea-based Shinsegae Information & Communication, Woomi Construction, SL Investment, KDB Capital, Shinhan Capital, Enlight Ventures, CKD Venture Capital, and Breeze Investment, Ha said. The company had raised Series A funding of $1.8

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AmazeVR Expands Artist Network for 2024 VR Concerts

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AmazeVR, a virtual reality (VR) concert firm, will expand its lineup of artists on its platform for future immersive events. Based in Los Angeles, California and Seoul, South Korea, the immersive firm has listed on its website several new rock and K-pop bands set to boost adoption of VR entertainment.

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Is Spatial Computing the Future of Automotive Safety?

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Serg Bell, the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Constructor Group , also added: Finland has produced many category-leading software companies in the world and I see Basemark having an opportunity to become one in the professional augmented reality field. This shift will result in a substantial reduction of emissions.

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How AR Can Be Used to Improve Efficiency in Global Retail

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The history of augmented reality (AR) started in 1968 at Harvard with the invention of the first AR head-mounted display (HMD) system. In 2017, Apple CEO Tim Cook , a huge augmented reality enthusiast, stating that AR could be used “everywhere” ― “in education, in consumers, in entertainment, in sports” .

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Sundance New Frontier Announces 2019 Line-Up

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antiquated) Augmented Reality / U.S.A. An interactive narrative combining Augmented Reality and Projection Mapping where you control time by moving your body. In this interactive augmented reality narrative the characters are just hollow meshes, but maybe so are you. Dirtscraper / U.S.A. Can we survive?

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GamesBeat Summit Conversations On The Metaverse, AR’s Future, and Hollywood Envy

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Sweeney also thinks it will also be a few short years before we can make augmented reality glasses with 8K resolution per eye, where it animations will fully blend with reality. Sweeney sees massive amounts of investment happening in China and South Korea toward VR, and that could very well lead to making the Metaverse.

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