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Meta, NBA Open 180-Degree Live VR Sports on Meta Quest

XR Today - Virtual Reality

With the partnership, Meta will offer immersive live games with 180-degree video. The meeting at the “Summer Camp for Billionaires” in Sun Valley, Idaho, saw Tim Cook, Chief Executive, Apple , David Zaslav, CEO, WarnerBros Discovery , and Bob Iger, CEO, Disney , gather on the second day of the event.

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Ross Finman (Niantic) on the One AR Platform to Rule Them All

The AR Show

Niantic is building a state-of-the-art, planet-scale augmented reality platform for current and future generations of AR hardware. Ross joined Niantic through the acquisition of his AR technology company, Escher Reality. He started Escher Reality while pursuing his PhD in Robotics at MIT.

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Leaping Into the AR Magicverse?

Tech Trends VR

There are plenty of players like Microsoft HoloLens and DAQRI which consistently deliver not only cool demos, but real use-cases for holographic Mixed Reality Click To Tweet. I first heard about this ridiculously well-funded start-up (investment clocked so far exceeds $2.3 Billion) some eons ago in Tech Terms.