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NBA’s Sacramento Kings and Nike Launch Augmented Reality App

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The Sacramento Kings NBA basketball team has launched an augmented reality app in partnership with Nike. The app lets fans personalize Sacramento Kings uniforms and virtually photograph themselves with star players. Above: You can use a mobile phone to access the Sacramento Kings AR app.

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All the Ways Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are Shaping Sports

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It has been a year since ESPN’s President Jimmy Pitaro announced in an interview with the Wall Street Journal: “We’ve been leaders in the virtual reality [VR] and augmented reality [AR] space for a long time now… we do not believe that AR and VR is a fad. Augmented reality for maintenance and repair 4.

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The Sacramento Kings participate in Xperiel $7 Million Series A to push their IoT and AR platform.

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Xperiel , inventor of the Real World Web (RWW) platform, today announced $7 million in Series A funding, which includes new investments from Scott Cook , Co-Founder of Intuit, Cyan Banister of Founders Fund, WTI and the National Basketball Association’s Sacramento Kings.

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Mobile AR Christmas Returns to Westfield Shopping Centers

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Last year’s Holiday Hunt , which provided materials call “the world’s first web-based augmented reality scavenger hunt,” was a success. See Also: How Augmented Reality in Retail Shopping Boosts Business Growth. Galleria at Roseville – Sacramento, CA. Southcenter – Seattle, WA. Topanga – Los Angeles, CA.

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EON Reality Partners With Butte College for EON-XR Center

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EON Reality and Butte College have partnered for the launch of an EON-XR Center across multiple disciplines at Butte College, enhancing programs and learning modalities with virtual and augmented reality software. ” Virginia Guleff Butte College Vice President, Office of Instruction. About Butte College.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Virtual and augmented reality technology is being used to help people who are blessed with perfect vision – and lots of interesting solutions are out there. SEE BATMAN’S VIEW FROM INSIDE THE BATMOBILE WITH AUGMENTED REALITY. THE NBA ALL STAR WEEKEND BROUGHT TO YOU IN VIRTUAL REALITY. LETS COUNT THE WAYS.

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Making a Pair of Ray-Bans Act Like a HoloLens x50 with Edge Computing, with Verizon's TJ Vitolo

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Recently, TJ and his team launched AR Designer, the world's first streaming-based AR tool kit that allows brands and developers to quickly and easily create augmented reality experiences, with no technical expertise. Those are the two sort of fundamental underlying technologies between virtual reality and augmented reality.