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AR Technology Meets Music At SXSW 2022

VRScout

Attendees from all around the world converged on Austin, TX last week for SXSW 2022. Individuals lucky enough to get a slot into the show were shuffled into a small theater where everyone was given an older model head-mounted display powered by Samsung mobile devices. Credit: VRScout.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Disappointingly, he did not disclose any sales numbers for the Oculus Rift– instead taking the chance to remind Facebook’s investors that the Oculus-supported Samsung Gear VR has now sold 5M+ units. Days later, Zuckerberg swung by a Facebook research lab in Redmond, WA to play with VR/AR gloves in development.

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The Best 360º Cameras: VR Professionals Weigh-In

VRScout

Created VR for Samsung, Sony, Sky, U2, FX, Warner Bros, and more. “While the needs of the project always dictate the best tool for the job, these are two of my go-to cameras that offer exceptional versatility and image quality. just new ideas about which tools can assist us the best. I do not have a go-to camera.

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Samsung To Receive $6.4 Billion Under CHIPS Act to Build $40 Billion Fab in Texas

Anand Tech

Samsung Electronics this week was awarded up to $6.4 This is the third major award under the act in the last month, with all three leading-edge fabs – Intel , TSMC , and now Samsung – receiving multi-billion dollar funding packages under the domestic chip production program. billion from the U.S. national security."

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Leap Of Faith: Behind The Making Of The ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Movie VR Experience

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Post-production was done in-house at Practical Magic, using Nuke and CaraVR for compositing, Maya for 3D and Vray for rendering, and After Effects for a few key tasks, along with some custom software, plugins, and tools of their own. 2 and Jan.

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Texas To Get Multiple New Fabs as Samsung and TI to Spend $47 Billion on New Facilities

Anand Tech

fab, Samsung this week announced that it would build a fab near Taylor, Texas. Samsung to Spend $17 Billion on New Texas Fab. To put the number into context, Samsung's fab near Austin, Texas currently employs about 10,000 of workers. As a result, Samsung's customers from the U.S. government. "With

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Making the Invisible Visible in AR, with Curie's Michael Agustin

XR for Business Podcast

So we're looking at big box stores by giving them the powers of augmented reality and enabling all of the same tools that shoppers would typically have online, offline. So typically, you don't have these tools available to you offline. It's kind of like what Samsung is doing here by building their experience centers.

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