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A Farewell to AltspaceVR

ARPost

Much of the post waxes nostalgic about the platform, which launched in 2015 and was purchased by Microsoft in 2017. Why, Microsoft? The team writes that they are closing AltspaceVR to “shift our focus to support immersive experiences powered by Microsoft Mesh.” It has been a privilege to help unlock passions among users.”

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AR Copy Paste Lets You Digitize Real-World Objects Using Your Smartphone

VRScout

View this post on Instagram 4/10 – Cut & paste your surroundings to Photoshop with AR+ML (code in bio) Type: Sainte Colombe by @Yoannminet @ProductionType Book: @holomagazine 1 Garment: SS17 by @karentopacio UPDATE: You can now subscribe to our beta program to get early access!

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Spatial Beats: Facebook, Rec Room & Looking Glass

AR Insider

The Glimpse Group (NASDQ: VRAR) Completes Its IPO. Glimpse companies include Adept Learning, D6, Foretell Reality, Immerse Health Group, Post Reality, and Early Adopter. The streaming giant is going head to head with Microsoft, Sony, Google and Apple. A new book, An Ugly Truth , tells the whole sordid story. They have to.

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Michael Hoffman (IQXR) on Solving the Hard Problems for Enterprises

The AR Show

Previously Michael spent nearly a decade working with the Microsoft Hololens team. He was a Principle Engineering Lead at Microsoft for a couple of years, left to be the founding partner of Object theTheory, where he and his team worked with enterprises to leverage AR and VR technologies, often in combination with IoT and AI/Machine Learning.

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Spatial Beats: 2020’s Top Ten

AR Insider

B from Google, Disney, AT&T, Alibaba Group, JP Morgan, Kleiner Perkins, Qualcomm, and other brand name investors to make see-through AR glasses, and the content, optics, chips, and AI that go in them. 350 million came in at the last minute to allow a new CEO, Peggy Johnson, from Microsoft, to focus on enterprise business.

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Spatial Beats: Perseverance XR, Rebecca Minkoff & 3D Maps

AR Insider

Realworld is based on the Microsoft version of Google Earth. Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart is an immersive art experience with over 50 collaborating visual and musical artists and artist groups from all over the world. See his books here. Realworld, a mirror image of this world in VR, is coming to the Quest. This is blowing our mind.

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Some thoughts about SXSW 2023

The Ghost Howls

Or you meet a friend of yours, and he introduces you to a partner of his, and then when you are speaking together, another person joins the group and you meet this new person, too. Don’t go with a group of your colleagues with the idea of spending the whole day and night speaking with them.

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