AR Insider

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We continue the narrative this week with the latest in automation: rotating Echo speakers, Boston Dynamics’ self-charging, and streamlining electric scooters. Boston Dynamics is breaking tech barriers again by creating a ‘go and sit on a charger’ function for Spot, their enterprise robot dog.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 14, 2019

BOSTON, December 14, 2019 — Research estimates that by 2020 nearly 35 percent of the top skills needed across all job groups will change (World Economic Forum), which highlights the growing need for businesses to focus on corporate training. Press release. Statista in 2017 found that corporations estimated spending at $362.2

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 9, 2020

What to do with Boston Dynamics? That’s seemingly the question a few companies have been unable to answer because for the third time in seven years the robotics research company has a new owner as The Korea Economic Daily is reporting that Hyundai Motors has spent almost $1 billion dollars to buy the R&D company from… Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Strutting their stuff to The Contours’ Do You Love Me, Boston Dynamics' robots thrill with impressively agile moves that would put most human dancers to shame.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 10, 2021

The quadruped looks a lot like Boston Dynamics' Spot but sells at a fraction of the price. Xiaomi has unleashed a robot mutt called CyberDog.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 20, 2017

Winking Entertainment is trying its hand at retelling ancient Chinese story, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, inside the HTC Vive, and now a group from the Boston College is attempting to do the same for James Joyce’s Ulysses. Tagged with: Boston College , htc vive , Joycestick , Ulysses.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 28, 2021

In a rare move, robot specialist Boston Dynamics recently allowed a film crew inside its Massachusetts workshop and even showed off a new robot.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 16, 2020

Last September, after debuting several years prior , Boston Dynamics’ impressively agile robotic dog Spot was made available to a select number of companies as an experiment to see how the robot would perform outside of the company’s R&D labs. A year later, Spot is now officially available for sale, although not… Read more.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Spot, the dancing robo-dog from Boston Dynamics, will make a Super Bowl appearance alongside with its robot friends. An after-hours party ensues at the Boston Dynamics headquarters, with Spot joining a crew of Atlas robots and two human security guards. The founder of Boston Dynamics, Marc Raibert, makes a brief cameo.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 14, 2022

A new video from robot specialist Boston Dynamics features electrical engineer Cassie Moreira talking about why she loves working there.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

When Boston Dynamics first revealed a prototype of its Spot robot to the world back in 2016, it featured a gripper on the end of an articulated arm that was curiously missing when the company officially made Spot available for sale last year. Seven months later, the Spot Arm is finally ready to help with laundry,… Read more.

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Digital Trends

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Watch Boston Dynamics' versatile Spot robot mirror moves by Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger in the latest demonstration of its dancing skills.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 29, 2021

Boston Dynamics has just unveiled its latest robot, a wheel-based machine designed to make warehouse work more efficient.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Orlando Magic // 4:00 pm PT November 24 // Detroit Pistons vs. Indiana Pacers // 5:00 pm PT November 25 // Los Angeles Lakers vs. Cleveland Cavaliers // 4:30 pm PT November 28 // Chicago Bulls vs. Boston Celtics // 4:30 pm PT December 2 // Indiana Pacers vs. Miami Heat // 5:00 pm PT December 11 // Denver Nuggets vs. Atlanta Hawks // 4:30 pm PT December (..)

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Indiana Pacers (4:00 pm PT) November 19: Denver Nuggets vs. Memphis Grizzlies (5:00 pm PT) November 22: Boston Celtics vs. Washington Wizards (4:00 pm PT) November 24: LA Clippers vs. Philadelphia 76ers (3:00 pm PT) November 26: Houston Rockets vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (5:00 pm PT) November 29: Orlando Magic vs. Brooklyn Nets (4:30 pm PT) December (..)

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ARPost

MARCH 21, 2021

They’ve worked with over 15,000 users and enterprises, such as General Mills, Target, Boston Scientific, and the University of St. They are as passionate about K-12 education and cultural competence as much as emotional intelligence education for large companies. On Martin Luther King Jr. 2 Realities.”

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The Street Fighter franchise isn’t actually in VR yet—not unless you count playing the retro ROMS in New Retro Arcade — but the attendees at this year’s Capcom Cup at Red Bull Battle Grounds in Boston will get a chance to relive the iconic car-smashing bonus stage from Street Fighter II (1991).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Center for Mind and Culture cofounders Dr. Patrick McNamara (neurology professor and researcher at Boston University) and Wesley J.

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Road to VR

APRIL 22, 2020

XRHealth , a Boston-based medical company, today announced that it’s raised $7 million in funding to expand its telehealth platform targeted at VR headset users. The company announced the funding via a press statement today, stating that the new funding round was led by Bridges Israel, Flint Capital, and 20/20 HealthCare Partners.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 18, 2022

“Spot,” the nascent Terminator on four legs invented by Skynet , er, I mean, Boston Dynamics, has landed its next public safety gig: firefighter. Read more.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Boston @ Minnesota , 8:00 p.m. Boston @ Washington , 8:00 p.m. Thursday, Mar. Philadelphia @ Cleveland , 8:00 p.m. Thursday, Mar. Tuesday, Mar. Houston @ Portland , 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Mar. Oklahoma City @ San Antonio , 8:00 p.m. Thursday, Apr. Washington @ Cleveland , 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, Apr.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Prisms was founded by Anurupa Ganguly , who has taught math and physics across both Boston and New York City. Essentially, it immerses students by confronting them with real-world problems—a far sight from the sort of drab word problems which typically involve far too many watermelons for comfort.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 31, 2022

Boston Dynamics' highly versatile Stretch robot has landed its first gig almost a year after it was unveiled, with DHL planning to deploy a number of them soon.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Back in June, Boston Dynamics made more than 150 units of its robotic dog Spot available for sale to outside companies and research facilities. While Boston… Read more. The idea was to see what type of real-world applications those companies and facilities would use it for, and get feedback on the capabilities of Spot itself.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 29, 2020

As the company wonders what the future holds for it now that Boston Dynamics is owned by the Hyundai Motor Group , its robots are showing off their impressive capabilities in a year-end video that may also be a ploy to distract humanity from their ultimate goal: total dominance on the dance floor , or the eradication of… Read more.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

” Locations in the game include Venice, Athens, Colonial Boston “and more,” the studio says in the game’s Quest page , noting that players will have the autonomy to “decide the best way to achieve your objectives” across open map environments.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2021

It’s been nearly a year since we last saw Ionia’s teasers and free demo on Steam , which serves up a lush environment that Boston-based studio Rotu says will “push the limits of PC VR.”

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The VR trial flights – which are being tested on 10 flights between Boston and Seattle, as well as Boston and San Diego – are the result of a partnership between Alaska Airlines and SkyLights, along with support from 20 th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, and EIM.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ghost’s quadruped bots are the scary older brother of every other dog robot you’ve ever seen. And with good reason. They’re shipping off to join the military.

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VRScout

JUNE 12, 2023

You’ll use your motion controllers to block, parry, and attack as well as parkour through the streets of various open-world environments, including Venice, Athens, and Colonial Boston. You can even throw objects to distract enemies. Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR arrives on Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro headsets in Holiday 2023.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Originally developed in just 48 hours for the Boston VR Jam competition , Alien Makeout Simulator is a room-scale virtual reality game where players enter a space cantina and are tasked with locking lips with a ridiculous 10-mouthed space alien that looks straight out of Futurama.

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ARPost

JANUARY 26, 2020

Boston, January 26, 2020 — At the forefront of the technological revolution is extended reality (XR) – an emerging industry comprised of virtual, augmented and mixed reality. Press release. A new study has forecast that the global XR markets’ compound annual growth rate will exceed 65% for the next five years (ResearchandMarkets.com).

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 10, 2019

Center for Mind and Culture cofounders Dr. Patrick McNamara (neurology professor and researcher at Boston University) and Wesley J.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

SyncThink , a Boston-based startup, created a portable concussion diagnostic tool that uses a tablet and either a Gear VR or Oculus Rift DK2 fitted with an SMI eye tracker. The system, called Eye Sync, is already in use at the athletic divisions of University of Texas and Iowa State University.

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VRScout

JULY 6, 2022

In 1990, two men posing as police officers stole 13 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, including several paintings and sketches by Rembrandt. In October 1969, an altarpiece by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio mysteriously vanished from the Oratory of San Lorenzoin Palermo, Sicily.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 2, 2017

You arrive at the scene of a grisly crime in a small Boston parish. There aren’t any specific launch dates yet, but he studio maintains that chapters will come out monthly, with the first two coming before Halloween. Chapter 1: Chapel and Priest’s Office (October). Yellow police tape adorns the room.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 29, 2021

Watch seven Spot robots perform a beautifully choreographed dance in celebration of Hyundai’s recent acquisition of the Massachusetts-based tech firm.

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