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Oculus Is Bringing Free-To-Use VR To 90 California State Libraries

VRScout

Now the Facebook subsidiary is focusing on making virtual reality more accessible than ever by bringing their Oculus Rift headsets to public libraries across California all for the low cost of $0.00. The current catalogue of available VR titles include Google Earth, Apollo 11, Titans of Space 2.0,

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A Look at the AWE Agenda for This Year

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The Augmented World Expo (AWE) is returning live and in-person to Santa Clara, California, June 1-3. Also, the founder and managing partner of AR funding group Super Ventures , Inbar’s talks are always full of insight, passion, and a few laughs. The Day-One Main Stage Marathon. Niantic (and 8th Wall ). Autodesk Inc. Magic Leap.

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8th Annual Lumiere Awards For Creative Filmmaking Expands VR Categories

VRScout

For their 8th ceremony however the organizers of the non-profit group are shaking things up by generously expanding their categories for achievements in virtual reality. In an unexpected turn of events, the society’s incredibly rare Century Award will be given to the massively successful Google Earth VR application.

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Top XR Events in 2021 That Should Be on Your Must-Attend List

ARPost

A large adoption rate for augmented and virtual reality in 2020 has broadened the audience and age groups interested in the latest technologies. If you can’t travel to China for AWE Asia, you can attend the event at home, in sunny California. When: November 9 – November 11. Where: Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA.

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A Sneak Peek of Some of the Must-See Sessions at AWE USA 2021

ARPost

There’s a lot of buzz around this year because, while AWE never took a break, the conference went online last year and this time it’s live and in-person in Santa Clara California. Bar-Zeev is currently in consulting and advising but has done work for the likes of Apple, HoloLens, Second Life, Google Earth, and more. Panel Discussions.

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Meta, IBM Rally XR Community for Global AI Alliance

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The group will consist of more than 50 Founding Members and Collaborators from across the world. For the AI Alliance, members will form working groups across the organisation’s targeted list of topics. Congratulations to @IBM and @Meta in launching the “AI Alliance” this morning. Meta at the Helm of the Metaverse?

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The Future Of Computing: Supercloud And Sky Computing

Bernard Marr

This means that a business might have service agreements in place with, for example, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Examples of when this might be useful are when services need to be delivered to a new group of users in a new region or when a particular data center becomes overloaded.

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