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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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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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Meta, IBM Rally XR Community for Global AI Alliance

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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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Snapdragon AR2 to Empower AR Devices, Qualcomm Says

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The San Diego, California-based firm has become synonymous with delivering XR solutions capable of untethering head-mounted displays (HMDs) from PC. The tech industry responded by rallying as a community and a group. Brian Vogelsang : My biggest takeaway has been the excitement across the industry.

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Moon VR Player returns with passthrough AR mode

The Ghost Howls

After graduating from the University of Southern California in Computer Sciences, he joined Oculus VR out of his passion for virtual reality. We had 500k downloads on Google Play , 100k downloads on Gear VR, and 50k on Steam. Our CEO Tao , on the other hand, has been a geek his whole life. . Moon VR Video Player was just one of them.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

BigscreenVR has partnered with many of the major movie studios including Paramount Pictures and Funimation (Sony Pictures). The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. Prior to Presence Capital, he was the founder and CTO of MyMiniLife (acquired by Zynga) and the founder and CEO of Toro (acquired by Google).