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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. Panel Discussions.

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NASA and Caltech Alums Raise $3 Million to Create The Microsoft Excel of VR

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Now, VR is conquering one more territory, big data, thanks to a new startup from a group of founders that include alums from NASA and the prestigious California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Scott Davidoff, manager of the Human Interfaces Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Another One Bites the Dust: AltspaceVR to Permanently Close on March 10th, 2023

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Screen capture of the official announcement that AltspaceVR is shutting down Well, it’s official: Microsoft has decided to shutter (or “sunset”, to use their corporate-speak) the social VR platform AltspaceVR. (I To learn more about what is next for Microsoft Mesh, visit Mesh.com and sign up for updates here.

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

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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. The company has since teased hardware and a collaboration with Microsoft Mesh , so their AWE appearance could mean anything. 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. Using AI, Microsoft aims to optimise processes for the enterprise, reducing time, waste, and equipment downtime.

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XR Chipmaker GravityXR Completes pre-A Fundraiser

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Investors such as Gaorong Capital, Sequoia Capital, Jinshajiang Venture Capital, and IDG led the funding round along with Lenovo Capital & Incubator Group. Funding raised in the pre-A round will secure research and development (R&D), market expansion, and talent recruitment, among others. MicroLED firm VueReal earned $14.4

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Hands-on: Acer Windows Mixed Reality Dev Kit & Datascape

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One thing that I got more and more excited about as we got closer and closer to the Microsoft Build 2017 developers conference was finally learning about the new Acer Windows Mixed Reality head-mounted displays (HMD).