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USC Launches $1bn XR, Generative AI Initiative

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The University of Southern California (USC) announced last week the launch of an over $1 billion USD initiative to grow its university programmes for extended reality (XR), generative artificial intelligence, and ethical technology. The USC Frontiers of Computing programme has invested in Southern California’s state economy.

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BinaryVR Begins Shipping First Dev Kit For Facial Tracking Solution

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The California-based company recently started shipping its first development kit for a device that doesn’t follow the user’s eyes, but instead reads facial motion in the mouth, chin and cheeks and replicates them on a VR avatar. Developer kits cost $349 and also come with a Unity plugin SDK.

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Spatial Beats: Apple, Epic & Tom Brady

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The trial begins next month in California. The Unity Cube is an experiment from developer Tony “SkarredGhost” Vitillo to test the limits of what Oculus will allow into the App Lab program. Guess who’s number #19 on HTC Vive’s list of its Top 100 VR Influencers? Football legend Tom Brady launching an NFT company for autographs.

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

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If you can’t travel to China for AWE Asia, you can attend the event at home, in sunny California. Some of the exhibitors who will present new devices and technologies to the public are 8th Wall, Nreal, Unity, Unreal Engine, Pico Interactive, Atheer, Holoptic, Varjo, Cleanbox Technology, LetinAR, and Vuzix. ICHVR 2021.

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The Top VR Headset Vendors for 2024

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Here are some of the VR vendors making waves in the industry as of 2024: RealWear Meta Apple Goertek Pimax Pico HP HTC Vive Samsung Varjo Lenovo Valve Index Vrgineers RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space.

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Snapdragon AR2 to Empower AR Devices, Qualcomm Says

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The San Diego, California-based firm has become synonymous with delivering XR solutions capable of untethering head-mounted displays (HMDs) from PC. This began with devices from Lenovo, HTC VIVE, Pico Interactive, and Meta Platforms, so the growth we’ve seen for consumer use cases has been very strong since then.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.