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Epic Games Awarded Grants to 31 XR Projects in 2021 Through the $100M MegaGrants Fund

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North Carolina State University (NCSU) – transVRse (United States). ONMOTIO – Immersive Technical Training in Inhospitable or Dangerous Zones Using VR (Canada). University of North Carolina at Asheville – Interfacing Unreal with Physical Computing & New Media VR Pedagogy (United States). Raytracer PTY Ltd.

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Microsoft Now Hosts Free HoloLens Demos Across US & Canada

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Microsoft Stores across the US and Canada are now hosting free HoloLens demos, so you can finally see what the hubbub is all about. North Carolina. The post Microsoft Now Hosts Free HoloLens Demos Across US & Canada appeared first on Road to VR. Buffalo, Walden Galleria. Garden City, Roosevelt Field. Washington.

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One of The Nation’s Largest Pipelines Caused The Biggest Spill in Decades–And We’re Just Hearing About It

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Unless you’re living in Huntersville, North Carolina, you may be blissfully unaware that the U.S.’s s biggest gasoline spill since 1997 happened this past summer. The slowly-unfolding, little-reported-on saga in the state involves a company controlled by special interests like the Koch brothers and Shell, and a pipeline… Read more.

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OBAC Opens Second Black Accelerator Cohort

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Canada’s Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) launched the funding programme in late May last year, which will provide up to $265 million over four years’ time. Building a PRESENCE for people of African descent to positively represent their culture in the tech industry.

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Digital Twins: XR Today Expert Roundtable

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Canada, and Mexico. The retailer has implemented a first-of-its-kind use case for Omniverse at two test stores in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Seattle, Washington. Lowe’s is aiming to create hyper-personalized and hyper-localized shopping experiences for its customers in the U.S.,

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

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Carleton University, Canada. North Carolina State University, USA. North Metropolitan TAFE, Australia. Vancouver Film School, Canada. Academy of Art San Francisco, USA. Bahçesehir University (BAU), Turkey. California State University Monterey Bay, USA. Canterbury University, New Zealand. Purdue University, USA.

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Facebook ads have a problem. It's called digital redlining.

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Research from October 2021 pulled from public voting records in North Carolina analyzed the impacts of Facebook's advertisements and found that it has discriminatory outcomes. Meta hasn't disclosed how well this actually works. In the U.S., This is for all types of ads, according to the Meta spokesperson.

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