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AR Glasses Creator Nreal Secures $100M Series C Financing to Expand Internationally

Road to VR

The Series C round was led by YF Capital, NIO Capital, and Angel Plus China, with participation by Sequoia Capital China, GP Capital, GL Ventures. According to data reported by Crunchbase , this brings the company’s lifetime funding to $171 million. Image courtesy Nreal.

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AWE 2022 Day Two: The Floor Opens. Talks on Interoperability, Hardware, and Software

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AWE day two started off with back-to-back keynotes from mixed reality display maker Magic Leap and AR commerce solution Avataar. A Look at the Magic Leap 2. Magic Leap’s Head of Product Management, Jade Meskill, presented “Magic Leap 2 and the Augmented Enterprise.”

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Big News from Qualcomm, Apple, Meta, and Magic Leap

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Qualcomm aims to “drive the growing ecosystem of VR and MR developers in China,” with the upcoming Oppo MR Glass Developer Edition also featuring Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2+. Magic Leap 2 Powers New Mercedes Vision 111 Big automotive news this week.

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Nreal AR Glasses to Begin Shipping Next Week to Consumers in Korea

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When bundled with the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 or LG Velvet and a 5G data plan, Nreal Light AR comes to a pretty reasonable ?349,500 SEE ALSO Apple is Snapping up Many of Magic Leap's Former Employees. As reported by The Verge , Nreal is now taking pre-orders from Korea-based consumers, available through Korean telecom LG Uplus.

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Track The Global Spread Of Coronavirus Using This Terrifying WebXR App

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Because statistical data is always more compelling when presented in 3D. As the epidemic continues to spread, reports are now coming in of cases outside mainland China, including both the United Kingdom as well as the United States. Still, nCoV-2019 Tracker serves as an excellent example of VR’s potential as a data visualization tool.

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This WebXR App Helps You Visualize the Global Infection Rate of Coronavirus

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Coronavirus, otherwise known as the 2019 novel coronavirus, is primarily affecting China. It’s essentially the same information provided by the 2D graphic recently released by Wall Street Times , which uses data gathered from Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering, the Lancet, and the Associated Press.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.28): GDC, GTC, Snap’s acquisition of NextMind, and more!

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As usual, Jensen introduced it saying that it was the biggest generational leap ever released by the company (he always says so) The first GPU released of the Hopper family will be the H100 , targeted at data centers, that features impressive performances on AI tasks. It can train a model 6–7x faster than the previous data center GPU.