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

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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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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.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.06.23): HTC teases the Vive Cosmos, Oculus announces AR at OC6 and much more!

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If the Paradise was in China, its name would be Qingdao. Magic Leap is suing nReal. Magic Leap has sued Chi Xu, the founder of nReal. According to Magic Leap, the company has been able to create these intriguing devices so fast only because Chi Xu was a former Magic Leap employee.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.17): Half-Life Alyx will launch on March, 23rd, MWC has been canceled and much more!

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China is the factory of the world, and now that it has stopped because of the virus, all the other countries are having troubles as well. For now, I know today some offices in China are starting to open again, let’s hope that this terrible situation ends as soon as possible. ???? Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

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And I’m also worried about using a Facebook account for everything XR related, because Facebook has a long history of obscure practices with the data of its users , apart from the standard “personalized ads” business. Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data.

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