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

Road to VR

Since 2019 Epic Games (well known as the creators of Unreal Engine & Fortnite ) has run the Epic MegaGrants program, a $100 million fund to financially support projects built with Unreal Engine. BRUNNER Elektronik – Unreal Engine Integration for NOVASIM Flight Simulator. In 2021 the program awarded grants to 31 XR projects.

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

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Where: Chengdu Marriott Hotel Financial Centre, Sichuan, China. One of the biggest international events dedicated to the augmented and virtual reality will take place at the beginning of September in Chengdu Financial City in Sichuan, China. When: September 2 – September 3. When: November 9 – November 11. ICHVR 2021.

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Big XR News from Apple, IDC, Innoactive, and HPE

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Will the Apple Vision Pro Debut in China Apple’s CEO and spatial computing champion, Tim Cook , confirmed that the recently released Apple Vision Pro would land in China in 2024. The CEO is visiting China due to a decline in iPhone sales. Cook said: I am very confident in it (China).

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7 Insightful XR Education Case Studies to Read in 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

One of the areas where XR is seeing the most significant and rapid adoption, is in the world of education and training. Here, universities, schools, and training companies are embracing the experiential benefits of immersive XR technology to deliver lessons like never before. Meta Oculus and Aptiv. HTC Vive and Penn State.

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PanguVR mixes virtual reality and artificial intelligence to revolutionize interior design

The Ghost Howls

When I went to China , one of the companies that I wanted to visit was PanguVR , but unluckily its CEO was not available at that time because of some business stuff he had to do. I was born in Beijing, China and grew up in the United States. product Cortana in China. Diego, the CEO of Pangu VR (Image by PanguVR). What is it?

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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.08): Xiaomi unveils its smartglasses, Improbable and RP1 want to create the networking for the metaverse, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

I don’t even know how they plan to sell this device in China, a country where people want to appear cool and not weird. Anyway, if you are in China and you want to look ??, Conjoined twins surgery was aided by VR training. Wearing them on the street, you probably look like an idiot or someone coming from another planet.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.10): Lynx launches MR standalone headset, Facebook acquires Scape and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Yesterday was Chinese Lanterns’ Festival… my best wishes to you all, especially a big hug to all people that are still in China and are living very hard times… ??! My friend Chris Koomen at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has made an amazing sample to use Oculus + hands tracking for the training of pilots. Top news of the week.