VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Birthed in New Zealand and raised in Los Angeles, CA, volumetric capture company 8i has announced a Series B round of $27M. The funding disclosure coincided with other big news: 8i will release a smartphone app called the Holo app later this year. MONEY, MOVES AND FUNDING. India and U.S.-based …and more.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus. Some of the most notable points are: 2 Controllers support. pic.twitter.com/MbJZV8aOdf. MagicScript.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Only a minimum of the data should be shared with the online servers and most of them should be handled locally; the applications and the communications should be secure; the user must have all the control among what data of his/hers gets shared and what not. More info (Use Google Translate). A new ID Software VR game is arriving.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Other relevant news. In a new interview given to a New Zealander magazine, Gabe Newell talks about the work that Valve is doing with Brain-Computer Interfaces. Oculus official side distribution platform is coming soon. Google makes Tilt Brush opensource. This is both bad and good news.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

The OASIS was created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance), who left his immense fortune and total control of the Oasis to the winner of a three-part contest he designed to find a worthy heir. In the OASIS, you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone-the only limits are your own imagination.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

There’s a lot to say about me, but I think you are more interested in the weekly roundup of news, so…. Top news of the week. Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. News worth a mention.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. The grid has now decided to delete Adachi owner’s inventory on the grid and issue a ban on grid usage, grid founder Lena Vanilli wrote in a Google Plus post. The full proposal of the patch can be read here.

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