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

Road to VR

ONMOTIO – Immersive Technical Training in Inhospitable or Dangerous Zones Using VR (Canada). Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM) – DataDiVR Interactive Data Analytics Platform (Austria). Oakland University – Augmented Reality Center (ARC) for Industrial Applications (United States). Lightscape VR (Germany).

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Exposing Homelessness Through Eviction With ‘These Sleepless Nights’ Mixed Reality Mini-Doc

VRScout

In the United States alone, it is estimated that approximately 553,000 Americans were experiencing homelessness on a single night in 2018, this according to data accumulated by a Point-in-Time (PIT) count , also known as a “street counts” or “homeless counts”. Homelessness is an epidemic that affects people all around the globe.

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The Future of Play: How Intel And The ESL Are Helping Bring Virtual Reality To ESports

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At Katowice, the included a first-person virtual eSports stadium experience delivering an immersive 360 VR space that includes live stats, replays, and scores in real-time. More than 130,000 unique viewers tuned into the IEM Oakland VR streams. How fast it gets to that depends a lot on the fan base and how immersive it is.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

The immersive story is different for everyone, and was built with Wevr’s VR character AI framework. Back in March, Alibaba (which considers itself first and foremost a “data company”) announced the curiously-named GnomeMagic Lab – devoted to current sellers build their 3D product inventories and set up VR storefronts.

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10 Recent VR and AR Investments You Should Know About

VRScout

Although we are undeniably in the early adoption stages, the latest numbers from the International Data Corp. Steel Wool Studios , based in Oakland, CA and founded by former Lucasfilm, Telltale Games, and Pixar creatives, received $5M in Series A funding… entirely from HTC. project worldwide VR/AR industry revenues to be $162B by 2020.

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Prepping for Virtual Surgery, with 8Chili’s Aravind Upadhyaya

XR for Business Podcast

Today, we're speaking with Aravind Upadhyaya, co-founder and CEO of 8chili, an Oakland, California based startup, bringing the dream of telesurgery to the real world. So this, what we want to do, is take the platform to a very immersive collaborative experience. And that allows us to really keep the RGDD data as well.

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Prepping for Virtual Surgery, with 8Chili’s Aravind Upadhyaya

XR for Business Podcast

Today, we're speaking with Aravind Upadhyaya, co-founder and CEO of 8chili, an Oakland, California based startup, bringing the dream of telesurgery to the real world. So this, what we want to do, is take the platform to a very immersive collaborative experience. And that allows us to really keep the RGDD data as well.