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

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According to data reported by Crunchbase , this brings the company’s lifetime funding to $171 million. Nreal is probably best known for its smartphone-tethered AR glasses, dubbed Nreal Light which made headlines back at CES 2019 for its relatively small form-factor in comparison to Magic Leap One or Microsoft HoloLens.

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Interview to Eduardo Siman: virtual reality makes data visualization fun, we should all work together to make AR and VR to succeed

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It started with big data , and I started blogging about that at the end of 2015 basically because I couldn’t find anyone to talk about it with (laughs). In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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THE STANDALONE MOBILE HEADSET THAT HTC IS KEEPING IN JAPAN. HTC has announced a mobile headset called Link — which will only be available in Japan, works with HTC’s new U11 smartphone, and is not affiliated with HTC Vive. Keeping the separation between HTC and HTC Vive in mind, this story perhaps makes slightly more sense.

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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

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who first immigrated to Japan over 25 years ago. teams for Japan. Meleap (pronounced “may-leap”) is a combination of the words “Merry” and “Leap”. As of 2019, we are an expanding private company with about 40 people based in Japan and funded by Japanese venture capitalists.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.16): HTC launches Tracker 3.0, Facebook has 10,000 people working on XR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

When Magic Leap One was revealed, Rony Abovitz stated he was already working on Magic Leap Two and Three, for instance; Facebook believes a lot in having avatars that truly represent ourselves in XR , and it is a field in which they will invest a lot. Absolutely Not.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.04): Meta may be working on the next Quest Pro with LG, Meta Avatars get legs, and more!

The Ghost Howls

First of all, we have some more info on the micro OLED displays: Sony started selling them in Japan, so we have some more specs: they have 4K resolution, 90Hz framerate, a high luminance, and the capability of reproducing a very wide color range. This seems a great result to me. It’s the end of an era.

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CityXR: A Vision For Augmented Cities In The Shadow Of Hyper-Reality

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Matsuda himself subsequently began working in AR following the film's release, leading design teams at both Leap Motion (now Ultraleap) and Microsoft. It's notable that this vision of augmented reality layers is also very similar to one shared by the earlier days of Magic Leap, before the company laid off many of its workers.