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

Road to VR

North Carolina State University (NCSU) – transVRse (United States). Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM) – DataDiVR Interactive Data Analytics Platform (Austria). University of North Carolina at Asheville – Interfacing Unreal with Physical Computing & New Media VR Pedagogy (United States).

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Wow, Comcast Actually Did Something

GizModo VR

Comcast will hold off on charging its customers in the Northeast for going over their data caps until July 2021, Attorney General of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro announced today. This covers customers in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, New York,… Read more.

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HoloLight Earns $12m in Funding amid XR Streaming Push

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Spatial Computing and Industrial XR Streaming As XR adoption rapidly increases across immersive enterprise sectors , companies are challenged with tackling computing, security, and data concerns. For Hololight, the company has worked tirelessly on creating the streaming technologies supporting its platform.

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Meta, NBA Open 180-Degree Live VR Sports on Meta Quest

XR Today - Virtual Reality

In a huge collaboration with British sports data firm Genius Sports, augmented reality company Snap, and Verizon, sportsgoers could receive real-time updates from their sports idols and game activity via their smartphones.

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US Navy Using Magic Leap Headsets To Keep Soldiers Combat-Ready At Sea

VRScout

Though hit with a lot of pushback from Microsoft employees who didn’t want to see their technology used for combat purposes, the contract moved forward, providing soldiers with an “Integrated Visual Augmentation System” (IVAS) which displays real-time critical data directly over their field-of-view. Image Credit: US Navy Research.

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AR 101?—?A brief summary (Part 1)

ARVR

70s : Group of researchers at different organizations, such as NASA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of North Carolina, continued research in computer graphics and virtual reality (Krevelen, 2010). 2000s : First outdoor mobile AR game ARQuake.

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Snap Earns $20m Grant to Back California Tech Industry

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Snap and the Corporate Flight from California California’s latest initiative aims to attract investors and jobs amid a massive migration of companies to other states like Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, and others. With Apple’s upcoming release of the vision pro’s, AR will become mandatory in conducting business.