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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. ALO VR – VigourVR (Singapore). VRSpeaking LLC.

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Metaverse Law: Unravelling the Future of Online Interactions

XR Today - Virtual Reality

In the letter, he accused the Chinese firm of collecting data for the Communist Party of China via the TikTok social media and user-generated content (UGC) application. Carr called the company a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” due to the firm alleged data farming operations. Data Processing Oversight.

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4 Ways The Metaverse May (Positively) Impact Your Business Operations

Bernard Marr

Thanks to metaverse-building tools like Unreal Engine 5, it’s easy to build your own virtual world where colleagues can collaborate. In one example, creative agency BBH Singapore recreated its office virtually in order to host an open-house career fair. For one thing, the metaverse can provide a novel way to attract and recruit talent.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

All these data together make me a bit skeptical about the capabilities of this company: developing such kind of a high-quality headset requires a lot of expertise, while the company is very small and features no known expert in the field. And then the free shipping worldwide from Singapore is a bit too good to be true.

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

The Ghost Howls

By players-and-plays, it’s actually more popular outside of Japan (60% of our business) than inside it… especially in southeast Asia (Thailand, Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore). Thus Google controlled almost the entire stack that the client web software used — right down to the hardware in the data centers.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

He is an Adjunct Professor/Visiting Faculty at number of institutions in Australia, Singapore & India. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. Pradeep is a speaker and Executive Director, Asia Pacific driving the ecosystem for #VRARA in Asia pacific.