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Report: 8% of VR & AR VC Deals Went to Startups With a Female CEO in 2017

VRScout

Report finds that VR & AR startups still lack female leadership and venture capital. Sexism in the media industry has been a hot-button issue, as more women are continuing to call out inherent sexism and the undercurrent of sexual misconduct. The Harvey Weinstein scandal prompted a shift in tone — thousands of women and men online shared their accounts of sexual harassment in the workplace and prominent women in the film industry established the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, which raised $21

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Augmented Reality Startup Ubiquity6 Emerges from Stealth With $10.5M in Funding

Road to VR

Ubiquity6 , an augmented reality startup only a few months out of stealth, today announced a $10.5M Series A round led by Index Ventures, with First Round Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Google’s AI fund Gradient Ventures, LDVP, A&E Networks and WndrCo. The company, which is working to solve problems in real-time 3D mapping, photogrammetry, multi-user localization, and deep learning for semantic understanding of the environment, recently revealed their opening gambit—an AR app for iOS and Android

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Apple's iOS 11.3 Update Arrives for All With AR Vertical Surface Detection via ARKit 1.5 for iPhones & iPads

Next Reality AR

If you have an ARKit-compatible iPhone or iPad, check for a software update, as iOS 11.3, with ARKit version 1.5 in tow, has just dropped. As we previously reported, ARKit 1.5 brings several new augmented reality features for app developers to use. Apps supporting the toolkit will be able to recognize vertical and irregularly-shaped surfaces, which will allow content to rest in its environment more realistically.

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Three New VR Horror Experiences From Dark Corner Now Available

VRScout

The leading provider in cinematic VR horror presents three new experiences sure to have you sweating through your headset. I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: VR is tailor-built for the horror genre. That feeling of being immersed coupled with pure isolation is perfectly suited for the sense of dread that comes from horror. Dark Corner is well aware of this.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

To avoid awkward and sometimes disastrous learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to get optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk” translates to “are you lactating” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course? With over 317 million people in the US and over 6.7 billion potential customers in the world, personalizing training seems logical.

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VR Wormholes GTC 2018 Attendee Into the World of ‘Ready Player One’

NVidia VR

While I was at the GPU Technology Conference all week attending sessions and writing blogs, my son was at an opening night screening of “Ready Player One,” the new Steven Spielberg virtual reality thriller. But I did him one better: I got to be in the movie. Not literally, but virtually. This year’s GTC VR Village featured a gaming experience in which three attendees in separate rooms equipped with VR gear joined forces to “escape” from Aech’s Basement, one of the film’s virtual settings.

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VR Wormholes GTC 2018 Attendee Into the World of ‘Ready Player One’

NVidia VR

While I was at the GPU Technology Conference all week attending sessions and writing blogs, my son was at an opening night screening of “Ready Player One,” the new Steven Spielberg virtual reality thriller. But I did him one better: I got to be in the movie. Not literally, but virtually. This year’s GTC VR Village featured a gaming experience in which three attendees in separate rooms equipped with VR gear joined forces to “escape” from Aech’s Basement, one of the film’s virtual settings.

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YouVisit Alternative

VeeR VR

As you click on this article, I know you are looking for an alternative for YouVisit. YouVisit is a very good virtual reality technology-based company and it provides interactive VR experience and platform to help lots of brands and businesses among various industries such as tourism, restaurant, healthcare, education, etc. into virtual reality. We, VeeR VR, is the very YouVisit alternative!

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‘Gran Turismo Sport’ Update Brings Time Trials to ‘PSVR Mode’

Road to VR

Gran Turismo Sport (2017) , the VR-compatible PS4 racing sim, just got an update that lets PSVR owners take a crack at two race circuits in time trial mode. GT Sport isn’t exactly a fully fledged PSVR title as such, since you can’t play the full game in VR. You’re instead relegated to a much less extensive “VR Arcade” mode that features all racetracks but only a single AI opponent with a non-adjustable (and frankly laughable) difficulty.

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