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Thin & Light PC VR Headset Bigscreen Beyond Now Shipping in US

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In addition to taking preorders from customers in the US, UK, most of Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, the company is also set to expand preorders to Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

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Ready Player Me Raises $56M to Expand Cross-game Avatar Platform

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” Founded in 2014 in Tallinn, Estonia, Ready Player Me now counts over 3,000 apps across both Web2 and Web3 that integrate its cross-platform avatar system, including VR social platforms such as VRChat, Spatial, vSpatial and Somnium Space.

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Wolf3D Raises $1.3M to Further Support Its Cross-game Avatar Platform

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Wolf3D , a Tallinn, Estonia-based 3D scanning and avatar company, has raised $1.3 million in its latest funding round, something it says will help further improve its cross-game avatar platform. This brings the company’s overall funding to $2.8 million.

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Bigscreen Beyond Ultra-Compact SteamVR Headset Now Shipping

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Bigscreen is also now accepting orders from 13 new countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Just over six weeks later, the first units are now shipping to those US customers. The company is aiming to eventually get this gap down to 3-6 weeks.

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The Role of the Avatar in the Metaverse

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Estonia’s Ready Player Me has been a leader in this technology with its interoperable, highly-bespoke avatars. ’ Simply put, the Metaverse relies heavily on avatars to represent the psychology and actions of a user in virtual spaces. They can also enable necessary interoperability between the metaverse’s many features.

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Microsoft to Expand HoloLens Availability to 29 More European Markets in December

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image courtesy Microsoft. If you’re in one of those countries, you can either wait for local availability, or alternatively contact Microsoft here via e-mail to begin the ordering process now.

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Horror Survival ‘Into the Radius VR’ Headed to Early Access Next Month

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Created by Estonia-based indie studio CM Games , the horror survival game promises a dark mix of horror, open-world exploration, realistic weapon handling, and plenty of post-soviet landscapes to play as backdrop to what we hope shapes up to be an intriguing story.

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