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How Europe is Regulating the Industrial Metaverse

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The group also is setting up regulatory sandboxes which invite creators, media companies, and enterprise end-users to promote an industrial metaverse space supporting numerous use cases. “Today, Europe throws its hat in the ring to become a world leader in Web 4.0 We want to make sure Web 4.0

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How The Team Behind VRDays Europe Brought A Multi-Day XR Conference To Life

VRScout

As we edge closer to the now online conference, VRDays Europe 2020 New Horizons Edition , we reflect back to 2019 and the sentiments of both de Wit and Doornink as they pondered what they built together and what’s to come. Doornink: “In five years it’s going to be the biggest VR event in Europe! How was VRDays formed?

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The VOID To Open 25 New Location-Based VR Centers Across The U.S. & Europe

VRScout

The VOID will soon become one of the largest location-based VR providers in the world thanks to a new partnership with Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield that will introduce 25 new entertainment centers across the United States and Europe beginning this summer. & Europe appeared first on VRScout. Image Credit: The VOID.

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VR Owl Group Acquires MeetinVR in Company Shakeup

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The VR Owl Group has officially acquired MeetinVR, with the Group replacing the company’s CEO with Incoming Chief Executive, Wisse Jelgersma , it announced on Thursday. Formed in Utrecht, The Netherlands, the VR Owl Group employs dozens of people across the country and Germany.

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WiiT: From Social Media Group to Non-Profit for Gender Equality in XR

ARPost

From a social media group to a non-profit organization fighting for equal rights: this is the story of Women in Immersive Technologies (WiiT). This new organization founded by a group of women working in the extended reality field wants to promote gender equality in the industry. In May 2016, they created a Facebook group.

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Accenture, Changi Airport Group Extend XR Partnership

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Global tech consultancy Accenture and Changi Airport Group (CAG), Singapore’s world-renowned airport management group, have expanded their partnership for an additional three years to boost customer experiences for travellers at the city-state’s Changi Airport, it revealed last week.

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A centuries-old secret society is hanging out in Facebook groups

Mashable VR

Make a Facebook group. When it was first founded in the early 1600s, the deadly 30 Year War was ravaging Europe. It was a very challenging time in Europe's history," Julie Scott, the Grand Master of the Rosicrucian Order, told Mashable. "It While many of the Facebook groups are private, members can join any of them.

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