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Avatar Creation Tool ‘Ready Player Me’ Raises $13M to Provide Metaverse-wide Avatars

Road to VR

Ready Player Me studio Wolf3D has secured a $13 million Series A funding round, which was led by Wise and Teleport co-founders Taavet+Sten, and features participation from GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner, Samsung Next, NordicNinja, Konvoy Ventures, and others. The news was first reported by Venture Beat. million, following a $2.1

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Intel Calls Off Tower Acquisition, Forced to Focus Solely on Leading-Edge Nodes

Anand Tech

The move will force Intel to focus the business strategy of its Intel Foundry Services (IFS) division solely on leading-edge process technologies. Still, the company says it is not dropping its plan to become the world's second-largest foundry by 2030, thus replacing Samsung from the No.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.07): Meta has invested more than $10B on XR, Hololens 3 may have been canceled, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Some magazines reported this news as a sign of the failure of Meta’s strategy about the metaverse. Meta is trying to find a compromise with the EU, but if it doesn’t happen, it is threatening to leave its business in Europe, shutting down Facebook and Instagram in the whole European Union. But there is also bad news to talk about.

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Big XR News from NATO, Google, Adobe, and Apple

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

In the wake of MR headsets and software coming soon, Google and Samsung quickly reacted – internally – in a bid to create a competing device with an apparent lack of direction. The insiders noted how the partnership led to Samsung taking over product feature design decisions, creating a standstill in development.

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6 Reasons Why China is Leading VR Growth Worldwide

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Much like the Samsung Gear VR with the Samsung Galaxy line, Mi VR requires a smartphone and is expectedly compatible with Mi Note 2, the Mi 5, Mi 5s, and Mi 5s Plus. The tech is truly democratized through a burgeoning of VR arcades, more than 3000, mostly in malls. The Innovation of China’s VR Crown. It’s the same with VR.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.25): new rumors on Apple Glasses, Oculus Quest anniversary, HP Reverb G2 and more!

The Ghost Howls

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! in Europe). So many memories… who was there already in VR with me?

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Top 29 VR/AR Events, Expos and Conferences to Attend in 2019

VeeR VR

You can download VeeR VR in your Oculus , Samsung Gear VR , HTC Vive , Windows Mixed Reality , Google Daydream , Steam VR and Lenovo Mirage Solo to watch amazing VR content. Broad VR/AR/MR events are held around the world every year, with the majority of conferences and expos being held in the United States and Europe.