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Spatial Beats: Snap, Niantic & Facebook

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This week, we look at Snap’s latest lens craze, Niantic’s next AR gaming title, new XR funding and more Facebook/Oculus acquisitions. Let’s dive in… E3, the big trade event for the video game industry, concluded this week. The games industry is now bigger than movies and music combined. Who’s next?

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VR-Eval Program Helps Survivors Of Human Trafficking Deal With Trauma

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victims for every 1,000 people, 25% of whom are children. Brook Bello and Miami States Attorney Katherin Fernandez-Rundle / Image Credit: More Too Life Foundation.

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HTC’s New Vive Focus Headset Locker Aims to Put VR at the Forefront of Education in China

Road to VR

Sun Wei, the founding president of the School of Software of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and professor at the School of Computer Science at Florida State University. Image courtesy HTC.

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Magic Leap And Shaq Announce NBA AR App Partnership

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The Florida-based Magic Leap has raised $1.9 billion from heavy hitters like Google Ventures and the Alibaba Research group. According to Abrovitz, the headset will also “know” when you get up to grab a snack and can either pause the game action or conjure a new screen in the kitchen for you.

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Magic Leap Announces Limited Opportunity for LEAP Developer Days

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However, its platform also has a number of casual apps and games. See Also: Developing AR Apps with Google's ARCore. This is the first time we’ve hosted an event of this scale at our headquarters in Florida, and there are plenty of surprises in store,” read the email. We’ll talk more about how to apply in a moment.

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Magic Leap to Launch in 19 Countries, Exec Says

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Watts was joined by Pearly Chen, Vice-President of HTC VIVE , Brian Vogelsang, Senior Director of Product Management for Qualcomm Technologies , and Maria Pace, Head of XR Hardware, Global Partnerships and Strategies for Google. Maria Pace, Head of XR Hardware, Global Partnerships and Strategies for Google.

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Metaverse To Target 3 Key Destinations, Unity Says

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John A Cunningham, Head of Government and Aerospace at Unity Technologies , delivered his keynote speech exploring the concept at the event, which gathered roughly 500 businesses, analysts, media partners, and executives at the sunny destination of Madeira Island, Portugal. .”

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