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The Future Group Raises $20 Million to Blend Real-world Video With Virtual Worlds

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The Future Group has raised $20 million for its technology that blends real-world video with virtual worlds to immerse people inside what feels like an interactive game show. Above: The Future Group’s Jens Petter Hoili (left) and Bård Anders Kasin. Image Credit: The Future Group. Image Credit: The Future Group.

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MID?M+ Cannes Event to Rally Music Industry with XR, Web3

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MIDƐM+ is set to return to Cannes, France to kick off the start of 2024. The award-winning artist combines her groundbreaking style of artistry and storytelling with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine and Abelton. She is also a regular contributor to the XR Big News series. For more information, kindly visit [link].

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.13): AltspaceVR shuts down, and much more!

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The last days of AltspaceVR have seen many events happening in the platform where people said farewell not only to the platform, but also to the communities and the groups they were part of. Now all these groups of people do not have a house anymore: some of them will migrate to other social VR platforms (e.g.

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Achieving Marketing Success with AR

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AR software development kit (SDK) providers like Apple, Xreal, Niantic, 8 th Wall, Unreal, and Unity give developers the tools to make and distribute custom AR content that naturally drives retention and engagement with new interactive experiences to “wow” potential buyers. Although, this is quickly changing.

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Karate Combat Secures $18 Million for XR-Enhanced Broadcasting

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

BITKRAFT Ventures led the $18 million funding round, with additional participation from groups including but not limited to Delphi Digital, The Operating Group, Alpha Wave Global, Hashkey, Lattice, M13, Santiago Santos, RooxieXBT. Karate Combat also employs virtual environments for its broadcast events.

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The 2019 VR Awards Winners Recognized for Outstanding VR Tech

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VR Game of the Year went to A Fisherman’s Tale by Innerspace and ARTE France. Created by Fable and Oculus and powered by Unreal Engine, the film has been to Tribeca, the Chicago Film Festival and the Emmys. The Innovative VR Company of the Year is this year going to Emblematic Group. VR Game of the Year. Innovative VR Company.

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Time for Enterprise to Enter the Magicverse, with Magic Leap's Brian Kane

XR for Business Podcast

It was developed on the Unreal 4 engine and built by our studios team. So earlier this year, we acquired a company called Mimesis, a startup based in France that actually volumetrically captures someone, and is able to -- in this case, for now, in a one-on-one engagement -- project that physical embodied presence to another location.