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Spatial Beats: Facebook, Snap & Epic Games

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Epic Games buys Sketchfab for an undisclosed sum. Sketchfab is integrated into Epic’s popular Unreal Engine game and special effects paltform, and notably, all of its competitors, starting with Unity, Snap’s Lens Studio, Facebook’s Spark AR, and even Tilt Brush. Epic Games is going forward with its suit of nReal.

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Unity Raises $181 Million Series C in Anticipation of VR/AR Growth

Road to VR

Unity Technologies has announced a $181 million Series C investment led by DFJ Growth, a venture capital firm with the likes of Twitter and Tesla in their portfolio, in order to continue their dominance of the game engine market. See Also: Unreal Engine and Unity to get NVIDIA’s New VR Rendering Tech.

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NewImages, Cannes, Tribeca Join Forces In Unprecedented Collab

VRScout

Each festival will also host live events throughout their respective locations in Paris, Cannes, and New York, with the NewImages Festival organizing satellite pop-ups across nearly every continent. . People developing technology in XR have a great future as they can work in all three industries, in XR, gaming and cinema.”.

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Bloomberg: Apple Building Headset Versions Of FaceTime, Maps & More

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Over the weekend The New York Times also reported Apple is enlisting Hollywood directors like Jon Favreau to create immersive VR content, such as a version of Prehistoric Planet. Developers will also apparently get access to a Mac based headset simulator so they can develop before having the device in-hand.

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Building Character: Didimo Expands Popul8 Gen AI Partnerships

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Avalon is a global, remotely-operated gaming studio staffed by some of the world’s top video game industry executives. The gaming studio will leverage Didimo’s Popul8 platform to expedite character development. The gaming studio will leverage Didimo’s Popul8 platform to expedite character development.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.27): Vive inside-out Tracker announced, Pico’s launch in the US delayed, and more!

The Ghost Howls

We had at the same time the Game Developer Conference (the GDC) and the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) by NVIDIA, so we had lots of announcements about 3D technology in general and also about XR. The new name containing the word “Oculus” means that the original name of the VR company is not completely going away.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

Currently VR First is boasting more than 50 projects in development at the labs, and not just games. In fact, games only account for 35% of projects underway, as the rest are focused on fields like psychology and neuroscience (12%), education (7%), tourism (7% ), and architecture and real estate (6%). image courtesy VR First.

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