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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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‘Mission To Mars’ Is A Multiplayer Free-Roam VR Experience With A Scientific Twist

VRScout

Location-based entertainment provider SPREE Interactive is launching a brand new multiplayer free-roam experience in which groups of players are tasked with working together to complete a series of challenges in an effort to survive the unforgiving surface of Mars. Developed in partnership with European mass media broadcaster ProSibenSat.1,

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Volkswagen Group, One of the World’s Largest Companies, is Building VR Apps to Help Employees Collaborate Across the Globe

Road to VR

Volkswagen Group, the multi-brand automotive company, has developed VR apps to make long-distance collaboration in production and logistics an easier task. image courtesy Volkswagen Group. “[E]xchanging knowledge is just as important as bundling knowledge.

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

Mashable VR

Make a Facebook group. In the early 17th century, the first bits of Rosicrucianism began popping up in the form of anonymous pamphlets in Germany, which claimed that a group of people were secretly working to transform European politics and religion. While many of the Facebook groups are private, members can join any of them.

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ZEISS Takes Majority Stake in AR/VR Optics Creator Tooz Technologies

Road to VR

” Image courtesy Tooz Technologies, ZEISS Group Today, Tooz principally creates smart lenses that integrate curved, reflective waveguides and “invisible” combiners that can also be sandwiched into a vision correction layer.

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Places_Festival Returns to Germany for Second Year

Peter Graham

And if you happen to be in Germany during the middle of May then you might want to check out Places_Festival. Creative Places (Fri & Sat): Six artists form a week-long living and working group with a joint exhibition of immersive art at the end. Before all of that can take place, however, submissions need to be made.

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Server Hosting Leaked Secret U.S. Police Files Seized by Germany

GizModo VR

German authorities have reportedly confiscated a server used by the group DDOSecrets to share leaked confidential records belonging to more than 200 state, local, and federal American law enforcement agencies. Read more.

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