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This All-Female Founders Pitch Event Was Held in VR

VRScout

San Francisco, CA) – creates magical pets for XR, like pet dragons or unicorns, that will become your faithful digital companions. Cheryl Bayer // Living Popups (Los Angeles, CA) – interactive content and media company bringing together IC, AR/VR and EQ.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Birthed in New Zealand and raised in Los Angeles, CA, volumetric capture company 8i has announced a Series B round of $27M. The notoriously secretive mixed reality company Magic Leap has acquired parts of Dacuda , a B2B computer vision software company. THE LOS ANGELES NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM IS SHOWING OFF VR.

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The NBA and TNT Partner With Intel For Biggest VR Push Yet

VRScout

Just this week, Magic Leap announced the company’s first sports partnership with the NBA and Turner, to bring in what they are calling, “the next generation of sports viewing and interactivity.”. The NBA All-Star Weekend begins on February 16th in Los Angeles. Thursday, March 1 – Philadelphia @ Cleveland.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Other huge gaming names like Capcom, Rocksteady Studios, Square Enix, and Bethesda are throwing big brands into virtual reality – Resident Evil, Batman Arkham, Final Fantasy, Fallout, and Doom all had moments of glory at the packed Los Angeles conference. Real Work to be Done: Aecom and Hololens Team Up.

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Suzanne Borders: BadVR is mixing art and technology to innovate data visualization

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But it is very interesting , because it will touch a lot of hot topics, like: Data visualization in XR; Magic Leap; Being a woman working in XR; How is XR in Asia. Today the interview will cover the first two topics: dataviz in VR thanks to BadVR solution and Magic Leap. and many other interesting stuff!

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.30): Niantic launches VPS, Pico launches Neo 3 Link, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. Google Imagen is an impressive AI system able to create images just from text descriptions. News worth a mention. Other news. Learn more.

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

By the time Howard Rheingold’s “Virtual Reality” was published in 1991, the Sensorama was already a “slowly deteriorating” relic stashed away in a cabana next the pool at its inventor’s West Los Angeles home. Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene.

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