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THX Is Bringing ‘Personal’ 3D Audio for Virtual Reality to Mobile

VRScout

Creating a relentless virtual reality experience takes more than just visuals — audio is crucial, too. That’s partly why video gaming brand Razer acquired THX , an audiovisual certifying company founded by George Lucas in 1983 that’s expanding into the growing VR market.

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Unreal Engine 4.12 is Out Now, Gets ‘VR Editor’, OSVR and Google VR Support

Road to VR

now sporting Google VR ‘Daydream’ and OSVR native support. It also ships with a preview of the company’s impressive VR Editor, which allows developers to natively build their 3D applications entirely from virtual reality. Elsewhere, UE4 4.12 The post Unreal Engine 4.12

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: Episode 28 of the VRScout Report, we got new 360 toys on iOS, Hololens is helping elevator technicians, VR might help you control your dreams, Apple CEO Tim Cook on augmented reality, VR/AR industry funding wrapup, and more… iOS NOW CAN TAKE 360 PHOTOS WITH GOOGLE CARDBOARD CAMERA, TOO.

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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

VRScout

Also announced was the judging panel that includes virtual reality experts such as Josh Naylor of Unity Technologies, Jenn Duong of Shiift, and CEO of Spiral Media Megan Gaiser. Something to note, all nominees had to be centered on a virtual reality experience, and not an augmented reality experience.

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Funding Roundup: InstaVR Raises $2M & iStaging Raises $5M.

AllThingsVR

Funding Roundup: InstaVR Raises $2M & iStaging Raises $5M Series A & Razer Creates $30M Fund To Invest In Games, Tech, and VR InstaVR , a San Francisco, CA-based virtual reality (VR) authoring, publishing, and analysis company, closed a $2M series A equity funding round. The round was led by The Venture Reality Fund.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.06): Upload VR Showcase, Apple headset rumors, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This week there have been some interesting announcements of products: Razer and Qualcomm have announced Razer Snapdragon G3x, the devkit of a handheld console designed to run both Android apps and stream games from consoles and PC. Google details Project Starline. reducing our field of view). It’s very fascinating.

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Virtual Reality Standards: too early or long overdue?

VRGuy

Started by Sensics and Razer, it is an open-source software platform for VR. Industry leaders including Google, Oculus, Valve, Sensics and Samsung are part of this effort. Inbetween the applications and devices there is often a middleware layer. That middleware is the software intermediary between applications and devices.