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Vancouver Emerging As Top Five VR and AR Hub

VRScout

Creating everything from veterinary education software to search-and-rescue robots operating in VR, developers are helping the city become a world leader in content production. Seattle, and Austin. Seattle, or Portland, because you’re going up against giants like Google or Microsoft. Now, there are over 180.

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Steam Launches VR Video Section With Alien, Lego Batman And More

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Valve Software’s Steam store is the undisputed leader of PC game distribution, though the marketplace is also a portal for buying VR games, software and even traditional movies. The 360 Video Player is built using Pixvana’s software development kit (SDK) for playback and streaming of the content in multiple formats.

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Amazon Is Working On ‘A Completely New VR Shopping Experience’

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Software Development Manager in Virtual Reality to work in its Seattle offices, according to a new job listing. The listing notes that experience with “Oculus Rift, Gear VR, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, or Google Daydream” is a bonus, so we’d expect this service to come to multiple platforms too.

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8i Raises $27 Million to Create Holo: Holograms for Your Phone

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” Part of the technology that enables Holo’s dynamic AR imaging is Google’s Project Tango. Tango is a unique system of cameras, depth sensors and software that is being built into more and more smartphones. Holo’s beta is currently being tested by select users on the Tango-enabled Lenovo Phab 2 Pro. .”

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The XR Week Peek (2021.01.04): New Year’s Eve parties go virtual, Tundra to offer a Vive Tracker competitor, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Talking about a purely digital event, the digital CGI show around the Space Needle in Seattle was surely beautiful. In a long blog post, its belonging company highlights how it is going to create a free and paid tier of the program , letting so all hobbysts using the software for free. Discover all the available VR locomotion methods.

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How Much is Facebook Investing in Spatial Computing?

AR Insider

We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments. But our standards of precision are higher, and you deserve better.

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The Best University Courses To Learn Metaverse Skills

Bernard Marr

Basically, if the metaverse is the new internet, then everyone wants to be the new Google - holding the keys to the huge amounts of money to be made from selling advertising there. At the most fundamental level, the metaverse will be built by software engineers. Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science. MS, or Ph.D.)

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