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Metaverse and Investing – Opportunities for Retail Investors Part 1: Hardware

ARPost

Microsoft, which apparently produces one of the best-performing augmented reality headsets on the market (HoloLens), is buying a video game production company Blizzard for a frightening amount of money: 68 billion dollars. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) for AR Headsets. There was no marketable product at the time of the acquisition.

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Video game publishers and developers are cutting off Russia, too

Mashable VR

The global business community is increasingly moving to isolate Russia for the war it's waging in Ukraine, and video games are no exception. Here's a rundown of what we've seen so far from key players in the video game space as efforts to isolate Russia have snowballed in the midst of Ukraine's calls for the industry to take action.

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Augmented Reality in Emergency Management: Enhancing Situational Awareness for Rescue Missions

ARPost

Personnel use Microsoft HoloLens for more realistic training in responding to seizures, respiratory distress, and trauma-related injuries during emergency situations. It can connect the paramedic to a doctor, who then gives directions using the video chat or holographic markers that the paramedic sees on a HoloLens headset.

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Vancouver Emerging As Top Five VR and AR Hub

VRScout

Over the past 40 years, the Canadian region has emerged as a dominant force in the video game, special effects, and animation industries. ” “As I’ve been getting to know the region and its opportunities, I’ve been talking to the provincial government about two aspects,” DeMiroz continues. Most importantly, though, U.S.

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Glossary: The Metaverse and its Key Components

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Efforts to construct and expand the Metaverse were sparked by Meta Platform’s major pivot in October, which saw Microsoft, NVIDIA, HTC VIVE, Qualcomm, Google, Varjo, and dozens of other tech giants enter the race for prime positioning to build the virtual and connected world. Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). Immersive Media.

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7 pieces of advice if you have to remotely work as a VR developer from China

The Ghost Howls

While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. And when I mean slow speed, I mean really potato quality… like 1 hour to upload a short Youtube video. Verify the most that you can before leaving, so that you can find solution in advance.

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XR Talks: Defining the AR Cloud, Part II

AR Insider

XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, narrative analysis and top takeaways. To celebrate its birthday, Inbar gathered and moderated a panel of leading thinkers at a recent AWE Nite NYC (video below). T he AR cloud has turned three.

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