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VNTANA Partners With JOOR for B2B E-Commerce

ARPost

The Khronos Group member company offers interior solutions like asset centralization for remote collaboration on models, but they also offer models that can be used on a company’s website front-end for e-commerce. Let’s meet them both and talk about what their partnership means for AR and e-commerce. Meet VNTANA. VNTANA 3D web viewer.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Ben Lang has written a very interesting editorial on the topic, and for instance, he imagines that this may mean that all Sony-owned game studios will all start using Unreal Engine as their game engine , unifying the production processes among them all. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.

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Is There a Metaverse Tax Policy in the Works?

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She continued that “unrealized gains and income” could fall under this taxable financial activity. ” Similar discussions over metaverse law have come from the Rose Law Group , a pioneer in the space. US tax laws in the Metaverse should tax financial activities like monetary withdrawals and purchases.

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STYLY makes creation and distribution of cross-platform XR content easy

The Ghost Howls

That’s why when I had the opportunity to interview Kevin Joyce from the company, I immediately exploited it to ask him not only about Styly and his creators, but also something more about Japan and the M-word. Your company comes from Japan. Do you want to know more about this interesting startup? Then keep reading!

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‘Google Earth VR’ Launches For Free To Let You Fly Around The World

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In the blink of an eye the world around me dissolves and the restaurants of East Fourth Street are replaced by the brilliant purple face of Japan’s Mt. The group has spent the better part of a decade collecting and cataloging an obscene amount of visual data from all over the planet.

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Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and Beyond

Road to VR

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The startup is pretty new, in fact, and its owner group is Megadodo, another unknown company that is working on an MMO game about which is difficult to find any information. In Japan, new PSVR bundles will include an adapter in the box, while in the West the adapter won’t be included, but it will be given for free to existing PSVR users.

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