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Sundance New Frontier Announces 2019 Line-Up

VRScout

Mechanical Souls / France, Taiwan (Lead Artists: Gaëlle Mourre, L.P. In this interactive augmented reality narrative the characters are just hollow meshes, but maybe so are you. Cast: Aiden Torres, Jovanna Vidal, Phoebe VanDusen. Lee, Key Collaborators: Francois Klein. Can you see what is real and what is fallacious?

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AR Optics Company Lumus Secures Further $30M in Funding

Road to VR

Following from the $15 million funding led by Shanda Group and Crystal-Optech in June, Lumus Ltd. Leung, vice chairman and president of Taiwan-based Quanta. million Series C investment in Magic Leap earlier this year , the new financing is a tremendous boost to Lumus.

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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

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Magic Leap. For a secretive company, we can learn a lot about Magic Leap from their patent filings and acquisitions, namely that they launched without a clear path to executing their vision. In April of last year Abovitz landed himself on the cover of Wired magazine with what was dubbed the Magic Leap “photonic chip.”

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Suzanne Borders says it all on being a female entrepreneur in XR

The Ghost Howls

In yesterday’s part , she detailed what BadVR does and why she’s so interested in the Magic Leap One device. Me trying a marketing experience employing virtual gloves and scent emission in Taiwan. I hope that as well]. Lots of Asian governments are investing into VR.

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How to be a good VR startupper – Part 1

The Ghost Howls

I wrote a review on Magic Leap One because my friend (and ex partner ) Gianni made me try it. And when I was in Taiwan, someone told me this very crude sentence: (Almost) no one is making money in VR at this moment. So, think about a solution that can solve a problem of a group of people. The market is not there yet.

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