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Big News from XR Awards, Microsoft, Meta, and Sony

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Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) slapped the tech giant with a massive sanction, marking the most significant fine against any Big Tech firm in history. A press release cited Meta Ireland’s alleged failure to safeguard data transfers from the EU to the United States. Meta is required to pay roughly €1.2

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

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Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. University College Cork, Ireland. image courtesy VR First. State University of New York at Oswego, USA.

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