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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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HIGH-END VIRTUAL REALITY JUST GOT MORE AFFORDABLE. As the two premiere VR hardware manufacturers, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive both recognize this impediment to adoption and are lowering the price to play, albeit in different ways. FOX SPORTS USES VIRTUAL REALITY ART FOR SUPER BOWL COMMERCIALS. Over 10,000 U.S.

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‘Nazi VR’ Documentary Shows How VR is Helping to Convict Nazi War Criminals

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“To my knowledge, there is no more exact model of Auschwitz,” Brekertold The Times of Israel. “It “In the modern warcrimes tribunals, accomplice liability is being processed again and again and again, and virtual reality is all about accomplice liability. It is much, much more precise than Google Earth.”

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. A new, strategic partnership between Warner Bros.

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Sixense Still Won’t Say When Kickstarter Backers Can Expect Their Rewards

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The purpose of the campaign was to raise money for the STEM System : a third-party hardware solution capable of providing positional tracking and hand controllers to virtual reality headsets. Today, these capabilities come standard in the three biggest, high-end VR platforms: Oculus Rift with Touch, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR.

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ViveX Demo Day Batch 2 Featured 26 VR And AR Companies

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Today at an event in San Francisco HTC hosted a Vive X Demo Day for its second batch of funded company demos. To date Vive X has funded over 60 different companies with over $100 million and aims to continue its expansion into Israel soon in addition to locations in the U.S., China, and more. China, and more.

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Weekly Funding Roundup: Lightform gets $26 million, Vive X is investing in 30 startups, Facebook.

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HTC Vive’s investment group also said it planned to open another accelerator in Israel soon. based eSpoirts virtual reality platform, has raised around $16 million in VC funding from backers like Danhua Capital, per an SEC filing. Hillman worked as a senior engineer at Apple, working on projects like the iMac.

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Meta raises $50M more as it gears up for the next version of its.

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Meta raises $50M more as it gears up for the next version of its AR headset, and China The market for augmented and virtual reality technology continues to heat up, and now one of the more promising startups making both AR hardware and software has raised a $50 million round to keep up the pace. Read more here.

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