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Social VR Platform ‘High Fidelity’ Announces Its First VR Festival

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Users will also have the opportunity to take home some cash in the $1,000 Best Avatar contest, as well as the $700 Best Domain (virtual world) competition. . Compatible VR headsets include the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Google Daydream-compatible Android smartphones, and desktop.

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Doghead Simulations CEO Turns VR Social Platform Into His Own Personal Gym

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VR is not only a visual experience, but very much a physical one where your movements in the real world are matched in the virtual world. Depending on the workout, Chacon would use either an Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, or an HTC Vive to pump up his cardio. Interested in joining Chacon for his next workout?

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Vive X: Here Are The 33 VR Startups HTC Vive Just Funded

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HTC’s Vive X accelerator program is welcoming more than 30 new VR and AR startups to the fold with investments in North America and Asia. ” HTC Vive’s investment group also said it planned to open an accelerator in Israel, joining locations in San Francisco, Beijing, Shenzhen and Taipei. San Francisco.

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Stereolabs Wants to Bring Positional Tracking to Gear VR

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When it comes to mobile VR, like the Gear VR headset, you can enter an immersive 360° world, but you will be limited to just looking around from a fixed position. Now one San Francisco-based 3D imaging startup, Sterolabs, is aiming to bring some of the same capabilities of full positional tracking to the Gear VR.

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HTC Invests in 33 More AR/VR Startups Through Vive X Accelerator

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HTC’s Vive X accelerator is a $100 million fund for AR/VR companies that the company announced last year. Today HTC is revealing the second batch of companies that will receive investments and mentorship from the program. Here’s the new batch, across Vive X’s operating territories: San Francisco.

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Intel Reveals Project Alloy, an All-in-one VR Headset With Mobile Positional Tracking

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Today at the Intel Developer Forum event in San Francisco, Intel revealed Project Alloy, an all-in-one mobile virtual reality headset which the company says will launch in 2017 as an “open platform.” See Also: Oculus CTO Affirms Positional Tracking Priority for Gear VR. Photo courtesy Intel.

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

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Lightform is funded by Lux , Seven Seas , the National Science Foundation , and Steven LaValle (a former principal scientist at Oculus). HTC’s Vive X accelerator program is welcoming more than 30 new VR and AR startups to the fold with investments in North America and Asia.