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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Their facial tracking modification technology eventually enabled the popular “Lenses” feature. The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. Someone is Always Ready to Help THIS version of the HTC Vive…. In 2015, Snapchat acquired Looksery for $150M.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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This release (available 9/8 for HTC Vive) is really just a taste of the larger project to come: Favreau’s ultimate goal is a sprawling open world that you explore and build relationships with the gnome and goblin inhabitants… we can only hope that funny elves will somehow be involved. THE FAMOUS ICELANDIC ECCENTRIC EMBRACES VR.

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Shooter Veterans Form VR Game Studio Drifter Entertainment

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Three veterans of first-person shooter games have formed Drifter Entertainment , a Seattle-based virtual reality game studio. Davis recently served as general manager for the Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. The founders include Ray Davis, Kenneth Scott, and Brian Murphy. The company has about five working for it at the moment.

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Exclusive: Here’s How Fantastic Contraption VR Devs Generated More Than $1 Million

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It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. The sound technology combined with the movements of our hands and heads made our conversation, even between avatars represented as the simplest of shapes floating in space, feel remarkably like the real thing.

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10 Recent VR and AR Investments You Should Know About

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The Series A was led by Qualcomm Ventures, and also involved The VR Fund (contributors to The Wave’s round as well), Colopl Next, Capital Factory, HTC, and more. The Laguna Beach, CA-based company was founded in 2009, and has over 36 patents (some pending) pertaining to live streaming virtual reality technology. funding score.