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To my knowledge, there is no more exact model of Auschwitz,” Brekertold The Times of Israel. “It More than 6,000 German soldiers worked at the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz. MORE
Khelifa was particularly moved by the split between Israel and Palestine, who shared so much in common — including their fear for one another. Belgian-Tunisian war correspondent Karim Ben Khelifa and MIT show how VR can be a critical tool for empathy. MORE
Meta was founded in 2012 and is based out of Redwood City, but also has an R&D operation in Israel, which is also where its founders hail from originally. MORE
Founded out of Israel, in 2000, Humaneyes says it holds more than 70 patents across the 3D spectrum. A number of new virtual reality (VR) headsets and technologies went to market in 2016, but without content, VR viewers are little more than futuristic-looking ski goggles. MORE
Starting off with a group of 33 startups, the program focuses on enterprise, commerce, education, health, social, and esports– and the program just announced 30 additions to the program and a new location: Israel. MORE
And now, by bringing Daniel Lazo and Eran May-Raz, directors of the short film “Sight” (which showcased augmented reality) from Israel to work at Meta, the company was able to express these interests in a storytelling mode. MORE
“The stories come from: India, Israel, France, America, and beyond. Chelsea Film Festival offers a VR lineup that is refreshing, intimate, and necessary. Over the past few years, VR has established a presence in “name brand” festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca or Cannes. MORE
MIT made a movie screen that brings 3D to all seats – without the glasses Seeing 3D movies in theaters isn’t my preferred choice for a bunch of reasons, but the glasses definitely rank among its most annoying features. MORE
The company has 31 employees in Los Gatos, San Francisco, and Israel, and it continues to hire, Rubin said. “We Sixense pioneered hand controllers for virtual reality applications in 2013, but the company hasn’t been able to produce its Stem consumer product for VR. And so the company is announcing today that it will refund all of the money raised from its Kickstarter campaign backers and preorder customers. MORE
Today The Walt Disney Company announced participants in the 2016 Disney Accelerator, a program that provides entrepreneurs with mentorship and immersion into the media and entertainment industry. MORE
For example, here is the registered agent information for Israel-based Kitely Ltd. $6 for three years of protection against lawsuits from US creators — for any grid, anywhere in the world. helps protect against take-downs by hosting companies and domain registrars. MORE
Kitely, for example, which is based in Israel, has registered. Nude child avatars spotted on Sacrarium grid. Image courtesy Damian Hart.). The Sacrarium grid has taken down illegal content after receiving complains from users through emails and forums, and removed users who allegedly engaged in illegal behavior with child avatars. MORE
According to UBS analyst Steven Milunovich , Apple could have over 1,000 engineers working on Augmented Reality technology in Israel, mostly at its major R&D centre in Herzliya. The post Apple Reportedly Could Have Over 1,000 Engineers Working on AR in Israel appeared first on Road to VR. MORE
Also included were independent developers who came from Denmark, Israel, and further out to impress us with their content and technology demos. The 2016 Vision Summit conference took place on February 10 and 11, 2016 in Los Angeles. MORE
Sometimes dubbed “The Startup Nation,” today’s Israel is sprawling with technological innovation, especially when it comes to frontier technologies. My observations suggested Israel has the potential to become one of the world’s largest hubs for Augmented Reality. MORE
Edgybees in fact draws from Amazon’s talent pool; Menashe Haskin, a former manager at the Amazon Prime Air office in Israel, helped cofound it in 2016. While Amazon is busy figuring out infrastructure for its Prime Air drone empire, augmented reality startup Edgybees has launched Drone Prix AR, an AR racing game for drones. Fellow founders CEO Adam Kaplan and vice president for research and development Nitay Megides come from data virtualization and robotics backgrounds respectively. MORE
and Israel to sabotage an underground Iranian nuclear facility told from the perspective of Stuxnet, a sophisticated cyber weapon, and a key NSA informant. It’s that time of the year again and Sundance Film Festival has announced their 2017 lineup for the New Frontier Exhibitions. MORE
This includes a collaboration with artist Alex Israel, accompanied by a futuristic piece of fiction; a defiant take on fall fashion by photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott; and a portfolio by photographer and artist Collier Schorr, capturing fashion’s obsession with gender fluidity. MORE
AWE wrapped up its inaugural AR+VR conference and expo in Israel earlier this week and with it announced the first AWE Tel Aviv Auggie Awards. Catch up on the latest XR highlights, funding news & launch announcements week of November 5. By Tom Emrich. It’s been another busy week in AR+VR! MORE
Founded in 2000, Israel-based Humaneyes says it holds more than 70 patents across the 3D spectrum. Humaneyes Technologies has announced a follow-up to its Vuze VR camera, one that captures both 360° (2D) and stereoscopic VR180 (3D) videos and photos. The Vuze XR camera, which will cost around $400 when it launches later this year, is basically two cameras in one. When it’s closed, it’s a 360° camera, but you can click a button to convert the device into a VR180 camera. MORE
After making it to the Top Three alongside an impressive group of innovative startups from around the world, including Ohio-based GhostWave and Israel’s Innoviz Technologies, they were named this year’s winner of the 2017 Top Ten Automotive Startups Competition. The Swiss-based company WayRay that makes augmented reality for cars, won the grand prize in a start-up competition at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Tuesday. MORE
Israel-based Everysight today announced Raptor, a new set of glasses designed specifically for cyclists. While VR is letting cyclists explore the world from the comfort of their homes , this new set of AR glasses could provide huge benefits for those that still venture outside. MORE
The Fourth Transformation Book Signing with Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. 2016 was rough. A gorilla died, trolls ruled the earth, and we lost more than our fair share of icons and legends. But, thankfully, every year eventually comes to a close and as this one prepares to wind up we can turn our attention to the bright (slightly denial-fueled) promise of 2017 — and it’s kicking off with a bang for VR. MORE
” HTC Vive’s investment group also said it planned to open an accelerator in Israel, joining locations in San Francisco, Beijing, Shenzhen and Taipei. 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. The companies join the inaugural group of 33 startups funded in July last year. MORE
Recently, they reached out to Lumus, an Israel-based business that designs displays for AR glasses and headsets. Quanta Computer Inc. is a manufacturing partner for Apple and many other hardware manufacturers in the PC/smartphone space. They’re one of the most important companies that consumers have never heard of. MORE
So, for instance, in Israel, they interviewed a man of the Israeli army and a man of the Palestinian warriors. Today I’ve attended my first lecture at View Conference : the Masterclass “Artist-Driven Immersive Work” by Eloi Champagne and Martin Viau, of the National Film Board of Canada. MORE
Light is an immersive music experience that debuted at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Jerusalem, Israel as the first synchronized virtual reality performance of its kind. Kaleidoscope and VRScout are showcasing VR creators in Los Angeles. MORE
This official partnership sees the launch of a joint survey which will produce four annual XR reports specific to the USA, Europe, China and Israel regions. Catch up on the latest XR highlights, funding news & launch announcements for the week of September 10. MORE
According to him, Sixense has a team in Israel and the company is spending $150,000-175,000 on research and development each month. On October 12, 2013 Sixense closed its Kickstarter campaign after raising over $600,000 from 2,383 backers. 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. MORE
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., Today at an event in San Francisco HTC hosted a Vive X Demo Day for its second batch of funded company demos. The event featured 26 different companies ranging from game developers, enterprise applications, ease-of-use convenience tools, and a litany of other projects. MORE
Elbit Systems , an Israel-based defense company, recently announced that its medical technologies subsidiary Beyeonics Surgical successfully concluded its first funding round of $11.5 MORE
Israel-based Lumus has been working on transparent optics since 2000. At CES 2017, Lumus is demonstrating its latest waveguide optics which achieve a 55 degree field of view from optics less than 2mm thick, potentially enabling a truly glasses-sized augmented reality headset. MORE
Tochner reviously headed up an identity management company, ID Choice, and worked in Unit 8200, Israel’s equivalent of the NSA. ]. MORE
In addition, Digi-Capital and AWE have joined forces on a global bi-annual XR industry survey program which will culminate in four regional reports: USA, Europe, China and Israel – each to be presented at AWE annual events in these regions. MORE
The Startup to Watch award was presented by Omri Cohen, Director and Partner of Vive X Israel. Startup to Watch and Best in Show Auggie Award presented at inaugural AWE Tel Aviv. Photo by Ezra Levy. MORE
I interviewed Plumer, who has 30 years of experience in the entertainment technology industry, as he was finishing up a visit to Israel for the Beyond Reality event, which took VR leaders on a tour of Israel’s VR and augmented reality research centers. GamesBeat: You’re in Israel now. MORE
Rehovot, Israel-based Lumus makes the optical engine that empowers AR solutions. Lumus, an Israeli startup that just raised a $45 million funding round , is unveiling new augmented reality displays for smartglasses that offer a wider field of view. The company showed the Maximus prototype for AR glasses with a 55-degree field of view at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. AR is expected to become a $90 billion market by 2020, according to tech advisor Digi-Capital. MORE
Byond has been working on the tech for two years in Los Angeles and Israel, and it has been testing it for six months with brands and media companies. Byond is launching a publishing platform that allows companies to create augmented reality, virtual reality, and 360-degree applications. It’s one more set of tools designed to encourage enterprises and brands to take the plunge into promising new technologies. MORE
Chinese technology conglomerate Kuang-Chi will invest in Israel-based provider of software-based machine vision and gesture recognition... News 3DiVi Inc. A startup that allows a smartphone’s own camera to be used to track hand gestures has received a $20 million investment. MORE
According to Bruce Harris, a Microsoft "Technical Evangelist", who has been speaking at an event in Israel recently, we also have a few more details on what we can expect on the connectivity and battery life front. MORE
HTC Vive’s investment group also said it planned to open another accelerator in Israel soon. Weekly Funding Roundup: Lightform gets $26 million, Vive X is investing in 30 startups, Facebook hiring former Apple engineer, & Sliver VR raised $16 million in VC funding. Lightform, a company that aims to take immersive projection mapping research projects and transform them into easy-to-use real world cases, just received $26 million in funding. MORE
DOES APPLE HAVE 1000+ ENGINEERS WORKING ON AR IN ISRAEL? Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. MORE
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AUGUST 21, 2018
Sometimes dubbed “The Startup Nation,” today’s Israel is sprawling with technological innovation, especially when it comes to frontier technologies. My observations suggested Israel has the potential to become one of the world’s largest hubs for Augmented Reality.
Road to VR
MARCH 2, 2017
According to UBS analyst Steven Milunovich , Apple could have over 1,000 engineers working on Augmented Reality technology in Israel, mostly at its major R&D centre in Herzliya. The post Apple Reportedly Could Have Over 1,000 Engineers Working on AR in Israel appeared first on Road to VR.
AWE Blog
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
The Startup to Watch award was presented by Omri Cohen, Director and Partner of Vive X Israel. Startup to Watch and Best in Show Auggie Award presented at inaugural AWE Tel Aviv. Photo by Ezra Levy.
Road to VR
JUNE 20, 2018
Elbit Systems , an Israel-based defense company, recently announced that its medical technologies subsidiary Beyeonics Surgical successfully concluded its first funding round of $11.5
Road to VR
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Israel-based Lumus has been working on transparent optics since 2000.
Hypergrid Business
MAY 19, 2016
Chinese technology conglomerate Kuang-Chi will invest in Israel-based provider of software-based machine vision and gesture recognition... News 3DiVi Inc. A startup that allows a smartphone’s own camera to be used to track hand gestures has received a $20 million investment.
VRScout
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
Khelifa was particularly moved by the split between Israel and Palestine, who shared so much in common — including their fear for one another. Belgian-Tunisian war correspondent Karim Ben Khelifa and MIT show how VR can be a critical tool for empathy.
AWE Blog
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
AWE wrapped up its inaugural AR+VR conference and expo in Israel earlier this week and with it announced the first AWE Tel Aviv Auggie Awards. Catch up on the latest XR highlights, funding news & launch announcements week of November 5. By Tom Emrich. It’s been another busy week in AR+VR!
VRScout
OCTOBER 22, 2017
“The stories come from: India, Israel, France, America, and beyond. Chelsea Film Festival offers a VR lineup that is refreshing, intimate, and necessary. Over the past few years, VR has established a presence in “name brand” festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca or Cannes.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 15, 2017
To my knowledge, there is no more exact model of Auschwitz,” Brekertold The Times of Israel. “It More than 6,000 German soldiers worked at the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz.
UploadVR
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Israel-based Everysight today announced Raptor, a new set of glasses designed specifically for cyclists. While VR is letting cyclists explore the world from the comfort of their homes , this new set of AR glasses could provide huge benefits for those that still venture outside.
UploadVR
JULY 20, 2018
Founded in 2000, Israel-based Humaneyes says it holds more than 70 patents across the 3D spectrum. Humaneyes Technologies has announced a follow-up to its Vuze VR camera, one that captures both 360° (2D) and stereoscopic VR180 (3D) videos and photos. The Vuze XR camera, which will cost around $400 when it launches later this year, is basically two cameras in one. When it’s closed, it’s a 360° camera, but you can click a button to convert the device into a VR180 camera.
AllThingsVR
JULY 25, 2016
MIT made a movie screen that brings 3D to all seats – without the glasses Seeing 3D movies in theaters isn’t my preferred choice for a bunch of reasons, but the glasses definitely rank among its most annoying features.
AWE Blog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
This official partnership sees the launch of a joint survey which will produce four annual XR reports specific to the USA, Europe, China and Israel regions. Catch up on the latest XR highlights, funding news & launch announcements for the week of September 10.
AWE Blog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
In addition, Digi-Capital and AWE have joined forces on a global bi-annual XR industry survey program which will culminate in four regional reports: USA, Europe, China and Israel – each to be presented at AWE annual events in these regions.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 13, 2016
Meta was founded in 2012 and is based out of Redwood City, but also has an R&D operation in Israel, which is also where its founders hail from originally.
VRScout
AUGUST 10, 2017
This includes a collaboration with artist Alex Israel, accompanied by a futuristic piece of fiction; a defiant take on fall fashion by photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott; and a portfolio by photographer and artist Collier Schorr, capturing fashion’s obsession with gender fluidity.
UploadVR
OCTOBER 16, 2018
The company has 31 employees in Los Gatos, San Francisco, and Israel, and it continues to hire, Rubin said. “We Sixense pioneered hand controllers for virtual reality applications in 2013, but the company hasn’t been able to produce its Stem consumer product for VR. And so the company is announcing today that it will refund all of the money raised from its Kickstarter campaign backers and preorder customers.
AllThingsVR
MARCH 29, 2017
HTC Vive’s investment group also said it planned to open another accelerator in Israel soon. Weekly Funding Roundup: Lightform gets $26 million, Vive X is investing in 30 startups, Facebook hiring former Apple engineer, & Sliver VR raised $16 million in VC funding. Lightform, a company that aims to take immersive projection mapping research projects and transform them into easy-to-use real world cases, just received $26 million in funding.
UploadVR
JUNE 4, 2017
Edgybees in fact draws from Amazon’s talent pool; Menashe Haskin, a former manager at the Amazon Prime Air office in Israel, helped cofound it in 2016. While Amazon is busy figuring out infrastructure for its Prime Air drone empire, augmented reality startup Edgybees has launched Drone Prix AR, an AR racing game for drones. Fellow founders CEO Adam Kaplan and vice president for research and development Nitay Megides come from data virtualization and robotics backgrounds respectively.
UploadVR
JANUARY 5, 2017
Rehovot, Israel-based Lumus makes the optical engine that empowers AR solutions. Lumus, an Israeli startup that just raised a $45 million funding round , is unveiling new augmented reality displays for smartglasses that offer a wider field of view. The company showed the Maximus prototype for AR glasses with a 55-degree field of view at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. AR is expected to become a $90 billion market by 2020, according to tech advisor Digi-Capital.
UploadVR
DECEMBER 30, 2016
The Fourth Transformation Book Signing with Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. 2016 was rough. A gorilla died, trolls ruled the earth, and we lost more than our fair share of icons and legends. But, thankfully, every year eventually comes to a close and as this one prepares to wind up we can turn our attention to the bright (slightly denial-fueled) promise of 2017 — and it’s kicking off with a bang for VR.
UploadVR
AUGUST 20, 2017
I interviewed Plumer, who has 30 years of experience in the entertainment technology industry, as he was finishing up a visit to Israel for the Beyond Reality event, which took VR leaders on a tour of Israel’s VR and augmented reality research centers. GamesBeat: You’re in Israel now.
Road to VR
JANUARY 8, 2017
Israel-based Lumus has been working on transparent optics since 2000. At CES 2017, Lumus is demonstrating its latest waveguide optics which achieve a 55 degree field of view from optics less than 2mm thick, potentially enabling a truly glasses-sized augmented reality headset.
UploadVR
NOVEMBER 12, 2017
Byond has been working on the tech for two years in Los Angeles and Israel, and it has been testing it for six months with brands and media companies. Byond is launching a publishing platform that allows companies to create augmented reality, virtual reality, and 360-degree applications. It’s one more set of tools designed to encourage enterprises and brands to take the plunge into promising new technologies.
VRScout
JANUARY 20, 2017
And now, by bringing Daniel Lazo and Eran May-Raz, directors of the short film “Sight” (which showcased augmented reality) from Israel to work at Meta, the company was able to express these interests in a storytelling mode.
UploadVR
MARCH 7, 2017
According to him, Sixense has a team in Israel and the company is spending $150,000-175,000 on research and development each month. On October 12, 2013 Sixense closed its Kickstarter campaign after raising over $600,000 from 2,383 backers. 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.
UploadVR
JANUARY 4, 2017
Founded out of Israel, in 2000, Humaneyes says it holds more than 70 patents across the 3D spectrum. A number of new virtual reality (VR) headsets and technologies went to market in 2016, but without content, VR viewers are little more than futuristic-looking ski goggles.
VRScout
MARCH 30, 2017
Starting off with a group of 33 startups, the program focuses on enterprise, commerce, education, health, social, and esports– and the program just announced 30 additions to the program and a new location: Israel.
Cats and VR
JULY 11, 2016
Today The Walt Disney Company announced participants in the 2016 Disney Accelerator, a program that provides entrepreneurs with mentorship and immersion into the media and entertainment industry.
VRWorld
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Recently, they reached out to Lumus, an Israel-based business that designs displays for AR glasses and headsets. Quanta Computer Inc. is a manufacturing partner for Apple and many other hardware manufacturers in the PC/smartphone space. They’re one of the most important companies that consumers have never heard of.
VRWorld
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
After making it to the Top Three alongside an impressive group of innovative startups from around the world, including Ohio-based GhostWave and Israel’s Innoviz Technologies, they were named this year’s winner of the 2017 Top Ten Automotive Startups Competition. The Swiss-based company WayRay that makes augmented reality for cars, won the grand prize in a start-up competition at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Tuesday.
VRScout
MARCH 6, 2017
DOES APPLE HAVE 1000+ ENGINEERS WORKING ON AR IN ISRAEL? Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Light is an immersive music experience that debuted at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Jerusalem, Israel as the first synchronized virtual reality performance of its kind. Kaleidoscope and VRScout are showcasing VR creators in Los Angeles.
VRCircle
JANUARY 19, 2016
According to Bruce Harris, a Microsoft "Technical Evangelist", who has been speaking at an event in Israel recently, we also have a few more details on what we can expect on the connectivity and battery life front.
VRScout
DECEMBER 2, 2016
and Israel to sabotage an underground Iranian nuclear facility told from the perspective of Stuxnet, a sophisticated cyber weapon, and a key NSA informant. It’s that time of the year again and Sundance Film Festival has announced their 2017 lineup for the New Frontier Exhibitions.
UploadVR
JUNE 21, 2017
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., Today at an event in San Francisco HTC hosted a Vive X Demo Day for its second batch of funded company demos. The event featured 26 different companies ranging from game developers, enterprise applications, ease-of-use convenience tools, and a litany of other projects.
Super Reality
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
Also included were independent developers who came from Denmark, Israel, and further out to impress us with their content and technology demos. The 2016 Vision Summit conference took place on February 10 and 11, 2016 in Los Angeles.
Hypergrid Business
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Kitely, for example, which is based in Israel, has registered. Nude child avatars spotted on Sacrarium grid. Image courtesy Damian Hart.). The Sacrarium grid has taken down illegal content after receiving complains from users through emails and forums, and removed users who allegedly engaged in illegal behavior with child avatars.
Hypergrid Business
AUGUST 23, 2017
Tochner reviously headed up an identity management company, ID Choice, and worked in Unit 8200, Israel’s equivalent of the NSA. ].
Hypergrid Business
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
For example, here is the registered agent information for Israel-based Kitely Ltd. $6 for three years of protection against lawsuits from US creators — for any grid, anywhere in the world. helps protect against take-downs by hosting companies and domain registrars.
UploadVR
MARCH 27, 2017
” HTC Vive’s investment group also said it planned to open an accelerator in Israel, joining locations in San Francisco, Beijing, Shenzhen and Taipei. 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. The companies join the inaugural group of 33 startups funded in July last year.
VRWorld
MAY 16, 2016
Starting its way from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel – the company received venture capital backing and moved to Colorado, US.
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