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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

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who first immigrated to Japan over 25 years ago. teams for Japan. As of 2019, we are an expanding private company with about 40 people based in Japan and funded by Japanese venture capitalists. Slightly slower teams have been known to beat faster teams by using better teamwork and strategy.

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Is There a Metaverse Tax Policy in the Works?

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She continued that “unrealized gains and income” could fall under this taxable financial activity. This would involve determining partnerships and business strategies to locate potential taxable incomes. US tax laws in the Metaverse should tax financial activities like monetary withdrawals and purchases.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

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A bizarre strategy, that doesn’t surprise me anymore, though. Otherwise, now the situation is more or less like before, with the exception of some places where there are still some Oculus devices in stock (for instance in Japan and Taiwan). I hope for him that this won’t lead the company to the disaster. Who knows….

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Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

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It’s no secret that Microsoft’s mixed reality strategy is centered around its Intelligent Cloud, and the Intelligent Edge; therefore the HoloLens team has worked very closely with Azure to bring it all together in one sleek package. So, here’s the full low-down on Microsoft’s newest immersive device: It’s all about the Cloud.

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Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and Beyond

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Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.27): a great Christmas for Quest 2, Rec Room is worth $3.5B, and much more!

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The first one comes from Japan (of course), and it is the prototype of a “lickable TV” (that you can see in the header image of this post): basically, the system prepares at exact timings a flavor mixing various liquids and then lets it slip on a screen, onto which is installed a special film. Two crazy and cool inventions.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

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While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. As a customer-focused product strategist, he oversees platform strategies that unify the product category for emerging technologies.