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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Leap Motion Raises $50M,

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Morgan Asset Management for its VR/AR hand-tracking technology. The Series A round was led by leading online real estate portal and first-time investor, Zillow Group. Read more here. 2) WaveOptics , a UK startup that builds waveguide-based optics for AR, has raised £12M (~$16M) in a Series B round of funding. Read more here.

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Turn Any Surface Into An AR Experience With Post Mobile AR

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Dallas-based spatial experience company Spacee has come up with a technology that can deliver an AR experience that doesn’t require a phones, tablet, glasses or any other type wearable to operate. Walmart CEO, Doug McMillon, was so impressed with this that he called Spacee’s technology “the future of shopping” in a Facebook post.

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Take A Walk On The Wild Side Of VR With Cybershoes

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If you’ve seen the movie ‘Ready Player One’ or have been to CES or other recent gaming/technology trade show, then odds are you’re at least somewhat familiar with the concept behind omnidirectional treadmills. An immersive VR locomotion solution that ditches the omnidirectional treadmill design in favor of a swivel chair.

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CityXR: A Vision For Augmented Cities In The Shadow Of Hyper-Reality

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Though the film is the better part of a decade old, it remains relevant to modern discussions on how we conceptualize use cases for emerging virtual and augmented reality technologies. Matsuda himself subsequently began working in AR following the film's release, leading design teams at both Leap Motion (now Ultraleap) and Microsoft.

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Varjo XR-4 Series Review: Next-Level Mixed Reality Headsets

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The Varjo XR-4 series follows the highly successful XR-3 headsets, launched in 2020 , with more advanced graphics, tracking technology, and integration with the NVIDIA Omniverse. NVIDIA Technology: NVIDIA RTX Ada GPUs and integration with the NVIDIA Omniverse for connecting 3D pipelines and workflows.

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5 Potential Gear VR ‘Killer Apps’ Demonstrated During Samsung Contest

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Or put more simply: A killer app “turns a technology into a product.”. The Grand Prize now in hand, Prenneis says the team have a number of upgrades planned for the immediate future, including a customizable interface, real-time 3D support, and integration of gesture control for Oculus Touch and Leap Motion.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. We’ve also seen smartphones with depth cameras, for instance from Lenovo and Asus with Google’s pre-ARCore Tango technology.