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

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The Series A round was led by leading online real estate portal and first-time investor, Zillow Group. He’s being assigned to work closely with the Paramount and Viacom technology teams to explore all forms of new and emerging technologies, with an emphasis on virtual reality and augmented reality. Read more here.

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

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Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. Situ founded Virtual Reality Pop , the #1 Medium.com publication on immersive technology with over 37,000 subscribers.

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

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Back in 2016, designer and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda released Hyper-Reality, a concept film that imagined an augmented reality future where physical and virtual realities have merged, resulting in a "city saturated in media."

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

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

With a perspective like that in mind, the judges chose Virtual Reality Suite , lead developed by Markus Prenneis and Thomas Trzaska of present4D , as the contest’s grand prize winner. Or put more simply: A killer app “turns a technology into a product.”. Contest judges (left to right): Paul T. Follow the developers on Facebook.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture.