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MIT Researchers Test Autonomous Drones Using VR Training Grounds

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Unfortunately, training high-tech, fast-moving machines to automatically detect and avoid physical objects isn’t exactly a safe, or cheap process. You can’t learn in that environment. If you want to push boundaries on how fast you can go and compute, you need some sort of virtual-reality environment.”.

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MIT Accelerator Play Labs Announces Class of 13 AR/VR Startups

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Play Labs , a summer accelerator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), announced its first batch of 13 startups that are developing augmented reality and virtual reality technology. Empathy Box: The Myth Machine is a first-person mystery-adventure set in the weird, magical world of tech start-ups.

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NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference Officially Announced

VRWorld

and deep learning, virtual reality and self driving vehicles. GTC is the largest event of the year for developers, data scientists and executives in the fields of artificial intelligence, virtual reality and self-driving cars. The expectations for the conference are quite big, with the focus on A.I.

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Facebook Acquires FacioMetrics To Add ‘Fun Effects’ To Photos and Videos

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Users of FacioMetrics’ technology span the academic and tech industry worlds and include Lightricks, Anki, Meograph, University of Kentucky, Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a “leading social networking company” — perhaps Facebook?

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Imagine XR Tomorrow; Build for XR Today, with PTC’s Mike Campbell

XR for Business Podcast

Mike leads the Vuforia product team, and is responsible for driving the product and technology strategy of PTC’s leading solutions for the development of augmented reality applications. You can learn more about the work they’re doing at ptc.com. There was kind of like a coffee machine, I think was the demo.

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Imagine XR Tomorrow; Build for XR Today, with PTC’s Mike Campbell

XR for Business Podcast

Mike leads the Vuforia product team, and is responsible for driving the product and technology strategy of PTC’s leading solutions for the development of augmented reality applications. You can learn more about the work they’re doing at ptc.com. There was kind of like a coffee machine, I think was the demo.

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Imagine XR Tomorrow; Build for XR Today, with PTC's Mike Campbell

XR for Business Podcast

Mike leads the Vuforia product team, and is responsible for driving the product and technology strategy of PTC's leading solutions for the development of augmented reality applications. You can learn more about the work they're doing at ptc.com. So PTC is a billion-dollar plus software company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.