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Spatial Ops & Laser Dance Point To A Big Future For Mixed Reality Gaming

Upload VR

I completed a handful of puzzles in an early prototype of Laser Dance , ending with me rolling down a quiet hallway under some virtual lasers at the Moscone Convention Center of San Francisco. It was immediately reminiscent of mixed reality work done by Magic Leap with its AR headset and projects like Dr. Grordbort's Invaders.

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What it’s like to View XR Through Varjo, the World’s First Human-Eye Resolution Headset

VRScout

Last Monday, I walked three blocks uphill on Mason St in San Francisco to the Fairmont Hotel to demo a stealth product that had been touted to me as one of the biggest advancements in XR tech this side of Magic Leap.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

At their flagship London store, Topshop made a waterslide simulator to celebrate the start of summer: complete with a virtual tube ride through a 3D recreation of the actual Oxford Street that lies just outside of the real-world store. Now this is what I call retail theater. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP. Apparently the $1.4B

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Researchers at the National University of Singapore first showed us how face electrodes can simulate food in virtual reality– and now they are bringing wind and heat to your virtual world. The notoriously secretive mixed reality company Magic Leap has acquired parts of Dacuda , a B2B computer vision software company.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.30): Niantic launches VPS, Pico launches Neo 3 Link, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. More info (The Last Clockwinder) More info (First Person Tennis) More info (Flight Simulator) More info (Drunk or Dead 2). News worth a mention.

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As UploadVR Turns 2 We Reflect On The First Full Year of Consumer VR

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. With over 40 member companies in San Francisco, The Upload Collective has quickly grown both in size and in scope. February 2016.

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Getting the ROI out of XR, with Sector 5 Digital's Cameron Ayres

XR for Business Podcast

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. Alan: I think one of the ones is doing that amazingly is a company out of San Francisco called zSpace.