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Q&A With Matt Bell: How Matterport Started Capturing The Real Estate Market In VR

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Anyone involved at the intersection of real estate and Virtual Reality has probably experienced a immersive walkthrough made with Matterport technology. Matt Bell founded Matterport after the release of Microsoft Kinect and seeing it’s potential to create 3D environments to give someone that immersive feeling in a space.

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Facebook Spent Over $88M This Year on Oculus’ Seattle Area Satellite HQ

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Oculus has been on quite the hiring spree as of late, with over a hundred positions currently advertised on the company’s career website aimed at bringing hardware and software engineers into the Seattle area. The post Facebook Spent Over $88M This Year on Oculus’ Seattle Area Satellite HQ appeared first on Road to VR.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.12.28): Flight Simulator VR released, a new hack lets you use Quest without Facebook, and more!

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Microsoft Flight Simulator releases VR patch. Microsoft Flight Simulator is now compatible with VR headsets : not only the HP Reverb G2 as initially teased but all the headsets that are compatible with OpenXR , so basically all the most famous devices. But for now, it is free real estate. Top news of the week.

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Spatial Beats: Perseverance XR, Rebecca Minkoff & 3D Maps

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Realworld is based on the Microsoft version of Google Earth. eXp are the owners of eXp Realty in the real estate industry and VirBELA, a remote workplace platform. Baby Hands is in Oculus Labs for the Quest. Recent advances in technology have renewed interest in space, and given humanity hope in the midst of a pandemic.

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VRdirect to Bring Competition in Training and Virtual Tours

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Specifically, their platform is a boon in industries like real estate and hospitality. The company also has some big-name partners including Oculus , Microsoft , and Telekom. “All of these enterprise clients are now at the point where they understand that they will need a standardized solution.”.

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Meta Lays Off 11,000 Employees, VR/AR Teams Affected

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The job cuts comes alongside other reductions at the company “ including scaling back budgets, reducing perks, and shrinking our real estate footprint,” according to a statement from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. . “T his will add up to a meaningful cultural shift in how we operate,” according to Zuckerberg.

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Sensoryx & Interhaptics partner to streamline the creation of hand tracking interactions for VRFree

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Facebook came with the Oculus Quest 1 & 2 , then Microsoft with the Hololens2 with hand tracking capabilities; but there are limitations in dealing with occlusions and in tracking outside the camera’s field of view on the headset. How AR/VR Are Transforming the Real Estate Industry 2.