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Vancouver Emerging As Top Five VR and AR Hub

VRScout

Creating everything from veterinary education software to search-and-rescue robots operating in VR, developers are helping the city become a world leader in content production. Seattle, or Portland, because you’re going up against giants like Google or Microsoft. Last year, there were 15 XR companies in Metro Vancouver.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

A developer out of Portland, OR named Javier Davalos has made an Hololens app that utilizes audio feedback for real-world navigation help for the visually impaired. The notoriously secretive mixed reality company Magic Leap has acquired parts of Dacuda , a B2B computer vision software company.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

But its reputation as a video game engine can also be intimidating — especially to those who want to create AR software for enterprise. Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs! Microsoft’s got a great product around it. Paul, welcome to the show.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

But its reputation as a video game engine can also be intimidating — especially to those who want to create AR software for enterprise. Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs! Microsoft’s got a great product around it. Paul, welcome to the show.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH's Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

But its reputation as a video game engine can also be intimidating -- especially to those who want to create AR software for enterprise. Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 - since before the interwebs! In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem.

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