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Korean 3D spatial data tool startup Urbanbase closes $11.1M Series B+ round

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million in 2017 and its first Series B round in April 2020, from backers that included South Korea-based Shinsegae Information & Communication, Woomi Construction, SL Investment, KDB Capital, Shinhan Capital, Enlight Ventures, CKD Venture Capital, and Breeze Investment, Ha said. Existing investors did not join this round.

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Steam Deck User Interface Coming To VR

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A booklet put together by Valve to mark Steam Deck’s availability in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong indicates VR headsets using Steam will “soon” have Steam Deck’s user interface. Valve is bringing the Steam Deck’s user interface to VR headsets.

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AR Empowers Sustainable Fashion, ZERO10 Report Says

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The New York, New York-based firm provides businesses and people with AR try-on clothing apps in a bid to support sustainable fashion in the global clothing industry, using the latest in computer vision software.

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LG, Oorbit Partner for Smart TV Metaverse Solution

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South Korea’s LG Electronics announced on Monday a partnership with Oorbit to develop serious gaming metaverse technologies for LG TVs. Pooya Koosha, Oorbit’s Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder , said that his company had been building hardware, software, and networking layers for the Metaverse for over ten years.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.01): Facebook is very confident in Quest 2 sales, Valve is working on Neural Interfaces, and more!

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The software is very famous , and some videos about artists drawing with it have become so viral that even mainstream people have seen them. The good news is that the software has not just been discontinued, but it has been released open-source, so the community can keep it alive and improve it. Oculus Quest is coming to Korea.

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How Are Enterprises Trading in the Metaverse?

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” 15 years ago, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and the cloud triggered similar shifts in the market. Numerous companies such as Meta Platforms , Microsoft, Decentraland, Epic Games, Unity, Pico Interactive, NVIDIA, and even Autodesk are developing platforms to facilitate the Metaverse. Regulating Trade in the Metaverse.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

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VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. Sogang University, South Korea. South East European University, Macedonia.

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