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Voting is Open for AWE’s XR Technology Auggie Awards

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With the annual Augmented World Expo (AWE) going online this year, they’ve taken the XR technology awards show Auggie Awards with them. During that time, anyone with an AWE profile was able to nominate their favorite examples of XR technology, applications, and organizations in fifteen categories. Voice of the People.

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Which Startups Are Hiring for Augmented Reality Jobs?

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See Also: New Guidelines for Developers: XR Software Should Be Accessible for Users With Disabilities. Because their platform showcases life-like avatars, they typically hire for “holographic” roles that include 2D/3D design and engineers that have both AR/VR software experience and AR/VR hardware experience.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook: AR Is “Critically Important” For The Company’s Future

VRScout

Kara Swisher from the New York Times recently talked with Apple CEO Tim Cook about the companies future as well as its current priorities. Cook told Swisher that the company loves to integrate hardware, software, and services to seek out new intersection points of communication, stating “that’s where the magic occurs.”

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Report: Apple Recruits Hollywood Directors For VR/AR Headset

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According to The New York Times , Apple is enlisting the help of the Hollywood elite to help bolster its catalog of immersive content for its long-rumored VR/AR headset. Back in 2019, we talked about how the star director used VR technology to create and preview virtual environments for his 2019 remake of The Lion King.

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Niantic Brings Its Real-World Metaverse To Browsers

VRScout

Lightship VPS for Web promises to catapult web-based AR technology into a brand new era. This first-of-its-kind browser-based technology will connect the real world with the virtual world by anchoring WebAR (browser-based augmented reality) content to locations and enabling virtual objects to interact with the physical world.

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Moth+Flame Raises $2.5M to Expand Its Immersive VR Work Training Tech

Road to VR

Moth+Flame, a creator of VR training software, today announced it’s garnered $2.5 million in seed funding to expand the scale of its workplace VR training technology. To see PromiseVR in action, check out the three-minute video below, which shows the company’s workplace racial bias training.

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The Knight Foundation launches $750,000 initiative for immersive technology for the arts

TechCrunch VR

Knight Foundation is looking for pitches on how to enhance and augment traditional creative arts through immersive technologies. We’ve seen how immersive technologies can reach new audiences and engage existing audiences in new ways,” said Chris Barr, director for arts and technology innovation at Knight Foundation, in a statement.