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Mashup Score: 1Apple Invites XR Media Outlets to WWDC Keynote for the First Time - 12 month(s) ago
Apple has sent invitations to its upcoming WWDC keynote to select media outlets, including Road to VR. Apple has historically not invited XR media to its events, let alone commented in any way on its XR R&D that has been reportedly happening behind the scenes at the company for years. Road to VR is among the XR …
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Mashup Score: 0Report: TikTok Parent Lays Off Hundreds at VR Subsidiary Pico Interactive, Tencent Scraps VR Plans - 1 year(s) ago
TikTok parent company ByteDance is reportedly laying off what South China Morning Post maintains will be “hundreds of employees” working at its VR headset manufacturing subsidiary, Pico Interactive. A separate report from Reuters also maintains Chinese tech giant Tencent is scrapping its plans to release a VR headset. According to two people with knowledge of the …
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Mashup Score: 3
Magic Leap, the storied unicorn developing enterprise AR headsets, announced at CES 2023 that its flagship device Magic Leap 2 earned a certification that clears it for use in the operating room. The company first intimated it had pursued IEC 60601-1 certification at SPIE’s XR conference in January 2022, however the news largely went unreported …
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Mashup Score: 0NVIDIA Explains Why it Believes a Pixar-invented Protocol is the "HTML of the metaverse" - 2 year(s) ago
NVIDIA, one of the tech sector’s power players, is pushing the Universal Scene Description protocol as the foundation of interoperable content and experiences in the metaverse. In a recent post the company explains why it believes the protocol, originally invented by Pixar, fits the needs of the coming metaverse. Though the word metaverse is presently …
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Mashup Score: 1'Beat Saber' Earned Nearly $100M in Revenue Last Year Alone - 2 year(s) ago
Beat Games, the Czechia-based studio known for VR’s most popular game Beat Saber (2018), revealed it’s managed to generate nearly $100 million in revenue over the course of last year thanks to the block-slashing rhythm game. Czech language publication CzechCrunch confirmed that Beat Games earned 2.3 billion Czech koruna in revenue last year alone, or around $97 million USD. …
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Mashup Score: 2Meta Reveals VR Headset Prototypes Designed to Make VR 'Indistinguishable From Reality' - 2 year(s) ago
Meta says its ultimate goal with its VR hardware is to make a comfortable, compact headset with visual finality that’s ‘indistinguishable from reality’. Today the company revealed its latest VR headset prototypes which it says represent steps toward that goal. Meta has made it no secret that it’s dumping tens of billions of dollars in …
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Mashup Score: 32Niantic Launches City-scale Visual Positioning System for Location-based, Multi-user AR - 2 year(s) ago
Niantic today launched its Lightship Visual Positioning System at its first developer summit. The system aims to form an underlying 3D map of the world so that AR devices can share the same frame of reference even on massive scales. Update (May 24th, 2022): Today during the company’s Lightship Summit event, Niantic launched its Lightship …
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Mashup Score: 1
Although it’s expected to launch this year, there’s still no firm release date on Magic Leap 2. However, the company has begun sharing details on the headset which suggests the launch is approaching. This week at the SPIE Photonics West 2022 conference, Magic Leap’s VP of Optical Engineering, Kevin Curtis, took to the stage to …
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Mashup Score: 0
Although it’s expected to launch this year, there’s still no firm release date on Magic Leap 2. However, the company has begun sharing details on the headset which suggests the launch is approaching. This week at the SPIE Photonics West 2022 conference, Magic Leap’s VP of Optical Engineering, Kevin Curtis, took to the stage to …
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Mashup Score: 3Avatar Creation Tool 'Ready Player Me' Raises $13M to Provide Metaverse-wide Avatars - 2 year(s) ago
Wolf3D, the Estonian startup behind web-based avatar creator Ready Player Me, has closed a $13 million funding round. The company says it will use the funds to further build out its avatar creation tools and eventually allow developers to earn money through the sale of in-game assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Ready Player Me studio Wolf3D …
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