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Apple Reportedly In Talks To Purchase VR Live Streaming Platform NextVR

VRScout

According to a new report by 9to5Mac , Apple is currently in the process of acquiring VR/AR live streaming platform NextVR for a modest $100M. Founded in 2009 by D.J. With the potential financial backing of Apple, however, there’s no limit to how this technology could be used. Image Credit: NextVR.

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Report: Apple to Acquire Live Event Streaming Company NextVR for $100M

Road to VR

NextVR, the live event broadcasting platform for VR headsets, may soon find itself acquired by Apple, a report by 9to5Mac maintains, which is expected to be valued around $100 million. At the time of this writing, neither Apple nor NextVR have commented on the alleged acquisition.

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How Will Spatial Computing Fare in a Post-Covid World?

AR Insider

Demand grew in 2020 along with Covid-inflections in gaming, leaving Oculus Quest and Valve index sold out part of the year. In fact, this is what happened to search circa-2003 and social advertising circa-2009. That’s the power of Apple’s proven halo effect and ability to mainstream emerging consumer tech categories.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s remarks on China cast shadow over Meta’s VR quest

TechCrunch VR

According to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, Meta is preparing to re-enter China by selling the Oculus Quest VR headset in China. If Tesla can sell cars and Apple can sell phones in China, why isn’t Meta present there? Zuckerberg asked in a recent internal meeting.

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‘Mythica VR': VR LARP With D&D-style World Building Hits Kickstarter

Road to VR

Provided the project reaches its $80,000 funding goal, the studio is aiming to release Mythica VR on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift/DK2, Google Cardboard and with future support for Google Daydream. Pledge $20 or more – The game on release, for PC with the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, or iOS or Android with Google Cardboard.

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7Invensun is a Chinese company that wants to disrupt the VR eye tracking sector

The Ghost Howls

It is mostly unknown here in the West because its target market is mostly the one of its home country, but actually, it’s working on eye tracking since 2009 , so it has a deep expertise with this technology. As you know, in the west, SMI (M&A by Apple) was an advanced eye-tracking company before.

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Outages plague grids this month; Speculoos returns

Hypergrid Business

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. With the new restart, the grid will still have the Karmalot Apples for in-grid transactions. You can see all the historical OpenSim statistics here , including polls and surveys, dating all the way back to 2009. OSgrid : 21,027 regions.