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VR Training Company Gemba Secures $18M Series A to Expand Enterprise Metaverse

Road to VR

At the time, The Leadership Network was focused on cross-industry leadership training which, through its executive masterclasses, let senior execs from non-competing companies go hands-on at the state-of-the-art facilities of global giants like Toyota, Tesla, Google, BMW and Amazon.

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Augmented Reality and Hearables: Where the Two Technologies Meet

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Companies are beginning to incorporate the technology into solutions across various industries, including healthcare, sports, education, tourism, and the automotive industry. For example, in 2019, Amazon extended Alexa features to pair with headphones and earbuds. IKEA Place app virtually arranges furniture in a customer’s interior.

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NVIDIA and Autodesk Bring Collaborative XR Experiences to the Cloud

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In October, tech giants NVIDIA and Autodesk announced the official launch of NVIDIA CloudXR and Autodesk VRED on Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud computing platform for users to run their choice of applications and software. The joint NVIDIA-Autodesk release is available as a “Quick Start” deployment system on AWS.

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8 Augmented Reality Trends in 2021

ARPost

In the last couple of years, AR has experienced tremendous growth and popularity as big technology giants like Google, Amazon, Apple have adopted the technology. Volvo’s use of the Varjo XR-1 mixed reality headset to display virtual objects to a driver while driving is an interesting example of AR development in the automotive industry.

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The Most Important Upcoming AR/VR Events This Year

ARPost

Some of the most important Fortune 500 companies will be represented at the event, including Boeing, Canon, Shell, Amazon, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. From C-suite leaders, to department leaders and professionals, Industrial IMMERSIVE Week brings together seasoned specialists and decision-makers.

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What are AR’s Unsung Use Cases?

AR Insider

If you’re driving an older model, there are plenty of aftermarket automotive AR HUDs that you can install in nearly any car. For example, Amazon lets you use your phone’s camera to see what furniture and other items might look like in your space before you click that Buy Now button. Medical Training. Retail Shopping.

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holoride, XOXNO Launch NFT Rewards to Scale In-Car XR Gaming

XR Today - Virtual Reality

holoride Expands Solutions, Partnerships The announcement comes as the holoride expands its VR gaming console across the automotive market. Regarding its latest hardware solution, the retrofit is a lightweight device the size of an Amazon Alexa and can accommodate any vehicle, regardless of make, model, and year.

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