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Vancouver’s VR/AR Global Summit Puts Content First

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Already a Battle Royale [has] happened in the past five years for buying first option broadcast rights for AR content across sport, music, comics, and films. Speakers from goliaths like Amazon, Ford, and IKEA will rub shoulders with Vancouver up-and-comers including Motive.io Magic Leap is tackling this as a humble start up with $2.3B.

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XR Talks: Notes From an AR Legend

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But it also includes Disney, Google Earth, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple. He first got the attention of Microsoft when blogging about the detriments of 3D immersive universes like Second Life. Secretly working on something similar, Microsoft brought him in to help.

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The Latest LEGO Minecraft Building Kits Are 20% off at Amazon

GizModo VR

LEGO Minecraft The Pig House | $40 | Amazon LEGO Minecraft The Trading Post | $16 | Amazon LEGO Minecraft The Abandoned Mine | $16 | Amazon LEGO Minecraft The Bee Farm | $16 | Amazon Read more.

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Sony Acquires Beyond Sports to Expand Metaverse Solutions

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Kenichiro Yoshida, Sony Group Chief Executive , said in a recent statement the Metaverse was “simultaneously a social environment, as well as a live networking space where gaming, music, films and anime intersect.”

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Your VR and AR Event Guide to Comic-Con 2017

VRScout

The Mummy Prodigium Strike VR – A new location-based experience by VR pioneer Starbreeze Studios, in conjunction with NBC Universal, based on the recent Universal Studios film. The Tick: Amazon is bringing a virtual reality escape room to Comic-Con for their upcoming original series. Friday, July 21 at 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.30): Half-Life: Alyx breaks every VR record, HP teases Reverb G2, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The same day of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Hewlett-Packard has announced its new virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2 , made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve. Valve could provide some audio-visual improvements, while Microsoft its WMR platform, with inside-out tracking of controllers. HP announces the Reverb G2.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). Augmented vision is commonplace in futuristic films, from Minority Report to Iron Man. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic).