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

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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.

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Spatial raises $14M more for a holographic 3D workspace app, a VR/AR version of Zoom or Hangouts

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That in itself is also a sign of how immersive, three-dimensional media is possibly, finally approaching a breakout moment. That will also be buffered by a raft of new hardware, Agarawala said. “The industry is firing up 5G and that will also be a big push.”

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AR will mean dystopia if we don’t act today

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For anyone interested, the Immersive Web working group at W3C and Mozilla are starting to dig further into the various risks and mitigations. However, I believe there is value to AR content creators, in the same way that blockchain brings value to any content created for mobile and/or web. Where should we put our hope?

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

One of my previous jobs — the one where I was building those immersive trainings — we were using Adobe Captivate, which is a pretty standard training software, where you make essentially interactive power points that save quiz data and such to a swarm database. We’re not tied to Microsoft. Most definitely.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

One of my previous jobs — the one where I was building those immersive trainings — we were using Adobe Captivate, which is a pretty standard training software, where you make essentially interactive power points that save quiz data and such to a swarm database. We’re not tied to Microsoft. Most definitely.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?'s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

One of my previous jobs -- the one where I was building those immersive trainings -- we were using Adobe Captivate, which is a pretty standard training software, where you make essentially interactive power points that save quiz data and such to a swarm database. We're not tied to Microsoft. Most definitely. Unity is always my top one.

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Augmented reality and the next century of the web

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I’m not sure how this stacks in importance relative to what else is listed here, but I’m personally pissed that Microsoft is hiking the price of their streaming subscription Xbox Live Gold. It was a surprising end to one of the more dramatic big tech lawsuits in recent years. Xbox raises Live prices.