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BinaryVR Begins Shipping First Dev Kit For Facial Tracking Solution

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The California-based company recently started shipping its first development kit for a device that doesn’t follow the user’s eyes, but instead reads facial motion in the mouth, chin and cheeks and replicates them on a VR avatar. Developer kits cost $349 and also come with a Unity plugin SDK.

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USC Launches $1bn XR, Generative AI Initiative

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The University of Southern California (USC) announced last week the launch of an over $1 billion USD initiative to grow its university programmes for extended reality (XR), generative artificial intelligence, and ethical technology. The USC Frontiers of Computing programme has invested in Southern California’s state economy.

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Spatial Beats: Apple, Epic & Tom Brady

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The trial begins next month in California. The Unity Cube is an experiment from developer Tony “SkarredGhost” Vitillo to test the limits of what Oculus will allow into the App Lab program. Guess who’s number #19 on HTC Vive’s list of its Top 100 VR Influencers? Football legend Tom Brady launching an NFT company for autographs.

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Engage Link hands-on: an early look at the “Linkedin of the metaverse”

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The company got more than $10M of investment over the years, including important support from HTC Vive, which uses its spaces to organize the virtual events to launch its XR hardware. In the educational district, I was able to enter the big virtual campus of the University of California and navigate all of it.

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Snapdragon AR2 to Empower AR Devices, Qualcomm Says

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The San Diego, California-based firm has become synonymous with delivering XR solutions capable of untethering head-mounted displays (HMDs) from PC. This began with devices from Lenovo, HTC VIVE, Pico Interactive, and Meta Platforms, so the growth we’ve seen for consumer use cases has been very strong since then.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.04): Apple to launch its headset, Meta unveils Quest 3 and many games, and more!

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Hello everyone from Sunnyvale, California! Because if Apple is just going to repeat the same use cases of the HTC Vive and Meta Quest 2, but selling it at $3000, it is just going to fail spectacularly. This is great news because MRTK 3 introduces better compatibility with Unity standard tools than its previous version.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.