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Facebook Cancels F8 Conference Over Fears Of A Coronavirus Outbreak

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Originally scheduled to take place May 4th through the 6th at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, Facebook states in an official blog update that it will be canceling the in-person element of the conference in order to remain inclusive to the many international developers who make their way to the event each year.

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Light Field Lab Unveils Modular Holographic Video Wall

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Whether it be a personalized system such as the Looking Glass Portrait or more advanced experiences such as Microsoft’s multi-lingual mixed reality hologram powered by the HoloLens 2, it’s clear we’re entering a new era in immersive technology.

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8th Wall and COFFEE Bring a WebAR Christmas to Westfield Shopping Centers

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In order to do this, Sion teamed up with the minds at COFFEE Labs, high-tech marketing strategists that have worked with everyone from Microsoft and Medtronic to Ketel One and Adidas.

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GDC Summer Coming to San Francisco in Early August

Road to VR

Before the postponement, a litany of companies stepped back from GDC 2020 such as Epic, Microsoft, Unity, Sony, Electronic Arts, Facebook, and Kojima Productions. The city of San Francisco, where GDC was set to take place, also issued a state of emergency only a few days prior.

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Adobe To Launch AR Features ‘As Fast As We Can,’ Exec Says

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The San Jose-based company isn’t the first big fish to gush about AR. Apple CEO Tim Cook said last year that “AR will change everything” and make the iPhone “even more essential,” while Microsoft has been revamping its computing around VR and AR, or what it calls “mixed reality.”

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XR Chipmaker GravityXR Completes pre-A Fundraiser

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The San Jose, California-based company’s chips are used for bionic visualisations in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) kit and offer multi-sensor interfaces, high resolution and frame rate displays as well as enhancement technologies. MicroLED firm VueReal earned $14.4

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An Inflection Point for WebVR and the Open Metaverse

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And then on October 19th and 20th, there was a historic W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality where all of the major VR players gathered in San Jose to hash out the WebVR web standards for delivering VR and AR applications over the web.

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