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‘Meta for Education’ Program Exits Beta, Bringing Quest to the Classroom

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Initially announced last April, Meta for Education is a comprehensive solution for educators looking to bring XR into the classroom, which includes Quest headsets, XR management solution subscriptions with education-tailored device capabilities suitable for the classroom, and a variety of tools and apps built for admins, educators, and students.

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Norway, EY Partner to Open Decentraland Tax Office

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Norway’s government has begun its own Web3 venture after launching a metaverse-based tax office. Norway’s Brønnøysund also plans to explore decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs), smart contracts, and other Web3 services to build its portfolio of solutions.

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HoloLens 2 Sales Expanding to 15 More Countries, ‘Development Edition’ Launches in the US

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Now Microsoft is expanding the regions where it will sell HoloLens 2 to 15 new countries: Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The company says South Korea will be added to the list “later this fall.” Value (MSRP; in $USD).

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Meta Horizon Desktop Editor Now Publicly Available In Early Access

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Since summer 2023 , Meta has been providing desktop tools to select game studios, including an internal studio it spun up called Ouro Interactive, to build higher fidelity worlds using traditional 3D asset creation pipelines and textual scripting. 0:00 / 0:14 1 Meta preview of upcoming model, texture, and animation AI generation.

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Virtually Drive Audi’s New Q5 Through Your Own Sandbox Creation

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Partnering with production group MediaMonks , Audi Norway is tapping into the spirit of our inner child by allowing us to bring our creations within a real life sandbox into a virtual space. The sandy track is then your playground as you drive their new car over the hills and pits you shaped with a collection of children’s tools.

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PICO Debuts Enterprise-Ready MDM Platform for Headset – AWE EU ’24

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With that centralized suite, PICO offers a shared content library covering various XR Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and partners, therefore providing an additional hub of tools for businesses to either get started with XR or begin their journey. Additionally, PICO’s Motion Trackers became available for £79.00.

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SkyReal’s VR CAD visualization makes companies save up to 40% of product development time

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This is where I discovered my passion to develop new digital tools for engineers but also understand how challenging it could be to introduce new digital solutions in business and to change people’s way of working within an organization. Working for Enterprise, is developing useful and robust tool for engineers.

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