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The 5 most important XR-related pieces of news from Google I/O 2023

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Immersive View for Routes will start to roll out in the coming months in 15 cities, including Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, Florence, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Tokyo, and Venice.

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Coming Soon: Impact Reality Summit, a New XR Event Hosted by Kaleidoscope and Vulcan Productions

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Organized by Vulcan Productions and Kaleidoscope, Impact Reality Summit will have its first edition on January 9 and 10, 2020, at Vulcan Technologies headquarters in Seattle, WA. The team of curators consists of top-level decision-makers from Vulcan Productions, Kaleidoscope, and Unity. An XR Event for a Sustainable Future.

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Looking for a Virtual Place to chill the F out post election, check out High Fidelity.

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My last time in High Fidelity I spoke with a Unity Dev from Seattle who basically helped me understand how to create my own avatars. I have recently spent sometime in High Fidelity using their client and was very impressed. The platform is super welcoming and I was greeted by a small yet amazing group of community members.

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Gabe Newell Reveals 3 ‘Full’ VR Games & New Tech In Development At Valve

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During a press conference that took place at Valve’s HQ in Seattle yesterday, company founder Gabe Newell elaborated on the many goals of the company in terms of virtual reality, highlighting some significantly exciting projects in the process. What could be better than virtual reality?

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.30): Niantic launches VPS, Pico launches Neo 3 Link, and much more!

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San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for It is a terrible moment for tech companies: after Meta and Unity, also Snap stock has lost -30% of its value after the CEO has announced that the company won’t be able to reach its estimated earnings goals. Snap shares lose -30% of its stock value.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. Based in Seattle and formed in 1995, Getty Images has over 80 million still images and more than 50,000 hours of stock film footage – and now they’re adding over 12,000 spherical photos to their collection.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code name: Moss. Series A round led by Atomico, along with Speedinvest, Y Combinator (of which the company is an alumnus), Dawn Capital, and notable individuals such as the founder of Unity and the former VP of engineering at Netflix and YouTube.

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