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VRAI wants to tackle the energy crisis by bringing VR simulation training to offshore wind sector

TechCrunch

Virtual Reality (VR) has struggled to transition too far beyond gaming circles and specific industry use-cases such as medical training , but with the burgeoning metaverse movement championed by tech heavyweights such as Meta , there has been a renewed hope (and hype) around the promise that virtual worlds bring. hub in Gateshead. .

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ANYbotics, Swiss company behind quadrupedal ANYmal robot, announces $20M A round

TechCrunch

The company spun out of ETH Zurich in 2016, at which point the robot was already well into development. An ANYmal at a factory, power plant, or data center could save costs and shoe leather. ANYbotics , the creators of ANYmal , a four-legged autonomous robot platform intended for a variety of industrial uses, has raised a $22.3

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Varjo, an early mover in building XR headsets and software for enterprises, taps $40M

TechCrunch

Varjo is not disclosing valuation, but data from PitchBook estimates that its last round in 2020 valued it at $146 million and Toikkanen (who used to lead all of Nokia mobile phones business before and after it was acquired by Microsoft) noted that the new valuation is “very positive.”

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How to Get Started with VR: Intro to Your First Virtual Reality Project

Altexsoft

Meditative readings of the Bible are available on Samsung Gear VR today. Just scroll through a VR experience store. You can swim with dolphins, act out your dreams of being a pirate, immerse yourself and your kids in an educational VR about the night sky. Let’s start with the most reasonable examples of VR implementation.

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Daily Crunch: UK-based news site The Guardian under ransomware attack, editor says

TechCrunch

Carl Eschenbach, a longtime enterprise software executive who joined Sequoia Capital in 2016 and went on to lead a number of lucrative deals for the venture firm, is going back to an operating role, Connie reports. Tidying up the filing system : Healthcare data is a mess and Metriport is here with a broom , reports Haje. Happy reading!

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Innovation Journeys: 10G is new. We have been working on it for years.

CableLabs

That led to ideation sessions that unearthed the usual suspects: Internet of Things (billions of sensors, but each with such low bandwidth that they still don’t add up to much), 4K streaming video (good try, but still only 15Mbps or less), “Big Data” (sorry, not really a candidate for consumer households). Digging Deeper. We pivoted.

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Insider’s Guide to the New Holographic Computing

CTOvision

I’ve been writing about virtual reality and augmented reality (the VR/AR split) for a decade, first inside government and over the past seven years on this blog. 2008 Stretching collaboration with Embodied Social Proxies on robotics and VR. Technology Context: Ambient Computing. 2010 The promise of mobile augmented reality.

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