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South Korea’s RECON Labs raises $4.4M to help shoppers visualize products by creating 3D models in AR   

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According to a recent survey of 16,000 Snapchat users in 16 markets, 92% of Gen Zers want to use AR and VR for online shopping. Retailers can save time and costs by using PlicAR without building their own 3D modeling platform, he added. RECON Labs claims it has more than 10,000 products that are 2D converted into 3D content.

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Emperia is helping brands like Bloomingdales build shopping experiences in VR

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Does the average person want to shop for apparel in virtual reality (VR)? But not everyone agrees — particularly those who hope to build a business out of VR retail. Launched in 2019, the idea came from one of the co-founders, Olga Dogadkina, who previously worked in the luxury retail sector.

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CommonGround raises $25M for immersive video avatar technology that doesn’t rely on VR gear

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Like “TrueSelf Scan,” the name of the initial application that’s used to scan a person’s image, the meeting software also will not require a VR headset to use and engage with — users will be “seated” in a room that will be shown on a video screen.

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Generally Intelligent secures cash from OpenAI vets to build capable AI systems

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Called Generally Intelligent , it plans to do this by turning these fundamentals into an array of tasks to be solved and by designing and testing different systems’ ability to learn to solve them in highly complex 3D worlds built by their team. Qiu blamed the high-churn nature of the leads-sourcing business.)

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10 Key Trends of Digital Transformation in Healthcare in 2022

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Researchers and doctors can use accurate 3D modeling of human organs and tissues to test procedures before administering them to patients. Researchers and doctors can use accurate 3D modeling of human organs and tissues to test procedures before administering them to patients. It’s all about big data. .

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An IDEA is Born: CableLabs Heads Up New Alliance That Will Bring Holodecks Into Your Living Room

CableLabs

Chaired by CableLabs’ Principal Architect and Futurist, Arianne Hinds , the alliance aims to facilitate the development of an end-to-end ecosystem for immersive media, including VR, AR, stereoscopic 3D and the much-talked-about light field holodeck, by creating a suite of display-agnostic, royalty-free specifications.

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Synthesis AI raises $17M to generate synthetic data for computer vision

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A former scientist at IT government services firm SAIC and the creator of PopSlate, a smartphone case with a built-in E Ink display, Behzadi founded Synthesis in AI in 2019 with the goal of — in his words — “solving the data issue in AI and transform[ing] the computer vision paradigm.

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