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Luma raises $4.3M to make 3D models as easy as waving a phone around

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Luma — founded by engineers who left Apple’s AR and computer vision group — wants to shake all of that up. The company has developed a new neural rendering technology that makes it possible to take a small number of photos to generate, shade and render a photo-realistic 3D model of a product. Image Credits: Luma.

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Korean 3D spatial data tool startup Urbanbase closes $11.1M Series B+ round

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Urbanbase , a Seoul-based company that develops a 3D spatial data platform for interior planning and design, announced today it has raised $11.1 Apple also waded into the area of virtual reality, working on developing a high-end VR headset. Apple said to be working a high-priced standalone VR headset as debut mixed reality product.

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

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The first official “First 50” group represents innovations “in industries that will have the most immediate impact on society now and in the future,” as LG describes it. . XRHealth Virtual Clinic – Integrates VR/AR, licensed clinicians and real-time data analytics. I-EMS Group, Ltd. The Metaverse.

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Audi spinoff holoride collects $12M in Series A led by Terranet AB

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million), followed by a group of Chinese financial and automotive technology investors, organized by investment professional Jingjing Xu, and educational and entertainment game development company Schell Games, which has partnered with holoride in the past to create content. . I used VR in a car going 90 mph and didn’t get sick.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. For example, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, which has a network of hospitals and about 2,600 beds, is deploying over 150 AI and VR/AR projects this year across all clinical specialties.

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Lidar startup Aeva to go public via $2.1 billion SPAC merger

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As they come back, the direction of, and distance to, whatever those pulses hit are recorded as a point and eventually form a 3D map. Traditional lidar sensors are able to determine distance by sending out high-power pulses of light outside the visible spectrum and then tracking how long it takes for each of those pulses to return.

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AI creative platform D-ID, the tech behind those viral videos of animated family photos, raises $25M

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It has partnered with VR/AR platform maker The Glimpse Group to help develop AI, AR and VR applications for the metaverse. . “What we’re planning to do is, first, we’re building full-body re-enactment in 3D. We’re excited for what the future holds.” … Two, we’re doing it fast.”