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Holoride’s in-car VR tech is coming to Audi this summer

TechCrunch

Holoride’s partnership with Terranet, a Swedish ADAS software development company, allows for the VR system’s sensors and software stack to capture and interpret the environment quickly and accurately. Terranet’s VoxelFlow system calculates VR movement based on data points received from the car.

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Hexa raises $20.5M to turn images into 3D objects for VR, AR and more

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CEO and co-founder Yehiel Atias said that the cash will be put toward product development and expanded customer acquisition efforts well into 2023. But HTC’s focus has increasingly shifted over the years from mobile to VR, and it evidently sees Hexa as aligned with its current — and perhaps even future — lines of business.

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AmazeVR gets another $15M to forge the future of immersive concerts 

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AmazeVR , a virtual reality concert platform that enables users to experience their favorite artists’ VR concerts through content generation tools, announced today it has secured $15 million, which was oversubscribed within three weeks. . Users would join as avatars, hang out with other users, and experience VR concerts together.

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Mozilla acquires Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision

TechCrunch

On Wednesday, the company announced that it snatched up Active Replica , a Vancouver-based startup developing a “web-based metaverse.” ” According to Mozilla SVP Imo Udom, Active Replica will support Mozilla’s ongoing work with Hubs, the latter’s VR chatroom service and open source project.

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Gaming rules the entertainment industry, so why aren’t investors showing up?

TechCrunch

Or look at Unity, the creator of a popular game development engine, whose stock price has nearly doubled since its public offering in mid-September. “Both of them want to use their game engines beyond pure gaming,” Lloyd George said of the two big new gaming platform developers. That positions them well for AR and VR.

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AmazeVR wants to scale its virtual concert platform with $17M funding

TechCrunch

AmazeVR , a Los Angeles-based virtual concert platform, said Tuesday it has raised a $17 million funding round to create immersive music experiences through virtual reality (VR) concerts. Both companies plan to launch Studio A in South Korea and produce immersive VR concerts. The AmazeVR team traveled to 15 U.S.

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What’s ahead for AI, VR, NFTs, and more?

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Prompt engineering, a field dedicated to developing prompts for language generation systems, will become a new specialization. Inexpensive and fast genetic sequencing, together with computational techniques including AI, enabled Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, and others to develop effective mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 in astonishingly little time.

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