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

TechCrunch

Holoride announced Saturday at the SXSW tech, music and film conference in Austin that its headset-based virtual-reality entertainment system will debut in June in certain Audi models with the latest MIB 3 software. Terranet’s VoxelFlow system calculates VR movement based on data points received from the car.

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How to use AR and VR in education industry?

OTS Solutions

How to use AR and VR in education industry? Artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to disrupt the education system by allowing academic programs to become personalized through augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). It is used in various forms of entertainment from video games to films. Virtual Reality and Education.

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Volvo Cars Tech Fund invests $2M in optics and imaging startup Spectralics

TechCrunch

Volvo Cars Tech Fund invested $2 million into o ptics and imaging developer Spectralics , funds it will use to accelerate the development of its optical film that the company says could make cars safer and provide a better user experience. Spectralics founders Ran Bar Yosef, Eran Falk, Yuval Kashtar, Yuval Keinan.

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Believer, a new approach to gaming, raises $55M from Lightspeed, A16Z, and more

TechCrunch

When I asked about what platforms currently interest Believer most right now — given the boom in casual games for mobile, multiplayer brands on PCs and connected TVs, and the budding world of VR, the answer could be just about anything, really — I got a very non-specific response.

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The Battle For Your Head Is Underway: VR from Oculus, Sony, HTC/Valve competing at GDC2016

CTOvision

It expands beyond games to help developers produce immersive entertainment of all kinds, from games to CG movies to filmed experiences to simulations. Note, Samsung's GearVR is powered by Oculus software and will very likely be able to run VR software the CV1 does. The Sony PlayStation VR is a console-based VR headset.

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Can a technology mindset save Paramount?

CIO

As the companies said in their news release: “Skydance brings state-of-the-art interactive and gaming proficiencies, including two in-house game developer studios with industry-leading franchises, such as Skydance’s upcoming console games in Marvel and Star Wars and hit VR game, The Walking Dead.

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The 4 most overhyped technologies in IT

CIO

Firms could even encounter pushback from affected stakeholders, like they are now with the case of film and television writers and actors.” Devices to support the ubiquity of these technologies such as VR sets are not available at a scalable, affordable price.