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Mozilla acquires Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision

TechCrunch

” 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. Ervin is a software engineer by trade, having held roles at AR/VR startups Metaio, Liminal AR and Occipital.

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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

TechCrunch

How it says it differs from rivals: Netmaker and its cohort-mate Firezone are both open source, faster alternatives to existing VPN software. Founders: CTO Dillon Carns and CEO Alex Feiszli left their software engineering gigs to develop Netmaker. Founders: Maxim Perumal built Relativity, an open source VR headset, at age 15.

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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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Extra Crunch roundup: Clubhouse UX teardown, YC Demo Day favorites, proptech VC survey, more

TechCrunch

I was originally looking at opening an office in Silicon Valley to be close to software engineers and investors, but then … COVID-19 :). Automakers, suppliers and startups see growing market for in-vehicle AR/VR applications. Automakers, suppliers and startups see growing market for in-vehicle AR/VR applications.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

After 2 months in an underground shelter they have also used their technology to register evidence of war crimes and provide the ability to immerse oneself into Ukraine to experience it, it’s now developing applications for psychological trauma treatment, VR medical trainin, combat surveillance systems and making the de-mining process safer.

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mmhmm, Phil Libin’s new startup, acquires Memix to add enhanced filters to its video presentation toolkit

TechCrunch

They are in reality graphic engineering whizzes, with Jeremias-Vila currently the lead graphics software engineer at Pixar, and Quilez until last year a product manager and lead engineer at Facebook, where he created, among other things, the Quill VR animation and production tool for Oculus.

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The Rise Of Code Assessment Platforms And Software Developer Recruitment

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Technology has been evolving rapidly and revolutionary innovations like AR/VR seem like a thing of the past. Lesser supply of skilled software engineers. The classic problem of supply and demand equilibrium is also affecting the software development industry. The rapid advent of tech advancements.