Facebook Creates New Internal Organization to Build “the Metaverse”
Facebook Reality Labs, the company’s AR/VR research and development team, announced the creation of a special product group focused on developing its future vision for “the Metaverse.” Apparently Facebook is betting big on the idea too, as it hopes in the near future to be viewed more as “a metaverse company” than a social network. […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

28. Juli 2021
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“Die letzte Videothek”: Virtual-Reality-Zeitreise in die 90er Jahre

Lange bevor es Netflix gab, suchten Filmfans sogenannte Videotheken auf. Die VR-App „The Last Video Store“ lässt diese Zeit und Erfahrung virtuell wiederaufleben. MIXED | News zu VR, AR und KI & Tomislav Bezmalinovic

22. Juli 2021
‘Rec Room’ Adds More Flexibility to Avatar System with New Full-body, Animated Costumes
Ever since the social VR platform Rec Room launched in 2016, its avatar system has notably lacked full-body inverse kinematics like you see in its contemporary VRChat, which essentially leaves users with a stylized appearance lacking arms and legs. Now the studio says it’s releasing an update that will allow you to buy more articulated avatar […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

13. Juli 2021
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‘Rec Room’ Begins Early Rollout on Select Android Devices
We were expecting to see Rec Room make its way to Google Play sometime this fall. With little fanfare though, the popular social VR platform has quietly begun early rollout for its Android app on select devices. Update (August 4th, 2021): If you’ve pre-registered for access to Rec Room on Android, you may receive a notification […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

29. Juni 2021
‘VRChat’ Secures $80M Series D Funding to Create its Own Digital Economy
VRChat, the popular social VR platform, announced its secured a Series D funding round of $80 million, which brings to the startup more than five times its overall lifetime investment. The round was led by Anthos Capital, alongside participating investors Makers Fund, GFR Fund and others. According to Crunchbase, this brings VRChat’s overall outside investment to […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

28. Juni 2021
‘VRChat’ Secures $80M Series D Funding to Create its Own Digital Economy
VRChat, the popular social VR platform, announced its secured a Series D funding round of $80 million, which brings to the startup more than five times its overall lifetime investment. The round was led by Anthos Capital, alongside participating investors Makers Fund, GFR Fund and others. According to Crunchbase, this brings VRChat’s overall outside investment to […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

VR Education Platform ‘ENGAGE’ Raises $10.7M to Build ‘Oasis’ Metaverse for Business
VR Education Holdings, the company behind the social VR platform ENGAGE, announced it’s raised €9 million (~$10.7 million) which will help it expand beyond the realm of immersive education & training and into a new product called ENGAGE Oasis. It’s billing the upcoming social VR platform as an enterprise offering comparable to a “fully featured […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

24. Juni 2021
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3D-Voice-Chat: Breakroom unterstützt jetzt Raumklang

Die Start-ups Sine Wave und High Fidelity kooperieren und bringen Raumklang in 3D-Meetings. MIXED | News zu VR, AR und KI & Tomislav Bezmalinovic

Google’s Project Starline is a Light-field Display System for Immersive Video Calls
This week Google revealed Project Starline, a booth-sized experimental system for immersive video chatting, purportedly using a bevy of sensors, a light-field display, spatial audio, and novel compression to make the whole experience possible over the web. This week during Google I/O, the company revealed an experimental immersive video chatting system it calls Project Starline. […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

21. Mai 2021
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VR-Deutschland trifft sich bald in Virtual Reality

Virtual Germany startet das nächste deutschlandweite VR-Meetup als Convention. MIXED | News zu VR, AR und KI & Matthias Bastian

17. April 2021