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Quest’s Most Popular Basketball Game on App Lab ‘Gym Class’ Secures $8M

2 years ago
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IRL Studios announced that Gym Class, its popular VR basketball game on Meta Quest App Lab, has raised $8 million in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from Y Combinator. Other participants include Founders Inc., Todd and Rahul’s Angel Fund, Balaji Srinivasan, Zaza Pachulia, and a number of other angel investors. Named […]
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Crew Readies Free-Flying Robots, Prepares Sample Returns, and Transfers Cargo

2 years ago
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The Expedition 67 crew kept busy aboard the International Space Station today readying free-flying robots, preparing sample returns, and transferring cargo. NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren set up Astrobee’s free-flying robots for a student robotics competition. For the competition, students write software to control one of the station’s Astrobee free-flying robots. Finalists have their code downloaded …
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Keppel O&M, IMDA Trial Smart Glasses for Remote Inspections

2 years ago
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Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) has begun trialling augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) smart glasses with Keppel Operations and Maintenance (O&M), the latter announced on Wednesday. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, disruptions to numerous offshore operations have forced companies to leverage extended reality (XR) solutions. Workers will use the devices to receive real-time […]
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Doctors Leverage VR to Separate Conjoined Twins

2 years ago
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London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital has assisted Brazilian surgeons in separating conjoined twins using virtual reality (VR) digital twins of the patients, it was this week. Doctors used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computerised tomography (CT) scans of Bernando and Arthur Lima, aged three, and uploaded the visuals to VR in a three-month trial of […]
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LinkedIn Publishes New ‘Framework’ for Events to Help Businesses Map Out their Events Strategy

2 years ago
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Planning on running an event? You need to check out LinkedIn’s new guide.

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Instagram’s Chief is Heading to London to Spark New EU Growth for the App

2 years ago
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The Instagram boss will temporarily relocate to London to help maximize its push in Europe.

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LinkedIn Makes its 20 Most Popular LinkedIn Learning Courses Freely Available Throughout August

2 years ago
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Looking to up your skills in the second half of the year?

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TikTok Publishes New Guide on How Advertisers Can Navigate New Data Privacy Restrictions on iOS

2 years ago
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The guide looks at how advertisers can navigate the new data tracking framework, as a result of Apple’s ATT update.

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New Quest 2 & PC VR Games August 2022: All The Biggest Releases

2 years ago
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Looking for a list of new VR games coming in August 2022? We’ve got you covered — here’s our full rundown.
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Backseat VR Developer: Walkabout Mini Golf With Mighty Coconut’s Lucas Martell

2 years ago
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Today Alex and Skeeva are playing Walkabout Mini Golf joined by developer Lucas Martell from Mighty Coconut.

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