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Vectary, a design platform for 3D and AR, raises $7.3M from EQT and BlueYard

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Vectary , a design platform for 3D and augmented reality (AR), has raised a $7.3 Vectary makes high-quality 3D design more accessible for consumers, garnering over one million creators worldwide, and has more than a thousand digital agencies and creative studios as users. Tokyo-based virtual reality game developer Thirdverse gets $8.5

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Y Combinator-backed Poly uses AI to generate art assets

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One of the more interesting ventures to emerge from the space recently is Poly, which lets designers create video game and other virtual assets, including textures for 3D models, using only text prompts. Poly’s first tool in its planned web-based suite generates 3D textures with physically-based rendering maps.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

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Its founders spotted that generating 3D graphics in video games—then a fast-growing market—placed highly repetitive, math-intensive demands on PC central processing units (CPUs). Although Nvidia’s first chips were used to enhance 3D gaming, the manufacturing industry is also interested in 3D simulations, and its pockets are deeper.

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Thinking of hibernating through the metaverse winter?

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If you’re skeptical about dipping your enterprise’s virtual toes into a metaverse, rightfully so. While some investors and developers pulled back , others kept forging ahead, developing chips for augmented and virtual reality, trialing advertising through augmented reality, and “stockpiling gaming content,” according to CBInsights.

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

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– Tech-enabled, virtual respiratory care provider that makes it easy to take the unknown and unmanageable out of respiratory illness and give control back to the patients suffering from it. Mindset Medical – Delivers a portfolio of proprietary virtual technologies that advance the full continuum of patient care.

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How the metaverse will help financial organizations transform employee and customer experience on Microsoft Cloud

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For financial institutions, it can transform the way they offer services and training, making them more convenient, engaging, accessible and inclusive.” Metaverse applications are developing quickly. According to  Gartner , 25% of people will spend at least an hour in the metaverse by 2026.

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Quality Assurance Approach towards Virtual Reality (VR)

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Virtual Reality Virtual Reality (VR) is an immersive media experience replicating either a real or imagined environment and allowing users to interact with the environment. Unlike the conventional user interface of displaying content on a screen, VR immerses a person to interact in a digital 3D environment.

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