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Avataar raises $45 million to improve consumer shopping experience with life-sized 3D product evaluation

TechCrunch

That’s the reason why the likes of Amazon have historically struggled to move fashion and home decor items online. Avataar helps direct-to-consumer brands and e-commerce marketplaces with shaping their consumer journeys with 3D rendition of products. The six-year-old startup has raised about $55.5 The founding team of Avataar.

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

TechCrunch

From 1,300 applicants, the company picked its first cohort to start building opportunities with the startups. Bigthinx – AI technology focused on fashion retail, wellness and the metaverse with products for body scanning, digital avatars and virtual fashion. The Metaverse. NeuroTrainer, Inc.

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Emperia is helping brands like Bloomingdales build shopping experiences in VR

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With Emperia, brands can put on live events with hosts that walk them through a virtual space, or customize exhibits and displays with 3D models and images of real-world inventory. Highlighting the pressure platform developers face, AltspaceVR, one of the first social applications of VR, was recently sunsetted by parent company Microsoft.

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Zoom who? Higher ed is going holographic

The Hustle

If you haven’t, count your blessings, and put down that grad school application.) Holograms can be more effective for showcasing complex, 3D equipment than traditional video calls. If you’ve ever tried to pay attention to a Zoom lecture projected onto a whiteboard, you know how brutal it can be. (If

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UK’s Mindtech raises $3.25M from In-Q-Tel, among others, to train CCTV cameras on synthetic humans

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Mindtech says Chameleon solves that problem, as its customers quickly “build unlimited scenes and scenarios using photo-realistic smart 3D models”. We’re excited by the many applications this platform has across diverse markets and its ability to remove a significant roadblock in the development of smarter, more intuitive AI systems.”.

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DevOps Engineer vs Software Engineer

The Crazy Programmer

A software engineer can produce a wide variety of software, from gaming applications to middleware. Like a fashion designer responsible for designing beautiful clothes, the software engineers are responsible for developing software desired by its client. 3D Graphic Designer. A mobile application developer.

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Tier Mobility’s buy of Fantasmo brings camera positioning tech in-house

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That metadata is then compared against Fantasmo’s 3D maps to position exactly where the vehicle is located. This means that not only does Tier benefit from bringing Fantasmo’s tech onboard, but it can also potentially add in another revenue stream by selling the service to other operators or applications.

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