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Hover secures $60M for 3D imaging to assess and fix properties

TechCrunch

Hover — which has built a platform that uses eight basic smartphone photos to patch together a 3D image of your home that can then be used by contractors, insurance companies and others to assess a repair, price out the job, and then order the parts to do the work — has raised $60 million in new funding.

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Blackshark.ai’s digital twin of Earth attracts $20M in funding

TechCrunch

The basis of their technique is turning widely available 2D imagery into accurate 3D representations with machine learning, a bit of smart guesswork, and a lot of computing power. Using all this it creates a plausible 3D reconstruction of the building. But that also necessitates the aforementioned 2D-to-3D method. Blackshark.ai

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With $8.4M raised, strawberry-picking robotics startup Traptic begins commercial deployment

TechCrunch

During the pandemic, there was an even larger crunch, as H-2A workers suffered from restricted travel. Traptic’s system combines 3D cameras and AI vision with robotic arms capable of plucking the fragile fruit without damaging it. Traptic uses 3D vision and robotic arms to harvest ripe strawberries.

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How 5G is driving big innovations in healthcare for veterans

CIO

As doctors and nurses travel along hospital corridors, the WiFi signal may switch access points, causing them to lose their connection during calls that could be critical. During surgery, they can superimpose 3D scans on patients’ bodies as they operate, improving precision and accuracy. For that reason, most facilities use WiFi.

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

TechCrunch

ByondXR – Provides retail 3D virtual experiences that are fast, scalable and in line with the latest metaverse technologies. echo3D – Cloud platform for 3D/AR/VR that provides tools and network infrastructure to help quickly build and deploy 3D/metaverse apps, games and content.

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Travel Fraud Protection: Key Types of Travel Scam, Protective Measures, and Software to Consider

Altexsoft

In 2019, the travel and hospitality industry accounted for a whopping 10.3 Besides, due to the specific nature of the industry with high-value one-off payments, a big number of businesses across the world, and rapid customer consumption of services, the travel and hospitality sector is a huge target for fraud. percent of global GDP.

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British Self-Driving Car Maker Wayve Revs Up With Whopping $1B SoftBank-led Round

Crunchbase News

Its self-driving car technology works through embodied AI , or a system in which a real-world object such as a robot — or, in this case, a vehicle — powered by artificial intelligence software interacts with and continuously learns about the world as it travels through that environment.