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Former Salesforce exec Bret Taylor is teaming up with Google AR/VR vet Clay Bavor on mystery startup

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Bavor, who spent almost seven years as the VP of AR and VR at Google as part of an 18 year career with the company, was coy in a LinkedIn post about what is coming next, but he was clear he’s doing it with his pal Taylor. Will it have an AR/VR flavor? It’s impossible to say right now, but the two have something cooking.

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PGA of America swings for the public cloud

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That’s just one major drive under way by the nonprofit golf association, which is also delivering myriad tournaments and events, special services, and classes to its 28,000 members, a roster including celebrities, national golf pros, golf coaches, amateur players, and people who work in the golf industry, says PGA of America CTO Kevin Scott.

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

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Vectary was founded in 2014 by Michal Koor (CEO) and Pavol Sovis (CTO), who were both from the design and technology worlds. Google wakes up from its VR daydream. Osso VR raises $14 million to bring virtual reality to surgical and medical device training. Tokyo-based virtual reality game developer Thirdverse gets $8.5

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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

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Founders: Co-founders Jeremy Dorn and Graham McNicoll both used to work at Education.com as chief architect and CTO respectively. Founders: CTO Dillon Carns and CEO Alex Feiszli left their software engineering gigs to develop Netmaker. Founders: Maxim Perumal built Relativity, an open source VR headset, at age 15.

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Facebook Bets on Virtual Reality: Purchases VR firm Oculus

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Tuesday, Facebook announced its plans to acquire Oculus VR for $2 billion. If you haven’t heard of it, Oculus VR is a virtual reality startup out of Irvine, CA. to produce “immersive virtual reality technology that’s wearable and affordable.” And now, neither is Oculus VR. By ShannonPerry. Its mission ? –

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Storytelling for CIOs: From niche to bestseller

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I take what I learned in the scriptwriting seminar about passion and the narrative arc into every meeting I attend,” one chief technology officer said. Traquina at iProov foresees AI, AR, and VR making stories more immersive and engaging. “AI Unsurprisingly, generative AI intervenes here.

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Varjo, an early mover in building XR headsets and software for enterprises, taps $40M

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” In a hardware landscape that is dominated by big tech companies — particularly in VR hardware — Varjo is notable for being an independent player, and not one that’s prone to gobbling lots of cash to stay that way: it’s only raised around $150 million since being founded in 2016.