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Rec Room raises $145M at a $3.5B valuation for its user-generated, immersive gaming platform

TechCrunch

On the heels of Roblox hitting it big with its platform for user-created gaming content, another startup has landed a major round of funding to build out its own user-generated platform aimed at immersive experiences. billion valuation. There are some 12 million rooms on the platform already, Rec Room said.

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Why Adopting New Technologies like AR and VR are Essential for Your Business?

Trigent

In that case, it is essential to understand why companies consider adopting new technologies or digital transformations like Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) to meet customer needs. While AR and VR offer many revolutionary experiences, XR is based on the same technologies. million VR users and 110.1

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How Much Does It Cost to Create a Mobile VR App?

Mobilunity

When looking at the future of the technology industry, virtual reality (VR) is seen as one of the leading fields. As a result, businesses are increasingly looking to hire virtual and augmented reality developers for new and innovative VR apps. The global virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) market was expected to reach 18.8

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How to Get Started with VR: Intro to Your First Virtual Reality Project

Altexsoft

Meditative readings of the Bible are available on Samsung Gear VR today. Just scroll through a VR experience store. You can swim with dolphins, act out your dreams of being a pirate, immerse yourself and your kids in an educational VR about the night sky. Let’s start with the most reasonable examples of VR implementation.

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Daily Crunch: China criticizes India for ‘frequent investigations’ of local Chinese firms

TechCrunch

Level up your avatar : Reddit is getting deeper into the NFT game by launching a new avatar marketplace, Ivan writes. Another one gets the horn : Tebra, an operating system for independent healthcare providers, is now a unicorn after taking in over $72 million in equity and debt, Catherine writes. . The advantages?

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Pros and Cons of Hiring Freelance Unity Developer

Mobilunity

Unity is a cross-platform game engine that was designed and created in 2005. It all started with a simple video game for MacOS created by the three founders of Unity. The game was built on an engine they developed from scratch with the intention of licensing the engine to other developers. 3D and 2D Game Development.

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Turning Businesses Digital with Mobile App Development

Sunflower Lab

The process of development of any application for mobile phone or tablet with Android or iOS operating systems is Mobile Application Development. EXAMPLE: Swiggy and Zomato’s push notification game is very strong. Integration of AR/VR: AR and VR are two such technologies that bring the digital world to us.

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