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Immersion Accuses Meta For Alleged Infringement Of Patents For AR, VR Pursuit

Immersion Corp (NASDAQ:IMMR) has prosecuted Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) for alleged infringement of Immersion patents that cover various uses of haptic effects in connection with such AR/VR systems. The complaint alleged that Meta's augmented and virtual reality systems, including the Meta Quest 2, infringed six Immersion patents. Also Read: Washington Attorney General Indicts Meta's Mark Zuckerberg…

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Qualcomm Chief Sees Prospects In High-End Smartphones, Meta Partnership Thanks To Augmented and Virtual Reality

In an interview at the World Economic Forum, Qualcomm Inc (NASDAQ:QCOM) CEO Cristiano Amon talked about growth as consumers increasingly chased "better phones," Reuters reports. Qualcomm's share with devices like the Samsung Galaxy grew from 40% share to over 75%. Qualcomm's technology powers augmented and virtual reality devices, including those made by Facebook…

Benzinga

What is the metaverse, and what can we do there?

You’ve likely heard recently how the metaverse will usher in a new era of digital connectivity, virtual reality (VR) experiences and e-commerce. Tech companies are betting big on it: Microsoft’s massive US$68.7 billion acquisition of game developing giant Activision Blizzard reflected the company’s desire to bolster its position in the…

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Game On: NASA To Develop Virtual Mars Challenge

The space agency is collaborating with Epic Games to create a metaverse experience on the Red Planet.

Zenger

Nomura Forays Into Metaverse To Tap Opportunities That Could Reach $600B By End Of Decade

Japan's leading brokerage Nomura Holdings Inc (NYSE:NMR), built a team to help firms tap opportunities in the metaverse, Bloomberg reports. Nomura joins rival Wall Street giants in exploring opportunities in the virtual reality market that could reach $600 billion by the end of the decade, Bloomberg wrote. Nomura's plans for the metaverse are…

Benzinga

VR suite opens in Stoke-on-Trent to equip students with vital digital skills

The virtual reality and visualisation suite has opened at Stoke-on-Trent College

Birmingham Post

Blaze, Lynch/Oz and Mystery Road: 10 films to see at the 2022 Sydney film festival

The festival’s first full program since 2019 includes a new fantasy from Del Kathryn Barton, an eight-part First Nations anthology, and a doco filmed in VR

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Meta Platforms opens first retail store in US

Facebook owner Meta Platforms has opened its first physical retail store in Burlingame, California. It's located at the main campus of Reality Labs, the company's unit that produces hardware like virtual reality headsets or smart glasses. Meta has staked its future business on the idea of the metaverse, an immersive…

France 24

Meta Opens First Physical Store

Facebook parent Meta has opened its first physical store - in Burlingame, California - to showcase its hardware products like virtual and augmented reality goggles and glasses. The store, which is open to the public as of Monday, is made for people who want to test out products like Ray-Ban…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘A revolution that never happened’: The Gunpowder Plot at the Tower of London

Virtual reality and live performance combine in a new show that asks audiences to consider if political violence is ever justifiable

The Guardian - UK

How digital data is transforming factory floors

Ravi Guttal, CTO at precision manufacturing company Aequs that works with aerospace companies, says they today assess aircraft paint jobs using cameras. The cameras capture data, and then, leveraging a self-learning algorithm, it predicts whether the paint has the right gloss and thickness. “We train our painters using virtual reality…

The Times of India

Tech & Science Daily: The UK’s new £5million Virtual Reality centre

We hear about the new £5million Virtual Reality centre in the UK.

Evening Standard

Nikon And Microsoft Partner To Produce VR Content

Nikon's new unit will use Microsoft's software to enable the creation of high-tech imaging content.

Zenger

Facebook-Owner Meta to Open First Physical Store in Metaverse Bet

Meta Platforms Inc is set to open its first physical store where shoppers can try out and buy virtual reality headsets and other gadgets as the company plots a course to take its highly touted metaverse mainstream. The 1,550-square feet Meta Store at the company's Burlingame campus in California opens…

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With virtual reality, my grandmother tells her story of surviving the Holocaust

My grandmother endured some of the most horrific conditions in history and never lost hope. We must hear stories like hers and remember that we can make a difference, even with small actions.

Fortune

Disney CEO Bob Iger's Empire of Tech

Bob Iger has spent much of his near decade at Disney wearing an additional corporate hat: CTO. The result? He has brought the coolest innovations from Lucasfilm, Pixar, Marvel, and ESPN into a single galaxy.

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