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Facebook | June 16, 2020

Facebook’s Oculus Quest recently celebrated its first birthday. During the one year beta period, the company said, demand for VR for immersive training sessions and meetings grew. This is in line with what researchers at IDC found too. According to the firm, over the past few years, the popularity of VR reality tools at work has accelerated. In 2019, shipments of commercial headsets grew by 93 percent year-over-year, and the market’s predicted to grow by 70 percent in 2020. Also this...

Applications

Cineverse Corp | September 26, 2023

Cineverse Corp., a global streaming technology and entertainment company with one of the world's largest portfolios of streaming channels and content libraries, announced today a partnership with Whip Media, the leading enterprise software platform and data provider to the world's largest entertainment organizations. Using its Content Value Management (CVM) software platform, Whip Media will h...

Technologies

prnewswire | February 18, 2021

Today Marxent, the 3D Commerce organization known for AR, VR, and 3D Room Planner applications that take customers from motivation to exchange, is satisfied to declare it has been perceived as a Sample Vendor in the Gartner Hype Cycle report: Hype Cycle for Retail Technologies 2020, in the Mixed Reality classification. Established in 2011, Marxent is perceived as a main merchant in 3D internet business. The organization is behind the biggest sending of Virtual Reality in retail hi...

deadline | March 25, 2020

The text of the massive, $2 trillion coronavirus relief package has just been released, in advance of expected Senate passage on Wednesday.It contains a number of provisions designed to help the entertainment workforce, including workers with no traditional employer but who work as contractors and freelancers. The legislation expands the reach of unemployment benefits to include those impacted by the coronavirus shutdown, and adds an additional $600 per week in unemployment benefits. The legisla...