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3D laser printer startup Glowforge lands $20M following release of AI image generator feature

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Glowforge Photo) The news: 3D laser printer startup Glowforge raised $20 million as part of an extended Series E round to help add new product features and grow its subscription business. The product: Glowforge makes a line of laser-based 3D printers that cut and engrave various materials.

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Larry Page’s air taxi startup is buying former DJI rival 3D Robotics

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Image: 3D Robotics. Kitty Hawk, the air taxi company backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, is buying what’s left of one-time DJI competitor 3D Robotics. As part of the acquisition, 3D Robotics co-founder Chris Anderson will become Kitty Hawk’s chief operating officer. Chris Anderson (@chr1sa) June 11, 2021.

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Samsung’s VC arm backs startup selling chips for 3D sensors in self-driving cars and robots

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Seattle-area startup Lumotive landed $13 million to boost production of its semiconductor chips tailored for 3D sensors used in delivery drones, self-driving cars and mobile home robots. ” Lumotive was founded by William Colleran , who departed in June 2021, and Gleb Akselrod , the company’s current chief technology officer.

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Samsung imagines how its first AR glasses might look in these leaked concept videos

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The second video shows off the very similar “Samsung AR Glasses” concept, though this time it’s letting the user “see” 3D digital objects appear in the real world, a visual that should be instantly familiar to you if you’ve ever seen any of Microsoft’s HoloLens marketing.

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Nvidia speeds AI, climate modeling

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Nvidia is hoping to make it easier for CIOs building digital twins and machine learning models to secure enterprise computing, and even to speed the adoption of quantum computing with a range of new hardware and software. Seeing double. It’s at the high end of that range that Nvidia plays.

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Epic Games sues AR company Nreal for sounding too much like ‘Unreal’

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The China-based Nreal makes an augmented reality headset known as the Nreal Light, which projects 3D objects into real space, and it’s developed a demo game called Nreal Tower. Its glasses shipped in Korea last year, and Nreal has gradually expanded their availability, announcing plans for a US launch in the second quarter of 2021.

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Facebook’s new virtual meeting app is ‘great news’ and ‘validating’ for these Seattle entrepreneurs

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— Boz (@boztank) August 19, 2021. “It further validates the potential of spatial computing for work and collaboration,” said Forest Gibson , co-founder of Pluto , a Seattle startup that develops mixed reality services. Envelop for Windows let users work in a virtual environment with infinite monitors in a 3D space.