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Apple buys a VR company that put real faces on virtual avatars – Yahoo Finance Australia
The company offered free-roam VR experiences, as well as a way of making virtual avatars that used your real face.
Apple has acquired Spaces, a VR company that offered both VR experiences and, after the pandemic hit, a way of bringing your virtual avatar into Zoom meetings. Protocol quotes an unnamed Apple spokesperson offering the usual boilerplate confirmation, saying that it had nothing else to add.
Spaces is, or was, a company that started out offering free-roam VR experiences, similar to what The Void offered in those heady pre-pandemic times. It was spun out of DreamWorks, and its first project was a…
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