This Week In XR: GDC Wrap Up, Luma 3D AI Raises $20 Million

Twenty five thousand people attended the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco this week, the first fully in-person event since 2019, which was about half this size, a record at the time. The panels are all inside baseball unless youre in the business of making gamesTim Sweeny, founder and CEO of Epic Games delivered his highly anticipated annual State of Unreal keynote. With the launch of Creator Toolkit powered by Unity, the 3D social and co-experience platform has made it easier for creatives to build and share interactive online worlds. The latest gaming components include visual scripting, custom avatars, a world linking system, and the ability to set up quests and rewards.Luma AI Raises $20 M Series A led by David Beyer and Mike Dauber of Amplify Partners. The latter is a new offering described as an artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputing service that gives enterprises instant access to the infrastructure and software needed to train advanced models for generative AI.Virtuixs Omni One VR treadmill.