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Emperia is helping brands like Bloomingdales build shopping experiences in VR

TechCrunch

Does the average person want to shop for apparel in virtual reality (VR)? But not everyone agrees — particularly those who hope to build a business out of VR retail. ” Emperia’s platform offers tools brands can use to create virtual experiences, including stores in VR. .”

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Hexa raises $20.5M to turn images into 3D objects for VR, AR and more

TechCrunch

But HTC’s focus has increasingly shifted over the years from mobile to VR, and it evidently sees Hexa as aligned with its current — and perhaps even future — lines of business. Atias co-launched Hexa with Ran Buchnik and Jonathan Clark first as a virtual dressing room platform aimed at bridging the massive disconnect.

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VUZ raises $20 million to scale its immersive social app

TechCrunch

VUZ , a social app that allows users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality (XR) and metaverse digital experiences, has raised $20 million in Series B investment. The platform offers over 20,000 hours of content covering entertainment, creators, sports, and XR, VR, and AR experiences virtually anywhere in the world.

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Virtual HQs race to win over a remote-work-fatigued market

TechCrunch

Yet, to a growing number of entrepreneurs in the Valley, when one physical door closes, a virtual one opens. With the goal of making remote work more spontaneous, there are dozens of new startups working to create virtual HQs for distributed teams. Companies within the virtual HQ world sit on a spectrum.

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Former Yext CEO launches Roam to provide a virtual HQ for distributed teams

TechCrunch

Roam’s Map View lets workers see what’s going on and have “project presence,” Lerman says, as well as chat with colleagues via text or video chat. In fact, there are dozens of virtual HQ platforms , some venture-backed and some bootstrapped, mixing gamification and productivity into a service.

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Why Adopting New Technologies like AR and VR are Essential for Your Business?

Trigent

In that case, it is essential to understand why companies consider adopting new technologies or digital transformations like Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) to meet customer needs. While AR and VR offer many revolutionary experiences, XR is based on the same technologies. million VR users and 110.1

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Why Are Video Devices Becoming More Popular?

Strategy Driven

Video is transforming business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-customer (B2C) communications. The critical technologies making this possible are lowering latency and enabling remote access to video content. Video Phones Video phones, also called videoconferencing devices, allow two people to communicate by video and audio.

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