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

TechCrunch

CEO and co-founder Yehiel Atias said that the cash will be put toward product development and expanded customer acquisition efforts well into 2023. 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.

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AmazeVR gets another $15M to forge the future of immersive concerts 

TechCrunch

AmazeVR , a virtual reality concert platform that enables users to experience their favorite artists’ VR concerts through content generation tools, announced today it has secured $15 million, which was oversubscribed within three weeks. . Users would join as avatars, hang out with other users, and experience VR concerts together.

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11 milestones in AR and VR in 2018

Agile Engine

Do you ever feel like the hype is strong for VR and AR? billion revenue in consumer VR by the end of the year. Second, there are just too many forecasts in VR and AR, which makes it hard to separate noise from meaningful information. This post will explore the milestones reached in AR and VR. Take Superdata, for example.

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Fed Tech News Roundup 8 July 2015

CTOvision

Pentagon's Silicon Valley unit gets $1.75M for fiscal 2015 - FCW.com FCW (Today) - FCW.comPentagon's Silicon Valley unit gets $1.75M for fiscal 2015FCW.comThe Defense Department's first fulltime outreach office in Silicon Valley is up and running thanks to a July 2 memo from Deputy. Some are already. Drone pilot training, DISA's big cyber.

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Go1 nabs $100M at a $2B+ valuation to upgrade its curated enterprise learning platform

TechCrunch

The company was part of a Y Combinator cohort in 2015.). One of these is likely to be more VR-based learning, Barnes said; another is to build out more livestreaming to complement the existing catalogue, which is based today around asynchronous content. It would be quite a different product.”

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Innovation Journeys: 10G is new. We have been working on it for years.

CableLabs

Experiencing some of the earliest 360° video at the beginning of 2014 (shot on 6 Go-Pro’s, manually stitched) on a low-resolution Oculus Development Kit Virtual Reality headset got us thinking about where the technology might lead. We stepped back and tried to work out other mass-market use cases for VR. Digging Deeper. We pivoted.

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All about Apple Vision Pro: What it can bring to developers and businesses

Openxcell

Vision Pro, the long-rumored Apple augmented reality headset, was finally unveiled at the World-Wide Developer Conference earlier this week. Read on to learn all about Vision Pro and what it can bring to developers and businesses. You can learn more about developing for visionOS here. It is expected to launch in early 2024.

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