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Sandbox VR expands to new locations globally with $37M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz

TechCrunch

After a challenging year for location-based virtual reality startups due to COVID-19, Sandbox VR , a location-based VR startup, is making a comeback with a plan to expand its operations further across the globe. Sandbox VR aims to be an immersive social experience through a combination of full-body motion capture and VR technologies.

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Power Immersive, Engaging, Impactful Learning Experiences with AR/VR

Trigent

But with Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) coming into the picture, things have changed radically for the education sector. We are treading into an era of experiential learning driven by AR/VR. The research by MarketsandMarkets suggests that the global EdTech and smart classroom market is growing at a CAGR of 16.1%

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San Diego-based startup LifeVoxel raises $5 million seed funding for its AI diagnostic visualization platform

TechCrunch

Kovalan, who was born and raised in Malaysia, studied computer science in Ohio State University, and on completion, went on to specialize in artificial intelligence. The startup hopes to use the technologies for the improvement in diagnostic outcome using intelligent visualization.

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10 Key Trends of Digital Transformation in Healthcare in 2022

OTS Solutions

At the heart of this shift are AI (Artificial Intelligence), ML (Machine Learning), IoT, and other cloud-based technologies. There are also significant cost savings linked with artificial intelligence in health care. Just a decade ago, the use of augmented and virtual reality in healthcare was deemed science fiction.

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In edtech, history matters: Reach Capital just closed its largest fund to date

TechCrunch

But what’s old doesn’t mean they’re going to ignore what’s new: exuberance around artificial intelligence. The investor urges founders to focus on collaborating with researchers, unique data moats and measurable impact. Reach’s Sosnik, meanwhile, wants to remind founders that AI isn’t new.

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Emotion-detection software startup Affectiva acquired for $73.5M

TechCrunch

” Automakers, suppliers and startups see growing market for in-vehicle AR/VR applications. Smart Eye, which has offices in Gothenburg, Detroit, Tokyo and Chongqing, China, also has a division that provides research organizations such as NASA with high-fidelity eye tracking systems for human factors research.

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Thinking of hibernating through the metaverse winter?

CIO

Depending on the use case, metaverse and internal enterprise experiences may work from a user screen or be paired with augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) devices, such as headsets, smartphones, and tablets with cameras and appropriate software, haptic feedback devices, large-scale simulators, intelligent helmets, etc.