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Refract raises $8.5M SGD funding, announces new game development division 

TechCrunch

The startup also plans to expand its team in preparation for the commercialization of AXIS later this year to cater to the rapidly growing market of gamers, tech adopters, content creators and fitness enthusiasts. Refract will continue delivering immersive and engaging XR and VR experiences to a growing market of 2.9

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Triumph raises $14M for an SDK to add real-money tournaments into games

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The surge of interest in e-sports, online fantasy leagues and more extensive online financial infrastructure have made the concept of real-money gaming more popular among consumers and games developers. million funding to continue developing its platform to work in a wider set of markets (its currently available in 37 U.S.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

Markets: 39 new countries (169 in total). The company continued hiring developers and marketers and raised the team by around 10%. Blocksport Blocksport builds Web3-ready platform solutions for the professional sports and entertainment industry to enable tokenization use cases for their fan community.

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What Your Brand Can Bring to Experiential Retail

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Sure, technologies like Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) have been around for some time, but their applications in retail have only started gaining traction. AR and VR are immersive technologies that allow customers to interact with products and brands in a virtual environment.

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The Station: Cruise loses its head, Nio brings AR in the car, and Rivian expands to Georgia

TechCrunch

The deal will preserve much of Harley-Davidson’s ownership while giving LiveWire access to the capital that the public markets can provide and fold in Kymco as a key partner. Apex.ai , mobility software startup founded by Bosch veterans and automated systems engineers Jan Becker and Dejan Pangercic, raised a Series B $56.5

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Sunny side up

Pandora's Brain

Good immersive VR equipment is now found in most homes, and it is increasingly rare to see an adolescent in public outside school hours. All major movies made by Netflix, Hollywood and Bollywood are now produced in VR, along with all major video games. There are persistent rumours that they are deliberately being engineered that way.

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Daily Crunch: To complicate Musk’s attempt to swallow Twitter, board approves ‘poison pill’ strategy

TechCrunch

One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, now go, cat, go, and don’t you, step on my shrewd, weighed views: Like Affirm, but for your business : The buy now, pay later market, spearheaded by Afterpay, Affirm, Klarna and others, is mostly focused on consumer spending.

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