TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The latest funding will be used to intensify R&D for AXIS , a wearable and game-oriented full-body motion capture solution. CEO of Refract Chng told TechCrunch that the solution they found out was to allow players to use their bodies as game controllers. billion gamers through its games and technology, such as the wearable AXIS. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The London-based company brings ads to games, e-sports, virtual reality, and augmented reality. In-game advertising at scale, where advertisers can bid programmatically through traditional ad-buying platforms, rather than relying on an ad agency model, remains an enormous area, largely under-exploited.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Jio Platforms, the biggest telecom operator in India and which has raised over $20 billion from Facebook, Google and other high-profile investors this year, is leading a financing round of a San Francisco-based startup that develops augmented reality mobile games. We have reached out to Jio and Krikey for more details.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Social gaming platform Rec Room has scored some new funding as it aims to bring its once VR-centric world to every major gaming platform out there. The platform has been around for years serving as a social hub and gaming platform for virtual reality users. They’ve raised just shy of $50 million to date.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

New York-based startup Sketchfab has been acquired by Epic Games , the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine. Epic Games isn’t disclosing the terms of the deal. Epic Games also says that all integrations with third-party tools will remain available, including with Unity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2021

Goama (also known as Go Games) lets developers quickly integrate social games into their apps. Some of Goama’s clients have used it for promotional campaigns, while others rely on the platform, which introduces new games every week, to add a full-fledged gaming function to their app. million unique users.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

On the heels of Roblox hitting it big with its platform for user-created gaming content, another startup has landed a major round of funding to build out its own user-generated platform aimed at immersive experiences. billion valuation. There are some 12 million rooms on the platform already, Rec Room said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

million seed f or its virtual HQ platform. All these startups want to bring into the mainstream a game-like interface for people to toggle through during their work day. There are games too. Teamflow’s virtual HQ platform. There are games too. Teamflow’s virtual HQ platform.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

spending billions of dollars on virtual reality tech every fiscal quarter, the wider VR startup ecosystem has been having a tough few years coming down from the highs of 2016, when investors dumped money into the sector expecting Oculus-sized returns only to see most of their investments slowly wilt away. Despite Zuckerberg & Co.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

A number of crypto gaming firms have ramped up production in the past year with hopes of revolutionizing the growing industry. Adding to the list is London-based gaming firm Cauldron, which plans on becoming the “Pixar of web3” through a key element: storytelling. The company just closed a $6.6 The company just closed a $6.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Carry1st , a South African publisher of social games and interactive content across Africa, has raised a $20 million Series A extension led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). A couple of prominent individual investors, including Nas and the founders of Chipper Cash , Sky Mavis and Yield Guild Games, took part.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Do people want their at-home fitness to come in video-game form? The incredible popularity of games like Ring Fit Adventure suggests yes. At the core of Quell’s gameplay is the “Gauntlet” — a harness, of sorts, that the player slips on to control Quell’s games. Image Credits: Quell.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

A new startup called Skich wants to help mobile users find games to play that better match their interests. To do so, it’s created a game recommendation app that carefully toes the line in order to not bump up against Apple’s App Store rule that prohibits other apps from acting as App Stores themselves.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Brett Martin, the co-founder and president of Kumospace, believes a core piece to easing the transition is workplace collaboration tools — especially video chat tools that foster a “virtual office” feeling. “ When COVID-19 hit, we scrambled like everyone else to go virtual. Image Credits: Kumospace.

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The Crazy Programmer

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Besides games are the best way you can do that. Today, the gaming sector has undergone a huge change with new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, IoT, etc integrated with video games. Can Games Teach Coding? Best Games for Programmers and Coders. Definitely!

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DevOps.com

MARCH 1, 2021

The post Game On: Secure Coding Virtual Summit 2021 appeared first on DevOps.com. Organizations implementing DevSecOps to integrate security into their DevOps framework are able to release secure software faster. Developers test code for potential security […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

PreShow Interactive is giving gamers a new way to earn in-game currency in exchange for watching ads — a concept that’s become familiar in mobile games but hasn’t really made much headway on PCs or consoles. The startup is led by MoviePass’ founding CEO Stacy Spikes. Image Credits: PreShow Interactive.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

It is a Windows instance, which means you can install whatever you want — games, photo editing software, Microsoft Office, you name it. But the service works particularly well for gamers, as everything has been optimized for video games, from latency, 4:4:4 color support and gamepad compatibility to specifications.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Less than a year ago, WildWorks, the makers of the kid’s virtual world game Animal Jam , launched its next big effort with a game aimed at Gen Z teens, called Feral. Having begun their journey on the kid’s game Animal Jam, they see the company’s move into the crypto-gaming space as an inappropriate one.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Eneba , a marketplace for gamers that sells games and other products, has raised an $8 million round of funding from Practica Capital and InReach Ventures. The site also optimizes its localized gaming experiences to show locally trending gaming products.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Raven Gao didn’t set up virtual social platform MEW to ride the metaverse wave. He began working on MEW in mid-2019 with a Tencent veteran because he wanted to build a virtual safe haven for socially awkward introverts like himself. The world today has no shortage of startups claiming to be building virtual worlds and metaverses.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Yahaha , a Helsinki- and Shanghai-based immersive, user-generated, low-code gaming platform founded by a group of Chinese gaming vets, made a splash in January when it announced a cumulative $50 million in funding ahead of its alpha launch in April. And that’s where Yahaha comes in.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

SoWork, a virtual co-working startup, began after Punwani and his co-founders decided to build a machine learning edtech company. So, combining their love for building and gaming, the group put together an internal communication product inspired by virtual worlds. Permanence is the elephant in the room for any virtual HQ.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you follow tech press, you’ve probably noticed more outlets covering the blockchain-based, play-to-earn trend, wherein individuals playing crypto-powered games can ostensibly earn a living off their gaming skills if they earn assets within the game or tokens that they can then sell for “real” money.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

To Bharani Rajakumar , the founder of Transfr , the dilemma of displaced workers is the perfect use case for virtual reality technology. Transfr leverages virtual reality to create simulations of manufacturing-plant shop floors or warehouses for training purposes. Rajakumar thinks that it could be revolutionary for the sector.

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CIO

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To reach that understanding, enterprises, partners, and sellers should be able to collect and analyze fine-grained resource utilization data per virtual machine (VM) — and then leverage those insights to precisely determine the resources each VM needs to perform its job. Why is this so important? About Jenna Colleran.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

But everyone’s already gotten a taste of virtual events, and their many ups and downs. The tech side of things can get remarkably complicated, and it’s hard to make a virtual show more compelling/interactive/engaging than a YouTube video would be. Zuddl , a virtual events platform, has raised a $13.35 No flights!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down. Related to this move, Epic Games’ “ Fortnite Mode” feature , which leveraged Houseparty to bring video chat to Fortnite gamers, will also be discontinued.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion valuation Chain-agnostic platform ZetaChain raised $27 million to improve cross-chain interoperability Web3 virtual world platform ZTX raised $13 million in round led by Jump Crypto Decentralized stock trading platform Dinari raised $7.5 Check out what caught our attention below.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

After operating in beta for a year, Nooks, a virtual workspace space targeting distributed teams, has attracted thousands of users and millions of dollars in venture capital. This is Kevin Hartz’s second investment in a virtual HQ, with his first in Gather. Virtual HQs race to win over a remote-work-fatigued market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

billion in assets under management , has poured millions into an edtech startup that sells virtual STEM lab simulations to institutions. Labster lands new cash to bring its virtual reality science lab software to Asia. With platform ambition, Labster is pausing its virtual reality efforts, which requires acquiring headsets at scale. “VR

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In a move to shore up institutional support in what’s likely to be it’s last fundraising as a private company, the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming behemoth Scopely has raised $340 million in its latest eye-popping round of funding. ” LA-based gaming studio Scopely raises $200M at a $1.7B valuation. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Events — when they haven’t been cancelled altogether in the last 12 months due to the global health pandemic — have gone virtual and online, and a wave of startups that are helping people create and participate in those experiences are seeing a surge of attention — and funding.

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Openxcell

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Technology trends in the gaming industry are growing rapidly due to robust digital transformations. According to Grand View Research, the video game market is expected to reach USD 583.69 It’s all thanks to the newest gaming technologies shaping the future of gaming. billion by 2030. Another example is Twelfth Man.

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Daffodil Software

AUGUST 1, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, virtual reality (VR) was mainly associated with gaming and entertainment. However, today, VR has become a driving force in the healthcare industry, along with other significant healthcare technology trends.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In fact, there are dozens of virtual HQ platforms , some venture-backed and some bootstrapped, mixing gamification and productivity into a service. In August, Kumospace raised $21 million for its platform that leverages lo-fi graphics and game-like mechanics to create a sense of togetherness.

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