TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Virtual Reality (VR) has struggled to transition too far beyond gaming circles and specific industry use-cases such as medical training , but with the burgeoning metaverse movement championed by tech heavyweights such as Meta , there has been a renewed hope (and hype) around the promise that virtual worlds bring.

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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

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

MAY 10, 2023

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. per month, and it has led to $54 in average monthly revenues per player per game. states plus Washington D.C.),

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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. It also works with VR headsets.

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Toptal

AUGUST 11, 2021

Why did one designer leave a prominent role in the advertising industry and travel halfway around the world to pursue a UX career in VR gaming?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Gaming has been one of the most popular entertainment categories in the last two years of pandemic living. Now, a gaming startup that’s building a new kind of platform that it thinks will be a — wait for it — game changer in the category is announcing some funding as to ride that wave of attention.

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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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Perficient

JANUARY 23, 2023

Virtual Reality Virtual Reality (VR) is an immersive media experience replicating either a real or imagined environment and allowing users to interact with the environment. Unlike the conventional user interface of displaying content on a screen, VR immerses a person to interact in a digital 3D environment.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

AmazeVR , a Los Angeles-based virtual concert platform, said Tuesday it has raised a $17 million funding round to create immersive music experiences through virtual reality (VR) concerts. New strategic investors — Korean entertainment giant CJ ENM and mobile game maker Krafton — participated in the latest round.

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Trigent

APRIL 15, 2021

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. Propelling-immersive-learning-with-AR-VR. from USD 85,818 million in 2020 to USD 181,265 million by 2025.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

When we asked Bent, who once worked for virtual reality technology company Upload, she said she used to think the metaverse had to be tied to VR technology, specifically the head-mounted display screen. But what will the metaverse actually look like? Cryptocurrency, she believes, made that switch possible.

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IDC

JULY 29, 2020

IDC's latest virtual reality app/game developer survey shows more enterprises are embracing VR training and sims. Explore these results with IDC's Lewis Ward.

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Trigent

AUGUST 20, 2023

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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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

AUGUST 26, 2022

Asia’s crypto games and web3 investment powerhouse Animoca Brands is making inroads into Japan as its local unit picks up $45 million in financing at a $500 million pre-money valuation. Startups and VC. The investment comes at a time when the country is tightening regulations around the crypto industry, writes Rita.

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Trigent

OCTOBER 9, 2021

AR/VR in real estate presents the perfect solution to the changing needs of discerning customers. The global AR VR in the real estate market ecosystem 1 is expected to grow at a CAGR of 31.2%, increasing in value from USD 298.6 million in 2018 to USD 1,151.9 million in 2023. Here are our top 5 recommendations to get started.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

This includes AR smartglasses and VR headsets, but also smartphone apps — collectively referred to as XR , or extended reality. Reeves expects mobile, AR and VR to eventually converge, “in the same way as lots of devices came together into our phones.” Eden’s acquisition is funded by an $11.2

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

With a big-budget space exploration game debuting in days, indie spacefaring mainstay No Man’s Sky continues to deepen its own world with no signs of slowing down. The game’s hulking dreadnought freighters now include an ominous, aggressive pirate variant and new trenches you can fly through, Death Star-style.

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OTS Solutions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

How to use AR and VR in education industry? Artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to disrupt the education system by allowing academic programs to become personalized through augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). It is used in various forms of entertainment from video games to films. Virtual Reality and Education.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Transfr started as a mentor-based VR training programming play. He first saw virtual reality when he attended a gaming conference in San Francisco in 2017. “I I can’t believe that gaming and pornography are the two big industries for this technology,” he said. “I

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

What about the game-changing technologies? I think the verdict is still out on what the big game-changing technologies are going to be. Look for large, massively multiplayer gaming experiences with huge adoption. Generative AI has the attention of people now and will receive significant, immediate investment driving innovation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

million), followed by a group of Chinese financial and automotive technology investors, organized by investment professional Jingjing Xu, and educational and entertainment game development company Schell Games, which has partnered with holoride in the past to create content. . I used VR in a car going 90 mph and didn’t get sick.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A true “metaverse” may not yet exist , but that hasn’t stopped marketers from adopting the buzzword to promote their apps and games on mobile app stores. Gaming platform Roblox was touted as a metaverse frontrunner. Startups began to describe themselves as metaverse companies. Image Credits: Sensor Tower.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

California-based “XR wellness and digital psychedelics platform” Tripp continues its acquisition path to growth with its acquisition of the world’s largest VR meditation community, EvolVR , following its purchase last year of PsyAssist , a mobile app used by people to keep their psychedelic experiences on track.

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2022

Right now, the metaverse is essentially an undefined amalgam of technologies and concepts including but not limited to augmented reality (AR), avatars, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, extended reality (ER), mixed reality (MR), NFTs (non-fungible tokens), virtual reality (VR), and Web3.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

And then there’s a wrinkle to the stablecoin game and what sort of economics things like USDC may command in time. Games, probably, though what we consider a game will also evolve as VR becomes more mainstream. Non-exchange crypto fees are also bullish. We have notes from an interview with Circle to help us there.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Google wakes up from its VR daydream. Tokyo-based virtual reality game developer Thirdverse gets $8.5 Osso VR raises $14 million to bring virtual reality to surgical and medical device training. Vectary was founded in 2014 by Michal Koor (CEO) and Pavol Sovis (CTO), who were both from the design and technology worlds.

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VironIT

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR and VR) is not only for gaming now. What are AR and VR? First of all, let’s define what AR and VR are. It has already found a use in health care, shopping, real estate, education, and is gaining popularity among museums and galleries. AR just adds some digital elements […].

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Most people opt for sedentary entertainment that involves minimal movement like watching movies or streaming live concerts, playing video games and throwing virtual parties. It is now announcing a $25 million Series B round to coincide with launch of Active Arcade , its new mobile AI interactive motion-tracking game.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2023

Meanwhile, this week’s episode of Found focused on Anurupa Ganguly, the founder and CEO at Prisms, a startup designing VR math curriculum for middle and high school students. Taking a page from mobile gaming: Retaining mobile app subscribers is harder than it was last year, but paywall optimization and gamified UX can help.

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Coding Horror

MAY 20, 2016

The golden age of x86 gaming is well upon us. That's why the future of PC gaming is looking brighter every day. We can see it coming true in the solid GPU and idle power improvements in Skylake, riding the inevitable wave of x86 becoming the dominant kind of (non mobile, anyway) gaming for the forseeable future. And that's sad.

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CTOvision

MARCH 26, 2014

Tuesday, Facebook announced its plans to acquire Oculus VR for $2 billion. If you haven’t heard of it, Oculus VR is a virtual reality startup out of Irvine, CA. And now, neither is Oculus VR. CTO Gadgets Facebook Mark Zuckerberg Markus Persson Minecraft Oculus VR Reddit Virtual reality WhatsApp' By ShannonPerry.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

While some investors and developers pulled back , others kept forging ahead, developing chips for augmented and virtual reality, trialing advertising through augmented reality, and “stockpiling gaming content,” according to CBInsights. In SuperWorld , you can purchase, sell, and trade virtual blocks of land that owners can customize.

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Agile Engine

DECEMBER 5, 2018

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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