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Medical simulation platform FundamentalVR raises $20M to help surgeons learn through VR

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FundamentalVR , an immersive simulation platform for medical and health care professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to “accelerate skill-transfer and surgical proficiency” through virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) applications. FundamentalVR: Ocular gene therapy simulation.

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

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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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Researchers jailbreak a Tesla, the FCC fines robocallers and WeWork finds itself in trouble (again)

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In this week’s edition of WiR, we cover researchers figuring out a way to “jailbreak” Teslas, the AI.com domain name switching hands and the FCC fining robocallers. Welcome, friends, to TechCrunch’s Week in Review (WiR), the newsletter where we recap the week that was in tech. Now, on with the recap.

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Ultraleap’s mid-air haptics tempts Tencent to join its $82M Series D fundraising

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The underlying technology was based on post-graduate research from inventor – and still CEO – Tom Carter. For Ultraleap, this new era is not constrained to VR headsets. The impressive ‘Star Wars’ demonstration took the crowd by storm. It was quite the demo (see the video below).

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John Carmack’s AGI startup raises $20M from Sequoia, Nat Friedman, Patrick Collison and others

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Some optimists believe AGI could be achieved within the next century, thanks to emerging algorithmic techniques and increasingly powerful computer hardware. Altman is one of the original co-founders of OpenAI, the high-profile AI research lab based in San Francisco.) For his part, Carmack seems firmly in the optimist camp.

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

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The platform, dubbed Prescient, is used for diagnostics, workflow management and triage, taking away the stress of managing software and hardware technology from physicians and hospitals — and allowing them to focus on patient care.

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Generally Intelligent secures cash from OpenAI vets to build capable AI systems

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A new AI research company is launching out of stealth today with an ambitious goal: to research the fundamentals of human intelligence that machines currently lack. Indeed, some researchers have questioned whether efforts to date toward “safe” AI systems are truly effective.

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