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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 raises millions more in celebrity party round. Image Credits: Sandbox VR. Canada and Asia.

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

TechCrunch

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. Big impact. FundamentalVR: Ocular gene therapy simulation.

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7 investors discuss augmented reality and VR startup opportunities in 2020

TechCrunch

For all of the investors preaching that augmented reality technology will likely be the successor to the modern smartphone, today, most venture capitalists are still quite wary to back AR plays. “We believe VR is still the largest long-term opportunity of the two. . AR complements the real world, VR creates endless new worlds.”

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Transfr raises $12M Series A to bring virtual reality to manufacturing-plant floors

TechCrunch

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. Transfr’s core technology is its software.

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Quality Assurance Approach towards Virtual Reality (VR)

Perficient

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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YC and a16z back virtual reality basketball app Gym Class

TechCrunch

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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Why Adopting New Technologies like AR and VR are Essential for Your Business?

Trigent

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. This technology has entered various fields of business and offered a changing aspect. million VR users and 110.1

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