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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 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

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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. Big impact. FundamentalVR: Ocular gene therapy simulation.

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7 investors discuss augmented reality and VR startup opportunities in 2020

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The reasons are plentiful, but all tend to circle around the idea that it’s too early for software and too expensive to try to take on Apple or Facebook on the hardware front. “We believe VR is still the largest long-term opportunity of the two. . “We believe VR is still the largest long-term opportunity of the two.

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As demand for real estate VR booms, Founders Fund leads $16M round into Giraffe360 platform

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The property industry now requires high-quality photographs, floor plans and virtual tours, so the industry for software providers in the space is booming. The whole area was accelerated during the pandemic, when many property viewings migrated from physical to virtual, and this trend has continued to tick upward.

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Quality Assurance Approach towards Virtual Reality (VR)

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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

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

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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 started as a mentor-based VR training programming play.