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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 aims to be an immersive social experience through a combination of full-body motion capture and VR technologies.

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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. “This makes the solutions highly scalable and affordable.”

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

TechCrunch

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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What’s ahead for AI, VR, NFTs, and more?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This may encourage the creation of more large-scale models; it might also drive a wedge between academic and industrial researchers. We will also see research on smaller models that offer better performance, like Google’s RETRO. Now for some slightly less safe predictions, involving the future of social media and cybersecurity.

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Metaverse: The time for CIOs to experiment is now

CIO

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. Follow the money.

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10 most in-demand generative AI skills

CIO

The recent AI boom has sparked plenty of conversations around its potential to eliminate jobs, but a survey of 1,400 US business leaders by the Upwork Research Institute found that 49% of hiring managers plan to hire more independent and full-time employees in response to the demand for AI skills.

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How public sector organisations can take complexity out of the cloud

CIO

Educational institutions are continuing to accelerate their use of technologies such as e-learning, VR and AI-driven chatbots in order to facilitate remote and hybrid learning. re meeting the education and research communityâ??s the pan-European data network for the research and education community â??

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