Cross-game Avatar Platform Ready Player Me Launches to Consumers
CROSS-GAME AVATAR PLATFORM READY PLAYER ME LAUNCHES TO CONSUMERS, CONNECTING USERS TO MORE THAN 260 APPS AND GAMES Avatar platform created by Wolf3D allows users to travel between video games, virtual reality experiences and other apps using a single virtual identity Los Angeles, California - July 21, 2021 - Utilized by both consumers and developers to create bespoke avatars, the Ready Player Me platform has launched a new hub opening...
Is MAMBO TWERK the Coolest 360 Video in 2021?
MAMBO TWERK 2021 • Tropkillaz • Dance in 360 Degrees • 5K VR Video Is this the coolest 360 video in 2021? We think this 5K quality twerking in 360 degree is something you do not want to miss. VRkings.tv will be coming out with uncensored 360 degree video in the future, we can't wait to see what they have to offer! Is MAMBO TWERK the Coolest 360 Video in 2021? Read More I Prevail & Joyner Lucas Rock VR With Provocative ‘DOA’...
Osso VR Raise $27 million to Gamify Surgical Operations
Osso VR Completes $27 million Fund Raising to Gamify Surgical Operations During the pandemic, more and more professional across various industries found themselves the urgent need to access professional knowledge remotely, this is why VR startups with a focus in training such as Virti have found themselves in a growing flow of funds to support their development. According to Techcrunch, San Francisco-based Osso VR focuses on...
DigiLens Produces AR Glasses with Plastic
DigiLens Partners with Mitsubishi Chemical to Produce Plastic AR GlassesAR seems to one of the hottest topics in 2021, with companies like Oppo that aims to dominate the AR ecosystem. Waveguide optics, DigiLens, partners with Mitsubishi Chemical to produce plastic type AR glasses to the market. The company believes that plastic can achieve the relatively same performance as glass, but with the advantage of weight reduction....
Pininfarina Develops First E-Vehicle with VR
Italian Design House Pininfarina Develops Teorema Using Virtual RealityAccording to Motor Authority, Italian design Pininfarina developed the company's first vehicle by utilize VR technologies, namely, Teorema.Pininfarina used holographic AR technology by Swiss company WayRay, which enables physical objects represented in virtual world to be aligned with physical reality. Furthermore, WayRay is also partnering with a number of...
Facebook to Release 128 GB Oculus Quest 2 to Replace 64GB Version
Facebook to Release 128 GB Oculus Quest 2 to Replace 64GB VersionAccording German blog, VR-Legion, Facebook may soon replace the 64GB Oculus Quest 2 with the 128GB version. Some time ago, Quest 2 appeared on the market in two different version. One with 64 GB storage size as an entry-level size and one with 256 GB as the high-end model. But now pictures have mysteriously emerged that show a 128 GB model. Many indications indicate...
NFT Oasis Raises $4.4 Million to Develop Creative VR Economy
NFT Oasis Raise $4.4 million to Develop VR Creator's EconomyNFT Oasis creator Provenonce completes $4.4 million investment round to help VR creators to reach mass majority through virtual reality art galleries inside the Metaverse.What is NFT Oasis?The company created a VR hub for artists to gather, and showcase artwork by over 200 artists and musicians since April. There are events held each week in the virtual world to exhibits...
Study Shows VR Gaming Helps Reduce Pain for Burned Patient
VR Games Shows Significantly Reduces Pain for Burned Patients The wide range of virtual reality applications extend far beyond gaming and entertainment. Many VR startups have attempt to us VR for therapeutic purposes, such as Oxford VR and XR Health. A randomized clinical trial published on the AMA Network Open found that when children with burns changed their dressings, smartphone-based virtual reality (VR) games had a...
VRChat Completes $80 million Series D Fund Raising
VRChat Raises 80 Million Series D FundingPopular VR social platform, VRChat, announced their completion of Series D funding of $80 million USD. The investment round was led by Anthos Capital with participations from GFR Fund, Makers Fund, and others.According to Crunchase, this newest round of investment brings VRChat's total investment to $95.2 million.In a statement, VRChat CEO Graham Gaylor said that "“VRChat hosts a vibrant,...
XR Training Startup Virti Completes 10 Million USD Fund Raising
Enterprise VR Training Solution Provider Virti Raises 10 Million USDThe global pandemic status has drastically benefited the VR ecosystem, making global investment funding flow more easily to VR startups as remote applications needs increase.VR training solution provider for organizations, Virti, recently completed 10 million USD Series A fund raising. The investment was led by IQ Capital, with participations from Cedars-Sinai Medical...
Microsoft Flight Simulator Receives Update for VR Headsets
Microsoft Flight Simulator Recent Update Extends Support for VR Headsets An important milestone that marks the history of VR has arrived, as Asobo Studio releases SteamVR support for the notoriously demanding Microsoft Flight Simulator enabling expansion to a wide range of major VR headsets.In a announcement made last November which followed the virtual reality update for Microsoft Flight Simulator development roadmap, Asobos Studio...
3D Geometric Search Engine Developer Physna Raises $56 million USD
3D Geometric Search Startup Physna Raises $56 Million In Series B FundingAccording to Forbes, American 3D geometric search engine developer, Physna, has completed a new investment round of US$56 million in financing led by Tiger Global and co-invested by GV and Sequoia Capital. This round of financing is just 5 years after the company’s B round. Months after this round of financing, Physna's total financing exceeded $86 million.Physna...
OPPO is Ambitious to Dominate the AR Ecosystem
OPPO is Working on Developing an Entire AR EcosystemOPPO has been actively deploying AR cutting-edge technology since 2018. The company has successively launched its open AR platform, two generations of AR glasses prototypes, and self-developed SLAM algorithm, gesture tracking, body tracking and depth perception four AR systems.These core capabilities not only provide excellent parameters such as delay, accuracy and power consumption,...
Facebook Patent Plans to Integrate Real-world Objects into VR World
Facebook Patent Describes how to Integrate Real World Objects into Virtual World Users familiar with VR headsets is aware of a so-called protection system that can alert users in a series of different ways when they approach the boundaries of the play area or physical objects. This is because the VR headset will replace the real world around the user with digital content, so in order to prevent the user from colliding with real...
ENGAGE Oasis Wants to be the Linkedin of Metaverse
Immersive VR Education Launch VR Training Platform ENGAGE Oasis Immersive VR Education, the company behind the VR training platform, ENGAGE, announced today a new addition to a rising ecosystem of virtual meeting solutions, namely, ENGAGE Oasis. This corporate metaverse will be available in 2022, serving as a virtual meeting platform for businesses, colleges students, and professional looking to conduct their business in the virtual...
Stealth AR Startup Multinarity Raises 28 Million Seed Investment Round
Former Magic Leap Executives Raises 28 Million to Develop MR Killer AppAccording a report by Calcalist, Israel startup, Multinarity, announced completions of their recent investment round of $28 million for the company's seed round. The investment was led by Israel investor VC Aleph and US investor Corner Ventures.The company secretly formed last year by former Magic Leap executives, and plans to create the first killer app for...
Psychedelic VR Meditation App TRIPP Completes 11 Million Series A Investment Round
The worldwide pandemic has resulted a rapid stay-at-home movement, which consequently caused an increased flow of investments for VR startups.Los Angeles based startup, TRIPP, the company that developed the VR meditation app recently closed a Series A fund raising round at $11 million USD.According to Tech Crunch, The investment round was led by Vine Ventures and Mayfield, and participation from Integrated. The company has raised $15...
This Virtual Reality Device Simulates Human Touch
Programmable skin material could help distant learning In a world where social distancing is becoming a norm, remote learning with tactile sensation is something missing in the past, at least until now. Researchers at the Northwestern University have invented a, epidermal VR device that can simulate the sensation of physical touch. This device is comprised of an array of small vibrating components made from silicon polymer material...
Zuckerberg Believes VR Will Disrupt Social and Fitness Industry
Zuckerberg Predicts VR/AR will Disrupt Social and Fitness IndustryAccording to CNBC News, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently discussed future development of VR/AR industry at the French Tech Conference VivaTech with Publicis Group Chairman Maurice Levy.Zuckerberg said that VR gaming is still the main focus of the virtual reality industry. However, development in the areas of social VR and VR fitness will be tremendous...
Facebook’s Only VR Advertising Quits Due to Backlash from Gamers
Oculus Users Blacklash Against Facebook for VR Gaming AdvertisementsFacebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg at a recent conference announced that the company is launching its advertising mechanism in the Oculus Quest headset, which is supposed to generate revenue for developers.The company hit a major setback after the only named developer partner backs out due to a backlash from gamers. The news came soon after Zuckerberg's recent...
Shokworks and Immersity Partners to Produce Education Experience in VR
Shokworks and Immersity Partners to Produce Education Experience in VR at the University of South WalesWelsh tech company Immersity and Dallas based Shokworks is working on using VR to educate future law enforcement officers and aeronautical engineers in the United Kingdom by utilizing an affordable virtual reality solution the produces immersive training opportunities for a wide range of industries. The companies are working...
XYZ Reality Closes £20m Funding Round as the Company Seeks Growth
XYZ Reality Raises Fund to Resolve Billion Dollar Pain Point from Construction IndustryConstruction Tech AR startup, XYZ Reality, recently closed a £20 million series A funding round as the company seeks fund for growth outside the European market to further develop its products. The company plans to enter the US markets, and further investment to refine research and development as well as adding a team in London for manufacturing,...
Facebook Files a Patent for an AR Hat : but is it Better than AR Glasses?
Do You Prefer to Wear AR Hat or Glasses ? According to a new patent filed by social media giant, Facebook, the social network is currently working on developing an AR hat which would enable user augmented reality immersion of the device, providing more advanced AR applications within an isolated standalone device.The patent was first noticed by Founders Legal, who also points out why Facebook plans to develop the AR hat as in unison...
Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Raised $450 Million to Turn US Troppers into Super Heros
Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Plans to Turn US Troppers into Invincible Technomancers We best know Palmer Luckey for his Kickstarter success that led to Facebook acquiring his company for 2 billion USD. The Oculus Rift founder later departed from Facebook to work on his latest endeavors.... actually he was fired with tons of cash in his pocket. Palmer Luckey recently announced that his new company, Anduril, has raised an...
Unity CEO Predicts AR-VR Headsets Will Become Mainstream by 2030
Unity CEO Predicts AR-VR Headsets Will Be As Common as Game Consoles in the Next Ten YearsAccording to a recent report from TheInformation, Unity CEO John Riccitiello talks about his view about the market for VR and AR in the next ten years. He thinks by 2030 VR platforms will become mainstream, assuming that VR headsets sales hits 20 million each year. His thoughts on AR is a bit different, as the current engineer are based...
Japanese VR Robot Maker Telexistence (TX) Raises 2.2 billion JPY Investment
Japanese VR Remote Control robot Manufacturer Completes Investment Tound of 2.2 Billion JPY According to Morgura VR, Japanese VR remote control robot manufacturer Telexistence (TX) announced completions of a recent investment round of 2.2 billion JPY, with investors such as Monoful Co., Ltd, KDDI Open Innovations Fund, Airbus Ventures, Deepcore, Today IPC and few others. The company plans to utilize the fund to expand growth,...
Apple Glass May Introduce New Cooling Mechanism to Keep Users Cool
Apple Glass Plans to Keep Users Cool Through Air ConditioningRegular users of computers, laptops, and mobiles phones are long aware of the necessity for a cooling mechanism after long usage period. Heavy usage of any electronic device result in a reduction in level of user comfort, as possibly causing potential irreversible damage to the device itself. This pain point of excess heat applies for VR and AR head mounted displays as...
3Glasses CEO Award Most Influential Person of the Year at the Gold V Award
3Glasses CEO Award Most Influential Person of the Year at the Gold V AwardAfter screening by multiple judges, 3Glasses successfully stood out amongst numerous participating companies and won two awards: "Annual Excellent VR Hardware Award" and "Annual Excellent 5G+XR Application Award". 3Glasses CEO Wang Jie was awarded the “Most Influential Person of the Year" prize".Analysis of New Consumption Habits Affecting the Future Development...
AR Headset Maker REALMAX Unveil Newest AR Glasses at 5G+AR Summit
AR Headset Maker REALMAX Unveil Newest AR Glasses at 5G+AR Summit In a keynote speech at Huawei's Win-Win Future 5G+AR Global Summit (Better World Summit), Cai Mengbo, Chief Marketing Officer of Huawei BG talked about using 5G to ignite the AR industry. As a leader of the 5G technology, Huawei reflects on multiple perspective application, market, and end users that calls for the entire industry to work together to jointly promote...
Arkio is a Tool for Architects to Design, Review, and Collaborate
Arkio: A Collaborative Tool for Architecture Design and ReviewArkio is a collaborative tool designed for users to quickly sketch and share architectural ideas for review in groups. The company aims to make this tool available for both VR and non-VR users. The first version 1.0 is now available across the Quest, SteamVR, iOS, Android, and Windows platforms. Iceland startup, Arkio, is a fully self-funded company aiming to introduce...