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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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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.

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Fed Tech News Roundup 8 July 2015

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NYSE Trading Halted Due To Technical Issue TechCrunch (Today) - NYSE trading was halted about 30 minutes ago due to a technical issue. TechCrunch has reached out to the exchange and received the following comment:“We’re currently experiencing a technical issue. Marine Corps, Interior Dept. LATEST NEWS.

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How to Get Started with VR: Intro to Your First Virtual Reality Project

Altexsoft

Meditative readings of the Bible are available on Samsung Gear VR today. Just scroll through a VR experience store. You can swim with dolphins, act out your dreams of being a pirate, immerse yourself and your kids in an educational VR about the night sky. Let’s start with the most reasonable examples of VR implementation.

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Daily Crunch: UK-based news site The Guardian under ransomware attack, editor says

TechCrunch

Carl Eschenbach, a longtime enterprise software executive who joined Sequoia Capital in 2016 and went on to lead a number of lucrative deals for the venture firm, is going back to an operating role, Connie reports. Big Tech Inc. In July, the Federal Trade Commission sued Meta over its proposed acquisition of VR company Within.

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Innovation Journeys: 10G is new. We have been working on it for years.

CableLabs

We need to keep that secret for our member companies (cable operators) until the technology is ready to launch. Experiencing some of the earliest 360° video at the beginning of 2014 (shot on 6 Go-Pro’s, manually stitched) on a low-resolution Oculus Development Kit Virtual Reality headset got us thinking about where the technology might lead.

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Tech News Roundup March 7

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. US Government Preparing Crack Down on Chinese Tech Firm - Fortune. MultiModal Health creates VR games to boost occupational therapy for patients. Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Feb.