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

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Emperia is helping brands like Bloomingdales build shopping experiences in VR

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Does the average person want to shop for apparel in virtual reality (VR)? But not everyone agrees — particularly those who hope to build a business out of VR retail. ” Emperia’s platform offers tools brands can use to create virtual experiences, including stores in VR. Perhaps so.

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a16z-backed Rooms.xyz lets you build interactive, 3D rooms and simple games in your browser

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Prior to Rooms, Toff spent ten years at Google, off and on, in product marketing and product management, including at YouTube, Area 120, and in VR/AR. A “camera mode” lets you take a photo or a smooth dolly shot, but the end result isn’t one-click publishable to social networks. It’s all individual.”

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Tech Trends Driving Higher Education in 2021 and Beyond

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Here are the top trending technologies that have got the education industry’s attention and are sure to have a long-standing impact on the education industry and system. AI’s impact on the education sector or specifically in higher learning institutes can be manifold.

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Over 500 mobile apps are now using the term ‘metaverse’ to attract new users

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Social-crypto platforms — which were really just MMORPGs with a heavy financial component — were also dubbed metaverses, prompting land rushes for metaverse real estate. The terms “AR” and “VR” were found in 11% and 9% of the “metaverse” apps, respectively. Image Credits: Sensor Tower.

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In edtech, history matters: Reach Capital just closed its largest fund to date

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Fast-forward two years, we’re now in a different world, socially, politically and technologically. In education specifically, he adds, less capital means less competition: Iif you manage to build something, there’s 10 times more likely that you will have success.” billion last year, down 49% from the year prior. “I

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

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After 2 months in an underground shelter they have also used their technology to register evidence of war crimes and provide the ability to immerse oneself into Ukraine to experience it, it’s now developing applications for psychological trauma treatment, VR medical trainin, combat surveillance systems and making the de-mining process safer.