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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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Xbox Cloud Gaming now available on Meta Quest 2, 3 and Pro

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Xbox has brought is Cloud Gaming service to Meta Quest VR headset devices, as both companies said it would at the launch of the latest Quest 3 hardware earlier this year. The Xbox Cloud Gaming app has a beta label, and it’s limited to Quest 2, Quest 3 and Quest Pro headsets (sorry OG Quest […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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

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Hardware-wise, the business uses Facebook’s Oculus Quest headset with Oculus for Business, not the generic customer hardware available in stores. Transfr started as a mentor-based VR training programming play. He first saw virtual reality when he attended a gaming conference in San Francisco in 2017. “I

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PortalOne raises $60M as it levels up to launch its hybrid, immersive gaming platform later this year

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Gaming has been one of the most popular entertainment categories in the last two years of pandemic living. Now, a gaming startup that’s building a new kind of platform that it thinks will be a — wait for it — game changer in the category is announcing some funding as to ride that wave of attention.

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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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NextMind’s Dev Kit for mind controlled-computing offers a rare ‘wow’ factor in tech

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NextMind debuted its Dev Kit hardware at CES last year, but the hardware is now actually shipping out , and the startup shared with me the production version to take a test drive. Image Credits: NextMind. After the calibration process, I immediately jumped into the demos and was performing a range of actions effectively with my brain.

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Labster gets millions from a16z to bring virtual science lab software to the world

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Other startups, including Inspirit, are also aiming to bring the creativity associated with games such as Minecraft or Roblox to the day-to-day schoolwork of students around the world. VR] was in no way as revolutionary as we hopped and thought of.”. Inspirit launches to bring Minecraft creativity to biology class.