TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

AmazeVR , a Los Angeles-based virtual concert platform, said Tuesday it has raised a $17 million funding round to create immersive music experiences through virtual reality (VR) concerts. Both companies plan to launch Studio A in South Korea and produce immersive VR concerts. The AmazeVR team traveled to 15 U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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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Trigent

APRIL 15, 2021

But with Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) coming into the picture, things have changed radically for the education sector. We are treading into an era of experiential learning driven by AR/VR. Propelling-immersive-learning-with-AR-VR. Following a partnership between Almo Professional A/V and ARHT Media Inc.,

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 11, 2022

Now for some slightly less safe predictions, involving the future of social media and cybersecurity. I don’t think they’ll succeed, but Apple is also working on VR/AR products. The key question is whether these companies can make AR glasses that work and don’t make you look like an alien.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Affectiva, which spun out of the MIT Media Lab in 2009, has developed software that can detect and understand human emotion, which Smart Eye is keen to combine with its own AI-based eye-tracking technology. ” Automakers, suppliers and startups see growing market for in-vehicle AR/VR applications. million in a cash-and-stock deal.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

NASA has issued a new request for proposals from partners that would be able to help it supplement its own storytelling in new and innovative ways, including potentially through use of robotic camera systems, high-resolution and 360-degree video capture, immersive VR content and more.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

but if you are: Musk said he wanted to buy the social media giant. Today, baseball is a technology-driven enterprise where team owners, players, media organizations and individual fans have access to reams of raw statistics. This time, it announced that it was taking steps to block the purchase by “he who shall not be named.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The platform offers over 20,000 hours of content covering entertainment, creators, sports, and XR, VR, and AR experiences virtually anywhere in the world. The company is planning to allow users access content via different media: Meta/Oculus headsets, Qualcomm, immersive avatars and a web platform, Zaatarah said to TechCrunch.

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

By 2024, Over-the-top (OTT) media revenue is predicted to touch $158.84B that’s more than double the $67.8B Here’s our take on 6 technology trends that will influence the media and entertainment world this year. Adoption was less and the price of AR/VR devices was pretty high. revenue that was generated in 2018.

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The media and entertainment sector saw quite a few changes with respect to content development, aggregation, and delivery as major players in the business adopted new strategies and agile approaches to leverage the changing consumer demands. Technologies to spur growth. The focus is now on digital transformation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In fact, in one form or another, such as point of sale credit, the concept has existed for years and long before Silicon Valley venture capital firm and media company (ha!) Leading the round is Force over Mass, and VR Ventures. Andreessen Horowitz made it a thing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

It includes the NextMind sensor which works with a range of headgear including simple straps, Oculus VR headsets, and even baseball hats, along with the software and SDK required to make it work on your PC. Image Credits: NextMind.

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2022

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.

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Perficient

JANUARY 23, 2023

Virtual Reality Virtual Reality (VR) is an immersive media experience replicating either a real or imagined environment and allowing users to interact with the environment. Unlike the conventional user interface of displaying content on a screen, VR immerses a person to interact in a digital 3D environment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Automakers, suppliers and startups see growing market for in-vehicle AR/VR applications. Despite all of the pomp and promises about the potential for AR and VR, there isn’t a clear understanding of market demand for bringing the technology to cars, trucks and passenger vans. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Whether it’s top VCs, cutting-edge mobility companies, government policy makers, visionary engineers or tech journalists — to score coveted media exposure — you’ll find that and more waiting for you in two action-packed days at TC Mobility. I got to drive the latest and greatest electric scooters, and I rode around in a VR/AR-enhanced car.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2024

Technology: Enhancing Customer Experience Technology, such as social media, mobile apps, and AI, has become essential in attracting, retaining, and satisfying customers. Social media has a significant impact on customer engagement by fostering customer relationships.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 2, 2022

Seen through the lens of the real estate metaphor, the metaverse becomes a natural successor not just to Second Life but to the World Wide Web and to social media feeds, which can be thought of as a set of places (sites) to visit. My personal metaverse prototype moment does not involve VR at all, but Zoom. The metaverse as a vector.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

AR/VR is coming (sooner than expected). Three views on the future of media startups. Then we turned to a few media startups that raised, including $4 million for Stir and $2.5 A year ago, the market looked quite young. But now, the pandemic has made the value of augmented and virtual reality clearer to the world.

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CIO

AUGUST 27, 2024

Ahora, Capgemini y America’s Cup Media han presentado WindSight IQ , un innovador producto que incorporarán a la retransmisión de la Louis Vuitton 37ª Copa América y que forma parte de la asociación global anunciada a principios de este año. WindSight IQ es una innovación que America’s Cup Media ha estado evaluando durante mucho tiempo.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2022

Whether it’s top VCs, cutting-edge mobility companies, government policy makers, visionary engineers or tech journalists — to score coveted media exposure — you’ll find that and more waiting for you in two action-packed days at TC Mobility. I got to drive the latest and greatest electric scooters, and I rode around in a VR/AR-enhanced car.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This summer, Microsoft launched Viva Engage , an in-house social media app for employee engagement. Other companies are piloting VR and apps such as Oculus for Business or Horizon Workrooms, aiming to boost collaboration with immersive meetings for remote workers. It’s not just startups.

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

I think of it by way of analogy: Not every business needs to have a social media strategy, but businesses that have customers who use social media need to know how to be present, or they lose an opportunity to be relevant. That’s the direct customer experience. What I think is equally interesting is the indirect customer experience.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

But alongside that, there will be both a technology play, as well as a pursuit of the piece that seems to be part and parcel these days of any budding media empire: a larger entertainment focus. “In the past, we’ve seen media companies acquire games companies to extend the reach of their IPs into interactive media.

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Agile Engine

JANUARY 10, 2019

Deloitte says there were 250+ media streaming channels in the US in 2018, with the average user subscribing to only three or four. Two traditional strategies that media businesses pursue are 1) exploration of new formats and 2) expansion of content reach. Exploration of New Formats: AR, VR, and 360 Video.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

If I’m going to write about social media and stay sane, I need to root for the dumbest things possible to happen, so long as the consequences don’t actually cause harm. When he’s not trying to convince us to wear VR headsets all day, Zuckerberg is getting swole. So, I made a deal with myself. The Musk v.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Move over TikTok : There’s a new social media content sheriff in town. And we have five more for you: Running in place : Brian reports that, a decade later, this VR treadmill is finally ready to ship. Oh, and this gave us a good giggle over the weekend.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 21, 2024

Per Crunchbase data, 1 roughly $464 million this year has gone into seed- through growth-stage funding rounds for companies tied to AR, VR and the metaverse. Back in startupland, the investment climate seems downright chilly. That puts 2024 on track for the lowest funding total in years.

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CableLabs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In April this year, CableLabs joined Charter Communications, Light Field Lab, OTOY, Visby, and Cox Communications to establish the Immersive Media Experiences Alliance (IDEA). The primary purpose of this endeavor is to develop a set of royalty-free standard specifications for immersive media formatting and distribution.

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CIO

JULY 10, 2024

As the companies said in their news release: “Skydance brings state-of-the-art interactive and gaming proficiencies, including two in-house game developer studios with industry-leading franchises, such as Skydance’s upcoming console games in Marvel and Star Wars and hit VR game, The Walking Dead.

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CableLabs

APRIL 11, 2019

CableLabs has joined forces with top players in cutting-edge media technology—Charter Communications, Light Field Lab, OTOY and Visby—to form the Immersive Digital Experiences Alliance (IDEA). Despite numerous innovation leaps in VR and AR in recent years, the immersive media industry as a whole is still in its very early stages.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

The company found early traction with games companies, whose heavy use of media required lots of code processing; longer-term, other companies that deal with graphics, AR, VR, artificial intelligence and other work-intensive loads came to the company as well.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Technology is becoming ever-more core to the educational experience, with teachers and students alike relying on rich media, deep data and analytics and cloud delivery to drive better educational outcomes. At the same time, education has a specific set of requirements of IT that differentiate it from other verticals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

PortalOne , which is building an immersive gaming platform that describes itself as hybrid in more ways than one — it mixes games with a game show/talk show format, and it’s designed to work across various devices from mobile through to consoles and VR headsets — has picked up $60 million.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Veeso is building a VR headset that tracks the wearer’s eye and mouth movement. Compatible with both Google Cardboard and Daydream, Veeso is working on partnerships with social platforms in the growing VR space in the hopes of recreating the success of social platforms like Facebook and Twitter on the latest technological wave.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Technology is becoming ever-more core to the educational experience, with teachers and students alike relying on rich media, deep data and analytics and cloud delivery to drive better educational outcomes. At the same time, education has a specific set of requirements of IT that differentiate it from other verticals.

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