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Metaverse And VR Funding Slides Further As Even Apple Can’t Make A Hit

Crunchbase News

Early on, Apple failed to sustain enthusiasm for the device it introduced as a “spatial computing” breakthrough in areas from immersive video to workplace collaboration to content creation. So far this year, roughly $758 million has gone to rounds for startups tied to AR, VR and the metaverse, per Crunchbase data.

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Virtual Recruitment Events: A Complete Guide

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Virtual hiring events are becoming vital for modern recruitment, and the hiring world is changing rapidly. As businesses embrace remote-first cultures and global talent pools, virtual recruitment events are a cost-effective, efficient, and scalable way to source and connect with top talent. What are Virtual Recruitment Events?

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Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization

TechCrunch

Startups that deliver sustainable personalization solutions that also improve business for retailers and brands fall into three categories: AR virtual try-on with shade matching. Advanced virtual fitting rooms with VR/AR for fashion. AR virtual try-on with shade matching.

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

TechCrunch

In order to recover, companies must focus on re-skilling their workforces in a measured and sustainable way. To Bharani Rajakumar , the founder of Transfr , the dilemma of displaced workers is the perfect use case for virtual reality technology. Transfr started as a mentor-based VR training programming play.

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Nanome raises $3 million to help scientists get up close with molecular structures in VR

TechCrunch

San Diego-based startup Nanome uses virtual reality to solve that problem. Nanome streamlines this process by bringing researchers to the same virtual reality space to work on molecule development together. But they have plans to use this new funding to expand into pharmaceutical chemistry, synthetic biology, and even education.

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Don’t let new hybrid workplaces keep the old systemic racism

TechCrunch

VR training programs. Virtual reality technology is one of the newest additions to the DEI training toolbox to facilitate having those sometimes difficult discussions. Virtual reality scenarios can be used to train a large group of people in a cost-effective way. The MLT program isn’t another pledge, index or disclosure push.

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Lablaco seeks to help usher in the new era of web3 digitized retail

TechCrunch

The plan is to host a three-week takeover with Crypto.com, showing consumers how digitized fashion could lay the path toward a zero-waste and more sustainable future. With SPIN, users can enter the VR version of their favorite store and speak to avatar customer service agents to buy clothes.

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