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Location-Based VR Startup Nomadic Expands into Asia
After reporting much success with its location-based VR entertainment center in the US, Nomadic is now spreading its wings into the international market by opening its virtual reality arcade outside…
VR Streaming Startup Vreal Calls it a Day
The Seattle-based virtual reality streaming startup Vreal has closed shop. The startup offered a sort of Twitch-like app for VR which provided a recording and broadcasting service with a number…
Location-Based VR Startup ‘The Void’ is Expanding to 25 New Locations
Location-based virtual reality entertainment company ‘The Void’ is partnering with the multinational mall developer and operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield to roll out some 25 location-based VR centers across the globe by 2022,…
Hong Kong Startup ‘Sandbox VR’ Building Hyperrealistic Virtual Reality Games
Hong Kong-based startup Sandbox VR made news early this year when it raised $68 million in Series A funding from some of the industry heavyweights such as Andreesen Horowitz, Stanford…
XRHealth Opens Up Platform to Third Party Development
Immersive technologies are now used widely in a variety of medical applications with virtual reality being at the vanguard of emerging innovations that are successfully being deployed in the health…
Niantic Acquires London Gaming Studio Sensible Object
Pokémon Go developer Niantic has acquired the London-based gaming studio Sensible Object. Sensible Object utilizes voice AI and augmented reality to build connected games. It is behind the titles such…
Against Gravity Announces $24 Million in New Funding for VR Development
Against Gravity, the makers of the virtual reality hit game ‘Rec Room’, have raised $24 million over two funding rounds. The Series A and Series B funding rounds were led…
VR Pioneer Leap Motion Acquired By UK’s Ultrahaptics for $30 Million
Virtual reality startup Leap Motion, a pioneer in cutting-edge virtual reality hand-tracking controls, and which also manufactures DIY AR gear has agreed to sell to the UK-based VR solutions company…
AR Startup Streem Acquires UK Computer Vision Startup Selerio to Mesh Up its AR Teleconferencing Software
Augmented reality startup Streem which specializes in remote video assistance or teleconferencing solutions is about to give its software platform a leg up with an infusion of a new computer…
Immersive Media Startup Tyffon Raises $7.8 Million in Series A Round of Funding
Tyffon, a startup that grew out of the Disney Accelerator program, has just raised $ million in Series A funding which it will use to finance the expansion of its…