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Social VR Platform VRChat Raises $10 Million in Series C Funding
This week, the social VR platform VRChat closed a Series C funding round that is worth $10 million. The funding round was led by previous investors such as HTC, Brightstone…
SynthesisVR Adding World of Tanks VR to VR Arcades Next Week
The game studio Wargaming has been experimenting with both virtual reality and augmented reality versions of the popular MMO World of Tanks for quite some time now. Last year, the…
SteamVR Hardware and Software Survey for August 2019
Just two and three months after the launch of the Valve Index and Oculus Rift S headsets, the two devices have managed to increase their respective market shares in SteamVR.…
Ubisoft Building a New VR Team for an Unnamed Project
Ubisoft is building a new virtual reality team based in Dusseldorf that is expected to grow to 5o employees for a yet to be announced VR project. This is happening…
Bugatti Uses Virtual Reality to Streamline Car Design Process
Advances in virtual reality now make it possible for designers to design cars completely in 3D or to view the completed designs via a redesigned model in its full scale…
6D.ai Launches on Android for a Cross-Platform Shared Experience
The Silicon Valley startup has this week launched its first augmented reality cloud platform and also announced a new partnership with Qualcomm Technologies to provide the technology solution for Qualcomm’s…
Borderlands 2 VR Comes to PC This Fall, Huge PSVR Update Out Next Week
The virtual reality shooter game Borderlands 2 VR run as a PSVR-exclusive is coming to an end this fall and the game is officially being released for PC before the…
Volkswagen Group Acquires Stake in the 3D Holography Company SeeReal
Volkswagen has acquired a minority stake in the German augmented reality imaging company SeeReal Technologies which is based in Dresden and Luxembourg. The German automaker expects the investment to secure…
Multiplayer Sculpture App SculptrVR Arrives on Oculus Quest
The VR sculpting tool SculptrVR is now available on Oculus Quest. The creativity tool was first launched in 2016 and has undergone further rebuilding and refinements over the past three…
UK Startup Scape 3D-Mapping 100 Cities For its AR Cloud Infrastructure
UK startup Scape Technologies is adding 100 cities to its augmented reality Visual Position System which leverages the device camera to automatically determine its location. Initially, the startup started by…