Welcome to the Week That Was on TheVirtualReport.biz, where we bring you the highlights, biggest news and hottest topics from the world of VR, AR and MR business in the last seven days.
Top Stories
New private equity funding puts Californian engine company’s value at $2.6 billion.
Farpoint Flies In At Number Two In UK Charts
PS VR first-person-shooter makes the highest chart entry in the UK for any VR game to date.
New Mobile VR Headset From HTC
The Link HMD for flagship phone U11 is revealed, but only available in Japan.
Latest Oculus update fully supports roomscale VR with three sensors; two sensors still experimental.
Representing The Under-Represented
Britain leads the way in making the VR industry inclusive with the launch of The VR Diversity Initiative.
The AI Wars; Content over graphics; UploadVR sued; Magic Leap’s $8b valuation; AR retail; Evangelion; GAME loyalty card; FDA clearance for VR rehab; Tim Sweeney and the Metaverse.
Tim Merel, founder and MD at international tech advisors, Digi-Capital, explores how Apple, Facebook and Tencent could dominate mobile AR, with Google, Samsung, Huawei, Snap, Alibaba and Baidu as challengers.
Alex Handy takes a look back at Google’s I/O developer event to see how it’s changed over the years.
Standalone Headsets To Drive VR Adoption
Industry report finds that a third of the industry believes all-in-one hardware will drive consumer adoption of VR, AR and MR.
AR To Find Double Users Of VR In America This Year
New industry forecast finds AR off to a faster start than VR Stateside; strong growth predicted for both formats.
- Speaker Profile: Robert Merki, cognitiveVR
- Speaker Profile: SJ Kim, VR & FUN
- Speaker Profile: Jikhan Jung, Subdream Studios
- Speaker Profile: Faviana Vangelius, SVRVIVE Studios
VR Positional Tracking Developer Raises $2.1M
Antilatency will use seed funding from IIDF VC to accelerate the release of ALT: Anti-latency tracker.
Learn Best Business Practices From VR Experts
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VR Connects San Francisco Venue Confirmed As Bespoke
VR, AR and MR will be invading the mall on 27th and 28th June for two days of seminars, demos, pitching and networking.
VR Connects San Francisco’s Tasty Offer For Indies
How does 50% off the cost of a table in the exhibition area at June’s VR, AR and MR event sound? Don’t miss out on this strictly limited offer...
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