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VR Veteran Studio nDreams Acquired by Aonic for $110M

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The Farnborough, UK-based nDreams has changed a fair bit since its founding in 2006. The acquisition however will allow nDreams to collaborate with Aonic’s family of game studios, such as Warren Spector’s OtherSide Entertainment, Milky Tea, and Bkom Studios.

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nDreams Opening Second VR Studio Focused on Live-service Games

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Founded in 2006, nDreams first transitioned to its role as VR developer with the release of a demo called SkyDIEving for the Oculus Rift development kits back in 2013. The studio has since released a host of VR titles targeting all major platforms including Bloody Zombies, Shooty Fruity , The Assembly , and meditation app Perfect.

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Aonic Group Acquires nDreams For $110 Million

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Following 2023's releases for Synapse , Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord and PowerWash Simulator VR , nDreams now joins Warren Spector’s OtherSide Entertainment, Milky Tea, Exmox and TutoTOONS within Aonic. Founded in 2006, recent years have seen major expansion for the Farnborough-based studio.

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Will 3D Cities Unlock Immersive Experiences?

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I n 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. Other potential apps include entertainment, auto-navigation and enterprise-facing tools. Back to the issue of timing and underlying tech (a gating factor for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D in 2006), a force multiplier for all of the above may be 5G.

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Meet UploadVR’s New Editor-in-Chief: Tal Blevins, Co-Founder of IGN Entertainment

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During his tenure there, IGN was spinoff from Imagine and Tal helped to co-found what is now known as IGN Entertainment: the number one games, entertainment and pop-culture media brand in the world. In 1999, Tal became IGN’s editor-in-chief before becoming its editorial director in 2001 and its VP and Publisher in 2006.

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‘Angry Birds Movie 2 VR’ Studio Raises $2M to Continue Development on AR/VR Games

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The investment is earmarked to help the studio expand its games portfolio through new projects with Hollywood film studios and world-famous media and entertainment companies, the company says is a press release. XR Games previously worked with Sony and Rovio to create its Angry Birds-themed VR title. “We

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Will 3D Cities Unlock Immersive Experiences?

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In 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. Other potential apps include entertainment, auto-navigation and enterprise-facing tools. The product’s main feature was 3D graphical renderings of U.S. cities, starting with San Francisco. But immersive VR experiences could be most compelling.

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