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VR Training Company Gemba Secures $18M Series A to Expand Enterprise Metaverse

Road to VR

In 2017, Gemba grew out of executive training company The Leadership Network, which was founded in 2013 by CEO Nathan Robinson and Chairman Victor Lewis. The platform also focuses on immersive skill transfer, including things like on-the-job VR skill training, simulated factory walks, and live training events in VR.

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Niantic’s Latest AR Game Peridot Is One Of Its Best Yet

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Sort of… Pokémon GO creator Niantic has released a number of location-based augmented reality (AR) games since the launch of its first title, Google Ingress , back in 2013. Tamagotchi’s are back! This includes the now-defunct Harry Potter: Wizards Unite as well as the more recent Pikmin Bloom.

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Bigscreen’s ‘VR Cinema’ Showing Interstellar, Star Trek, Transformers, & More This Month

Road to VR

Since then of course, VR headset owners have been given numerous ways to enjoy films alone or with others, but for the most part those movies were self-provided, with the VR headset merely acting as an immersive viewing vessel for you (and your friends). Star Trek Into Darkness (2013). Image courtesy: Bigscreen. Interstellar (2014).

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Top 10 TV Shows that Feature Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

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Rent or own it : Amazon 3. Rent or own it : YouTube | Google | iTunes | Vudu | Amazon Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D | 2013?—?Present Rent or own it : ABC | Netflix | YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google | Amazon 6. What can Vuzix Smart glasses mean for the current Android Developers?

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Snap Earns $20m Grant to Back California Tech Industry

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Additionally over 12,000 entities have earned or been awarded the programme’s incentives, leading to the creation of nearly 165,000 jobs since the initiative’s inception in 2013, the Los Angeles Business Journal reported on Monday.

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Tech Giants Prime AR’s Headworn Era

AR Insider

Users will still be able to see most of the real world in front of them — unlike virtual reality, which completely immerses the user in a computer-generated fantasyland, augmented reality layers computer-generated text and images on top of reality. All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well.

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My Professional Highlights of 2019

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It’s crazy to think that whilst Tom has worked with immersive technologies since the 60’s, this was his first ever interview inside VR. I have presented at GESS since 2013, won their awards twice and now I even judge the awards. Amazon links to both are below –. TeachingLand on Amazon.