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AmazeVR Expands Artist Network for 2024 VR Concerts

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Based in Los Angeles, California and Seoul, South Korea, the immersive firm has listed on its website several new rock and K-pop bands set to boost adoption of VR entertainment. AmazeVR Background Founded in 2015, AmazeVR aims to connect record labels and artists with their fans, regardless of their location or budgets.

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Disney Invests in VR Arcade The VOID, Epic Games in 2017 Accelerator

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The Walt Disney Company has announced participants in its 2017 incubator Disney Accelerator , a program intended for early and venture-backed tech startups working in media and entertainment. Among the 11 picked for the company’s 2017 Accelerator is location-based VR arcade The Void and Unreal Engine creator Epic Games.

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Epic Games to Award $100 Million to Devs with New ‘MegaGrants’

Road to VR

Epic have been running developer-focused funding initiatives for many years now, with the original ‘Unreal Dev Grants’ fund announced back in 2015. In many ways, those grants have reflected Epic and Unreal Engine’s early and consistently prominent support of VR since the early days of VR’s latest resurgence.

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Multiple ‘The Walking Dead’ Interactive VR Games Are in Development

Road to VR

Skybound Entertainment in partnership with Skydance Interactive have confirmed that multiple interactive VR games based on the hugely popular The Walking Dead franchise are in the works. At E3 2015 the company used the experience to launch it’s in-house developed StarVR 210 degree VR headset, formerly InfinitEye.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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First launched in the spring of 2015, Kaleidoscope emerged as a global virtual reality festival — bringing audiences all over the world premiere VR content. Referring to themselves as the “AngelList for the VR entertainment industry,” the company hopes that this proves starter fuel for eventual crowdsourcing of VR art.

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Presence Capital Has Made 33 VR and AR Investments in Less Than 2 Years

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That’s a lot of investments for a fund that was announced in December 2015. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. Presence Capital has invested in Baobab Studios, Bigscreen, Harmonix, Nomadic, Meta, Resolution Games, Scope AR, Strivr, TheWaveVR, and Visbit.

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From Racing Games to Impaired Driver Simulators in VR, with Talon Simulations’ Brandon Naids

XR for Business Podcast

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. Today's guest is Brandon Naids.