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How The Glimpse Group Is Paving the Road for XR Technology Adoption

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The Glimpse Group has a unique business model that allows them to warm investors to the idea of supporting XR technology. The Glimpse Group CEO, Lyron Bentovim, told ARPost all about his multi-year game plan. The Glimpse Group. Lyron Bentovim, CEO of The Glimpse Group. “In The Tricky World of XR Technology Markets.

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WiiT: From Social Media Group to Non-Profit for Gender Equality in XR

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From a social media group to a non-profit organization fighting for equal rights: this is the story of Women in Immersive Technologies (WiiT). This new organization founded by a group of women working in the extended reality field wants to promote gender equality in the industry. In May 2016, they created a Facebook group.

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VR Veteran Studio nDreams Acquired by Aonic for $110M

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nDreams, the veteran VR studio, today announced it was acquired by video gaming group Aonic for $110 million. The Farnborough, UK-based nDreams has changed a fair bit since its founding in 2006.

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Community Download: Who ‘Won’ Virtual Reality In 2016?

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2016 was, in many ways, a mind-destroying procession of events that would each have been an appropriate plot point for a time travel movie: “we have to go back in time and stop [insert any 2016 pop-culture moment here] or the future is doomed!” In 2016, virtual reality officially arrived.

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Inception Raises $15 Million Series A Funding Led By EU Media Conglomerate RTL Group

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Inception’s ambitions to become the ‘Netflix of VR’ have just received a major boost, with the Tel Aviv-based company closing a $15 million Series A funding round led by media and broadcast giant RTL Group. The post Inception Raises $15 Million Series A Funding Led By EU Media Conglomerate RTL Group appeared first on Road to VR.

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New Report Says Chewing Gum Reduces VR Motion Sickness

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Since the launch of the first consumer-ready VR headsets back in 2016, company’s have worked to develop effective workarounds for this issue that plagues so much of the community. Based on the results of the experiment, those chewing the peppermint gum experienced less VIMS compared to the other two groups.

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VR Party Game ‘Werewolves Within’ Gets Its Own Feature Film

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Back in 2018, it was revealed that the popular VR party game Werewolves Within was being developed into a full-length feature film produced by Ubisoft Motion Pictures, the same team responsible for 2016’s Assassin’s Creed film.

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