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OCTOBER 4, 2018

The latest finance round follows a $5 million seed round struck back in 2016, bringing the company’s total funding to $21 to date. To support its expansion, the company has recently opened offices in New York, Seattle, and Nashville, in addition to its existing offices in Los Angeles and Menlo Park.

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

million in seed funding in its opening financing round in late 2016. The HaptX Gloves Development Kit made its worldwide debut today at the Future of Storytelling Summit in New York City and the GeekWire Summit in Seattle. HaptX has reportedly taken on $5.8

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

NKrsM8nc5G — Philip Rosedale (@philiprosedale) November 9, 2016. My last time in High Fidelity I spoke with a Unity Dev from Seattle who basically helped me understand how to create my own avatars. Happy moment from our celebration this morning of getting up on Steam. Come visit!

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JUNE 5, 2017

True VR employs panoramic stereoscopic cameras derived from Intel’s 2016 acquisition of VR broadcasting company Voke. Detroit Tigers vs. Seattle Mariners. The VR broadcasting is done via Intel’s ‘True VR’ platform which is currently only available on Samsung’s Gear VR headset.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

Envelop VR was a well received app and was even nominated for our year end awards for 2016. In 2016 it hosted the Immerse conference in Bellevue, Washington and it managed to raise a respectable $4 million in investment in October, 2015. Prior to today, Envelop VR had operated in relative success.

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JUNE 8, 2016

The business is an attempt by the Seattle-based agency to further its involvement in the 360-degree and VR industries by providing an impressive collection of over 12,000 high-res 360-degree premium images collected over the past four years. The company has expressed their stern commitment to continually increasing their library.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

New VR peripherals will be shown off at Steam Dev Days this week as developers gather in Seattle, Washington for two days of meetings and sessions covering the latest “tools, services, and hardware in production for 2017 and beyond.” Here’s the full statement from Valve about Steam Dev Days: VALVE HOSTING STEAM DEV DAYS.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

Today marked the start of Steam Dev Days — a developer-only conference in Seattle — and although press is not allowed on the show floor, some major news has leaked via Twitter updates. Oshry @ SteamDevDays (@DaveOshry) October 12, 2016. Darshan@SteamDevDays (@DShankar) October 12, 2016. 1000 new VR users each day.

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JUNE 25, 2018

The company first revealed the hardware project all the way back in 2016, and since then the device has come a long way. Following the EV2 reveal, Alden Kroll, who is involved in developer outreach at Valve, said today that the company is “trying to meet more VR game developers in the Seattle and Puget Sound area.”

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

He said as much during his keynote talk at the 2016 Steam Dev Days conference in Seattle. Epic Games co-founder Tim Sweeney today announced that Disney is working on Star Wars VR rides for its parks. Why Sweeney was the one announcing this instead of Disney itself we don’t know.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Foundry10 , a Seattle based philanthropic educational research organization, wanted to explore what happens when you bring VR into the classroom. All-School Aggregated Findings – 2016–2017 VR. The majority of the schools in the study were in the United States and Canada.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Today at the Steam Dev Days conference in Seattle, Valve is showing off brand new prototypes of its Steam VR controllers. — Shawn Whiting (@shawncwhiting) October 12, 2016. — Eva @ SteamDevDays (@downtohoerth) October 12, 2016. Today’s HTC Vive controllers are bulky compared to what’s coming.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Over the course of 2016, venture capitalists and corporate investors threw $2.3B Based in Seattle, the studio claims that 100K+ users have used the platform in the second half of 2016. MONEY, MOVES AND FUNDING. Investors include the Venture Reality Fund, Vulca, Sequoia, First Round, Anorak, and others.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Seattle-based VR studio Against Gravity has today announced they have received $5M in seed funding to continue to build Rec Room, the studio’s social VR platform. Only launching last summer, the app has quickly become a success story, winning over fans on both Steam and Oculus Home with high marks.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

SEE ALSO Hands-on: 4 Experimental Haptic Feedback Systems at SIGGRAPH 2016. AxonVR was founded in 2012 and has offices in both San Luis Obispo, California and Seattle, Washington. The post AxonVR Raises $5.8 Million Seed Investment for Advanced VR Haptics appeared first on Road to VR.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

Up north in Seattle, Amazon announced Echo Frames, lightweight glasses with the Alexa voice assistant embedded in them. Facebook also has to clear the privacy hurdle, a particular challenge considering the lack of trust consumers have in the company following the 2016 election debacle.

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JUNE 11, 2022

Founded in 2016, CookUnity is a self-described "chef collective" that counts itself as the "first chef-to-consumer platform." To hone and prepare their meals, CookUnity provides its chefs with state-of-the-art kitchens in Miami, Austin, Los Angeles, Seattle, Atlanta, Chicago, and New York City. CookUnity means variety.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The Qualcomm design is essentially a reference design and promotes Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 processor as a solution for other companies to make their own wireless HMD, and the specifications will be released in Q4 of 2016. Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code name: Moss.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Road to VR got a brief sneak peak at Accounting while at this year’s PAX West in Seattle, and it is as hilarious as you would expect. That’s right, newly formed VR studio Squanchtendo’s first game, Accounting , will be completely free.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2016

The initiative was revealed by Valve’s Joe Ludwig during a talk at this year’s developer-focused Steam Dev Days event in Seattle last month.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. The Vive’s consumer launch was set in stone later than expected, for April 2016. This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR. “Being agile in your business plan was pretty key.”

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In the first half of 2016, the VR/AR industry saw $1.3B Earlier this year, Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code named “Moss.” Although we are undeniably in the early adoption stages, the latest numbers from the International Data Corp. FOR VR GAME IN 2017.

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

The 2016 Atlanta Film Festival was first open for virtual reality. Seattle International Film Festival Date: May 17 - June 10 The Seattle International Film Festival is the largest film festival in the United States, with more than 155,000 people attending each year. Follow YVRFF on social media.

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This could explain why the Wand and Index motion controllers are still the only choices for SteamVR , despite the Vive launching to consumers back in 2016. The Etee and Pimax Sword SteamVR controllers are long delayed, whilst other attempts have come and gone without further trace. Image by Rob Cole).

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