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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

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Colaianni told me, “the outstanding nomination process for the VR Awards 2017 is anything to go by, future years will continue to build upon the astounding work our nominees have been producing.” Something to note, all nominees had to be centered on a virtual reality experience, and not an augmented reality experience.

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10 Recent VR and AR Investments You Should Know About

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and AECOM), InstaVR announced a $2M Series A funding round, led by the Virtual Reality Fund. Starting as a hardware company and evolving into a software company as well, Razer is now also growing into an investing company. series in 2017. Another new venture capital fund, Pathbreaker Ventures, has raised $12.9M

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Zero Latency Shoots For Multiplayer VR Arcade Network With 24 Locations In 2017

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Over the past three years, Melbourne, Australia-based startup Zero Latency has been refining its multiplayer virtual reality arcade platform, which currently has three playable games for up to six players with plans to add eight-player support by the end of this year.

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Sixense to Refund STEM Kickstarter Backers After More Than 4 Years of Delays

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The company built the technology behind the magnetically tracked Razer Hydra controller which was one of the only consumer-available 6DOF controllers available when the first Oculus Rift development kit (DK1) started shipping. Sixense was once a name central to the early VR community.

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Virtual Reality Standards: too early or long overdue?

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A 2017 game would likely work with 2018 or 2019 hardware. Started by Sensics and Razer, it is an open-source software platform for VR. If software could work across different hardware combinations, almost everyone would benefit: Consumers could mix and match devices to their liking. One effort that adapts this approach is OSVR.

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What to Expect in VR This Week at E3 2016

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Razer/OSVR. See Also: Razer Want to Make OSVR the “De Facto” VR Platform in China. While landing just outside the ‘big three’ Razer’s open-source VR initiative, OSVR , has been chugging alongside the major players at most gaming and VR events. Microsoft is the biggest wildcard of the bunch right now.

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Intel Doubles Down on VR and AR, Calls it Merged Reality

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Slowly but certainly, Intel is unveiling its “Merged Reality” strategy. About a year and a half ago, Intel invested in Razer bringing the valuation of the said company to north of $1 billion. Exactly a year ago, that investment expanded with the launch of Open Source Virtual Reality or OSVR.

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