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

Road to VR

Gemba, the corporate VR learning platform, announced it’s closed an $18 million Series A funding round, which the company says will be used to continue expansion into Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America. The latest funding round was led by Parkway Venture Capital, now valuing the UK-based company at $60 million.

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Samsung XR and EarthX Debut Environmentally-focused 360 Short Films

Road to VR

“We get to show audiences not only the beauty of nature but inspire support for pressing current issues, like firefighters taking on wildfires and Indigenous communities in the Amazon protecting their land from deforestation.”. The Amazon rainforest gives us air we need to survive and is our best hope in this time of climate change.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.26.11): Half-Life: Alyx revealed, Oculus Link out, XBox not considering VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

I am also excited because thanks to the organizers of the VRX event, yesterday I have been able to interview Facebook’s Sean Liu and ask him some questions about Oculus and its vision of Virtual Reality. South-Africa startup Eden Labs has created an interesting design for VR headsets needed in public installations to show 360 videos.

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Bringing the XR World Together at the VR/AR Global Summit, with Executive Director Anne-Marie Enns

XR for Business Podcast

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. Amazon will be there talking about Sumerian, and then a couple other with immersive storytelling and volumetric capture, that will be announced this week too. And the Global Summit is kind of like taking both of those.

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Bringing the XR World Together at the VR/AR Global Summit, with Executive Director Anne-Marie Enns

XR for Business Podcast

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. Amazon will be there talking about Sumerian, and then a couple other with immersive storytelling and volumetric capture, that will be announced this week too. And the Global Summit is kind of like taking both of those.

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Bringing the XR World Together at the VR/AR Global Summit, with Executive Director Anne-Marie Enns

XR for Business Podcast

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. Amazon will be there talking about Sumerian, and then a couple other with immersive storytelling and volumetric capture, that will be announced this week too. And the Global Summit is kind of like taking both of those.

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How you (a VR professional) can go through the coronavirus lockdown

The Ghost Howls

If you don’t have enough of this stuff, Amazon is your friend. I am so glad that I changed my laptop for Christmas: the new one is an i7 with RTX2060 which lets me use virtual reality. We are lucky that we have virtual reality. Virtual Reality is fantastic to escape this current situation, so exploit it.

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