Road to VR

JANUARY 26, 2023

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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Omniverse is the collaborative and simulation tool by NVIDIA. E.g. you can have a module to perform a complex physics simulation on the scene that the team has shaped. The online collaboration works in a way similar to Google Docs. To qualify, registrants need to be residents in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, or Africa).

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ARVR

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Often, the audience interacts with virtual reality using a headset , such as Google Cardboard , to experience an entire virtual realm. During the ‘live-action’ remake of The Lion King , photorealistic lions in Africa were filmed using virtual cameras on an empty sound stage. These LED panels work seamlessly together.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

This is Google Earth VR. Google Earth VR is a surprise project from Google’s Geo team that is being both announced and released today. This is the team behind Google Maps and the original Google Earth. I choose Africa and within minutes I am hovering a few hundred feet off the ground of a barren desert.

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Robert Scoble

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I do too, and go even further than she does in studying this industry (I had the first ride in the first Tesla with Elon Musk and had the first video on YouTube of Google’s self-driving car, and have interviewed many in the industry, and also have a Twitter list of people and companies building autonomous cars ). Can Google match this?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

This collaboration also lets me offer you one special bonus: if you live in the EMEA area (Europe, Middle East, Africa), if you register for the GTC event using my referral code [link] , you can have a chance to win an NVIDIA RTX3080 Ti (worth $1200)! Video courtesy NVIDIA). So in the end… what is it?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This move resembles the one that Google had with TiltBrush: instead of killing the program, it is returning it back to the community, and this is for sure a good decision. If you are a company/startup/lab leveraging XR in Africa, kindly fill the form linked below or reach out to VRARA Nigeria to get featured. Some XR fun.

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