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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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‘Google Earth VR’ Lets You Experience the Total Solar Eclipse Right Now

Road to VR

Whether or not you’re in the narrow band of ‘solar eclipse totality’ that’s making its way across the continental United States on Monday, August 21st, Google Earth VR has seen a recent update that will let you experience the rare event from the comfort of your own HTC Vive or Oculus Rift. image courtesy NASA.

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Study by “Compare The Market” Finds Surging Interest in “Virtual Travel”

ARPost

Australian financial service provider and consumer protection group Compare The Market used Google Trends and SEMRush to look at how internet users are searching terms like “virtual travel”, “virtual tourism”, “VR travel”, “virtual reality tours”, and “virtual reality travel.” About the Study. And not just in the US.

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Your VR Guide To Black Friday Deals

VRScout

While companies like Walmart are preparing for the busiest shopping day of the year with Black Friday VR training simulators , i’m sure all you really care about is how to save some major dough this holiday weekend. Bundle for North America markets only). Google Daydream View Sale. Be on the look out at Google or Verizon.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

and now all VRB-made apps’ terms of service say that the company is now officially a division of Samsung Research America. Based in Palo Alto, CA, Osso VR has raised $2M to progress production of their VR surgical training simulations. GOOGLE LAUNCHES 3000 YEARS OF FASHION & CULTURE PLUS VR. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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Snap Q2 Earnings: The AR Angle

AR Insider

at its Partner Summit in May. –– New AR features include visual classification, multi-person 3D body mesh, advanced cloth simulation, and TrueSize technology for eyewear try-on. –– Lens Studio 4.0’s In North America, DAU grew by 5 million or 6% year-over-year to reach 95 million. Features. –– Snap released Lens Studio 4.0

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Tesla’s data advantage. Can Apple, or others, keep up?

Robert Scoble

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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