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SOUTH KOREA 2022 CHAT WITH MARK BAXTER: METAVERSE, EMERGING TECH AND B2B VS. B2C TECH

Digitalnauts

SOUTH KOREA 2022 CHAT WITH MARK BAXTER: METAVERSE & EMERGING TECH. TELL US A BIT MORE ABOUT HOW THE OPPORTUNITY FOR DIGITALNAUTS TO GO TO SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA THIS YEAR CAME ABOUT. So, this was the first time they managed to get a cohort over to South Korea since the pandemic. It’s South Korea!

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Varjo Raises $54M Financing to Support Its Retina-Quality VR/AR Headsets for Enterprise

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The company says it will use the funds to accelerate the global expansion and development of its XR hardware and software products. Varjo, the Helsinki, Finland-based creators of high pixel density VR/AR headsets for enterprise, today announced it’s closed a $54 million Series C funding round.

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NOLO VR Completes $10 Million Series A Financing Led by BlueRun Ventures

Road to VR

With the funding, Nolo VR says they will “continue to optimize the software, hardware, and content platforms,” and will also soon release their own 6DOF mobile VR app platform, dubbed Nolo Home. The Series A was led by the Menlo Park-based BlueRun Ventures , and included Nigeria-based Lotus Capital. Image courtesy Nolo VR.

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Emerging Trends in the VR Gaming Industry?—?2023

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Virtual reality uses software to create realistic images, sounds, and other senses that replicate a real environment and mimic a user’s physical presence within this environment, controlled or experienced by body movement. Let’s take a quick trip to learn about the impending trends in the VR gaming industry. What is VR — A Quick Explanation!

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Industrial-grade VR company Varjo picks up ~$52M in Series C funding

TechCrunch VR

Varjo says the injection of capital will be used to accelerate its global expansion and development of industry-leading hardware and software products. This includes the launch of sales and direct shipping to “key markets” including Singapore, Israel, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.

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A Complete Guide to Virtual Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Barbados, South Korea, Norway, and Dubai have led the world in this new form of digital tourism with VR solutions. Accenture ordered 60,000 Meta Quest 2 headsets in 2021 to upskill and train new hires, and Bank of America purchased 30,000 for its diversity, equality and inclusion (DE&I) training modules.

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VR First Expands: New VR labs Opened to Asia, Europe and North America

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NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands); Sogang University (South Korea). The post VR First Expands: New VR labs Opened to Asia, Europe and North America appeared first on VR World. State University of New York at Oswego (USA). VIGAMUS Academy (Italy).