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XR Chipmaker GravityXR Completes pre-A Fundraiser

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Investors such as Gaorong Capital, Sequoia Capital, Jinshajiang Venture Capital, and IDG led the funding round along with Lenovo Capital & Incubator Group. Funding raised in the pre-A round will secure research and development (R&D), market expansion, and talent recruitment, among others.

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The 5 most important XR-related pieces of news from Google I/O 2023

The Ghost Howls

I guess this line has been added to the keynote speech because Apple is going to announce its device very soon at WWDC (at least according to the rumors), and Google wanted to show that it’s part of the game, too. My candid opinion is that the project Starline as is will be abandoned and will enter the Google Graveyard.

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Google Launching WebVR Support for Android Chrome in January, Desktop to Follow

Road to VR

WebVR is gaining significant momentum; last month the biggest players in the browse space came together to discuss the future of VR on the web at the W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality. WebVR is an evolving foundation for delivering virtual reality directly from the web.

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China watches and learns from the US in AR/VR competition

TechCrunch VR

He believed China would have its own augmented and virtual reality giants, just as how the domestic smartphone industry birthed global leaders like Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi that rival Apple today. When Chi Xu left Magic Leap and returned to China, he had big ambitions. ” That was the case with smartphones.

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Top 26 VR/AR Events, Expos and Conferences to Attend in 2018

VeeR VR

IEEE Virtual Reality Conference Date: March 18-22, 2018 Venue: Stadthalle Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany Check here for pricing. Game Developers Conference (GDC) - VRDC@GDC Date: March 19-23, 2018 Venue: Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA Check their passes and pricing for more information.

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Mark Zuckerberg and I are confusing the market about VR and AR and the future of all computing: here’s why we need to stop doing that

Robert Scoble

At its recent Oculus Connect conference, where it was speaking to virtual reality fans and developers, Facebook made it very clear during its keynote “we are building AR glasses.” Note that I’m not talking about the confusion that comes from what the industry is struggling to call next-generation augmented reality.

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