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Sandbox VR Announces $37M Series B Funding to Expand Out-of-home VR Locations

Road to VR

According to Crunchbase data, this puts their lifetime outside financing to around $120 million. Like pretty much everyone in the out-of-home entertainment sector, Sandbox VR went through its own share of financial challenges over the past year due to COVID-19 closures.

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From Zero to Immersive: A Look at 3 Top-Ranked Location-Based VR Venues

ARPost

For location-based entertainment (also LBE or LBVR for short), the pandemic had devastating effects. See Also: Dreamscape Expands to East Coast With New Jersey VR Destination The Curse of the Lost Pearl has no shooting in it. More to Come Location-based entertainment is not limited to cinematic and gaming entertainment.

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ThirdEye Is Deploying Mixed Reality Smartglasses To Help COVID-19 First Responders

VRScout

The New Jersey-based company believes its technology could help save lives during the pandemic. . Nick Cherukuri, CEO of ThirdEye Gen, says the devices can give front-line medical personnel treating COVID-19 patients access to critical life-saving data and communicate with emergency rooms and command centers in real-time.

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What everyone's watching: The most streamed movies this week (whether they're good or not)

Mashable VR

Just to get a sense of what everyone's streaming, we've used data from streaming aggregator Reelgood , which gathers those coveted viewership numbers from hundreds of streaming services in the U.S. — Kristy Puchko, Deputy Entertainment Editor How to watch: Spiderhead is now streaming on Netflix. Credit: Scott Yamano / Netflix.

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‘Google Earth VR’ Launches For Free To Let You Fly Around The World

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

I haven’t seen my hometown in almost a year but even the pull of nostalgia isn’t enough to keep me entertained forever. The group has spent the better part of a decade collecting and cataloging an obscene amount of visual data from all over the planet. This is the team behind Google Maps and the original Google Earth.

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VRFocus’ Most Anticipated VR Games Coming in 2020

Peter Graham

Offering a single-player campaign which also has its own unique storyline, VRFocus previewed the title at the Electonic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2019, finding that: “ The Walking Dead Onslaught looks like it’ll provide a fairly brutal zombie gameplay experience for fans of titles like Arizona Sunshine.” Iron Man VR.

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The Future of Retail is Virtual, with Macy’s Mohamed Rajani

XR for Business Podcast

So in the first two stores we launched in August of 2017 in Paramus, New Jersey, and in Miami, Dadeland. You got some data. And then the third piece is obviously as a branding and entertainment avenue. And we added our third location — our flagship location — Herald Square, a few months after that.

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