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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

As the two premiere VR hardware manufacturers, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive both recognize this impediment to adoption and are lowering the price to play, albeit in different ways. Bringing Nearpod’s total funding to $30.2M, this round was led by Insight Venture Partners, Reach Capital, GSV Education, AGP Miami, and Krillion Ventures.

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

The Ghost Howls

” Smarthistory’s educational documentary on Rome is the single most popular program produced by this website. The Oculus Rift shipped in spring 2016. He was very impressed and offered us direct access to executives of Oculus, who helped us in various ways to develop our VR applications. Rome Reborn 3.0

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The Apple Table is Set

Robert Scoble

We’ve been seeing the potential coming in other products like the Oculus Quest, the Magic Leap 1, or Microsoft’s Hololens. Apple knows that great audio is the foundation of great experiences in visual apps, like video games, entertainment, virtual shopping, education, and concerts. For years we’ve dreamed about an augmented world.

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Vive X: Here Are The 33 VR Startups HTC Vive Just Funded

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

” HTC Vive’s investment group also said it planned to open an accelerator in Israel, joining locations in San Francisco, Beijing, Shenzhen and Taipei. Vito, a pioneering VR education game studio, inherits the philosophy of Ge Wu Zhi Zhi, which encourages learning through exploration. San Francisco.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

He heads the institute’s efforts to evangelize its education by incorporating emerging technologies & platforms, through development labs setup in partnership with global technology giants. Kai holds several International Business director positions in VR educational companies and VR, AR hardware companies. 7- Alvin Graylin.