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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Leap Motion Raises $50M,

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The Series A round was led by leading online real estate portal and first-time investor, Zillow Group. 5) nDreams, creators of The Assembly and publishers of the upcoming brawler Bloody Zombies , have completed an additional £2M investment with Mercia Technologies, and £7K from private investors to create more VR games.

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Take A Walk On The Wild Side Of VR With Cybershoes

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If you’ve seen the movie ‘Ready Player One’ or have been to CES or other recent gaming/technology trade show, then odds are you’re at least somewhat familiar with the concept behind omnidirectional treadmills. An immersive VR locomotion solution that ditches the omnidirectional treadmill design in favor of a swivel chair.

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CityXR: A Vision For Augmented Cities In The Shadow Of Hyper-Reality

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Matsuda himself subsequently began working in AR following the film's release, leading design teams at both Leap Motion (now Ultraleap) and Microsoft. It's notable that this vision of augmented reality layers is also very similar to one shared by the earlier days of Magic Leap, before the company laid off many of its workers.

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5 Potential Gear VR ‘Killer Apps’ Demonstrated During Samsung Contest

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Kim sees enormous potential for the app: “A tech savvy real-estate professional may be able to put together a 10 minute VR walkthrough of a 10 million dollar property for an international client, all in about the same amount of time it would take to put together a PowerPoint deck.” Follow the developers on Facebook.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

Location-based games are already popular, with over a billion downloads of Pokemon Go in the three years since it launched, and over 20B kilometers walked playing the game. On the device we expect some kind of real-time Run-Time Platform to power AR Cloud applications. Its wizarding successor grossed $12M in its first month.

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

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The Venture Reality Fund has looked at over 5,000 startups in the space and invested in 40, including Beat Games, acquired by Facebook, and Rec Room, the first VR software Unicorn. While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. Learn more about what it means to be a creative in the VC world.