VRScout

JANUARY 30, 2017

Chairwoman/CEO of HTC Corp and creator of the HTC Vive, Cher Wang, will be honoured with the Sir Charles Wheatstone Award. In an unexpected turn of events, the society’s incredibly rare Century Award will be given to the massively successful Google Earth VR application.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Birthed in New Zealand and raised in Los Angeles, CA, volumetric capture company 8i has announced a Series B round of $27M. The funding disclosure coincided with other big news: 8i will release a smartphone app called the Holo app later this year. HTC VIVE LEADS THE CHINESE MARKET. MONEY, MOVES AND FUNDING.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

The only time Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) truly feels alive is when he escapes to the OASIS, an immersive virtual universe where most of humanity spends their days. Cheery old Hobbiton, although maintained as a tourist destination today at a family run farm five miles west of Hinuera, New Zealand, isn’t a ‘real’ place either.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. Canterbury University, New Zealand. development at Carleton University, image courtesy VR First.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

VeeR acquires, produces, and distributes best-in-class immersive stories and light-weight interactive experiences. Pradeep has been a leader for IBM GBS Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ), He has over 30 years of executive & management experience across a number of industries. web, and mobile. 4- Kshitij Marwah.

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