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Weekly Funding Roundup: Lightform gets $26 million, Vive X is investing in 30 startups, Facebook.

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Lightform is funded by Lux , Seven Seas , the National Science Foundation , and Steven LaValle (a former principal scientist at Oculus). HTC Vive’s investment group also said it planned to open another accelerator in Israel soon. Hillman will work closely alongside COO Hans Hartmann in his new role.

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

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The companies join the inaugural group of 33 startups funded in July last year. This second batch represents the latest group backed by HTC’s growing VR arm, which is investing in a broad range of teams working on hardware, content and services that could be important to the future of mixed reality. “We

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

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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. By the summer of 2018, we were ready to unveil our work to the general public through the stores of Apple, Microsoft, Oculus, and Vive. Rome Reborn 3.0

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

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While there, she led the launch of the company's Gear VR software application, drove social media strategy, and worked closely with partners like Oculus and the NBA. Recent Matrix investments include Oculus VR, Zendesk, Hubspot, Acacia Communications, Polyvore, Lever, Poynt and Namely. The group now has over 5000 artists.