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VIVE X Startup Mindesk Secures $900K to Create VR Multiuser Design Software

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Mindesk , a startup developing a platform for real-time CAD collaboration in AR/VR, today announced a $900,000 seed round from HTC Vive, Barcamper Ventures, A11 Venture and Invitalia Ventures. Last November the company participated in Autodesk University, where they unveiled an integration with Unreal Editor in partnership with Epic Games.

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HBO’s Westworld Makes Virtual Reality Debut

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Passing by this discreetly placed booth at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, you’d have no idea this was home to HBO’s first internally built experience in VR. It leverages Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 and is built to run natively on HTC’s Vive headset system.

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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy.

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Owlchemy Labs, founded in 2010, has raised $5 million in seed funding from Capital Factory, Qualcomm Ventures, Colopl VR Fund, HTC and The Venture Reality Fund. Read more here. Read more here. 3) Vivid Vision said today it has raised $2.2 million in a seed round to build VR tools that could be used to treat eye problems known as “lazy eye.”San

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5 Talks You Won’t Want to Miss at VRDC This Week

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The inaugural Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) is kicking off tomorrow at the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco. Get in on the ground floor with this talk from Martz, who will tell you how to get to grips with the new platform including working with Google VR SDKs for Android, Unity, and Unreal.

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What to Expect From VR at VRDC and GDC 2017

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Just like last year, they will run essentially concurrently again in and around the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. What to Expect from HTC.

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

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” Google Earth turns all of this data into completely explorable, scalable 3D immersive worlds for the HTC Vive VR headset. The app is available now for free on the HTC Vive. There are around 175 cities with full, 3D data, and over 600 ‘urban cores’ as well.”

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Can Virtually Live Replace Pay Per View Television?

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Last year, he got the call to move to San Francisco and take over the reign over the company, and build relationships with different franchise owners. In our team, we now love the (HTC) Vive and we’re certain Oculus will catch up. TH: Front end engine; we worked with both Unity and Unreal Engine on different experiences.