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Epic Games Awarded Grants to 31 XR Projects in 2021 Through the $100M MegaGrants Fund

Road to VR

The projects range widely from games to simulation to education and more. BRUNNER Elektronik – Unreal Engine Integration for NOVASIM Flight Simulator. IMP – Interactive Media Production – VR Fire Safety Simulator. Underwater Virtual Reality Simulation for Astronaut Training (Australia). Tribe XR – DJ in VR.

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Oakland based VR studio Steel Wool raises $5 million from HTC.

Cats and VR

The funding will support development of multiple medium-pushing VR projects already underway, which span game, simulation, and narrative-based concepts. The first of these upcoming projects, interactive simulation Mars Odyssey, will launch on Steam on September 9. Huang is a board member at Steel Wool Studios.

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HTC Invests $5 Million in VR Studio From Pixar and Lucasfilm Veterans

VRScout

HTC is continuing their commitment to invest heavily in the VR ecosystem and have their eye on one Oakland-based independent VR development studio. The latest funding round in Steel Wool Studios will support development of multiple VR projects already underway, which span game, simulation, and narrative-based concepts according to the studio.

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New Feature Spotlight: App Usage Analytics (aka Reports)

InstaVR

For example, Oakland-based furniture maker Zuo Modern uses InstaVR for showcasing a “virtual showroom” , and incorporated the “Action” overlay in InstaVR to link out to the product pages on their web site. From that data, you can extrapolate information on what course of action doctors are likely to take.

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Prepping for Virtual Surgery, with 8Chili’s Aravind Upadhyaya

XR for Business Podcast

Today, we're speaking with Aravind Upadhyaya, co-founder and CEO of 8chili, an Oakland, California based startup, bringing the dream of telesurgery to the real world. And that's what is missing in the cadavers or the existing VR simulators. And that's what is missing in the cadavers or the existing VR simulators.

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Prepping for Virtual Surgery, with 8Chili’s Aravind Upadhyaya

XR for Business Podcast

Today, we're speaking with Aravind Upadhyaya, co-founder and CEO of 8chili, an Oakland, California based startup, bringing the dream of telesurgery to the real world. And that's what is missing in the cadavers or the existing VR simulators. And that's what is missing in the cadavers or the existing VR simulators.

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Prepping for Virtual Surgery, with 8Chili’s Aravind Upadhyaya

XR for Business Podcast

Today, we're speaking with Aravind Upadhyaya, co-founder and CEO of 8chili, an Oakland, California based startup, bringing the dream of telesurgery to the real world. And that's what is missing in the cadavers or the existing VR simulators. And that's what is missing in the cadavers or the existing VR simulators.