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Social VR App ‘Rec Room’ Raises $100M Financing, Now at $1.25B Valuation

Road to VR

This brings the Seattle-based company’s lifetime financing to $149 million following its most recent round in December 2020 when the company secured its $20 million Series C.

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Pico Adds New Hires to Support US Expansion

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Pico hired 40 new staff members to support its US expansion, working from offices in the Bay Area, Seattle, and San Diego. Furthermore, Pico is specifically hiring for a Head of Pico Studios, Head of VR Game Strategy, Head of Overseas Content Ecosystem , and an Operations Manager.

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Tech Trends at #io18

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We’re jetting off from Heathrow to the US West Coas, stopping by Seattle to cover Microsoft Build before heading to the Bay Area for Google’s flagship developer conference in Mountain View Click To Tweet. It will be interesting to contrast the latest strategy from Microsoft and Google, specially around Immersive Tech Click To Tweet.

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Alaska Airlines Begins Testing VR As First Class Entertainment

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The VR trial flights – which are being tested on 10 flights between Boston and Seattle, as well as Boston and San Diego – are the result of a partnership between Alaska Airlines and SkyLights, along with support from 20 th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, and EIM.

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ByteDance’s Pico Interactive is Expanding to the U.S. to Compete with Meta

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According to ByteDance’s job portal , there’s currently over said 40 job listings for Pico positions in the Bay Area, Seattle and San Diego, with many looking to fill positions related to the company’s AR/VR content producer, Pico Studios.

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Who’s building the grocery store of the future?

TechCrunch VR

Chris is a venture fellow at Bessemer Venture Partners and a JD/MBA candidate at Stanford University who writes a weekly newsletter about tech, policy and business strategy. Amazon’s first act was its Amazon Go store, which opened in Seattle in early 2018. Share on Twitter. Tess Hatch. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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AR Game Ally + MONOPOLY® Turns Cities into Educational Gameboard

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It covers six US cities: Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, New York City, as well as Seattle. The Ally + MONOPOLY AR game is currently available to play, and will be available until October 28. The players have to go to the official website of the game and select the option “play in real life”.

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