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VR Training Company Gemba Secures $18M Series A to Expand Enterprise Metaverse

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In 2017, Gemba grew out of executive training company The Leadership Network, which was founded in 2013 by CEO Nathan Robinson and Chairman Victor Lewis. Now the company is all-in with VR training platform Gemba, which also still holds masterclasses, albeit in virtual reality.

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‘Bigscreen’ Brings Paid Movies to Social VR Platform, Showing Select 2D & 3D Films

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Upcoming films include Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013), Terminator Genisys (2015), Interstellar (2014), I Love You, Man (2009), Star Trek Beyond (2016), Top Gun (1986), and Terminator 2 (1991), to name a few. Image courtesy Bigscreen.

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Bigscreen’s ‘VR Cinema’ Showing Interstellar, Star Trek, Transformers, & More This Month

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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013). Think of the service like renting a movie from Amazon, but you watch virtually in a public theater in the style of the movie. Star Trek Beyond (2016). Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011). Interstellar (2014). January 17th to 24th. Transformers: The Last Knight (2017). Ghost in the Shell (2017).

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Tech Giants Prime AR’s Headworn Era

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All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Companies like Ikea, Target, and Amazon have already used ARKit, mostly for placing virtual furniture in a room to see if it fits. Instead, the user interacts entirely through Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant.

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Consumer VR Revenue Projected to Reach $10.6 Billion by 2023

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Meanwhile, consumer software has a 13 percent share of overall VR revenues in 2019, projected to grow to 18 percent by 2013. The device is currently sold out on Amazon. To wrap some numbers around that, consumer hardware has a 35 percent share of overall VR revenues which shrinks to 32 percent by 2023.

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Is Personal Computing’s Next Conquest Your Face?

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Why Facebook and Amazon have joined the race to bring computing to your face. — Facebook and Amazon each discussed computer glasses at launch events this week. — Amazon’s approach is to get a lightweight product out now, while Facebook is promising advanced technology in a few years. A first step for Amazon.

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Top 10 TV Shows that Feature Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

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Rent or own it : Amazon 3. Rent or own it : YouTube | Google | iTunes | Vudu | Amazon Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D | 2013?—?Present Rent or own it : ABC | Netflix | YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google | Amazon 6. Rent or own it : YouTube | Google | Vudu | Amazon 9.